Pakistan has banned the TikTok app for failing to filter out "immoral and indecent" content, regulators have said. The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) said the ban was due to "complaints from different segments of the society against immoral and indecent...
A Tesla launched into space more than two years ago has made its first approach of Mars.SpaceX sent the Tesla Roadster and its mannequin driver ‘Starman’ into space in February 2018 as a dummy payload on the first launch of the company’s Falcon Heavy rocket.Elon Musk,...
A widely-circulated open letter calling on governments to pursue herd immunity is counting homeopaths, therapists and fake names among its "medical" signatories, leading to accusations that it falsely represents scientific support for the controversial position. The...
A widely-circulated open letter calling on governments to pursue herd immunity is counting homeopaths, therapists and fake names among its "medical" signatories, leading to accusations that it falsely represents scientific support for the controversial position. The...
More people are being born without wisdom teeth and an extra artery in their arm as a result of a human "microevolution" in recent years, a study has found. Babies now have shorter faces, smaller jaws and extra bones in their legs and feet, a study in the Journal of...
The contact-tracing app for England and Wales has only sent one alert about a coronavirus outbreak in a venue since it was launched two weeks ago, despite being used for millions of check-ins, Sky News has learned. Department of Health officials said that the system...
The app sends alerts to people if its systems have been triggered by someone in their network potentially receiving a positive test.But the somewhat confusing notification does not necessarily mean that users have to self-isolate. The notification only means that the...
Facebook has removed hundreds of fake accounts tied to right-wing group Turning Point USA, which enlisted a now-banned marketing group to flood comment sections of news stories to attack Joe Biden and Democrats while praising Donald Trump.The social media company...
Billions of piece of Venus could be waiting to be discovered on the Moon, scientists have said.Venus has long been of interest to researchers, who suggested that billions of years ago it could have had an environment like Earth’s, with a thin atmosphere and the...
The individuals believe the baseless conspiracy argue that an unidentified individual called Q is posting secret codes to inform people that president Donald Trump is a waging a secret war against paedophiles and Satanists, who are harvesting children’s blood to...
The first teardown of the PlayStation 5 has confirmed that the console can be safely laid on its side.Both the new Sony console and its rival the Xbox Series X have attracted considerable comment on the fact they are much larger than their predecessors. Many have...
The event will also probably see the unveiling of yet more products too, however, with new accessories and hardware widely rumoured to be coming during the virtual event.Apple has only described the event with the title “Hi, Speed”, and confirmed that it will take...
A Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton called Stan has sold for £24.5m at auction, breaking an all-time record. Named after Stan Sacrison, the amateur palaeontologist who discovered it in South Dakota in 1987, Stan is 40ft long and 13ft high. It sold for $31.8m (£24.5m) at...
More than 600 reports of romance scams per month were made to Action Fraud during June, July and August, with criminals exploiting victims' desire for human contact during the lockdown. Police forces and other organisations are running a campaign throughout October to...
Scientists have claimed to be able to manipulate sleepers’ dreams by making them imagine certain topics, similar to lucid dreaming.Researchers at MIT Media Lab's Fluid Interfaces used a technique called targeted dream incubation (TDI) to achieve this.TDI uses an early...
A new squid-like robot has can swim on its own and take pictures.The machine was built to explore the sea by researchers at the University of California San Diego.The robot propels itself by shooting jets of water behind it; it takes in a large amount of water into...
Apple has released its “Health Records” feature in the UK, allowing people to see personal information from their hospital on their iPhone.The feature is intended to allow people to easily pull up their health information, and give them a view of everything from their...
The new Apple Watch's biggest feature is not, for the most part, visible to anyone who is wearing it. Every so often, in the dark, your wrist might glow red, reflecting a light shining out of the Watch that is measuring your blood.The Watch uses that glow to measure...
Spotify users will now be able to search for song lyrics in its iPhone and Android apps.This will allow users who do not know the title, album, or artist of the song will be able to type in the lyrics inton the Spotify search bar to find them. Many songs can share...
