The test of the Starship prototype, known as SN8 or Serial Number 8, takes it one step closer towards a 15 kilometer test flight that is set to happen later this month or in early November.The test took place at 3:13am local time in South Texas, and although the...
The latest Instagram update will allow companies to chat with users through direct messages, the photo sharing app has announced.The Facebook-owned app will add support to allow brands and businesses to connect with users through live customer service representatives,...
The US Department of Justice has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google's parent company Alphabet for using "illegal means" to keep its monopoly power. The lawsuit is set to be the biggest in almost two decades and has drawn comparisons to a 1974 case against...
The annual Orionid meteor shower is set to peak on Wednesday night, giving sky gazers in the UK an opportunity to watch the celestial spectacle throughout the week.The event will bring “prolonged explosions of light”, according to Nasa, with up to 20 “shooting stars”...
The US Justice Department is filing a lawsuit against Google, accusing it of abusing its size to harm consumers.The company is accused of abusing its dominance of search and online services to stop competition to help itself.The landmark case – likely to be the...
It’s here: for the second time in two years, we’ve had a whole-number jump in iPhones – no iPhone 11S in between as might have been expected. With Apple, that indicates that we should expect both a completely new design and significant upgrades to the phone’s...
Shell structures in our Milky Way are evidence of a huge collision between it and another dwarf galaxy, astronomers have found.The crash happened nearly 3 billion years ago, when the dwarf galaxy fell into the middle the Milky Way and was torn apart by the...
It's a brave soul who allows themselves to be deliberately infected with the COVID virus. Even if you are young and healthy, there is no guarantee that you won't become seriously ill. Nor can you be sure that you won't develop long COVID, the debilitating chronic...
The Orionid meteor shower - named because they appear to come from the constellation Orion - will peak this Wednesday. The annual meteor shower is caused by the Earth passing through dust and debris left by Halley's Comet, which is visible to the naked eye from every...
The question of why UK arrivals aren't tested for coronavirus has been asked repeatedly in recent months, by airlines, unions, MPs and passengers themselves. Despite being standard practice in many parts of the world, the government maintains that airport testing...
Microsoft has released a new version of its Xbox app for the iPhone and iPad which will allow Xbox gamers to play their consoles remotely. Unlike the xCloud games streaming service - which only works on Android devices - the Xbox app allows phone users to stream games...
The Falklands War would have been lost without the contribution of GCHQ, according to an authorised "warts and all" history of the spy agency. It is one of many revelations in newly released Behind The Enigma, by Professor John Ferris. The author says its contribution...
The UK has become the first country to back studies that would see healthy volunteers deliberately infected with coronavirus after being given a potential vaccine. Human challenge trials aim to speed up the development of vaccines and have previously been used in...
The iPhone 12 has seen twice the pre-orders of the iPhone 11, according to an expert analyst – and the iPhone 12 Pro is proving unexpectedly popular.Pre-orders for the new phones opened on Friday, 16 October, with the phones actually going on sale this Friday.That...
The US has charged six Russian hackers over a series of global cyber attacks, including trying to undermine UK efforts to hold Moscow accountable for the Salisbury spy poisoning. The charging announcement came as Britain accused Russian cyber spies of attacking the...
Last week, the space agency announced that it had selected 14 agencies to develop technology that would allow for sustainable moon missions by the end of the decade.The network will provide communication for data transmission, including command and control functions,...
Our Milky Way is surrounded by a "clumpy halo" that could be hiding mysterious missing matter, astronomers have said.The galaxy is wrapped in a ring of hot gases that are constantly being topped up as stars are born and die, scientists say.And inside that halo could...
Scientists have solved a fundamental problem that had prevented a “miracle material” from being used in next-generation solar cells.The breakthrough paves the way for the widely acclaimed mineral perovskite to transform the solar industry through cheaper and more...
Nasa is preparing to grab a piece of asteroid and bring it back to Earth.The dramatic manoeuvre will be the culmination of two years that a Nasa spacecraft has spent orbiting and examining an asteroid known as Bennu, hundreds of millions of miles away.The Osiris-Rex...
