YouTube, Instagram, Discord, and Twitter have taken down the accounts associated with Robert Crimo III, a person of interest in the Illinois shooting. The US was rocked by gun violence on Monday when a shooter opened fire on a family parade from…
How many personal details do you list on your CV? If you’re Bill Gates and you’re just starting out on your technological career then the answer is: a lot. Of course, the world knows Bill as the multi-billionaire co-founder of Microsoft and…
Google’s Independence Day celebrations took a disturbing turn on Monday when a fireworks graphic appeared over news coverage of a mass shooting that left six people dead. The animation, which showed blue and red fireworks exploding and forming US flags, was intended…
It could soon be possible to conceal your 'online' status on WhatsApp, thanks to a new upcoming feature. According to WhatsApp experts at WABetaInfo, the popular messaging app is currently developing a tool that will stop your contacts seeing whether you're online….
A new artificial intelligence tool has been developed in China that helps authorities monitor how loyal members of the Communist Party are to the government. According to the Institute of Artificial Intelligence in Hefei, the 'Smart Political Education Bar' analyses users' brainwaves…
A hacker has claimed to have stolen a trove of personal information from the Shanghai police on one billion Chinese citizens. Last week, an anonymous internet user going by the name of ‘ChinaDan’, posted on the hacker forum Breach Forums offering to…
The shortlist for this year’s Astronomy Photographer of the Year Award has been revealed and it features some stunning pictures of constellations, galaxies and astronomic phenomena. Run by the Royal Observatory Greenwich, the Astronomy Photographer award is running for the 14th year,…
If you’ve looked up at the sky just after sunset over the last few days, you may have spotted a stunning display of unusual glow-in-the-dark clouds. These extremely rare ‘noctilucent clouds’ are currently appearing over much of the northern hemisphere. In fact,…
Getting up close and personal with a live murder hornet isn’t something many of us would rush to do. However, we’re not insect enthusiast Ebira Mosura who decided to remove a living parasite from one of the hornets with some tweezers. He…
The Large Hadron Collider at CERN is responsible for some of the most groundbreaking scientific discoveries ever made, from the Higg's Boson to quasars. This week, after three years of lying dormant, the world's largest particle accelerator has been fired up once…