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Third time unlucky: SpaceX’s Starship finally lands, but then explodes in a fireball

04 Mar 2021

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Elon Musk’s futuristic Starship soared more than six miles after lifting off from the southern tip of Texas. Then, after what seemed like a perfect ...

How to hitch a free ride to the moon with a Japanese billionaire

03 Mar 2021

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Yusaku Maezawa, a billionaire online fashion tycoon, wants eight people to join him on an all-paid-for mission to the moon in 2023. He’s calling for...

Space hurricanes could spell trouble for the ISS

02 Mar 2021

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Space hurricanes hundreds of kilometres above the North Pole could make things difficult for astronauts on the International Space Station. Space scie...

‘My blood ran cold’: Scientist recalls moment Novichok was discovered

01 Mar 2021

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Professor Tim Atkins says his blood ran cold as he learned the deadly nerve agent Novichok had been discovered in Salisbury three years ago. He went o...

Bill Gates: I’d rather invest in vaccines than Bitcoin

26 Feb 2021

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Bill Gates says he’d rather invest in vaccines than Bitcoin. During a live chat on social network Clubhouse, the Microsoft founder told host Andrew ...

Dr Fauci: We can vaccinate our way out of this pandemic

25 Feb 2021

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America’s top infectious disease expert Dr Anthony Fauci says we can vaccinate our way out of the coronavirus pandemic, but he’s concerned anti-va...

Nasa’s Mars mission's next steps: will it find life?

24 Feb 2021

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Nasa’s Perseverance rover is about to start its long-awaited Mars mission and Dr Kelsey Moore from the agency’s Jet Propulsion Lab is one of the s...

After years gazing at Mars, Nasa unveils what it sounds like

23 Feb 2021

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Nasa has released audio of the first sounds recorded from the surface of Mars. A microphone on the Perseverance rover captures a gust of wind on the r...

Covid vaccines ‘cut risk of hospital admissions by up to 94%’

22 Feb 2021

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There’s more good news on the efficacy of the Pfizer and AstraZeneca jabs: researchers say both are having a “substantial effect” on hospital ad...

Nasa on rover touch down - latest on Perseverance mission

19 Feb 2021

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Now Perseverance’s work begins, but how does it avoid punctures on the craggy Martian surface and send samples millions of miles back to Earth? Nasa...

'Seven minutes of terror': Nasa on Mars Rover as it makes final approach

18 Feb 2021

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Floating down to the Red Planet by parachute is the tensest part for Mission Control after 300 million-mile journey. Banned Down Under: Facebook block...

Exclusive Nasa Mars rover interview: How robot driving experts control Perseverance from Earth

17 Feb 2021

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Meet mobility systems engineer and rover planner on the mission Tyler Del Sesto, part of the team at Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California....

Nasa’s Perseverance rover has laser eyes to hunt for life on Mars

16 Feb 2021

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The probe currently whizzing towards Red Planet has a ‘head’ equipped with laser eyes and a super-strength vaporiser to hunt for Martian chemicals...

Scientists in Japan investigate earthquake leaving one million without power

15 Feb 2021

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Scientists in Japan are assessing the damage of a magnitude 7.3 earthquake that struck near Fukushima on Saturday night, we ask Dr Stephen Hicks, an e...

‘Astonishing’ Stonehenge discovery suggests its original site may be in Wales

12 Feb 2021

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Experts believe they may have recovered the true origins of Stonehenge. The ancient monument’s smaller bluestones originally formed an even older, l...

Cyberpunk 2077 developer’s source code on sale for millions of dollars

11 Feb 2021

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The maker of Cyberpunk 2077, CD Projekt Red, has capped off a difficult few months by confirming it's the victim of a cyberattack. The hackers are rep...

China’s Tianwen-1 spacecraft is second probe in 24 hours to enter Mars’ orbit

10 Feb 2021

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China’s Tianwen-1 spacecraft is set to become the second probe to enter Mars’ orbit in 24 hours. It's so far travelled 288 million miles to reach ...

UAE’s Mission to Mars: We go behind the scenes.

09 Feb 2021

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The woman leading the United Arab Emirate’s first Mars mission tells us how their mission is attempting something never done before at the red plane...

