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Bombshell crypto ban & Nasa explain asteroid threats

25 Nov 2021

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Following NASA’s successful mission to deflect an asteroid, an astronomer working on the mission has told us how likely a collision is, and why we n...

Nasa's first asteroid blasting 'DART' mission

24 Nov 2021

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NASA has officially launched its first ever asteroid deflection mission. The space agency’s ‘DART’ rocket launched from California, and is due t...

Covid: Positive signs for new AstraZeneca treatment

23 Nov 2021

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We speak to the Executive Vice President of AstraZeneca who says they're working on new antibodies to help better protect vulnerable people from covid...

Adele prompts Spotify changes, and 'Bitcoin City' on a volcano

22 Nov 2021

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Spotify has stopped shuffling albums automatically after a request from Adele. She’s called on the streaming service to make the change, so music fa...

Abba star Björn on tech helping musicians get paid

19 Nov 2021

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The Swedish musician is building copyright software with fellow producers, using £1 million funding from Spotify and YouTube. New star wars: US Space...

HIV breakthrough after NHS jab approval

18 Nov 2021

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Thousands of people living with HIV will be eligible for the six times-a-year shots, so they’ll no longer need daily pills to keep viral load low. A...

Why Amazon will ban Visa credit cards

17 Nov 2021

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The e-retailer says UK-based Visa credit customers cannot buy goods after 19 January in a Brexit-based commissions row - we speak to the Evening Stand...

ISS space emergency as Russia blasts satellite

16 Nov 2021

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Panic as Moscow defence chiefs bomb old space hardware 280 miles above Earth into 1,500-chunk shrapnel cloud, sending seven on ISS scrambling for ‘l...

Xbox 20th anniversary revamp, plus a $10K Gucci console

15 Nov 2021

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Microsoft is celebrating 20 years of its Xbox console on Monday, and it could be time to dust off your very old 360 CDs because the company’s also u...

Vinyl crisis: Is Adele fuelling a global LP shortage?

12 Nov 2021

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Adele and Ed Sheeran’s impact on the vinyl shortage means that smaller artists face an even bigger wait when it comes to pressing. A lack of availab...

SpaceX historic launch: Meet the 600th human blasted into the cosmos

11 Nov 2021

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Four astronauts blasted off on Wednesday night - after being delayed by nearly two weeks. The 600th person to travel to space - astronaut Ma...

Capitol riot: Prince Harry says he warned Twitter boss

10 Nov 2021

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Prince Harry says he warned Twitter boss Jack Dorsey ahead of the Capitol riot in January. He claims he emailed the CEO saying that the platform was a...

SpaceX capsule & crew return to earth after 200 days

09 Nov 2021

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Four astronauts have safely returned to earth after 6 months onboard the International Space Station. Their return paves the way for four replacements...

Elon Musk's Twitter poll drives Tesla down

08 Nov 2021

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Be careful what you poll… A vote on Twitter by Elon Musk has urged him to sell 10% of his stake in Tesla in order to pay tax. The poll was done in r...

Roblox: Music festivals in the metaverse

05 Nov 2021

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If you baulked at those £200-plus Adele concert tickets, how about watching KSI and Ava Max for nothing....the catch? It’s all in the popular carto...

Why Nintendo can't fulfil Switch Christmas demand

04 Nov 2021

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Why Nintendo says it can’t keep up with Christmas Switch demand. Just when you thought dealing with one pandemic was quite enough, it’s being sugg...

Web Summit: Crypto & Climate are hot topics

03 Nov 2021

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#WebSummit2021: crypto’s the big thing plus climate ideas at Lisbon's Covid-era mega expo. Facebook says it will shut down its facial recognition da...

Facebook whistleblower on how extreme opinions shape your news feed

02 Nov 2021

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Frances Haugen is suggesting her former boss Mark Zuckerberg step down as she reveals more on the dark arts influencing the social network’s interna...

Extreme heat and mega floods are ‘new normal’

01 Nov 2021

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A World Meteorological Organisation report warns heat waves over 50C to become usual as global warming shapes planet. Cop26: ‘One minute to midnight...

Space mission Cosmic Kiss - next stop the moon?

29 Oct 2021

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Mark Zukerberg’s announcement that Facebook will now be known as ‘Meta’ has sparked a huge reaction - both serious and comical. We find out...

