SUNDAY, 28 APRIL 2024, 17:19
TikTok has unveiled its Instagram rival, TikTok Notes, launching initially in specific regions including Canada and Australia, accessible for download on both the Google Play Store and Apple App Store, according to the company’s announcement. The company said on X that it was inn the early stages of experimenting with a dedicated space for photo […]
Promoted | The world today is very different to the one in 2019.
The dismissals escalated longstanding tensions between company leaders and activist employees opposed to supplying technology to Israel’s government.
Huawei Technologies released the new Pura 70 series smartphones on Thursday, replacing the popular P series.
Billed as a rival to the Olympic Games, the Enhanced Games, set to take place in 2025, is a sporting event with a difference; athletes will be allowed to dope. Ian Sample talks to chief sports writer Barney Ronay about where the idea came from and how it’s being sold as an anti-establishment underdog, and to Dr Peter Angell about what these usually banned substances are, and what they could...
A new House measure attempts to force the Senate’s hand on passing legislation to ban TikTok or mandate the app’s sale.
Bill Nelson told Capitol Hill lawmakers that China has been ‘very, very secretive’ about its space progress, warning ‘we are in a race’
The head of Nasa has warned of China bolstering its space capabilities by using civilian programs to mask military objectives, cautioning that Washington must remain vigilant.
“China has made extraordinary strides especially in the last 10 years, but they are...
Some shortages are so serious they are imperilling the health and even lives of patients with serious illnesses, pharmacy bosses say
Drug shortages are a “new normal” in the UK and are being exacerbated by Brexit, a report by the Nuffield Trust health thinktank has warned. A dramatic recent spike in the number of drugs that are unavailable has created serious problems for doctors,...
Use of powerful medications linked to elevated risk of serious adverse outcomes including heart failure
Doctors are being urged to reduce prescribing of antipsychotic drugs to dementia patients after the largest study of its kind found they were linked to more harmful side-effects than previously thought.
The powerful medications are widely prescribed for behavioural and psychological symptoms...
It has been replaced by a new model, which will be used in automotive manufacturing. A farewell video featured the old machine running outdoors, performing back flips and awkwardly shimmying.
It has been replaced by a new model, which will be used in automotive manufacturing. A farewell video featured the old machine running outdoors, performing back flips and awkwardly shimmying.
People in routine and repetitive jobs found to have 31% greater risk of disease in later life, and 66% higher risk of mild cognitive problems
If work is a constant flurry of mind-straining challenges, bursts of creativity and delicate negotiations to keep the troops happy, consider yourself lucky.
Researchers have found that the more people use their brains at work, the better they seem to be...
In a first, the legislation extends privacy rights to the neural data increasingly coveted by technology companies.
The company’s directors are asking shareholders to again approve the multibillion-dollar compensation plan and to move the company’s registration to Texas, from Delaware.
Experts believe remains belong to a type of ichthyosaur that roamed the seas about 202m years ago
Fossils discovered by an 11-year-old girl on a beach in Somerset may have come from the largest marine reptile ever to have lived, according to experts.
The fossils are thought to be from a type of ichthyosaur, a prehistoric marine reptile that lived in the time of dinosaurs. The newly discovered...
Global digital rights advocates are watching to see if Congress acts, worried that other countries could follow suit with app bans of their own.
Eskom has not imposed rotational power cuts for more than three weeks, and doesn’t expect to do so for the foreseeable future.
Cambridge scientists critique research that concluded the disease is no longer a threat to the species’ survival
Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast
Cambridge researchers have challenged a previous study finding that a facial cancer that devastated the Tasmanian devil population was on the decline.
Devil facial tumour disease, a fatal cancer spread through...
Creating visually distinctive plants likely to become important as more weed-like crops are grown for food
Genetically engineering crops to be colourful could help farmers produce food without pesticides, as it would make it easier to spot weeds, scientists have said.
This will be increasingly important as hardy, climate-resistant “weeds” are grown for food in the future, the authors have...
Rusty Foster could never live in New York. But his hit newsletter, Today in Tabs, is an enduring obsession of the city’s media class.
Cylinder slab that tore through Naples home last month was debris released from International Space Station in 2021
A heavy chunk of metal that crashed through the roof of a Florida home is, in fact, space junk, Nasa has confirmed.
The federal space agency said that a cylinder slab that tore through a house in Naples, Florida, last month was debris from a cargo pallet released from the...