FKA Twigs has revealed she has created an AI version of herself to engage with fans and help with promotion. The British singer-songwriter and dancer gave details of the project as she addressed a US Senate intellectual property hearing regarding the No Fakes Act, which aims to crack down on unauthorised replicas. FKA Twigs, whose real name is Tahliah Debrett ...
Google appears to be rolling out “audio emojis” to its phone users. Some Google Pixel phone owners are noticing an option to send a reaction while on a call. “I was on the phone and saw a new button come up… “Audio Emoji”??? I had to call my brother to test it out!” said one X user. An accompanying video ...
Running around a ‘wall of death’ could keep people healthy on the moon, according to new research. Scientists at the University of Milan tied people to bungee cords to replicate lunar gravity and asked them to run around a rented ‘wall of death’, which they had loaned from an amusement park. The test subjects needed to run fast enough to ...
An “animal-centred internet” – which could allow pets to interact with each other as well as humans – may be possible, scientists have suggested. The findings come following a new study by researchers at the University of Glasgow found that parrots may prefer live chats with their friends over recorded messages – part of wider research that they said could ...
Archaeologists have been able to piece together the skull of a 75,000-year-old Neanderthal skeleton. Researchers from Cambridge University and Liverpool John Moores unearthed the skull at the Shanidar Cave site, 500 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq. As part of a new Netflix documentary, Secrets of The Neanderthals, they were able to put the skull back together and recreate the face ...
Apple is trying to fix a problem which caused some iPhone alarms to not go off. Users have been complaining they were missing their alarms. “This has probably been the third or fourth day in a row that my alarm clock has not gone off,” one TikTok user Reid Manning said. It is unclear how many people have been affected. ...
Uber faces a multimillion-pound lawsuit from London’s black cab drivers in a revival of the longstanding dispute over the operation of the ride-hailing app in the UK capital. The action, which will be filed in the High Court on Thursday, alleges that Uber improperly obtained a licence from Transport for London in 2012 and therefore took business away from other ...
Magic mushrooms have the potential to be an effective antidepressant, according to new research. Psilocybin – the active ingredient in magic mushrooms – has shown promise in reducing symptoms of depression after one or two doses, with few side effects and no signs of causing addiction. But past studies have not investigated things that might influence how effective the psychedelic ...
Universal Music and TikTok have ended a dispute over royalties after the label pulled millions of songs from the social media platform. The new licensing agreement means songs by some of the biggest artists in the world, including Drake, Adele and Billie Eilish will return to the site for use within the next two weeks. TikTok, a short video app, ...
House Republicans are seeking to unite their unruly majority around an evergreen conservative cause, devising a strict response to the wave of pro-Palestinian protests that have roiled college campuses across the country in recent weeks. GOP leaders this week announced plans for new oversight investigations of elite universities where — in the words of House Republican Whip Tom Emmer (Minn.) ...