Another day another Facebook drama

28 Oct 2021

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Another day another Facebook drama. The social media site orders its staff to ‘preserve all internal communications’ as legal threat looms. T...

The world’s first ‘thinking’ robot

27 Oct 2021

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Japanese scientists have created the first ever ‘thinking’ robot. The machine was able to move around and dodge barriers on its own - thanks to th...

Space latest: Have we found the first planet outside our galaxy?

26 Oct 2021

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Nasa scientists may have found signs of what could be the first planet ever to be discovered outside our galaxy. If confirmed, the world would be thou...

Tesco: suspected hack of website and app

25 Oct 2021

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Tesco shoppers were left frustrated over the weekend as the website and app were both down. The UK’s largest supermarket said its online services we...

Halyna Hutchins: Calls to ban blanks in Hollywood after death

22 Oct 2021

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Top movie director Paul Feig has joined calls for blanks to be banned from movie sets. It’s after the death of 42-year-old Halyna Hutchins on the se...

Why Apple and Google are making their own chips

21 Oct 2021

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Youtuber Arun from Mr Whose The Boss tells us why Google and Apple have begun making their own processing chips, and what the thinking is behind Samsu...

Google's first Pixel Pro device with an AI focus

20 Oct 2021

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We take a look at Google’s brand new Pixel 6 devices, which come with the tech giant’s own Tensor processor, a new array of cameras and updates fo...

Apple Unleashed: All you need to know

19 Oct 2021

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We look at the brand new Apple Macbooks and Airpods - as fans rejoice at the return of ports. Charlotte Henry from the MacObserver gives us the lowdow...

Big week for Techtober & Greta rick-rolls climate crowd

18 Oct 2021

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It’s the busiest week of the month known in the industry as ‘Tech-tober’ - as Apple, Google and Samsung all hold launch events this week. We spe...

Twitch hack: why is the word ‘pizza’ everywhere in leaked files?

15 Oct 2021

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An investigation by Motherboard finds an intriguing explanation about all the fast food references in the Amazon owned e-sports platform’s 125GB dat...

Prince William: tech tycoons should ditch space tourism to save Earth

14 Oct 2021

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Heir to throne's broadside against space race to colonise new planets. Feel awkward haggling for a discount with a salesperson? Do it with AI. Earth 2...

Shatner in space & EVE online's boss on 'The Metaverse'

13 Oct 2021

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We’re at Retail Week Live in London’s North Greenwich, kicking off by meeting CCP Games boss Hilmar Pétursson, maker of space quest EVE, to talk ...

How this futuristic broadband spy plane ‘can fly for six months’

12 Oct 2021

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Inventors behind the Zephyr reckon the solar-powered military spy plane could stay airborne for incredibly long period to beam down civilian broadband...

Did Russia steal the plans for the Oxford Covid vaccine?

11 Oct 2021

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Did Russia steal the plans for the Oxford-Astra Zeneca Covid vaccine and clone it to create their own Sputnik V version? Expectant mums are being urge...

Chernobyl: robot dogs help scientists clean radiation fallout

08 Oct 2021

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Interview with Tom Scott, professor of Nuclear Materials at the University of Bristol, who’s returned from his fourth site visit in Ukraine. Twitch ...

Twitch data heist: Amazon probes 'source code hack'

07 Oct 2021

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The tech giant’s engineers are scrambling to discover how a hacker found a way into its e-sports streaming platform to apparently post the valuable ...

TikTok and Snapchat told to ‘ban harmful content’

06 Oct 2021

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Twitch and OnlyFans also told to ensure footage linked to child abuse, terrorism and racism does not appear on their platforms - or face fines. Senato...

What caused the Facebook outage?

05 Oct 2021

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What caused the Facebook outage? Mark Zuckerberg has apologised for the global outage that took the entire company offline. Climate change wins the No...

2021 Nobel Prize winners, plus an inspiring space Barbie

04 Oct 2021

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The Nobel prize has been awarded jointly to two US scientists who figured out the mysteries of how people feel touch and temperature. A whistleblower ...

Leaked Facebook files: Bieber among celeb content ‘linked to negative feelings’

01 Oct 2021

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The latest on that trove of internal Facebook research documents unearthed by the Wall Street Journal, which its being reported reveal followers of so...

Apple Pay hacking warning for iPhone users

30 Sep 2021

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Cyber scientists from Birmingham and Surrey Universities claim to have found a tap-to-pay flaw they say could allow hackers to make unlimited contactl...

