Children with brain tumours will soon have access to drugs they can take at home, the NHS has announced. The treatment is a first of its kind and clinical trials have shown it to significantly slow the progression of the disease, allowing children a better quality of life for longer. The treatment is for children and young people with low-grade ...
Jean-Michel Jarre is no stranger to pioneering technology – so it was fitting he has become the first passenger to take off in KleinVision’s flying car. Known for his laser show concerts – watched by millions – he was a frontrunner in the electronic, ambient and new-age genres of music. And as a long-time supporter of future tech – he ...
The US Senate has voted in favour of legislation that could ban TikTok in the country – if its Chinese owners refuse to sell. The bill passed by a wide margin in the Senate on 23 April after being voted through in the House of Representatives. But does the ban actually mean an end to TikTok in the US? How ...
The possibility of a ban on TikTok in the US has moved a step closer after the Senate agreed a landmark bill to force its China-based parent company into selling the app. The bill gives ByteDance nine months to sell the popular social media platform – with the possibility of a three-month extension to finalise a deal – or the ...
Hundreds of users of the gay dating app Grindr have alleged the company shared their private information, including their HIV status, with third parties, a law firm said on Monday. Austen Hays said it was filing the mass data protection lawsuit at London’s High Court and claimed thousands of Grindr users in the UK may have been affected. The firm ...
NASA’s longest-running spacecraft Voyager 1 is sending information back to Earth again for the first time since November. Scientists have managed to fix a problem on the probe, which was launched 46 years ago, after five months of silence. On 14 November last year, Voyager 1 stopped sending usable data back to Earth, even though scientists could tell it was ...
Children as young as three are being manipulated into “disturbing” acts of sexual abuse, according to a report by the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF). Warning: This story contains descriptions of child sexual abuse imagery Last year was the most extreme year on record for the IWF’s abuse hotline, which saw a 22% increase in “category A” imagery. Category A imagery ...
Tinder is adding a new safety feature to the app, so online daters can let friends and families know where they are. The ‘Share My Date’ feature allows users to share the location, time and a photo of their match. More than one in 10 online adults in the UK use dating apps, according to Ofcom, and Tinder is the ...
Parts of the UK are being treated to a dazzling display as the oldest annual meteor shower known to man streaks through the Earth’s atmosphere. The Lyrid meteor shower peaks during late April every year and was first spotted in 687 BC by Chinese stargazers. This particular display is known for its fast and bright meteors and produces around 18 ...
Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department has become the first album in Spotify history to reach more than 300 million streams in a single day. The 34-year-old singer also became the most-streamed artist in a single day on the platform when her record was released on 19 April, according to the streaming service. Spotify wrote on X: “History made! On ...