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 Mark Wahlberg and Tom Holland star in Columbia Pictures' UNCHARTED.

Tom Holland is everywhere at the moment with the success of Spider-Man: No Way Home, but his latest flick still sees him flinging through the air like a superhero.

Only this time he’s without a suit and is searching for treasure rather than saving people.

In Uncharted, due for cinema release in early February, Tom Holland plays street-smart thief Nathan Drake who is recruited by seasoned treasure hunter Victor “Sully” Sullivan (Mark Wahlberg) to recover a fortune lost by Ferdinand Magellan 500 years ago.

What starts as a heist job for the duo becomes a globe-trotting, white-knuckle race to reach the prize before the ruthless Moncada (Antonio Banderas), who believes he and his family are the rightful heirs.

If Nate and Sully can decipher the clues and solve one of the world’s oldest mysteries, they stand to find $5 billion in treasure and perhaps even Nate’s long-lost brother... but only if they can learn to work together. 

Easier said that done by the looks of the trailer.

If you have a PlayStation, you might be familiar with the storyline already. The movie is a prequel to the hit game of the same name, showing us details of how a younger Drake came to meet and befriend Sully.

EXCLUSIVELY IN CINEMAS FEBRUARY 17, 2022

 

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With PCR testing results delayed and the Omicron variant spreading quicker than we'd like, Aussies are on the hunt for Rapid Antigen Tests. Thankfully, this tool does all the heavy lifting for you.

It's no secret that lines are exceptionally long for PCR testing nowadays, and results are taking as long as one week to come back.

By the time you get that all-revealing SMS, the tickle in your throat is subsided and you've moved on with your life.

Obviously, the instant-gratification method is by using a Rapid Antigen Test, however the demand is quickly overpassing supply.

We still need to keep getting tested though, and minimise the spread of this evolved spicy cough variant, so how do we find RATs if everyone keeps snatching them up?

Enter FindARat.com.au. 

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Designed to help "you find those sneaky RATs", Find a Rat is an online portal in which you can locate your closest stockist of Rapid Antigen Tests simply by popping in your postcode.

Each location is marked with a tag of 'In Stock', 'Low Stock' or 'No Stock', and users can then report if the suggested locations are wrong or fake - or add their own discovered locations - helping the site remain as accurate as possible.

The time-saving and frustration-reducing website was pioneered by Matt Hayward, a software developer in Melbourne who also recently launched a Victoria Exposure Site Bot on Twitter. 

The site sometimes even lists the price of the test at specific locations #winnerwinnerchickendinner.


Happy hunting, may the odds be ever in your favour for the RAT race!

 

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Three BlackBerry terminals on the day that BlackBerry phones have stopped working forever, on January 4, 2022, in Madrid, (Spain). By decision of the Canadian company, all BlackBerry phones with operating systems 7.1, 10; PlayBook OS 2.1; and previous, have stopped working from today. BlackBerry, which in 2015 decided to become a software company leaving behind mobile telephony, has ensured that from today, data, calls, text messages and emergency calls will stop working

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BlackBerry Ltd is pulling the plug on service for its once ubiquitous business smartphones which were toted by executives, politicians and legions of fans in the early 2000s.

The move marks the end of an era as the phones, which sported a tiny QWERTY physical keyboard, pioneered push email and the BBM instant messaging service.

Former US president Barack Obama made headlines in 2016 when he was asked to give up his BlackBerry and replace it with an unnamed smartphone.

Blackberry lost favour with users with the advent of Apple's touchscreen iPhones and rival Android devices.

In recent years, the company pivoted to making cybersecurity software and embedded operating systems for cars.

Social media was alight with tributes.

One Twitter user reminisced it was a "fabulous machine" and hoped the company's phones would be resurrected.

In a document published in 2020, the company said it would take steps to decommission legacy services for BlackBerry 10 and BlackBerry OS operating systems and added devices running on them would no longer be supported and may not be able to receive or send data, make phone calls or send messages reliably.

A US judge on Monday rejected the company's bid to dismiss a lawsuit claiming it defrauded shareholders by inflating the success and profitability of smartphones using BlackBerry 10 OS and said the class-action case could go to trial this autumn.

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Hollywood nice guy, Keanu Reeves, has reportedly donated most of his salary from The Matrix to Leukaemia Research and it's a LOT of cash money.

Sure, we've all seen the photos of Reeves catching the subway and giving up his seat for other riders.

You've also probably heard the rumours about how he took a salary cut on The Matrix so that his coworkers would get better pay conditions.

Maybe you've even been privvy to the images of the actor helping carry production gear on the set of John Wick. 

All in all, it's no surprise to hear that Keanu Reeves is yet again wholesome human, and has long been hailed 'the internet's boyfriend'.

This time his grand gesture involves $44 million.

According to LAD Bible, the 57-year-old gem donated 70% of his salary from the first Matrix movie in 1999 - a whopping $44 million - to help find a cure for leukaemia.

Turns out the cause has always been close to the Hollywood A-lister's heart, after his younger sister, Kim, battled leukaemia for 10 years.

It was just during the success of The Matrix that Reeves decided he needed to be closer to his ill sister, and put his acting career on pause.

Filming for The Matrix sequels was delayed, and Keanu became Kim's carer.

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Keanu Reeves arrives with his two sisters Kim Reeves, left, and Karina Miller, right, at The Matrix world premiere in 1999 (AP Photo/Rene Macura)

Even after his sister Kim’s cancer went into remissions and she got better, Keanu still kept up the donations for the research and eventually started his own cancer fund.

“I have a private foundation that’s been running for five or six years, and it helps aid a couple of children’s hospitals and cancer research,” Keanu told Ladies Home Journal. “I don’t like to attach my name to it, I just let the foundation do what it does.”

Yes - he did all this under the radar, with no need to make a big deal of it. Because that’s how Keanu rolls.

Is it finally time to bestow a sainthood on Keanu Reeves? We think so!

For years the star has been coined Hollywood's nicest guy and incredibly giving, and when asked by a fan on Red Table Talk how he gives back to himself, Keanu answered honestly.

“Let’s go for motorcycle ride, let’s read. I love going to the movies. For me, my work is that as well," he said. 

 

Five fast facts about Keanu Reeves

1. He was born in Beirut, Lebanon to an English mother and Hawaiian father.

2. His name means “cool breeze over the mountains”.

3. He lived in Sydney for a short time after his parents divorced and his mum moved the family to Australia

4. He has played bass guitar in a band called Dogstar 

5. As a teenager he had aspirations to become a professional ice hockey player for the Canadian Olympic team but thankfully he decided to become an actor instead. 


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