Is a new Sonic the Hedgehog game called Frontiers on the horizon? speculation for an announcement is around the Game Awards this week. Mina Smallman, the mother of murdered sisters Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman, has spoken out after two police officers were jailed for taking pictures of her dead daughters and sharing them on WhatsApp. Omicron: South Africa data ‘suggests variant results in less severe illness’. Coroner urges social media firms to make internet safer after schoolgirl death. The...
Dec 07, 2021•5 min
Professor Dame Sarah Gilbert, one of the inventors of the coronavirus Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine, urges governments not to squander preparedness learning to fight future pandemics. We speak to TikTok on Year of 2021 who reveal the popularity of Nathan Evans and PinkPantheress...but is this a career option? Bitcoin bloodbath: crypto limps into Monday after weekend crash. Nasa approves $400 million funding, including human ‘space reef” after ISS dies. Is that a garden shed on the Moon? Chinese rov...
Dec 06, 2021•6 min
SpaceX has broken its own record for the number of rockets sent to space in a single year. The latest Starlink launch from Florida marks the 27th for Elon Musk’s private space firm in 2021 - beating the 26 it achieved last year. Experts say booster jabs can offer a good level of protection against the new Omicron variant of coronavirus - a new study suggests it may provide protection from hospital admission and death. Meanwhile Germany introduces new restrictions for unvaccinated people - they’l...
Dec 03, 2021•6 min
Meta has reversed its ban on cryptocurrency ads across its platforms - creating a huge boost for the crypto economy. Jack Dorsey’s Square is changing its name to ‘Block’ and major cryptocurrency firms will be questioned by the US Congress for the first time. Scientists believe they’ve found ‘the trigger’ which causes extremely rare blood clots with the AstraZeneca vaccine and Pfizer boss says annual covid vaccinations will be a thing for years to come. Spotify Wrapped is here - and don’t we all ...
Dec 02, 2021•6 min
The scientist behind the Pfizer jab has told the public not to ‘freak out’ over Omicron. Dr Ugur Sahin, the co-founder of BioNTech, stressed that it is likely vaccines will still provide protection against the variant. Women’s safety campaigners have launched a petition to bolster the UK Online Safety Bill. Seyi Akiwowo, CEO of Glitch - a UK charity that aims to end online abuse particularly for women and girls - tells us why more needs to be done. It comes as twitter announces it will remove im...
Dec 01, 2021•6 min
Markets have fallen after the Moderna chief executive said that existing covid vaccines will struggle with Omicron. WHO Covid-19 special envoy for vaccine research, Dr Samba Sow, tells us what we know so far about the variant. We find out about the new Twitter boss - Parag Agrawal - after the departure of the tech giant’s co-founder Jack Dorsey. The mystery of ‘where the Earth’s water comes from’ might’ve been solved by a team of researchers at the University of Glasgow. MI6 say that more help i...
Nov 30, 2021•7 min
Online retailers look set for a happy Cyber Monday, after data suggested Black Friday sales are currently on track to beat the last two years. A vaccine chief says that all adults in Britain are to be offered booster jabs to step up the battle against the Omicron Covid-19 variant. We hear from astronomer, presenter and author VirtualAstro about how anyone can get into stargazing and you don’t even need a telescope to do it. Plus experts are warning how online marketplaces can be a ‘hotbed’ for d...
Nov 29, 2021•5 min
It’s the day we’ve been waiting for - Black Friday - but across the UK, Extinction Rebellion’s been blockading 13 Amazon warehouses. An XR spokesperson claims the action is to draw attention to the e-retail giant’s “exploitative” practices, as well as the “wastefulness” the cyber sales extravaganza. But if you want to find a good deal, we’ve spoken to Katie Watts from Money Saving Expert. Covid: a mutant variant in South Africa that has doctors in the UK very worried. PinkPantheress tells us abo...
Nov 26, 2021•6 min
Following NASA’s successful mission to deflect an asteroid, an astronomer working on the mission has told us how likely a collision is, and why we need to be prepared. Professor Alan Fitzsimmons also discusses the second phase of investigations, which comes after the rocket collides with the asteroid Dimorphos. India is expected to ban almost all private cryptocurrencies. It’s as leaders in the country are planning to create an official digital currency. A man is to be given the world's first 3D...
Nov 25, 2021•6 min
NASA has officially launched its first ever asteroid deflection mission. The space agency’s ‘DART’ rocket launched from California, and is due to reach its target in September next year. The mission is a trial in case of space rock heads towards Earth in future. We speak to the team behind Robot 'teleport' tech that lets you hug loved ones anywhere in the world. New guidance has been issued for drug which can cut the chances of pregnant women having a miscarriage. Samsung to build £12billion com...