UK’s first space rocket in fifty years readies for flight

08 Feb 2021

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The UK’s selected what would be the country’s first space rocket since the Black Arrow in the 1970s. Aerospace giant Lockheed Martin’ picke...

UAE’s first Mars probe races through space to unravel mysteries of Martian life

05 Feb 2021

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The UAE’s first Mars satellite is zooming towards Red Planet to hunt for signs of life - we speak to their Emirates Mission director for the latest....

Breast cancer is now the world’s most prevalent form of the disease

04 Feb 2021

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Scientists say breast cancer is now the world’s most prevalent form of the disease, and urge people to get a check-up if they’re worried after sta...

SpaceX Starship in fireball crash after launch fail

03 Feb 2021

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Another SpaceX Starship super-rocket ends up in a fireball after a spectacular landing fail. Jeff Bezos steps aside from leading Amazon hands reins to...

Call of Duty rocked by ‘aimbots’ cheat scandal as top gamer quits

02 Feb 2021

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Call of Duty hit by allegations of cheating in online tournaments, including the use of unfair ‘aimbots’, now a top player has very publicly quit ...

Silver is new GameStop in Reddit war on Wall Street wolves

01 Feb 2021

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Wall Street silver rush as Reddit’s amateur investor army moves on precious metal to dent Wall Street after GameStop victory. Voice-changing headset...

Novavax vaccine 89.3% effective against Covid, including new strains

29 Jan 2021

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TikTok’s Dr_Will6, better known to Imperial College London colleagues as Dr Will Budd, has been educating the world about Covid vaccines on the soci...

How Redditors gamed the stock of Gamestop

28 Jan 2021

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Across most of America, GameStop is just a place to buy a video game. But on Wall Street the troubled retailer has become a battleground where swarms ...

Covid-19: Another Disease X 'could be around the corner’

27 Jan 2021

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A leading scientist says another pandemic-causing ‘Disease X’ could be around the corner. Mark Woolhouse from the University of Edinburgh say...

Twitter launches Birdwatch where users can flag ‘false’ content

26 Jan 2021

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Twitter is turning to its users to help combat fake news. The platform has launched Birdwatch, where people can flag tweets they believe to be mislead...

SpaceX breaks world record for most satellites sent into space

25 Jan 2021

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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has launched a record 143 small satellites into a polar orbit from Florida, beating the previous record of 104. It's also the...

Facebook encryption child abuse warning from NSPCC

22 Jan 2021

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Children’s charity the NSPCC is warning a move to encrypt Facebook Messenger and Instagram chats will mask online predators. Security expert Brian H...

Twitter: We made mistakes fuelling Capitol riots

21 Jan 2021

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Twitter’s admitting it didn’t move fast enough to quell conspiracy theories that sparked the Capitol riots. QAnon’s hoards are being urged ...

Biden’s DC inauguration AI tech lockdown

20 Jan 2021

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Washington DC is in tech lockdown for inauguration day as cybersecurity experts reveal behind-the-scenes artificial intelligence strategies to stop re...

‘Strong signal’ of space radio waves offer clues to universe’s backbone

19 Jan 2021

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‘Strong signal’ of space radio waves found far, far away at edge of universe, offering clues to how cosmos is made. Bumble unblocks politics filte...

Virgin Orbit reaches space with satellite rocket launch…as Nasa’s ‘megarocket’ test fails on launchpad

18 Jan 2021

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Warning over fake coronavirus vaccines as UK police reveal spike in elderly being targeted. Get ready for 24hr coronavirus vaccination centres..but mi...

Samsung unveils Galaxy S smartphone, Apple Macbook news & NASA Mars digger is declared dead - plus more!

15 Jan 2021

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Samsung unveils its flagship Galaxy S smartphone, and it's the first model that works with the S-Pen stylus. The release has raised questions over whe...

Twitter Chief on Trump ban, Pokemon is 25 with Katy Perry & the world's oldest animal cave painting

14 Jan 2021

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Twitter chief Jack Dorsey says banning Donald Trump from the platform is the right decision… but it sets a dangerous precedent. Mr Dorsey tweeted th...