Amazon defends design of $1,000 rolling robot

29 Sep 2021

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The e-retail giant is denying leaked reports its own developers believe its new autonomous robot Astro is “terrible and will almost certainly throw ...

Instagram Kids: safety campaigners react to 'toxic' plans

28 Sep 2021

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The UK’s Kidscape and Rap Project discuss Facebook’s announcement that the firm’s put its controversial project on ice for now. TikTok hits one ...

Fans of EDM star 3lau ‘could earn Bitcoin-style royalties'

27 Sep 2021

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Hundreds of music fans are being offered micro-royalties for signing up to blockchain music platform run by the crypto speculator Justin Blau. Nasa is...

Hillary Clinton and rebalancing gender in tech

24 Sep 2021

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Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton joined a panel chaired by Accelerate Her, a network designed to rebalance gender in the technology sector...

Dragon's Den's Tej on start-up advice and weird tech

23 Sep 2021

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Tej Lalvani tells us about the weirdest Dragon's Den pitches, what companies he would invest in now, and the future of health tech. We also speak to h...

How Lasers could soon power our energy

22 Sep 2021

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What if we could generate energy through quantum lasers? We speak to the CEO of Marvel Fusion who’s doing just that, plus we speak to Zulu Forests w...

Can tech stop climate change? & Snoop Dogg's gone crypto

21 Sep 2021

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It's Day Two of London Tech Week where climate change leads the agenda! Tessa Clarke from food sharing app Olio tells us how can small actions can cre...

We're at London Tech Week!

20 Sep 2021

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We're kicking off London Tech Week with the festival's Carolyn Dawson MD at Informa Tech. What can we look forward to?Plus, London Underground’s fir...

Tributes to Sir Clive Sinclair; and hear the Bowie Stylophone

17 Sep 2021

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Sir Clive Sinclair has died at the age of 81 from cancer. Elon Musk has paid tribute, as well as Microsoft boss Satya Nadellla who said Sir Clive...

US, UK & Australia gang up on China in Security Pact

16 Sep 2021

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Joe Biden, Boris Johnson and Australian Prime Minister teamed up to form a special security pact to share advanced defence technologies, SpaceX makes ...

Apple’s iPhone 13: Is it all hype?

15 Sep 2021

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Is Apple’s iPhone 13, dubbed “Hollywood in your pocket”, what we’ve been waiting for? We speak to Charlotte Henry from Mac Observer. &nbs...

Spyware attack: You may want this Apple IOS update. Plus potty-trained cows?

14 Sep 2021

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Hold up, you may want to update your Iphone. Apple have dispatched an emergency patch for IOS users after the discovery of malware on the phone of an ...

Fortnite creators Epic Games appeal Apple court ruling

13 Sep 2021

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Fortnite creators Epic Games have filed an appeal against the recent court ruling with Apple. A federal judge decided the firm violated the Apple App ...

PlayStation Showcase 2021: Star Wars, Project Eve & Gran Turismo 7 for PS5

10 Sep 2021

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The former Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand has told MPs and peers he’s having to explain to children the meaning of the horrific abuse...

AI: How gaming characters are getting hyper-realistic faces

09 Sep 2021

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Street Fighter V and Dark Souls are among games using the software more normally used to make gruesomely realistic customisations to photos. Could Mar...

Taliban: the social media battle against hashtag propaganda

08 Sep 2021

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Cybersecurity analysts are urging tech platforms to act faster in the battle against digital extremist content and hashtags that spread so fast online...

TechEX Day 2: 'Facebook killer' social network and swearing ducks

07 Sep 2021

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We’re at day two of TechEX 2021 where we meet Socialblox, a Dutch startup taking on Facebook. We also speak to the maker of a smart bracelet that ca...

Internet of Things: We're at the UK's biggest IOT expo

06 Sep 2021

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We are at TechEx 2021: Find out about shoebox-sized satellites controlling IOT devices back on Earth using tiny amounts of power, and the challenges o...

ABBA: How their revolutionary ‘Abbatar’ concert will work

03 Sep 2021

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ABBA’s ‘revolutionary’ motion-capture concert will ‘de-age’ the group to their prime of 1979, how the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine technology ...

Facebook claims part in helping 175 Afghan citizens flee from Afghanistan

02 Sep 2021

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Facebook claims it played a part in helping 175 Afghan citizens flee from Afghanistan. Apple strikes a deal with Japan's Fair Trade Commission to allo...

