An American billionaire has become the first person to take part in a private spacewalk – against the spectacular backdrop of the Earth. A spacewalk is considered one of the most dangerous activities an astronaut can do in orbit. SpaceX Polaris Dawn spacewalk – live updates It was delayed by around four hours earlier this morning – with no explanation ...
Warning: This story contains offensive language, including antisemitic content. The rant by Adolf Hitler is full of antisemitic vitriol, saying that Jewish people are working to undermine peace in Europe. What’s unusual is the fast-paced music laid on top, and the fact that the combined audio is available on more than 100 posts on TikTok – and is attracting likes. ...
Sharing revenge porn will be upgraded to the most serious type of offence in a change to the Online Safety Act. It means social media firms must proactively remove such images and take steps to stop them appearing in the first place. There will large fines for companies that don’t comply. The government hopes the change, due to come into ...
A 17-year-old male has been arrested as part of the investigation into a cyber security incident affecting Transport for London (TfL). The teenager was detained in Walsall on suspicion of Computer Misuse Act offences in relation to the attack, which was launched on TfL on 1 September. He has been questioned by officers from the National Crime Agency (NCA) and ...
A Second World War project which involved training pigeons to pilot bombs has won this year’s spoof Nobel peace prize. The Ig Nobel gongs – awarded annually by the science humour magazine the Annals of Improbable Research – celebrate unusual areas of research that “make people laugh, then think”. Professor Burrhus Frederic Skinner, a psychologist at the University of Minnesota ...
A mega-tsunami caused by a landslide in Greenland caused the Earth to vibrate for nine days, a new study has shown. The collapse of a 1.2km-high (0.7 miles) mountain peak last September caused water in the fjord below to splash back and forth, causing vibrations right through to the Earth’s crust, researchers found. It was caused by the glacier at ...
The crew of a privately-funded space mission will today attempt the first spacewalk by non-professional astronauts. The commander of the Polaris Dawn expedition – and one of his crewmates – will leave the relative safety of the SpaceX Dragon capsule more than 400 miles above the Earth and spend several minutes in the vacuum of space. A spacewalk is considered ...
New AI technology can detect early signs of more than 1,000 diseases, long before there are any symptoms, according to new research. The computer algorithm, called MILTON, analyses patient test results commonly collected by GPs to detect patterns in the data – and predict with high confidence a disease diagnosis many years later. Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca, which developed the artificial ...
Planning regulation is slowing down the rollout of faster internet, the chief executive of BT’s consumer division has told Sky News. Planning rules were said to be the “key barrier” to implementing 5G mobile phone signal by BT consumer division CEO Marc Allera. He described the legislation as “very arcane and really not favourable to rolling out digital infrastructure at ...
Scientists tracking the spread of dengue fever have named popular European holiday destinations they say are at risk from future outbreaks. The disease is carried by Asian tiger mosquitos, which are becoming more common in Europe, including parts of southern France, Italy and Spain. The mosquito was even spotted at the Paris Olympics this summer. Dengue fever can cause severe ...