YouTube bans Trump, Cyberpunk 2077 multiplayer mode, & Nasa confirms rare triple-star exoplanet

13 Jan 2021

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YouTube is the latest tech giant to suspend Donald Trump’s account. The video platform says the President’s account will be taken down for “a mi...

CES 2021: Tech to help us through a pandemic, Twitch “TheGrefg” concurrent record & Capitol Hill crackdown continues

12 Jan 2021

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The Covid-19 pandemic has emerged as an early theme at CES 2021. From Samsung’s trio of robots aimed to improve life at home - including pouring you...

CES 2021 kicks off its first ever virtual event today, Parler's taken offline & spot a trio of planets tonight

11 Jan 2021

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The world’s biggest consumer technology show is turning to tech to help it adapt during a global pandemic. CES 2021 kicks off today, and it will be ...

Capitol siege: internet sleuths & police use spreadsheets and PDFs to hunt suspects

08 Jan 2021

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Internet spreadsheet detectives pool resources to hunt Capitol invasion Trump mob - as the hunt intensifies to track down suspects over the invasion o...

Trump latest: social media block after deadly Washington DC invasion, Tesla beatbox customisable horns, & facial recognition CCTV sees through facemasks

07 Jan 2021

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Social media giants block Trump after deadly Capitol Hill invasion we speak to Richard Bingley, chief executive of UK-based Global Cyber Academy and M...

UK Covid mutant strain US spread, Julian Assange denied bail, Minecraft Earth to close

06 Jan 2021

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Georgia is fifth state to report case of mutant strain of Covid-19 first found in UK. A court has denied Wikileaks founder Julian Assange bail, despit...

Brexit: shops in EU refusing to deliver to UK, latest Samsung Galaxy S21 news & social media censorship

05 Jan 2021

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Online shops are refusing to deliver to Britain after Brexit over tax changes. Samsung will go virtual for its launch of the Galaxy S21 with its 8K vi...

New Covid vaccine rollout latest, and there's a Bitcoin goldrush - plus more

04 Jan 2021

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Here's what's on today: A British pensioner is first man in the world to receive the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine shot. Microsoft fears Russian hackers ...

Elon Musk says Apple rejected potential Tesla deal, Cyberpunk 2077 news, KFC KFConsole, plus more!

23 Dec 2020

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Tesla boss Elon Musk says he tried to set up a meeting with Apple to see if they’d consider buying the car maker. But, chief executive Tim Cook reje...

New COVID variant ‘could more easily infect children’, Fortnite Black Panther & Apple's self-driving car

22 Dec 2020

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Scientists say the new mutant coronavirus strain discovered in the UK could more easily infect children. Experts say that data indicates it may be abl...

How to see Jupiter and Saturn’s ‘Christmas Star’ great conjunction

21 Dec 2020

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Stargazers are being treated to a once-in-generation spectacle on Monday as Saturn and Jupiter appear in the night sky as if they’re nearly touching...

Cyberpunk 2077 pulled by Sony, US ‘grave risk’ from computer attack and AI Top Gun inspired spy plane

18 Dec 2020

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Sony pulls Cyberpunk 2077 from PlayStation Store after glitches backlash. US government and private companies at ‘grave risk’ from massive cyber-a...

Wuhan bats COVID probe by WHO, Facebook vs Apple privacy war & NASA spacecraft points to life on Saturn

17 Dec 2020

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World Health Organisation scientists will take samples from bats and other animals in Wuhan to discover how COVID-19 spread across the world, hoping t...

Call of Duty Warzone update, Twitter goes wild for German Brexit satire & US government’s hobbled anti-hacking software

16 Dec 2020

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Billions of dollars were spent on US government’s hobbled anti-hacking software, which spies still managed to find a way around with trojan horse. E...

Covid 19 mutation: what is it?, US Treasury ‘spied on for months’ & meet the football-playing lockdown chickens - plus more

15 Dec 2020

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Virus mutation latest: Top immunology professor on latest developments. Developments that Treasury and Commerce departments hack were ‘part of month...