Nov 24, 2021•6 min
We speak to the Executive Vice President of AstraZeneca who says they're working on new antibodies to help better protect vulnerable people from covid-19 for around 12 months. It’s as the pharmaceutical giant opens a brand new £1billion Research and Development centre in Cambridge. It’s designed for a range of projects involving AI technology and advanced robotics. Good news for IBS patients: study finds bacteria can be used to identify effective diet changes. Do your chores: do household jobs h...
Nov 23, 2021•5 min
Spotify has stopped shuffling albums automatically after a request from Adele. She’s called on the streaming service to make the change, so music fans can listen to the tracklisting as it was intended. Some Tesla drivers were literally locked out of the cars over the weekend. It’s after an outage struck the app - which was promptly fixed. President of El Salvador outlines plans for volcano-powered 'bitcoin city'. All new UK homes to be built with electric car chargers under new law. DuckDuckGo t...
Nov 22, 2021•6 min
The Swedish musician is building copyright software with fellow producers, using £1 million funding from Spotify and YouTube. New star wars: US Space Force satellite jammers to knock out Chinese and Russian comms. Climate change conspiracies appeared on Facebook during Cop26 eco summit. We’ll hunt criminals down with your Fitbit data, Scotland Yard warns...but could it frame the innocent? Dyson launches VR store to test out virtual vacuum cleaners and hairdryers. Crypto consortium bid to buy con...
Nov 19, 2021•7 min
Thousands of people living with HIV will be eligible for the six times-a-year shots, so they’ll no longer need daily pills to keep viral load low. Apple right-to-repair bombshell: what does it mean for your iPhone, and why is this happening now after so much pushback? Biggest space ship in history set for orbital launch in New Year, teases Elon Musk. A deceased rhino is helping scientists to save her species after dying at 40 years old. Prince William: British overseas territories “on front line...
Nov 18, 2021•7 min
The e-retailer says UK-based Visa credit customers cannot buy goods after 19 January in a Brexit-based commissions row - we speak to the Evening Standard’s City Editor Oscar Williams-Grut on what this means for customers. Resident Evil Village and Call of Duty: Warzone in running for Game Awards 2021 amid pandemic surge in console purchases. Dog and bone for 21st century...meet Dr Ilyenag Hirskyj-Douglas, the canine computing expert who built a videophone for her faithful labrador. TikTok update...
Nov 17, 2021•7 min
Panic as Moscow defence chiefs bomb old space hardware 280 miles above Earth into 1,500-chunk shrapnel cloud, sending seven on ISS scrambling for ‘lifeboat’ escape pods. Xbox at 20: What are the 70-plus classic titles Microsoft has repurposed for newer consoles? Netflix hit Tiger King to be turned into five-act mini-opera. Are you ready to clock-on for work in the metaverse? Bitcoin has major upgrade...as crypto’s value slumps again. Activision deploys anti-cheating tech to ban crooked CoD gamer...
Nov 16, 2021•5 min
Microsoft is celebrating 20 years of its Xbox console on Monday, and it could be time to dust off your very old 360 CDs because the company’s also updating some of its relatively ancient titles. World’s biggest spaceship fires up all engines for first time. China’s developing a mega-ship able to launch satellites into space and retrieve boosters from ocean. The 1.5C global heating pledge is ‘barely alive’ after Cop26, warns Greenpeace boss. Apple is bricking iPhone Face ID if you try and fix you...
Nov 15, 2021•7 min
Adele and Ed Sheeran’s impact on the vinyl shortage means that smaller artists face an even bigger wait when it comes to pressing. A lack of availability of materials and supply chain issues means there’s currently a global backlog. Couldn’t the big guys just use an NFT? Scientists say that an asteroid near Earth is actually a chunk of the Moon and researchers have found a way to make sustainable, biodegradable, vegan glitter with the same shine as the original. Why PS5 shortages could be about ...
Nov 12, 2021•6 min
Four astronauts blasted off on Wednesday night - after being delayed by nearly two weeks. The 600th person to travel to space - astronaut Matthias Maurer - talked to us before his historical launch on a SpaceX rocket. Elon Musk goes through with the results of his Twitter poll and sells $5billion of his Tesla shares. We speak to the retired GP who has discovered a dinosaur with an ‘unusually large nose' and find out about the study that’s given hundreds of patients with rare diseases a diagnosis...
Nov 11, 2021•6 min
Prince Harry says he warned Twitter boss Jack Dorsey ahead of the Capitol riot in January. He claims he emailed the CEO saying that the platform was allowing a coup to be staged - a day before the attack. Google has won a £3billion legal fight over UK iPhone ‘data misuse’, one of Apple’s original computers has sold at auction and scientists have made a groundbreaking breakthrough with inflammation. Plus the latest scientific crossing of Antarctica, how we’re one step closer to a potential ‘Britc...