The company said that the teardown represented an opportunity to get “a sneak peek at the console’s interior” ahead of the release date next month.It focuses particularly on the cooling capabilities of the console, claiming that despite the vastly improved performance...
Phone network Three stopped working on Wednesday, with a rush of users complaining they were unable to get online.The problems have since been resolved and the network is back online.Users right across the UK complained of problems with the network, according to...
Parliament's Defence Committee says there is "clear evidence of collusion" between Huawei and the Chinese state in a new report on 5G security. It cites claims which have previously been made about Huawei's ownership model and receipt of state subsidies, but does not...
A US congressional report has accused Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google of monopolising the digital market and recommended antitrust laws be used to break up these companies. The 449-page report criticises how the technology giants have purchased competitors to...
The world's richest countries could be back "close to normal" by late 2021 if a coronavirus vaccine is found, Bill Gates has said. But the Microsoft co-founder warned that this is the "best case" scenario, as it still remains uncertain whether any vaccines will work....
Professor Emmanuelle Charpentier and Professor Jennifer Doudna have won the 2020 Nobel Prize in chemistry for their work developing a method for genome editing. The award takes the number of women who have ever won the Nobel Prize in chemistry from five to seven. Both...
Apple is holding special event on 13 October at which it is expected to launch the iPhone 12 and a handful of other products. The company unveiled a range of new products including Apple Watches and iPads in its September event last month, but for the first time in...
Apple has announced a special event on 13 October at which it is expected to launch the iPhone 12 and a handful of other products. The company unveiled a range of new products including Apple Watches and iPads in its September event last month, but for the first time...
A team of palaeontologists headed by experts from the University of Edinburgh has discovered a new species of toothless, two-fingered dinosaur. Multiple complete skeletons of the feathered species - named Oksoko avarsan - have been unearthed in Mongolia's Gobi Desert,...
A camera situated on the rear-view mirror of thousands of new Tesla cars may be a monitoring whether drivers are using their phones or otherwise distracted when behind the wheel, a hacker has revealed.Tesla CEO Elon Musk previously claimed that the camera would be...
This September was the hottest on record across the globe, scientists have found. Surface temperatures worldwide were 0.05C higher than 2019, making it the hottest September since records began, according to the EU Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S). Europe also...
Senior politicians from four major northern councils have warned the government that existing coronavirus restrictions are "not working", describing some as confusing and others as counter-productive. Their intervention reflects growing divisions in politics and in...
Facebook is banning all QAnon conspiracy theory groups after classifying them as dangerous due to a surge of online misinformation. QAnon - a far-right conspiracy theory - alleges that President Donald Trump is a secret warrior against a supposed child-trafficking...
Apple has announced the launch date of the new iPhone 12.It will show off the phone at an event on 13 October, at 10am local pacific time, it said in an invitation.Normally, Apple’s phones are put on sale a week and a half after they are revealed, which would suggest...
Nearly nine in 10 adults think buying the latest smartphone is a “waste of money”.Research polling 2,000 Britons revealed more than half are “bored” of trying to keep up-to-date with the latest tech.And three in four are no longer willing to pay a fortune to get it.As...
Facebook has removed a post by Donald Trump in which he falsely stated that Covid-19 is less dangerous than the flu.The long post broke Facebook’s rules on coronavirus misinformation, the company said.The same post remains live on Twitter, though it has been placed...
A total of 24 "superhabitable" planets may have conditions more suitable for life than Earth and better stars than the sun, according to researchers. The study, led by Washington State University, identified planets that were older, slightly larger, warmer and wetter...
Twitter has flagged a tweet written by Donald Trump for "spreading misleading and potentially harmful information related to COVID-19". In one post, the US president falsely claimed that coronavirus is less deadly than the seasonal flu "in most populations". The tweet...
An ozone hole over Antarctica is one of the largest and deepest in recent years, according to scientists. The ozone layer is a part of the Earth's atmosphere and acts as a shield, absorbing harmful ultraviolet radiation from the sun. However, chemicals and substances...
The risk of coronavirus spreading on public transport has remained substantially low through the pandemic, several international studies have shown. Safety measures imposed on public transport around the world since COVID-19 hit have made them "the safest places on...