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“Don’t worry about the future, we’re in good hands.” So said former US president Bill Clinton in 2015, as he introduced Elizabeth Holmes to an adoring New York crowd. It seemed an uncontroversial statement at the time, as he hailed the achievements of a woman who had become America’s youngest self-made female billionaire after taking

The UK has moved a step closer to blasting its first rocket beyond the atmosphere after granting the proposed launch site a spaceport licence. Spaceport Cornwall, which is based at Newquay’s airport, has been authorised to host rocket lift-offs after meeting required safety, security, and environmental standards. The announcement it had won Civil Aviation Authority

More than a billion teenagers and young people could be at risk of hearing loss due to their use of headphones, earbuds, and attendance at loud concerts, researchers have warned. The peer-reviewed findings, published in the journal BMJ Global Health, claim there is an “urgent need” for governments around the world to promote “safe listening”

Britons appear to have little regard for the security of their online accounts, based on new research of the country’s most popular passwords. While we should really all know better, “password” itself is the top pick nationwide – and slight variations such as “password1” and “password123” are not far behind. It overtook last year’s “123456”

Elon Musk has warned budding entrepreneurs hoping to emulate his success to “be careful what they wish for”. Speaking to a business forum in Bali on Monday when asked what an up-and-coming “Elon Musk of the East” should focus on, he said he “wasn’t sure how many people would actually like to be me”. “They

We have not met alien life because intelligent societies tend to wipe themselves out, scientists have claimed – and the human race could be next. A team based at NASA‘s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has used a previous theory called the Great Filter to explain their conclusions. It states that many other civilisations have existed during

Rats have rhythm and will happily bop along to Queen and Lady Gaga, scientists have found. The discerning rodents also liked a bit of Mozart, the Japanese study found. The skill of moving to a musical beat was thought to be mostly one associated with humans, scientists have discovered. Researchers at the University of Tokyo

Last week, I was invited to get my hair done in the metaverse. In what was the strangest PR email I’d received for some time, a leading haircare manufacturer offered up a seat in a virtual salon, where my avatar would get a luxury treatment the real me could only dream of. Blurring the lines

Britain’s first garbage truck for space could clear up junk with a bear hug – or even the robotic equivalent of a litter-picker. The two techniques are being proposed by companies competing for a UK contract to launch a clean-up mission as soon as 2026. The winning prototype will track down and capture two defunct

It’s a chaotic time to be on Twitter. The beginning of Elon Musk’s tenure has not gone smoothly – mass lay-offs, new features disappearing as quickly as they debut, advertisers putting spending on hold, and even a threat of bankruptcy. As its future becomes increasingly uncertain, people are looking for somewhere new. Google searches for

Major esports events will not be immune from the global economic downturn, the boss of one of the world’s biggest gaming championships has warned. Speaking in San Francisco at the League Of Legends world finals, John Needham told Sky News he was concerned advertisers might start to pull back from sponsoring such events. The global

Elon Musk has been contradicted by one of his own members of staff after he said he had “killed” a new “official” label for certain Twitter accounts. Just hours after the proposal became public, he hinted that it simply didn’t work. The idea is to use the “official” tag to mark the accounts of government

From food getting stuck, to that awkward moment your shaver runs out of battery halfway through, there are downsides to having a beard. But if it makes you feel any better, the facial hair-related issues of yesteryear sound much worse. In a remarkable discovery, researchers have translated the first sentence ever written in the ancient

Bumblebees are less likely to pollinate flowers that have been sprayed with fertilisers or pesticides due to changes in the electrical field around the plants, a new study suggests. Flowers use a diverse range of cues to attract pollinators, including colour, sun, magnetic fields, odour, shape, texture, humidity and – recently discovered – static electrical

Remember when Game Of Thrones was coming to an end, and it felt like every network under the sun was trying to entice a generation of fantasy addicts to a series of its own to fill the void? That’s sort of how social media feels right now, as people looking for Twitter alternatives in the

Remember when Game Of Thrones was coming to an end, and it felt like every network under the sun was trying to entice a generation of fantasy addicts to a series of its own to fill the void? That’s sort of how social media feels right now, as people looking for Twitter alternatives in the