Nasa scientists may have found signs of what could be the first planet ever to be discovered outside our galaxy. If confirmed, the world would be thousands of times further away than the many exoplanets we have found so far. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has revealed his latest Blue Origin venture. The NSPCC says “safety is not a priority” for those at the top of Facebook. Why The Recycling Association says the PM had "completely lost the plastic plot". Marine Conservation Society and Whale and Dolp...
Oct 26, 2021•5 min
Tesco shoppers were left frustrated over the weekend as the website and app were both down. The UK’s largest supermarket said its online services were affected due to an “attempt to interfere with its systems”. What are the new measures meaning fewer scam phone calls?, MPs prepare for whistleblower’s Facebook revelations. Levels of climate-warming greenhouse gases in the atmosphere reach record highs. Tesla pulls its new Full Self-Driving beta due to software 'issues'. Australia’s plans for pare...
Oct 25, 2021•4 min
Top movie director Paul Feig has joined calls for blanks to be banned from movie sets. It’s after the death of 42-year-old Halyna Hutchins on the set of new movie Rust. Trump's new social network overwhelmed with trolls before official launch. Bitcoin Boom: the latest on the crypto's recent rise in value. Twitter sets up spaces for all users.Triceratops skeleton sells for $7.7million to US buyer. Ai-Da robot freed from customs in Egypt.Tax on big tech companies to be scrapped in favour of new gl...
Oct 22, 2021•5 min
Youtuber Arun from Mr Whose The Boss tells us why Google and Apple have begun making their own processing chips, and what the thinking is behind Samsung’s new Z-flip colours.Donald Trump sets up his own social media, after being banned by Twitter and Facebook. It’s going to be called TRUTH social.UK childrens charity the NSPCC says social media companies don’t take child safety seriously enough. Elon Musk gets the green light for underground Tesla Tunnels.Woolly mammoths extinction caused by cli...
Oct 21, 2021•5 min
We take a look at Google’s brand new Pixel 6 devices, which come with the tech giant’s own Tensor processor, a new array of cameras and updates for five years. Facebook has been fined over £50million for not providing enough information to the competitions watchdog over its takeover of Giphy. Facebook urged to publish research into harm its platforms cause to children. How VR could be key in future cancer treatments. Amateur investors to be warned off Crypto. How old-tech could make its way into...
Oct 20, 2021•6 min
We look at the brand new Apple Macbooks and Airpods - as fans rejoice at the return of ports. Charlotte Henry from the MacObserver gives us the lowdown on the new tech, including the brand new Airpods. Boris Johnson pitches green investment opportunities in the UK. How an infrared helmet could help dementia patients with memory loss. NASA’s Lucy probe in trouble as problems emerge with solar panels. Armchair astronomers: we need your planets. Vienna Tourism Board sets up Onlyfans. Diver discover...
Oct 19, 2021•6 min
It’s the busiest week of the month known in the industry as ‘Tech-tober’ - as Apple, Google and Samsung all hold launch events this week. We speak with tech Youtuber Supersaf about what’s coming up. Facebook to hire 10,000 to work on ‘metaverse’. FIFA hints at new video game series. Is iPhone-scanning tech a threat to democracy? British Museum will display the ‘world’s oldest surviving map of the stars’. Ford transforming UK factory into electric-car powerhouse, and Greta Thunberg rick-rolls cro...
Oct 18, 2021•5 min
An investigation by Motherboard finds an intriguing explanation about all the fast food references in the Amazon owned e-sports platform’s 125GB data dump. Nasa’s asteroid hunter Lucy is ready for launch, first stop: Jupiter. Pollution expert on how billionaires’ space tourism rockets are contributing to killing Earth. Climate crisis: rich countries forecast to belch more pollution into air this year despite eco pledges. Avicii: late EDM icon’s father confirms tribute concert to support young me...
Oct 15, 2021•6 min
Heir to throne's broadside against space race to colonise new planets. Feel awkward haggling for a discount with a salesperson? Do it with AI. Earth 2100: forecast materials will run out to make phones, solar panels and heart pacemakers. Cheat death with healthy heart diet rich in nuts, seeds and tofu, says study. Spike in child Covid infections but drop for older teens and young to middle-aged adults. Astronomers spy new Jupiter-sized gas-giant planet in our Milky Way galaxy. Where’s Wally...mi...
Oct 14, 2021•6 min
We’re at Retail Week Live in London’s North Greenwich, kicking off by meeting CCP Games boss Hilmar Pétursson, maker of space quest EVE, to talk about the increasingly blurred lines between our real and digital worlds. William Shatner’s due to blast off from a Texas launch pad in a Blue Origin rocket. Global chip shortage: It might be a bit harder to get your hands on Apple’s shiny new iPhone 13 soon. There’s a strange radio signal coming from the centre of our galaxy and scientists don’t know w...