#Google outage, Russian spies in frame for Treasury email snooping, Apple Fitness+ launch and NYPD RoboDog - plus more

14 Dec 2020

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Russian hackers are in the frame for spying on Treasury emails - as White House calls emergency meeting. EA swoops in to buy Dirt Rally-makers Codemas...

Scientists ‘devastated’ over HIV response in COVID-19 vaccine; Disney new releases & is swearing good for you?

11 Dec 2020

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Researchers in Australia are ‘devastated’ after a vaccine they were developing produced a false positive HIV response in participants. They say de...

SpaceX’s Starship ends in explosive crash-landing, Cyberpunk 2077 & Video Assistant Referees in football, plus more

10 Dec 2020

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SpaceX’s Starship blasted off several miles into the air from a remote corner of Texas, but the six-and-a-half minute test flight ended in an explos...

Shock as AirPods Max unveiled, Halo Infinite release plus Google & Facebook could face multi-million $ fines

09 Dec 2020

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Apple has released its first over-the-ear, noise cancelling headphones, the AirPods Max. Their eye-watering price and even the design has been met wit...

‘Millions’ to be vaccinated against Covid-19 in the UK by end of next year

08 Dec 2020

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The UK’s Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said the coronavirus vaccine is ‘the route out’ as he marked the start of the rollout of the coronavi...

How an agony aunt chatbot is helping teenage girls through the pandemic

07 Dec 2020

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In just 25 weeks this year, the Covid-19 pandemic wiped out 25 years of progress in everything from health to the economy, according to the Bill and M...

Listen to an exploding star - and see a rare ‘Christmas Star’, & meet the TikTok doctor debunking anti-vaxxers - plus more

04 Dec 2020

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Here’s what the plasma inside a neutron star sounds like, thanks to MIT scientists. Facebook to ban false claims about Covid-19 vaccines after criti...

Hackers hit COVID vaccine supply chain, Taylor Swift Spotify pages hacked & Amazon cloud spy tech - plus more

03 Dec 2020

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Hackers have tried to infiltrate the coronavirus vaccine distribution chain. Twitter expands hate speech rules to include race and ethnicity. Amazon b...

Covid-19 vaccine set for UK rollout, your Spotify ‘best bits’, Bad Bunny & Fortnite’s Star Wars epic - plus more

02 Dec 2020

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Covid Pfizer vaccine approved for use next week in UK, care home residents and health workers at front of queue. Netflix content given age rating by a...

World Aids Day: fears for HIV treatment amid Covid crisis

01 Dec 2020

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Microsoft files patent to record and score meetings on body language. World Aids Day: Global solidarity amid concerns for treatment as frontline servi...

Cyber Monday: How to avoid getting stung, Spotify trials Stories & China’s Chang’e 5 moon return

30 Nov 2020

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Cyber Monday ‘deals’: Don’t believe the hype and do your resesearch, says Which? consumer expert. Step into actual Super Mario World in Florida ...

Black Friday: Scam warning, #DiaperDon - Trump’s furious; & Minecraft style farming, plus more

27 Nov 2020

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Experts are warning shoppers to be wary of scams as they shop online during what retailers are expecting to be their biggest Black Friday sale yet. Pr...

TikTok introduces epilepsy feature, Black Friday deals using your voice & space worms? plus more

26 Nov 2020

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After coming under fire earlier this year over a ‘seizure challenge’, TikTok is offering a new feature to its users who have photosensitive epilep...

Elon Musk marks world’s second richest man with a Space X rocket launch

25 Nov 2020

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Elon Musk has pushed Bill Gates down to third place on the Bloomberg Billionaires index as his personal fortune soared by $7.2 billion dollars. It cam...

Snapchat takes on TikTok with Spotlight, PS5 deliveries 'go missing' & China launches moon mission - plus more

24 Nov 2020

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Snapchat has become the latest competitor to TikTok, launching its own short form video feature Spotlight. And, for at least the rest of the year, use...

How does the Oxford vaccine work?, Space X sea cartographer satellite goes to space & K-pop's aespa launch AI avatars

23 Nov 2020

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AstraZeneca and Oxford University report their vaccine could prevent up to 90% of people getting Covid-19, so how does it work? And, while we wait for...

