Workplace training and education is broken, according to Australian start-up EdApp, which has a novel idea for its next step on the path to making lessons enjoyable and effective – celebrity educators. Since launching in 2015, EdApp has grown to deliver more…
Scientists have discovered the ancient European cousins of the modern giant panda, which may have been Europe’s last. Fossilized teeth originally found in the 1970s in Bulgaria have been found to belong to a close relative of the modern giant panda. The…
Technology has made food shopping almost too convenient, but one day you won't even need to wait for a Deliveroo driver to arrive—at least, if one Japanese company has its way. Kyocera Communication Systems is developing an unmanned vending machine on wheels…
Elon Musk filed a lawsuit against Twitter on Friday—after it sued him for backing out of a £36bn ($44bn) deal to buy the company. Musk announced in April that he would buy Twitter and make it private but, after signing a deal,…
A three-metre long piece of junk from a SpaceX rocket has come crashing back down to Earth, and landed in a farmer’s field. Mick Miners, from Jindabyne in New South Wales, found the wreckage after his daughters reported hearing a loud bang….
Astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti made history last month by completing her first spacewalk, becoming the first European woman to do so. On 21 July 2022, Cristoforetti ventured outside the International Space Station (ISS) on a spacewalk alongside cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev. This week’s images…
A coffee chain with branches across the UK says it plans to give free hot drinks and baked goods to compensate customers that it 'spied' on for a year. Canadian coffee giant Tim Hortons has agreed to settle four court cases over…
As the conflict in Ukraine continues unabated, Russia is increasingly finding itself cut off from the rest of the world. Western companies and organisations have pulled their services from Russia, leaving citizens to scramble to find alternatives. Films and TV shows are…
Luxury jewellery brand Tiffany and Co. is the latest to get into the NFT game by launching custom NFT themed diamond necklaces. On Sunday, the brand announced 250 limited-edition ‘NFTiffs’ that would be exclusive to CryptoPunks holders. CryptoPunks is a non-fungible token…
We have more newsletters A former Google worker who was sacked after claiming the company's AI was 'sentient' now believes it is racist too. Blake Lemoine was fired from the tech giant after publishing transcripts of conversations between himself and Google's chatbot,…