Oct 13, 2021•7 min
Inventors behind the Zephyr reckon the solar-powered military spy plane could stay airborne for incredibly long period to beam down civilian broadband into hard-to-reach parts of the world. Shetland’s rocket dram...Scotland’s most northern whisky islands seals space deal. Floating alien jellyfish and smell of Black Death takeover Tate Modern to explore art and science. Carcass of supersonic WWII Nazi V2 rocket blasted from Germany discovered in English field. Facebook wants to alert users when I...
Oct 12, 2021•6 min
Did Russia steal the plans for the Oxford-Astra Zeneca Covid vaccine and clone it to create their own Sputnik V version? Expectant mums are being urged to get a jab as it’s revealed nearly a fifth of all critically ill patients with Covid in England are pregnant women. Blue Origin’s released footage of William Shatner getting ready to become the oldest human to ever fly into space. Brace yourselves… the Earth’s about to get hit by an enormous solar flare. OceanX reveals more about a “massive” my...
Oct 11, 2021•5 min
Interview with Tom Scott, professor of Nuclear Materials at the University of Bristol, who’s returned from his fourth site visit in Ukraine. Twitch data hack: now Amazon blames ‘configuration error’ for data leak. Well done, Britain - you’re eating less meat and it’s helping save our planet. China Moon shot: Chang’e-5 robot has collected ‘youngest lava’ from lunar surface. Major discovery as Nasa’s Perseverance rover finds evidence of Martian lake. Elon Musk says he’ll move Tesla from California...
Oct 08, 2021•7 min
The tech giant’s engineers are scrambling to discover how a hacker found a way into its e-sports streaming platform to apparently post the valuable source code online. Now British MPs ask Facebook whistleblower to ‘break wall of secrecy’ in evidence. Have digital art-lovers been scammed for thousands in NFT ‘Evolved Apes’ sale? Suggestive jokes, dodgy character names and flirting removed from World of Warcraft. Interview with Ireland rugby star Brian O’Driscoll on how data’s deployed to analyse ...
Oct 07, 2021•6 min
Twitch and OnlyFans also told to ensure footage linked to child abuse, terrorism and racism does not appear on their platforms - or face fines. Senator says Facebook faces “Big Tobacco moment” after whistleblower’s user safety bombshell. Kanye West wearables: rapper ‘plans Donda-branded smart watches and activity monitors’. Amazon opens Lidl-style British bricks-and-mortar department store. Scientists win Nobel Chemistry Prize for molecule-mirroring work. Real Welsh dragon - a 215-million-year-o...
Oct 06, 2021•7 min
What caused the Facebook outage? Mark Zuckerberg has apologised for the global outage that took the entire company offline. Climate change wins the Nobel prize in Physics awarding the three researchers with nearly a million dollars. Drones free-fall from the sky during a light show in China. Electric brain implants have the world abuzz after being found to cure one woman’s depression. 2035 is the year Boris Johnson believes all UK electricity will come from clean energy sources. A UAE satellite ...
Oct 05, 2021•5 min
The Nobel prize has been awarded jointly to two US scientists who figured out the mysteries of how people feel touch and temperature. A whistleblower who leaked a trove of Facebook's secret files has revealed her own identity. Could this be the first launch of a hypersonic missile from a nuclear submarine? A top climate scientist has quit the Science Museum in London’s board over fossil fuel sponsorship. Music prescriptions for people with neurologic injuries and diseases like Alzheimers. The or...
Oct 04, 2021•5 min
The latest on that trove of internal Facebook research documents unearthed by the Wall Street Journal, which its being reported reveal followers of social media celebrities experience greater negative feelings about themselves. Thinking tout loud...Ed Sheeran’s using blockchain to fight concert ticket scalpers. It IS safe for people to get the flu and Covid vaccines at same time, NHS clinical trial finds. X-ray scientists reveal secret letters between Marie-Antoinette and rumoured Swedish lover....
Oct 01, 2021•6 min
Cyber scientists from Birmingham and Surrey Universities claim to have found a tap-to-pay flaw they say could allow hackers to make unlimited contactless payments - all paid for by you. Volcano latest: University College London scientist on La Palma eruption after danger zone visit. Can this ‘super cycling suit’ help cyclists beat the clock using F1 technology? Actress ‘settles TikTok lawsuit over voice used without her permission’ on viral text-to-speech feature. How ‘furious floods’ shaped the...
Sep 30, 2021•7 min
The e-retail giant is denying leaked reports its own developers believe its new autonomous robot Astro is “terrible and will almost certainly throw itself down stairs”. Nasa’s asteroid hunter is being prepared for its 12-year mission. Mercury flyby planned for British-built spacecraft. Covid: bereaved relatives welcome PM’s pandemic inquiry appointment pledge, but say urgency is lacking. Study suggests children from disadvantaged areas shorter than their rich peers. Terrifying giant prey-killing...
