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The US airman accused of leaking classified files will remain in jail until his trial, a judge has ruled. Jack Teixeira is accused of leaking scores of documents, including sensitive information on America’s allies and operations abroad, on to the social media site Discord. The 21-year-old has been held behind bars since his arrest on

As BT announces that 10,000 jobs will be replaced by artificial intelligence in the next decade, concerns remain over the country’s readiness to deal with the new and surprisingly rapid evolution of AI. So how worried should we really be this technology could be coming for all our jobs – and what are our rights

Disgraced Theranos founder, Elizabeth Holmes, looks set for prison after a court rejected her latest attempt to stay free. The 39-year-old entrepreneur was also ordered to pay $452 million (almost £363 million) to victims of her crimes by a court in California on Tuesday. Holmes is trying to overturn her conviction for fraud and was

Scientists have discovered human footprints thought to be 300,000 years old and the earliest ever found in Germany. Experts believe the perfectly-preserved prints were left by a family of Heidelberg people, a long-extinct species of human. The footprints were discovered in the Schöningen Paleolithic site in the Harz Mountains. Ancient animal prints, including the first

Artificial intelligence has produced its idea of what the “ideal” man and woman look like, based on social media data and results on the World Wide Web. The AI images of men and women were created through engagement analytics on social media, using tools to look at billions of images of people. The Bulimia Project,

An influential panel of MPs has called on the government to regulate consumer crypto trading and speculation as a type of gambling. The cross-party Treasury Committee claimed digital currencies such as Bitcoin and Ether have “no intrinsic value and no useful social purpose” – and as well as consuming large amounts of energy, they are

The owner of Facebook and Instagram has begun rolling out a paid verification service in the UK. Meta’s subscription service can be compared to “Twitter Blue” which gives users of the social media platform a blue tick from £9.99 a month. Facebook and Instagram users can sign up for Meta Verified. The service requires users

The $68.7bn (£55bn) mega merger between Microsoft and game developer Activison Blizzard has been approved by the European Union, just weeks after it was blocked by the UK. European regulators said they accept commitments made by Microsoft that its offer to take over the developer behind Call Of Duty, would not lessen competition. In April,

A ground-breaking study of ancient meteorites has provided the first evidence to suggest that Jupiter was once much closer to the sun before it shifted position. The research tentatively backs up the theory that when the planet was formed, billions of years ago, gravitational forces slowly sucked it towards the centre of the solar system, and

Elon Musk has announced his new Twitter chief executive – NBCUniversal executive Linda Yaccarino. The billionaire said he was “excited” to announce the hiring of Ms Yaccarino – who he said would focus “primarily on business operations” at Twitter. Musk, who completed a $44bn (£35bn) takeover of the social media site in October, also announced

Elon Musk has announced he has found a new Twitter chief executive – but is yet to name her. “Excited to announce that I’ve hired a new CEO for X/Twitter. She will be starting in ~6 weeks!” Musk said in a tweet on Thursday. He added that his role within the company will transition to

It looks like a bus, it sounds like a bus… it is a bus. However, this one is self-driving and believed to be the world’s first autonomous single-decker passenger service. Journalists were summoned to a unit near Edinburgh to board the nine-tonne vehicle for a test run ahead of the official launch with passengers on

Astronomers have pieced together more than one million pictures showing never before seen objects in space in an attempt to decipher how stars are born. A vast “space atlas” of five stellar nurseries – showing young stars in the making, embedded in thick clouds of dust – was captured by the European Southern Observatory (ESO)

A new breathalyser sniffs out COVID in real-time and could be used to detect lung disease and cancer.  At the moment the laser-based breathalyser is the size of a large table, but scientists hope to scale it down to be small enough to attach to a phone. Senior author of the study Jun Ye, a

Adverts by influencers promoting vaping products on TikTok have been banned by a UK watchdog, after they were found to have broken advertising rules. Two posts have been pulled, relating to products made by Elf Bar and HQD Tech. One video, from the user @Panaxhe_ shows a young man choosing a blueberry-flavoured Elf Bar for

A British man has pleaded guilty to hacking Twitter accounts – including Barack Obama, Kim Kardashian and Elon Musk – in a bid to con people out of Bitcoin.  Joseph O’Connor, 23, also admitted other hacking schemes, cyberstalking a young victim, and money laundering charges. He was extradited from Spain to New York last month