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Facebook is launching a media literacy campaign to tackle the spread of false information about the coronavirus vaccine. It follows vaccine minister Nadhim Zahawi last month telling Sky News the government was battling a “tsunami of disinformation” around the jabs as well as the coronavirus pandemic itself. Facebook previously announced that it would be banning

Microsoft has warned that “multiple actors” are attacking its clients’ email servers following a global hacking campaign which it last week attributed to a China-based state-sponsored group. Researchers fear the tools used by the initial state-sponsored attackers to access Microsoft Exchange servers could now be exploited by criminals, with calls growing for President Biden to

The Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine was able to combat the Brazil variant of COVID-19, it has been revealed. Scientists tested the blood of people who had received the jab and found it fared well against a laboratory made version of the virus similar to the one first discovered in Brazil. The research, published in the New

In March 2020, the world-famous Abbey Road recording studio shut its doors for the first time in almost 90 years. Opened in November 1931, the northwest London venue even remained open during the Second World War, supporting the government and Royal Family with broadcasts to the nation. But the COVID-19 crisis was unprecedented. Image: Abbey

This must be what it feels like to go shoplifting, I thought, as I walked out of Amazon’s new till-less shop in London. You go in, take items off the shelves, put them in a bag, and wander back through the doors and on to the pavement. What’s not to like? Well, you do still

Coronavirus vaccines that have been tweaked to deal with new variants of the disease will be fast-tracked for authorisation, the UK regulator has said. According to new guidance, manufacturers must provide robust evidence that the modified jab triggers an immune response, but lengthier clinical studies that don’t offer data on safety or effectiveness won’t be

SpaceX’s rocket has exploded just minutes after the Starship’s first successful landing. The rocket had soared more than six miles after taking off from Texas on Wednesday, powered through its ascent by three Raptor engines. It descended over the Gulf of Mexico before turning upright, ready for landing. Image: Elon Musk said: “RIP SN10, honourable

The Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccines are both highly effective at preventing over-80s from being admitted to hospital, according to a new study. Researchers in Bristol found that 14 days after one dose of the Pfizer vaccine, it was 79.3% effective at preventing people in that age group from developing symptomatic illness severe enough to

The owner of the Daily Mail has bought the magazine New Scientist for £70m. Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT), which also owns MailOnline, the Mail On Sunday and Metro papers, and an events business, said it had acquired the title from a consortium of investors. Founded in 1956, the London-based New Scientist describes itself

Scientists have found three new deepwater shark species that can glow in the dark. The kitefin shark, the blackbelly lanternshark and the southern lanternshark were collected from the Chatham Rise, off the east coast of New Zealand’s South Island, in January last year. The species were already known to marine biologists but this was the

Twitter is expanding its use of warning labels, targeting tweets that contain misleading details about coronavirus vaccines. The decision has been made to strengthen the social network’s existing COVID-19 guidance, which has led to the removal of more than 8,400 tweets and challenged 11.5 million accounts worldwide. Labels providing additional context are already attached to

There is an adage from the world of terrorism that equally applies to the emerging new variants of COVID-19. To stop them spreading public health teams have to be lucky every time; the virus has to be lucky just once. Fortune has now favoured the Brazilian P1 variant. Someone somewhere in the UK has it,

The Gulf Stream that helps warm the UK and northwest Europe is at its weakest in over 1,000 years and could lead to more “extreme and intense” winters, according to researchers. They say the slowdown observed in the 20th century is “unprecedented” and likely connected to climate change. The Gulf Stream is part of a

A scheduled release of fixes for the troubled Cyberpunk 2077 game have been delayed following a cyber attack on the creator’s internal systems. CD Projekt, the Polish video games maker also known for its medieval fantasy Witcher, said on Thursday the patch will now be released in the second half of March, rather than this

Australia has passed a new law that will force tech companies – including Google and Facebook – to pay for news content. The country’s parliament passed the final amendments to the so-called News Media Bargaining Code on Thursday, and it can now be implemented. The US tech giants had been fiercely opposed to the unprecedented

An Olympic gold medallist has created specialist glasses that give cyclists eyes at the back of their heads. Callum Skinner, 28, who won gold and silver at the 2016 Olympics, developed the technology with physicist Alex Macdonald after raising more than £100,000 through a Kickstarter campaign. The sunglasses allow cyclists to see forwards and backwards