Sep 29, 2021•5 min
The UK’s Kidscape and Rap Project discuss Facebook’s announcement that the firm’s put its controversial project on ice for now. TikTok hits one billion monthly users. New Covid alert as study reveals smokers ‘80% more likely’ to get admitted to hospital. Beam me up, Bezos...William Shatner ‘could blast off with Blue Origin’. Was the rise of dinosaurs helped by volcanic eruptions? This hamster is trading cryptocurrency...and you won’t believe the gains. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for ...
Sep 28, 2021•5 min
Hundreds of music fans are being offered micro-royalties for signing up to blockchain music platform run by the crypto speculator Justin Blau. Nasa is launching its most powerful Earth observation satellite. China power crisis causes Apple and Tesla suppliers to stop production. Hear how Natural History Museum scientists discovered a ‘coffee table’ dinosaur. ‘Dangerous levels’ of cocaine and ecstasy found by scientists in Glastonbury Festival’s river. Disney is rebooting ‘Flight of the Navigator...
Sep 27, 2021•5 min
Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton joined a panel chaired by Accelerate Her, a network designed to rebalance gender in the technology sector. The Evening Standard’s business reporter Naomi Ackerman spoke to their CEO, Elka Goldstein. Plus, Apple’s fighting proposals that would force it to ditch its unique power cord for the iPhone and iPads in Europe. The Brave New World NFT, created by Bjork collaborators and digital artists Warren Du Preez & Nick Thornton Jones, goes up for aucti...
Sep 24, 2021•9 min
Tej Lalvani tells us about the weirdest Dragon's Den pitches, what companies he would invest in now, and the future of health tech. We also speak to health tech company Eupnoos, an app that will allow people with a smartphone understand the health of their lungs, by simply blowing into their phones. Plus, Lithuania’s telling people to throw away their old Chinese phones and never buy another one. Fortnite fans hoping to see their favourite game back on the Apple App store are going to be disappo...
Sep 23, 2021•7 min
What if we could generate energy through quantum lasers? We speak to the CEO of Marvel Fusion who’s doing just that, plus we speak to Zulu Forests who are building new habitats through technology and science. A volcanic eruption on La Palma could last 'up to 84 days'. Nasa’s making changes as we move into an era of private space exploration. It appears life on Mars never stood a chance. And, if you’re missing your Nokia 3310 then you’re in luck. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more in...
Sep 22, 2021•7 min
It's Day Two of London Tech Week where climate change leads the agenda! Tessa Clarke from food sharing app Olio tells us how can small actions can create big changes. Evacuees on the Canary Islands have been talking about their horror as a La Palma volcano erupted. China’s version of TikTok is limiting under 14’s to just 40 minutes a day on the platform. Why the world's richest man, Jeff Bezos, plans to give away $1 billion a year for the next decade. Amazon seems to have accidentally leaked the...
Sep 21, 2021•7 min
We're kicking off London Tech Week with the festival's Carolyn Dawson MD at Informa Tech. What can we look forward to? Plus, London Underground’s first major expansion this century has opened, we speak to the Transport Secretary. French defence minister, Florence Parly, called off a meeting with British counterpart, Ben Wallace, as the international fallout continues after the UK, US and Australia agreed a new deal to develop nuclear-powered submarines. New data suggests the UK tech sector raise...
Sep 20, 2021•6 min
Sir Clive Sinclair has died at the age of 81 from cancer. Elon Musk has paid tribute, as well as Microsoft boss Satya Nadellla who said Sir Clive inspired him to become an engineer. Plus, Wikipedia says it’s been “infiltrated” by a group trying to control information about China. The home version of Microsoft Office has been given an October 5th release date - and you won’t need a subscription. Astronauts reveal what it’s really like to live and work on the ISS. Facebook’s identified a new front...
Sep 17, 2021•4 min
Joe Biden, Boris Johnson and Australian Prime Minister teamed up to form a special security pact to share advanced defence technologies, SpaceX makes history again with an all civilian amateur spaceflight. El Salvador take to the streets to protest against Bitcoin as legal tender, Fauci shuts down Nicki Minaj over claims the Covid vaccine could make you impotent. ES Magazine's groundbreaking NFT. Plus, the humble Bandicoot comes back from the dead. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more...
Sep 16, 2021•5 min
Is Apple’s iPhone 13, dubbed “Hollywood in your pocket”, what we’ve been waiting for? We speak to Charlotte Henry from Mac Observer. Rishi Sunak tells us about tech investment and zoom quizzes. There could be a breakthrough in the battle against Ebola in West Africa. An investigation into the safety of driverless cars in the US appears to be expanding. Artists and off-road E-vehicle engineers are teaming up to fight climate change with a giant ship! And why an asteroid that killed the dinosaurs ...
Sep 15, 2021•6 min
