Science

“I’ve had a bad month.” Said with the understated manner of a man who had simply forgotten to put the bins out for a few weeks on the trot, that was FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried‘s assessment of a period that saw his star-studded £21bn cryptocurrency empire collapse in the blink of an eye. From one

Creating a critically-acclaimed TV series is one thing, but a video game is an entirely different matter. High On Life comes from the mind of Justin Roiland, one of the comedy duo behind award-winning animated show Rick And Morty – a billion-dollar franchise which just wrapped up its sixth season. The game places the player

Twitter has restarted its premium membership after a disastrous launch which saw the platform flooded with imposters. Elon Musk made expanding the Twitter Blue service a focus after his takeover in October, and chief among the changes was granting members the profile checkmark previously reserved for verified accounts. But the move quickly descended into farce,

If you’re looking to jazz up your Christmas decor or festive fashion with just about no effort whatsoever, we have just the guy. Doddz is one of the most prolific and renowned augmented reality (AR) artists in the world – yes, you read that right. Dealing not in traditional paintings and sculptures, but in digital

A pair of high-end headphones equipped with a personal air purifier that may leave you looking like a Batman villain have been priced at a whopping £749. Dyson’s first attempt at an audio device was announced earlier this year, boasting noise cancellation technology synonymous with soon-to-be market rivals from the likes of Sony, Apple, and

The ex-partner of disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes has joined his accomplice in being sentenced to more than a decade in prison. Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani was jailed for almost 13 years for his role in the company’s blood-testing hoax, which saw investors conned and patients put at risk as the pair enjoyed a life of

The discovery of the world’s oldest DNA, dating back two million years, could reveal how to counteract global warming, scientists have said. Opening what has been hailed as a “game-changing” new chapter in the history of evolution, microscopic fragments were found buried deep in sediment that had built up over 20,000 years in northern Greenland.

OpenAI has recently unveiled a new language model called ChatGPT, which has the potential to revolutionise the way we interact with machines. So much so, that it wrote the introduction to this article by itself. Because in a daring move that I feared would leave me questioning my usefulness as a real-life human journalist, I

Killer robots will not be rolled out in San Francisco after all – with police performing a U-turn just days after the controversial policy was announced. The San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) had mooted the deployment of robots equipped with explosive charges “to contact, incapacitate, or disorient violent, armed, or dangerous suspects” when lives were

Potential scam ads are appearing on Instagram and Facebook, according to analysis from consumer group Which? and research charity Demos. Examination of more than 1,000 ads on the two Meta platforms found nearly half (484) were investment related. Of those, approximately half were for investment products, including cryptocurrencies and non-fungible tokens, that are not regulated.

The biggest night in gaming – the closest thing the industry has to its own Oscars ceremony – is almost upon us. Live from Los Angeles in just a few days, The Game Awards will honour the best the medium had to offer this year, honouring everything from the biggest blockbusters to the smallest independent

Science is a slog. Not a series of “Eureka!” moments. It’s why I hate the word “breakthrough” when it comes to research discoveries. But in the case of this new drug for Alzheimer’s that word is more than justified. Not because lecanemab is a cure for the disease that is destroying the lives of hundreds

Scientists have revived a number of “zombie viruses” which have been trapped in Siberian permafrost for thousands of years – including one which is nearly 50,000 years old. The 13 new viruses were identified by scientists who looked at samples of permafrost collected from the Russian province. One of the viruses had remained infectious after

Police in San Francisco will be allowed to use remote-controlled robots that can kill, despite fierce opposition from civil liberties groups. Opponents of the move said it would lead to the further militarisation of a police force already too aggressive with poor and minority communities. The San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) says it does not have

Twitter has quietly dropped its policy preventing the sharing of false or misleading information about COVID-19. Under the policy, tweets containing misleading information about the disease could be given a label including corrective information about the claim. Tweets that violated the policy and were severely harmful could be deleted and the users temporarily locked out

The Online Safety Bill began life as a white paper – a government policy document – in 2019. Its aim? To regulate online content to help keep users safe, especially children, and to put the onus on companies to protect people from the likes of abusive messages, bullying and pornography. But the government also wants