Afghanistan: Popular YouTuber named among dead in Kabul airport bomb

01 Sep 2021

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Journalist and vlogger Najma Sadeqi named among at least 183 people killed in the suicide attack. Instagram requires users’ date of birth but is it ...

Covid strain alert as scientists discover new South African variant

31 Aug 2021

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Scientists have named the variant C.1.2, which they say is spreading with a concerning number of mutations. Internet addiction: young Chinese gamers a...

Spaceport 1: Historic launch for British rocket before giant leap into orbit

27 Aug 2021

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History is made as a test rocket honouring computing pioneer Ada Lovelace is fired as part of a project called Spaceport 1. A study reveals risk of bl...

Could hot new exoplanets spied far away support alien life?

26 Aug 2021

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Astronomers have discovered a new class of planets outside our Solar System, we speak to the lead researcher from the University of Cambridge. The Wor...

Greta Thunberg: media needs better storytelling to fight climate crisis

25 Aug 2021

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The Swedish climate activist urges the world’s press to push more stories about the growing climate crisis on to the front pages of newspapers and w...

Online abuse of children at record high, says NSPCC report

24 Aug 2021

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The NSPCC is calling for the government to toughen its plans for new internet laws after Freedom of Information replies from UK police forces showed a...

UN fears Taliban will use biometric tech to hunt ‘collaborators’ in Afghanistan

23 Aug 2021

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The United Nations has raised concerns the Islamist group will use fingerprint scan devices to identify people who helped coalition forces. Surveillan...

Elon teases humanoid ‘Muskbot’ to take over repetitive work

20 Aug 2021

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If you thought one real-life Elon Musk was quite enough...get ready for the Tesla Bot he claims will have “profound implications for the economy”....

Ex-Netflix staff charged over alleged $3m insider trading ring

19 Aug 2021

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Investigators have charged three ex-Netflix staff over an alleged insider trading ring said to have netted $3 million. The US Securities and Exchange ...

Boston Dynamics’ backflipping robot shows off new parkour routine

18 Aug 2021

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The tech firm’s humanoid robot, Atlas, has been showing off its clambering skills doing parkour back-flips - and also falling flat on its face - dur...

Afghanistan: Facebook says it's banned content related to Taliban

17 Aug 2021

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Facebook says it’s banning Afghanistan’s Taliban and all contents relating to the hardline Islamist group as the social network now considers it a...

Skygazers get ready for stunning Jupiter in the night sky

16 Aug 2021

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After last week’s meteor shower, this week amateur astronomers will - weather permitting - be treated to a very clear view of Jupiter in the night s...

Lewis Pugh's 'code red' Arctic swim for Earth's climate crisis

13 Aug 2021

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We’re joined by endurance swimmer Lewis Pugh, who’s attempting to make the coldest swim on Earth to highlight the speed of climate change, braving...

Hackers astonishingly return $260 million in crypto after huge online heist

12 Aug 2021

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Whoever’s behind one of the world’s biggest crypto heists returns more than a third of $613 million in digital coins they stole, according to the ...

Perseid meteor shower: some serious space drama

11 Aug 2021

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Are you in the mood for some serious night-sky drama, well you could be in luck on Thursday night with the stunning Perseid meteor shower. The phenome...

Italian police bust fake crypto Covid pass groups on Telegram

10 Aug 2021

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Officers say they shut down 32 black market groups offering counterfeit paperwork to subscribers for up to 500 euros in crypto or online vouchers, and...

SpaceX: World’s largest rocket getting ready for Earth orbit

09 Aug 2021

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At 400ft tall, the largest rocket ever built is given a launchpad test assembly ahead of its historic upcoming round-the-Earth orbit. Huawei suffers r...

Earth's critical ocean system 'on the brink of collapse'

06 Aug 2021

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Climate scientists report the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation, which helps moderates Earth’s temperature, is at its weakest in 1,600 yea...

Diabetes: Scientists trial 'artificial pancreas' run by your smartphone

05 Aug 2021

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Researchers at Cambridge’s Institute of Metabolic Science say the automated portable device, worn externally, can help people living with both type ...

Activision Blizzard: Top boss leaves Call of Duty firm amid ‘bro culture’ scandal

04 Aug 2021

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The creators of World of Warcraft say J Allen Brack left to “pursue new opportunities”, which comes amid a lawsuit against the tech firm alleging ...

