Apple will be forced to adopt a new type of charging method for the iPhone after the EU voted to enforce USB-C. The charging standard is used by almost all phone manufacturers apart from Apple, which has preferred its own Lightning port…
We have more newsletters Fans of fried chicken watch out: your next Nando's could be cooked by a robot, if the techies have their way. Californian company Miso Robotics has begun rolling Flippy 2, the latest version of its burger-flipping robot which…
NASA's 'planetary defence mission' to crash a spacecraft into an asteroid last month almost went off without a hitch—but not quite. In the first mission of its kind, NASA boffins wanted to find out if they could avert the Apocalypse should a…
A chess grandmaster who beat the world champion has been accused of cheating ‘over 100 times’ in his career. At just 19-years-old Hans Mok Niemann sensationally beat the world champ Magnus Carlsen earlier this year. The upset rocked the chess world to…
As the country grapples with the rising cost of living, unscrupulous scammers are trying to cash in. A fake text, pretending to be from the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP), has been targeting people in recent weeks. Purporting to come from…
Twitter employees are having a meltdown over the news that Elon Musk is going to buy the company after all, following a year of drama about their future. Staff at the company have tweeted their dismay at the takeover. Rumman Chowdhury, the…
WhatsApp is starting to put a security measure in place that stops people from screenshotting disappearing messages. The ‘View Once’ feature was brought out in 2021 and echoes what’s available on Snapchat. Users can send messages – including photos and videos –…
The asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs was so devastating it triggered waves 30,000 times more powerful than the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. New research has revealed swells reaching up to a mile high swept the planet – drowning everything in…
After a year of bold promises, mounting legal threats, and general umming and ahing, it looks like Elon Musk is set to buy Twitter after all. His legal team have U-turned on the deal, which he pulled out of in July citing…
As the cost of living crisis continues to consume Britain, many of us are looking for ways to trim our expenses. Energy prices jumped as we moved into October so trying to limit your energy consumption seems sensible. But that shouldn’t mean…