Starfish have long been presumed to have no heads – but new research suggests they may in fact be nothing but. Their distinctive shape has long puzzled scientists, with their bodies incomparable to most animals. They are from a group called echinoderms, which also includes sea urchins and sand dollars. Their bodies are divided symmetrically
Month: November 2023
Elon Musk will head to Downing Street for talks with Rishi Sunak today following the prime minister’s AI safety summit. The billionaire owner of SpaceX and Tesla jetted in for the event at Bletchley Park, which began on Wednesday with attending countries backing an agreement on the need to manage risks posed by the technology.
Boris Johnson asked his most senior scientific advisers if blowing a “special hair dryer” up your nose could kill COVID, according to Dominic Cummings. Mr Cummings’s full evidence statement to the COVID inquiry has been revealed, following his blockbuster in-person grilling on Tuesday. In the document, which runs for more than 100 pages, Mr Johnson‘s
Apple is facing a lawsuit that could see British iPhone owners receive compensation over allegedly defective batteries. The case, brought by consumer champion Justin Gutmann, was given the go-ahead by a UK court on Wednesday. Mr Gutmann claims the tech giant deceived up to 25 million customers by “throttling” their devices without their knowledge. It
It looks as if the end is nigh for WeWork, the flexible workspace provider that once commanded a valuation of $47bn. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the company plans to file for bankruptcy protection as early as next week. It will be an ignominious end for a once-vaunted business seen as synonymous, in
Elon Musk has told Sky News that AI is a “risk”, as the billionaire joins world leaders and tech bosses at a UK safety summit. The SpaceX and Tesla owner has long been outspoken about the dangers posed by artificial intelligence, and earlier this year warned it could even lead to “civilisation destruction”. Asked by
The US and China have endorsed a joint declaration on the need to manage the potentially “catastrophic” risks posed by Artificial Intelligence. The world’s leading AI powers were among 28 nations to agree to the UK’s Bletchley Declaration, which stresses the need for countries to work together to manage the powerful technology. It was published
Chinese brewer Tsingtao says a worker who was filmed urinating into a malt container has been detained by security authorities. A video showing a man dressed in a hard hat and blue overalls climbing down into a malt container at the beer factory in Pingdu, unzipping his trousers and relieving himself went viral last week. The
Boris Johnson’s government displayed an “unbelievably bullish” approach to coronavirus early in the pandemic and sat “laughing at Italians” in meetings, a former civil servant has said. The former prime minister was “confident the UK would sail through” the outbreak of the disease and warned against “over-correcting” on something he thought “was unlikely to have
The creators of Friends have said Matthew Perry was “happy and chipper” when they spoke to the actor two weeks before he died. Marta Kauffman and David Crane told The Today Show on Sky News’s US partner network NBC that Perry was in a “really good place”. The actor, who played Chandler Bing on the
The second person to receive a heart transplanted from a pig has died, nearly six weeks after the highly experimental surgery. Lawrence Faucette, 58, was dying from heart failure and ineligible for a traditional heart transplant when he received the genetically modified pig heart on 20 September. The heart had seemed healthy for the first month,
The first British nationals have left Gaza and crossed the Rafah border into Egypt, the Foreign Office has said. UK teams are on the ground providing assistance, but the Foreign Office did not specify how many Britons had crossed the border. A total of 76 wounded people and their companions left Gaza in ambulances today,