Nov 10, 2021•7 min
Four astronauts have safely returned to earth after 6 months onboard the International Space Station. Their return paves the way for four replacements who could blast off as early as Wednesday. Environmentalists call out the Cambo oil field project for jeopardising deep sea life. How choosing the right bedtime could impact your heart, Can air travel ever really be green? Plus members of notorious cyber gang REvil have finally been caught, endurance swimmer and ocean advocate Lewis Pugh on the ma...
Nov 09, 2021•6 min
Be careful what you poll… A vote on Twitter by Elon Musk has urged him to sell 10% of his stake in Tesla in order to pay tax. The poll was done in response to a "billionaires tax" proposed by US Democrats. The successor to the Hubble Space Telescope is set to launch in six weeks... after more than a decade of delays. Astronaut Wang Yaping has made history by becoming the first Chinese woman to walk in space. The US offers bounty of up to $10m for information on hacking group known as ‘DarkSide’....
Nov 08, 2021•5 min
If you baulked at those £200-plus Adele concert tickets, how about watching KSI and Ava Max for nothing....the catch? It’s all in the popular cartoon-like social gaming world Roblox. We speak to global head of music, Jon Vlassopulos on the line from Lisbon’s Web Summit. The Evening Standard’s City news editor Simon Freeman talks VR and future tech with Web Summit CEO, Paddy Cosgrave. Ancient ‘shipyard’ building galaxies found 11 billion light years away. Tech bosses face criminal charges ‘within...
Nov 05, 2021•7 min
Why Nintendo says it can’t keep up with Christmas Switch demand. Just when you thought dealing with one pandemic was quite enough, it’s being suggested governments can use their Covid-19 knowledge to tackle future public health crises. Metaverse is a load of hype, says Microsoft president. British man on Twitter hacking charge now held over $784K crypto heist. Critical thinking must beat power structures in climate fight, says UN secretary-general António Guterres. Break out the Scrabble...Squid...
Nov 04, 2021•6 min
#WebSummit2021: crypto’s the big thing plus climate ideas at Lisbon's Covid-era mega expo. Facebook says it will shut down its facial recognition database. Biden: China and Russia showed lack of leadership with Cop26 no-show. #Cop26 art of the possible: how hydroelectric dams-on-wheels are saving lives in Malawi. Nasa races to fix Hubble Space Telescope after safe mode reboot. And,Jay-Z joins Instagram...but who’s the single (ladies) account he’s followed? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy ...
Nov 03, 2021•6 min
Frances Haugen is suggesting her former boss Mark Zuckerberg step down as she reveals more on the dark arts influencing the social network’s internal algorithms. The Queen tells Cop26 climate summit leaders: ‘Rise above politics to save planet’. SpaceX astronaut medical alert as Nasa delays ISS launch. It’s being reported that Apple’s side-lining the iPad to push iPhone 13 production. Why has Elon Musk gone viral on Chinese social media? Red light, don’t buy the spin-off crypto...Squid Game toke...
Nov 02, 2021•7 min
A World Meteorological Organisation report warns heat waves over 50C to become usual as global warming shapes planet. Cop26: ‘One minute to midnight for climate crisis, warns Boris Johnson, despite controversial tax breaks for flights. Solar System’s fastest trick or treat for costumed astronauts aboard International Space Station. James Bond GoldenEye game no longer verboten under 90s German censorship ban. Sega and Microsoft look at creative mega gaming empire. Hello...is it streams you’re loo...
Nov 01, 2021•6 min
Mark Zukerberg’s announcement that Facebook will now be known as ‘Meta’ has sparked a huge reaction - both serious and comical. We find out from an astronaut why trips to the moon might be closer than we think. Europe investigates UK chip-designer sale and a new species of early human who lived 500,000 years ago has been named by scientists. Also why giant pandas are black and white, Jupiter’s swirling ‘Great Red Spot’ far deeper than we realised and how one business is using robot waiters to co...
Oct 29, 2021•6 min
Another day another Facebook drama. The social media site orders its staff to ‘preserve all internal communications’ as legal threat looms. The company has been under scrutiny since a former employee shared thousands of its documents to politicians and the media. Why we’re about to embark on a new chapter in physics and it’s been 50 years since Britain’s only ever satellite rocket launch. Twitter is giving paid ‘Blue’ subscribers early access to more new features. Also, how digital art is helpin...
Oct 28, 2021•6 min
Japanese scientists have created the first ever ‘thinking’ robot. The machine was able to move around and dodge barriers on its own - thanks to the use of its brain-like neurons. Scientists in China claim to have built the world’s first programmable quantum computers. Microsoft says that 59% of UK firms will miss the 2050 net zero target. TikTok and Snap try to prove they’re not like Facebook. Apple reveal new ‘shareplay’ feature. Ministers face High Court battle over WhatsApp use. And, new repo...
Oct 27, 2021•5 min
