SCI-TECH NEWS

Most research has focused on the benefits of social networks, experts at University of Technology Sydney claim - but this means negative effects of sites like Facebook and Twitter are overlooked.... Read more »

Boston Dynamics engineer Zack Jackowski says Spot can collect data in plants, utilities [and] installations, and develop ways to boost safety and efficiency that have have never been considered before.... Read more »

The risk of fatal cardiovascular events could increase when circadian rhythms in our heart cells are disrupted by sporadic shift work, researchers in London report.... Read more »

The rare show of solidarity came hours after Prince William offered an unexpected rebuke of the pair's race to leave Earth during a BBC Newscast interview at Kensington Palace.... Read more »

The Hubble Space Telescope has confirmed that Jupiter's ice moon, Europa, has persistent water vapor on just one hemisphere - the trailing hemisphere.... Read more »

A megaton nuke, exploding near the surface of an asteroid would destroy it without leaving thousands of fragments, a team from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland found.... Read more »

Future climates were modelled under three greenhouse gas mitigation scenarios by an international team of researchers led from Leeds University.... Read more »

The feature is being rolled out globally to iOS and Android users to provide an 'optional extra layer of protection' to existing backups, says the Menlo Park, California based tech giant.... Read more »

The way that the body responds to cardiovascular fitness, muscle strength and anaerobic power exercises is influenced by 13 specific genes, Anglia Ruskin University experts found.... Read more »

One of the most complicated space journeys ever planned, NASA's Lucy mission to eight asteroids, is scheduled for liftoff early Saturday from Florida.... Read more »

SKY Q, NOW and Roku viewers can enjoy some spooky series and frightening new films to watch just in time for Halloween.... Read more »

FANCY a new Echo, Fire TV or Fire Tablets? Now could be a good time to go shopping with Amazon slashing prices across a wide range of its devices. Here are all the best deals available... Read more »

VIRGIN Media has been testing new technology on UK streets that makes its current 1Gbps speeds look embarrassingly slow. Here's all you need to know about the future of your broadband.... Read more »

APPLE'S new Series 7 smartwatch goes on sale today with a bigger screen and much faster charging. So, is it time to upgrade? Here's our full Apple Watch Series 7 review... Read more »

TRYING TO watch the latest James Bond film or binge-watch Squid Game without paying for the privilege? You're out of luck, thanks to a tough new piracy crackdown that came into force in the UK.... Read more »

Chlamydia incidences are high in South East Queensland and New South Wales, but experts led from the University of the Sunshine Coast hope vaccination help the animals survive.... Read more »

Known as The Sphinx, the 13ft strip of snow at Braeriach, in the Cairmgorms, is known to have survived virtually every summer since records began.... Read more »

The all-electric, autonomous truck features a load carrier for carrying materials. Volvo said it was made using electricity from renewable sources to create the clean-burning gas.... Read more »

William Shatner, 90, has earned the title of oldest person in space after he and three others soared 65 miles above Earth Wednesday aboard Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket.... Read more »

Many adults in the United States are concerned about the use of facial recognition technology in hospitals, medical practices and other healthcare settings, a survey published Thursday by PLOS ONE found.... Read more »

The original version of NSO online costs $20 a year. Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack will cost $50 a year.... Read more »

Predicting which assets that hackers will attack can be challenging, potentially making business networks harder to defend.... Read more »

Building a minimum viable product can be overwhelming --- learn how the AWS cloud platform helps lower costs and speed up innovation.... Read more »

The seed round was led by Bitkraft Ventures, and the developer will use that game to release its Crypto Unicorns title.... Read more »

EXCLUSIVE: Jess Ratcliffe, 31, from Surrey, was diagnosed with paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria (PNH) in 2016, which causes red blood cells to break down.... Read more »

Our GamesBeat Summit Next online event will feature Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick, Niantic's John Hanke, and Xbox's Sarah Bond.... Read more »

Helsinki-based Order of Meta has raised $1.5 million from Play Ventures and others for a mobile shooter game.... Read more »

A new CDC ensemble forecast projects COVID-19 deaths will fall to as low as 3,900 by the week ending November 6 and hospitalizations to as low as 500 new patients per week.... Read more »

@HARMAN’s Chairman Young Sohn talks with international journalist Ali Aslan about the relationship of AI & data and the ethical use of both.... Read more »

AI-powered relevance platform Coveo acquired Qubit, a leader in AI-powered personalization technology for merchandising teams.... Read more »

Data from the Office for National Statistics reveals 613,936 babies were born in England and Wales in 2020 - a 4.1 per cent drop on 2019 and the lowest figure since 2002.... Read more »

Swedish researchers carried out the largest analysis of statins and their anti-Covid potential, tracking the anonymised health data of 1million people.... Read more »

The FDA's advisory committee unanimously voted on Thursday to recommend approval of Covid booster shots of Moderna's vaccine to certain at-risk groups.... Read more »

Sledgehammer Games is expanding into the United Kingdom with a new studio to support Call of Duty in Guildford, U.K.... Read more »

The records had info that referenced companies like Whole Foods Market, and included customer order records, names, addresses, and more.... Read more »

An unidentified woman in her 80s, who received treatment at a hospital in Essex, took cannabidiol (CBD) orally two to three times a day and saw her lung cancer shrink by 76 per cent.... Read more »

Researchers in Texas studied data of just under 25,000 people from the National Trauma Data Bank from 2007 to 2016. They found the most common injuries were in the chest and back.... Read more »

A studio that has created marketing products in Roblox is now releasing its first original game on the platform.... Read more »

Alexandra and Joshua Price, from Evansville, Indiana, say their two children, Sophia, 5; and Lukas. 4, were given full adult dose of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine instead of flu shots.... Read more »

resident Joe Biden is reportedly close to picking Robert Califf, who previously led the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, to be the head again by the November deadline.... Read more »

Overall, side effects from a half-strength third dose of Moderna's vaccine were similar to a second dose. Younger people recorded more side effects.... Read more »

There were 271 ships off the ports on Friday. If the turnaround time for goods between Asia and US does not improve, shoppers face more empty shelves.... Read more »

US prosecutors have already charged two Saudis who worked at Twitter from 2013 to 2016 with spying for a foreign government.... Read more »

Scientific studies from around the world have been held up to suggest ivermectin is good at fighting COVID-19, but many are deeply flawed.... Read more »

Elon Musk's position that Tesla will hold onto its billion-dollar-plus investment in bitcoin paid off as ETF excitement drives the coin to a new high.... Read more »

The company's new facilities in Berlin and Austin, Texas, will help it ramp up production, the analysts said.... Read more »

Hannah Gadsby, who won an Emmy for a Netflix special, lambasted Ted Sarandos as Netflix continues to face criticism for its new Chappelle special.... Read more »

Sir David Amess was attacked on Friday at his constituency surgery at Belfairs Methodist Church in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex.... Read more »

Market sentiment is on the upturn as the SEC appears ready to allow the first US bitcoin futures ETF to start trading next week.... Read more »

While NuCypher celebrated its one-year anniversary on Friday, there was no indication as to what developments drove a surge in demand for the altcoin.... Read more »

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and his husband, Chasten, adopted baby twins before he recently returned from paternity leave.... Read more »

Chinese officials, including state-controlled media, have kept silent throughout the Evergrande's fallout, barring the lone comment Friday.... Read more »

"Everyone in the world needs to do this," Shatner told Blue Origin founder, Jeff Bezos.... Read more »

In which I risk shattering the delicate film of nostalgia surrounding one of the largest-looming cars of my youth.... Read more »

In Apple Arcade's Tiny Wings, you can flap to your heart's content.... Read more »