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Sam Bankman-Fried looked unstoppable. The 30-year-old had built a £21bn business empire and was the CEO of FTX, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange. More than one million customers worldwide were using his platform to buy assets like Bitcoin – enticed by star-studded adverts that made everything look simple and safe. Image: Naomi Osaka appeared in

Sir Tony Robinson, star of Blackadder and veteran presenter of Time Team, has told Sky News he wants the message of climate change to be less about doom and gloom and more hopeful. “I’ve been frustrated for quite some time about the way we talk about climate change,” he said. “It’s like there’s nothing but

Sharing “downblouse” images and pornographic “deepfakes” without consent will be made crimes under new legislation. The government has confirmed that an amendment to the Online Safety Bill would see police and prosecutors awarded with more powers to bring perpetrators to justice. Under the new proposals, individuals who share “deepfakes” – explicit images or videos which

The UK could be in store for a severe flu season after Australia – which typically serves as a predictor for the northern hemisphere – suffered its worst in five years. The figures already show there are 10 times more people in hospital with flu than this time last year. NHS leaders have warned the

From Britain’s role in the space race and the future of warfare, to 3D-printed burgers and robots delivering pretzels, Big Ideas Live examined how science and technology is affecting our world. Image: Presenter Sarah Jane Mee with science and technology editor Tom Clarke Image: Understanding the food of the future from Redefine Meat Image: VR

Astronauts always insist they’re not extraordinary. But they are. They’ve taken risks the rest of us can barely comprehend, gazed god-like on our beautiful planet and turned the alien environment of microgravity into just another day in the office. They are the explorers of our day. Once it was Shackleton in Antarctica or Hillary on

People have been beaten and detained after protests by staff working at a huge factory making iPhones in the central Chinese city of Zhengzhou. Footage posted online shows hundreds of workers involved in demonstrations with some smashing surveillance cameras and windows. Video shows police in masks, along with other officials in white hazmat suits, swinging

Since Elon Musk bought and took over Twitter last month, he’s re-visioned the platform with “free speech” at its core. But his takeover has seen an exodus of staff and a series of user-reported issues. Twitter has been a resource for connecting with officials, celebrities, and each other, but can it withstand the changes made

The threat of fraud and cyber scams is a 365-days-a-year problem when it comes to online shopping. But just as the rate at which retailers bombard you with promotional emails scales up at this time of year, so too does the risk of falling foul of criminals trying to access your bank account. With Black

Nearly 150 serious infections that failed to respond to antibiotics occurred per day last year in England – with experts warning “we are already seeing resistance emerge” to even the newest drugs. Infections caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria are “killing thousands” in the UK every year and is not a problem “we can ignore”, health officials said. Figures

NASA plans to have astronauts working and living on the moon for up to two months within a decade. NASA’s Artemis rocket ship set off on course for the moon this week, sending a next-generation capsule on a crewless voyage around the moon and back 50 years after the final Apollo lunar mission. The US

Facebook was encountering election interference content as far back as 2006, some 10 years before Mark Zuckerberg first acknowledged the issue, the platform’s former head of global public policy has claimed. Speaking at Sky News’ Big Ideas Live event, where experts and industry leaders discussed the biggest science and technology issues of our times, Paul

The Royal Air Force (RAF) has successfully piloted the UK’s first flight using 100% sustainable fuel in a “breakthrough moment” for aviation. The RAF Voyager – the military equivalent of an Airbus A330 – has taken to the skies over Oxfordshire using waste-based fuels, including used cooking oil. Sustainable aviation fuels, known as SAFs, have

Children as young as seven are being coerced by abusers into filming themselves carrying out the most severe forms of child sexual abuse material, a charity has warned. Analysts at child protection charity the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) found nearly 900 instances of Category A child sexual abuse material in just five days. It is

A new study of a meteorite that landed in Winchcombe has bolstered a theory regarding the origins of water on Earth. Scientists have published their first detailed analysis of the carbonaceous chondrite meteor, which fell on the Gloucestershire town in February 2021. The new study, published in Science Advances, shows that carbonaceous chondrites like the

Elon Musk has said he plans to reduce his time at Twitter and eventually find someone else to run the company. Musk made the remarks while testifying in the US state of Delaware, where he’s defending himself against claims from shareholders that his $56bn (£47bn) pay package at Tesla was too generous. “There’s an initial