General Motors is being accused of collecting data about the “bad” habits of drivers and selling it on to insurers. The state of Texas is suing the car company over the allegations, claiming it installed technology on more than 14 million vehicles to collect data about drivers. The lawsuit alleges GM – which manufactures brands including Chevrolet, Cadillac and Buick ...
Google’s freshly updated Pixel range has been revealed at Made by Google 2024 – the tech giant’s annual hardware launch. The phones, artificial intelligence, and earbuds have all had makeovers, but one smartwatch update is groundbreaking. Loss of Pulse Detection The Pixel Watch, Google’s smartwatch, has a new Loss of Pulse Detection feature that uses AI to spot when the ...
The US Department of Justice is considering breaking up Google, according to reports from Bloomberg, the New York Times and others. Last week, a federal court in the US ruled the tech giant had broken antitrust law by spending billions on creating an illegal monopoly and becoming the world’s default search engine. The ruling is seen as the first big ...
Older people who feel their life still has purpose are less likely to get memory loss, a survey has suggested. More than 900 people were tracked for an average of 14 years in the US state of Illinois, to see whether they developed mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or dementia. MCI is classed as the stage between an age-related decline in ...
A TikTok user appears in a photograph holding two children. In another, he is in a gym, training with a worn-out punching bag. Visually, the TikTok post appears innocuous, but the audio is not. It consists of a speech given in Arabic, laid over an excerpt of vocal music known as a nasheed. Nasheeds are common across the Islamic world ...
A vaccine rollout against a common lung disease could prevent 5,000 babies a year being admitted to hospital, according to public health experts. Population modelling led by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) suggests that the jab against Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) infection could also avoid 200 infants needing intensive care. From next month, women past the 28th week of ...
Scientists say there could be water on Mars underground, and more than enough to fill the planet’s oceans. Scientists from California universities San Diego and Berkeley say evidence suggests there is a large reservoir of liquid water under the planet’s surface. Using data from NASA’s InSight lander – which carried out a four-year-long mission that ended in 2022 – they ...
Elon Musk is set to interview Donald Trump on the social media platform X. Mr Musk teased the “live conversation” with Mr Trump, saying it would be “unscripted” and therefore “highly entertaining”. The former US president – whose account on X (when it was known as Twitter) was suspended in 2021 after his supporters stormed the US Capitol – returned ...
UK stargazers hoping to see the Perseids meteor shower last night were treated to an extra show when the northern lights appeared. The Perseids meteor shower, which NASA describes as the “best meteor shower of the year”, peaked overnight on Monday. That meant stargazers could expect to see up to 100 meteors an hour, as Earth passed through the most ...
Horses are much smarter than previously thought, researchers have claimed. Their findings came during a study in which the animals performed better than expected in a complex reward-based game. When denied treats for not following the rules of the game, researchers found the horses were able to instantly switch strategies to get more rewards. The scientists from Nottingham Trent University ...