British volunteers are to be deliberately infected with COVID-19 to test whether a vaccine offers any protection. In the first trial of its kind, participants will be injected with an experimental vaccine and around a month later exposed to Sars-Cov-2, the virus that...
The government will finally release a mobile phone app on Thursday that people in England and Wales can use to establish whether they may have been exposed to coronavirus. The launch follows the ignominious scrapping of the previous app despite months of development,...
The British government is launching a new telecoms diversity task force to find a supplier capable of filling the void left by a ban on Huawei's equipment within the UK's 5G infrastructure. Mobile networks in the UK will be banned from purchasing 5G kit from Huawei...
An asteroid the size of a bus is set to pass Earth at a distance closer than both the Moon and satellites, according to NASA. The asteroid, named 2020 SW, will fly past 13,000 miles (22,000 kilometres) above the Earth's surface. This distance means it will be closer...
Tesla's share value dropped by $50bn (£39bn) last night as investors reacted to speeches by Elon Musk and other company executives at the company's battery day event. The astronomical figure - in the range of the UK's annual spending on defence (£38bn) - is more a...
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station had to carry out an "avoidance manoeuvre" to prevent it from being hit by space junk, NASA has said. Its trajectory was changed to move it further away from the "unknown piece of space debris", the US space agency...
Police have arrested 179 people, including four in the UK, as part of a global crackdown on dark web opioid trafficking. More than $6.5m (£5m) in cash was seized in a series of arrests and raids across the US and Europe, which came more than a year after the Wall...
Airbus has unveiled three concepts for a zero-emission commercial aircraft powered by hydrogen rather than jet fuel, which it says could be carrying passengers by 2035. The three concepts are each based on a different idea for how to achieve zero-emission flights and...
NASA have outlined plans for a space programme which will see the first woman sent to the Moon in 2024. The programme, called Artemis, will also send a man to the Moon - it will be the first lunar landing since NASA's Apollo 17 mission in 1972. Astronauts will launch...
The mysterious cause of an entire rural Welsh village's broadband being knocked out at 7am each morning has finally been uncovered - an old television set. Frequent tests consistently showed that Aberhosan's network itself was working fine but even after local...
Astronomers have identified a new mini-moon about to join Earth's orbit - however it's believed to be manmade space junk. Mini-moons are typically asteroids which temporarily join the Earth's orbit before being flung back into space. However, experts have said the...
Xbox Series X and S pre-orders are available today and rapidly selling out across the world, with one website hit by demand. Although the consoles won't be physically available until 10 November - for £249 for the smaller Xbox Series S, and £449 for the flagship...
A British man who helped steal information from several companies as a key member of The Dark Overlord hacking group has been jailed for five years in the US. Nathan Francis Wyatt pleaded guilty in federal court in St Louis, Missouri, to conspiring to commit...
A deal to prevent TikTok from being banned in the US has been plunged into peril. The Chinese company ByteDance had reached an agreement with Oracle and Walmart that was designed to allay national security concerns, but Global Times, a newspaper backed by the Chinese...
Twitter has launched an investigation after users claimed that its image cropping feature favours the faces of white people. An automatic tool on the social network's mobile app automatically crops pictures that are too big to fit on the screen - and selects which...
Microsoft has agreed to buy the company behind hit games such as Fallout, Doom and The Elder Scrolls in a $7.5bn (£5.8bn) deal. The acquisition of ZeniMax will help Microsoft strengthen its Xbox video game offering as competition with rival Sony heats up ahead of...
Donald Trump's plan to block downloads of the Chinese messaging and payment app WeChat has been blocked by a federal judge in California on first amendment grounds. The ruling put a temporary block on the president's executive order which would have effectively banned...
Tens of thousands of people marched through the Belarusian capital Minsk on Sunday, calling for the resignation of president Alexander Lukashenko in the sixth straight weekend of protests. It comes as hackers leaked the personal details of more than 2,000 senior...
Donald Trump says he has given his "blessing" to a proposed deal that could prevent TikTok from being banned in the US. He told reporters at the White House he is backing a deal with Oracle and Walmart that would create a new company to oversee TikTok's US operations....
This year, both Sony and Microsoft are actually selling two versions of each of their consoles.In the case of Microsoft, there are two entirely separate Xboxes. One is named the Xbox Series X, which costs $499, and is bigger, more powerful and more expensive than the...