Google teased a glimpse of the Pixel 6 with updated AI

03 Aug 2021

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Google has teased a glimpse of its upcoming Pixel 6 smartphone featuring AI updates and a chunky camera bar reminiscent of a Noughties-era Nokia to ho...

Zoom reaches $85M settlement in ‘Zoombombing’ user privacy case

02 Aug 2021

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The video conferencing giant Zoom has agreed to pay $85 million and improve security to settle a lawsuit claiming it violated user privacy by sharing ...

Space chief on UK’s first “spaceport” and eco impact of its rocket launch

30 Jul 2021

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Britain is a step closer to opening its first ‘spaceport’, and while there won’t be humans aboard a converted Virgin 747 just yet, it will take ...

Space: Mystery flashing light found behind a supermassive black hole 800 million light years away

29 Jul 2021

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Astronomers from Stanford University say they have detected light behind a black hole deep in space for the first time after telescopes picked up...

Biden: Future cyberattacks could spark ‘real shooting war’ on US

28 Jul 2021

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President Joe Biden’s warning a future cyberattack on the United States could spark what he describes as a “real shooting war” with a “major p...

Did virtual tech during the pandemic make some feel ‘lonelier’?

27 Jul 2021

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Research suggests older people relying on purely online contact during the pandemic actually made them feel lonelier as a result. Bitcoin leaps 12% to...

A like is not enough: Zuckerberg plots future Facebook ‘metaverse’

26 Jul 2021

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Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg says he wants to turn the social network into an all-enveloping virtual world so users spend even more time inside it...

The European Space Agency on their Transformers-like Quantum satellite

23 Jul 2021

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We speak to the European Space Agency about the Eutelsat Quantum, with on-board software that can be reconfigured depending on data demand. Nasa scien...

Celebrity Twitter hack: 22-year-old British man held in Spain

22 Jul 2021

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Following an FBI and Secret Service probe, police in Spain say the suspect was arrested over the hacking of 130 celebrity Twitter accounts, including ...

China suffers floods after biblical rains - worst in 1,000 years.

21 Jul 2021

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Large parts of Henan province in China have been submerged, with at least a dozen people dead in Zhengzhou and thousands evacuated. EU chiefs want to ...

Blue Origin: Wally Funk's 60-year space dream comes true

20 Jul 2021

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The history-making aviator’s biographer on Funk’s boundless enthusiasm and why her rocket mission is many decades overdue. Jeff Bezos says he’s ...

Warning for vulnerable on ‘freedom day’ as Covid-19 cases explode

19 Jul 2021

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As Covid restrictions are lifted in England and revellers queue at midnight to get into nightclubs, Macmillan says one-in-five cancer patients fear be...

Pandemic ‘has long way to run’, warns Professor Chris Whitty amid new lockdown fear

16 Jul 2021

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As the United Kingdom prepares to unlock on the 19th July and record numbers of Britons get their jabs, Professor Whitty is urging caution amid concer...

Hubble's in trouble: Nasa toils to fix the space telescope

15 Jul 2021

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The super-spyglass, launched in 1990, is in trouble after a software crash - and it’s not like you can turn it off and on again. Alexa, take me to s...

Mystery over $70 million ransomware gang’s web disappearance

14 Jul 2021

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Both the ransom website for victims to deposit bitcoin and the blog by the gang known as REvil are now offline...days after a phone call between Joe B...

UK police seize bitcoin worth £294 million in gang probe

13 Jul 2021

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London’s Metropolitan Police say they’ve now made two record cryptocurrency seizures worth the equivalent of more than $400 million after receivin...

Sir Richard Branson hails ‘magical’ flight to edge of space...amid fears of environmental toll

12 Jul 2021

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Sir Richard Branson has hailed the “magical” experience of flying to the edge of space aboard Virgin Galactic’s first fully crewed flight, but e...

Flying sports car: the pilot on driving science fiction into reality

09 Jul 2021

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Professor Stefan Klein has turned science fiction into reality by designing and flying his prototype AirCar - he tells us what it feels like to drive ...

Does Trump’s big tech lawsuit make any legal sense?

08 Jul 2021

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Former US President Donald Trump is suing tech giants Google, Twitter and Facebook, claiming that he is the victim of censorship - but law experts are...