Instagram graphic content increase, PS5 delays, dementia tech innovations & blue whales blossom

20 Nov 2020

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Figures reveal Instagram removed almost 80 per cent less graphic content about suicide and self-harm between April and June this year than in the prev...

Sony’s PS5 launch, Oprah Winfrey’s virtual Obama interview & what's your cat's chat?

19 Nov 2020

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Sony’s new PS5 is available to buy in the UK from today, with new titles including Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War. Apple to pay $113m to settle iP...

Social media grilled by senators, bitcoin booms, TikTok parental controls & a robot to help social distancing

18 Nov 2020

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Facebook and Twitter chief executives are grilled again by Senators, who attacked their corporate policies. Donald Trump fires a top election security...

Musk rakes in billions as astronauts dock with ISS, Christmas work parties on Zoom and QR codes at the chemist.

17 Nov 2020

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Elon Musk breaks into top three world’s richest people as Tesla stock soars. Virgin Galactic announces postponement of key test flight of its spacec...

Covid tests keep Musk from Nasa launch, TikTok gets brief Trump reprieve and drones spy on sun-seekers

16 Nov 2020

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Four Nasa astronauts blast off for the ISS on the first non-demo SpaceX flight. Microsoft says state-backed hackers from North Korea and Russia have b...

‘Planet hunter’ space telescope given green light to explore worlds outside our solar system

13 Nov 2020

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The planet hunter, the world’s first space telescope, has been given the green light to study atmospheres of planets outside our own solar system. P...

SpaceX to launch ISS ‘taxi service’, ‘factory-in-a-box’ could churn out 600 vaccines a minute & robot monster wolves

12 Nov 2020

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Elon Musk’s aerospace company is to send four astronauts into low-Earth orbit on a Crew Dragon capsule and Falcon 9 rocket on Sunday - the first com...

Apple’s M1 chip to have a ‘profound impact’ on Macs, Russia’s Covid-19 vaccine ‘92% effective’, a new monkey already critically endangered

11 Nov 2020

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Apple’s M1 silicon chip promises a profound impact on performance of their computers. The tech giant says this will include better battery life, ins...

Covid jab could be rolled out by Christmas, Xbox Series X launch, & a moon that glows in the dark

10 Nov 2020

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England’s deputy chief medical officer and the UK’s health secretary have cautiously raised hopes a coronavirus vaccine could be rolled out by Chr...

Virgin Hyperloop’s first passenger journey, mouthwash could fight coronavirus, the first electric wingsuit takes flight

09 Nov 2020

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Virgin Hyperloop has trialled its first every journey with two passengers on board. The pair were strapped to a pod as they hurtled down a 500 metre t...

Facebook’s double-click misinformation crackdown, bionic piano gloves and $1 billion Bitcoin mystery solved

06 Nov 2020

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New measures to fight election misinformation on Facebook are announced as YouTubers are accused of profiting from peddling election falsehoods. Nearl...

Mystery over $1 billion Bitcoin transaction, why tunes give us the chills - and fancy a glass of Klingon bloodwine?

05 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Facebook has added warning labels to both Trump and Biden posts as protests flare at ballot-counting centres in US presidential election. Someone...

Gremlins in the US election computers, the Covid-era middle class private flights boom and swimming burritos

04 Nov 2020

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As election fever grips the US, some states have suffered IT problems causing waits at polling stations, while President Trump is once more reprimande...

Covid cybersecurity alert, pandemic job tips on TikTok and a chatbot for lonely people

03 Nov 2020

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Britain’s National Cybersecurity Centre battles wave of Covid crime. How pandemic jobseekers are turning to TikTok to fine-tune their interview skil...

Fake Biden video suckers Twitter users and the flying car bringing Back to the Future to life

02 Nov 2020

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More than 1 million people have viewed a fake Joe Biden rally video. Facebook sees revenue grow amid pandemic bounce. Scientists use Tinder’s swipe ...

Free-floating planet excites astronomers, Star Wars becomes art & octopuses taste with their tentacles

30 Oct 2020

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A new planet has been discovered floating ‘untethered’ around the Milky Way. How medtech for people with diabetes is helping give elite cyclists a...