The company revealed the timing and specific retailers that the consoles will be available on 22 September, when pre-orders for the console opened.For the most part, pre-orders will start at 8am local time on the morning of 22 September.In the UK, that means they will...
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has said that Donald Trump’s ban of TikTok and WeChat violates the First Amendment.In a series of tweets, the organisation said that the ban would not protect Americans’ personal data, the ostensible reason for the president’s...
After a showcase event held this week, Sony finally announced when the console would go on sale and how much it would cost. Then it announced that pre-orders would open very soon after, with many starting on Wednesday morning.Ever since then, gamers have been locked...
Just 6% of the UK's population had COVID-19 antibodies at the start of September, the government's scientific advisers have warned. Newly released documents from the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) said current levels of immunity were unlikely to...
The unusual process will see the company sell its consoles directly through its own US page.But the option to do so will be limited to people who received an invitation, with the process shrouded in mystery and exclusivity.Read moreIt invited users to submit a form...
Users in the country will be stopped from downloading the video app as well as WeChat.If a deal is not struck by 12 November, the app will be fully banned, and using as well as downloading the app will be illegal, according to the order from the US Department of...
People in the US will be banned from downloading TikTok from this Sunday. The US commerce department said that starting 20 September, Americans will not be able to get the popular video-sharing app. The ban will also cover the messaging app WeChat. Image: Chinese...
A man has been caught asleep behind the wheel of a self-driving Tesla car that was travelling at 150km/h (93mph). Police in Alberta, Canada, received a call about a 2019 Tesla Model S speeding on a motorway near the town of Ponoka. Officers said the car appeared to be...
Sony has come out swinging ahead of the console wars looming this holiday season by confirming its two PS5 consoles will be available in November alongside a host of exciting games. The flagship PlayStation 5 will be available for £449 in the UK from 19 November, and...
Two asteroids have shot past the Earth this week, coming closer to the planet than the Moon – and more close encounters are expected during the rest of the year.The first asteroid, called 2020 RD4, was between three and seven meters wide.It passed 94,000 kilometers...
The Apple Watch will come without its charging plug, Apple has said – and the iPhone 12 is likely to do the same.The company will continue to ship the wire and small puck that sits on the back of the Watch while it is charging. But it will no longer sell the small...
Garmin has launched a new smartwatch, the Forerunner 745, that will tell you when to work out.It is the first of the company's trackers that not only gathers data while out running, but uses that information to recommend whether and how intensely its owner should...
Nasa believes it has found the first ever planet to be closely orbiting around a white dwarf, the leftover of its once Sun-like star.Some researchers had previously believed that such a search would be fruitless, given that the creation of the white dwarf was expected...
British universities and colleges have been warned about a spike in ransomware attacks targeting the education sector by the UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), a part of GCHQ. Academic institutions are being urged to follow NCSC guidance following a sharp...
Kim Kardashian West is shunning the social media site that helped make her a star - freezing her Instagram account for the day. She is among a group of celebrities who have paused their Insta and Facebook feeds for 24 hours, protesting against the spread of "hate,...
Perfectly preserved sperm dating back 100 million years has been found trapped in amber. The sperm - roughly 50 million years older than the previous oldest fossil record - belonged to an ostracod, a class of small crustacean that has been in existence for 450 million...
Boris Johnson's moonshot testing programme "can be done", according to a Chinese company which has developed a new 30-minute COVID-19 test. The firm's founder told Sky News it could provide the capacity to test one million people in the UK each day within a month....
An Uber safety driver who was behind the wheel of a self-driving car that struck and killed a woman in the US has been charged over the death. Rafaela Vasquez pleaded not guilty to negligent homicide on Tuesday following the 2018 crash that resulted in the first...
The sun has entered a new “solar cycle”, Nasa has said.Officially named “Solar Cycle 25”, it signals that there will be an increase in space weather that could have effects for technology on Earth as well as astronauts in space.The finding will be key to ensuring that...
Apple is about to roll out major updates for the iPhone and all of its other major products.The new versions of the operating systems will come tomorrow, 16 September, the company said.As well as iOS 14, for the iPhone, new versions of iPadOS, WatchOS, and the...