NASA has chosen Nokia to build a 4G network on the moon as part of the space agency's Artemis programme, which aims to establish a sustainable human presence there. The Finnish company will build the technology which will be integrated into NASA's lunar landers and...
The UK's video games industry has grown to record levels over the past year, and at the fastest rate in more than a decade, according to its trade association. The Independent Games Developers' Association (TIGA) said that more than 1,740 jobs were added to the...
Instagram is being investigated regarding alleged illegal processing of children's personal information, by the Irish privacy watchdog which is the EU's lead authority on Facebook. The Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) is investigating whether Instagram's parent...
A NASA spacecraft will this week attempt to descend on an asteroid and bring back a sample in a 10-second mission. The Osiris-Rex has been circling the Bennu asteroid for nearly two years - hundreds of millions of miles away from Earth. But on Tuesday it will try to...
More than one coronavirus vaccine will be available in the next three to six months, a government scientific adviser has told Sky News. Sir Jeremy Farrar, who sits on the SAGE committee, said: "I think in the first quarter of next year we will have vaccines - will...
Thousands of private renters in Hackney face eviction and potentially homelessness as the council says it is unable to make housing benefit payments due to a cyber attack earlier this week. The council was hit on Tuesday morning by what Mayor Philip Glanville...
Users of the contact-tracing app for England and Wales have reported receiving updates incorrectly telling them the risk level in their area had changed, after what Sky News understands was a mistake by the app's developers. The Department of Health and Social Care...
Betelgeuse, one of the best-known stars in our sky, is actually much closer and smaller than we’d realised, astronomers have said.In fact, it might be another 100,000 years until it dies in an explosion, according to a new study. The research suggests that the star is...
On 22 September, the three astronauts serving aboard the International Space Station (ISS) were ordered to shelter near an escape craft in the Russian segment of the station. Nasa had detected a large piece of space debris heading towards them and initiated emergency...
It's part of an investigation into the influencer industry the watchdog launched two years ago. Regulators are concerned that Instagram wasn't doing enough under consumer protection laws to stop hidden advertising, which is illegal in the U.K. They want to make it...
Slack appears to have stopped working properly again, with users seeing messages appear out of order – or not at all.The workplace chat app has been hit by a run of problems in recent weeks, often relating to users being able to read their messages as usual.Slack’s...
Autonomous drones and unmanned boats could be used to maintain the UK's offshore wind farms in the next five years, experts have told Sky News. A team of scientists from the University of Bristol and French-based engineering and science firm Thales are testing...
British Airways is to be fined £20m after losing the personal and financial details of more than 400,000 customers in a cyber attack. The fine is considerably lower than the £183m fine which the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) had initially notified the...
The red supergiant star Betelgeuse is smaller and much closer to Earth than previously believed, according to astronomers from the Australian National University, who have given a new data for when it will explode. While it is normally one of the brightest stars in...
Scientists have suggested building a network of a billion pendulums that could together finally find dark matter.Despite the fact that dark matters makes up some 27 per cent of the universe – far more than the 5 per cent comprised of the ordinary matter that we can...
An iPhone 12 has been seen in real life for the first time, during an appearance on Good Morning America.The new Apple handsets – available in four versions – were unveiled during a livestreamed virtual event from the company's Apple Park campus this week.Usually,...
Sony has revealed the first proper look at what the PlayStation 5 will actually be like to use.A new official video shows the user interface that will greet players when they sign in, and how they will get to games and navigate around.Some important parts of the menus...
Facebook and Twitter are preventing users from sharing a story about Hunter Biden, which was published in circumstances an expert in foreign interference described as "highly suspicious". Two articles published in the New York Post claim to present evidence that...
Elon Musk has announced that Tesla is cutting the price of its flagship Model S to $69,420.Musk’s price change is in reference to two things: the first is that American electric car maker Lucid Motors said that its new electric car, the Lucid Air, would cost $77,400...
A team of palaeontologists in the UK have discovered a new species of small pterosaur, similar in size to a turkey. The dinosaur is unlike any other pterosaur discovered due to its long and slender toothless beak, similar to that of a kiwi bird, according to the study...
A US astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts have reached the International Space Station (ISS) in record time. Expedition 64 saw Kate Rubins, Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 10.45am local time on...