Jack Dorsey on social media bias, Grand Theft Auto dreams, and a song inspired by a Nasa robot dying on Mars

29 Oct 2020

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Social media giants in focus as bosses are grilled by senators about what can and can't be said on their platforms - who calls the shots? The FBI issu...

The hunt for ‘weird’ life on Saturn & why Apple wants Google’s web search crown | Wednesday, 28th October 2020

28 Oct 2020

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Nasa reveals a bizarre new molecule found on one of Saturn’s frozen moons, spied from a megatelescope back on Earth. President Trump fails to stamp ...

Nasa finds water molecules on the moon, but what does that mean for the future of lunar exploration? | Tuesday, 27th October 2020

27 Oct 2020

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Molecules of H20 have been detected on the sunlit surface of the moon using an infrared telescope, but what does that mean for the future of lunar exp...

Nasa using artificial intelligence to help classify new craters on Mars | Monday, 26th Oct 2020

26 Oct 2020

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Artificial intelligence helps Nasa classify new craters on Mars, the International Space Station turns 20 this week, Imran Khan requests a ban on...

Huawei Mate 40: first flagship phone WITHOUT Google services | Friday, 23rd October 2020

23 Oct 2020

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Huawei unveils their first series of their flagship to launch since Donald Trump’s intervention. A Dutch security expert claims he guessed the Presi...

Nasa appear to have made “exciting new discovery” on the Moon | Thursday, 22nd October 2020

22 Oct 2020

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Nasa says they have made an “exciting new discovery” about the Moon and plan a big event to tell us what is it soon, Astronaut Chris Cassidy&...

Nasa spacecraft makes historic touchdown | Wednesday, October 21 2020

21 Oct 2020

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Nasa spacecraft has made an historic touchdown on an asteroid dodging boulders the size of buildings to collect samples of cosmic rubble, Google ...

Robin Hood hackers donate ill-gotten gains to charities | Tuesday, 20th October 2020

20 Oct 2020

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Hackers have announced on the Dark Web that they have donated money, which was taken as part of a ransomware attack, to charities. Although, at least ...

US election: Social media censorship or due diligence? | Monday, October 19 2020

19 Oct 2020

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Social media is at the centre of the misinformation narrative ahead of November’s election. Coronavirus updates as infections increase across Europe...

Women bear brunt of pandemic knock-on effects | Friday, October 16 2020

16 Oct 2020

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An Evening Standard investigation has revealed the full scale of the crisis facing working mothers as a result of the pandemic. Women-founded companie...

Why the Hunter Biden allegations are being "censored" on social media | Thursday, 15th October 2020

15 Oct 2020

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Twitter and Facebook restricting posts connected to a tabloid story ahead of the election. The satellite and rocket with a chance of colliding. The la...

iPhone 12 comes with a bionic chip but no headphones | Wednesday, 14th October 2020

14 Oct 2020

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Apple launches four new handsets all with super speedy 5G. Jeff Bezos’ rocket gets another test launch. The latest ISS recruits blast off from Kazak...

The iPhone 12's expected to launch tonight, here's what we know | Tuesday, 13th October 2020

13 Oct 2020

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New chips and 5G for the smartphone giants, but what else will the hotly anticipated device do? Chinese rivals Huawei announce the launch event for th...

The EU to tackle the power of Silicon Valley | Monday, 11th October 2020

12 Oct 2020

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Brussels is reported to be drawing up a list of the worlds most powerful tech firms – in a bid to impose new regulations. The UK's outlined a 3-tier...

US military dogs trialling augmented reality goggles for combat | Friday, October 9 2020

09 Oct 2020

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The US army is trialling new tech for their combat dogs. Augmented reality goggles developed by Command Sight are being tested so handlers can give co...

Boeing 747: British Airways’ Queen of the Skies takes off for the last time | Thursday, October 8 2020

08 Oct 2020

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British Airways' final two Boeing 747 planes departed on their final flight from Heathrow on Thursday. Their retirement was brought forward as the cor...

QAnon pages banned on all Facebook platforms | Wednesday, 7th October 2020

07 Oct 2020

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Facebook has stepped up the battle to move the fringe conspiracy theorists off its sites. SpaceX inks deal with US Department of Defense. September wa...