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TikTok introduces epilepsy feature, Black Friday deals using your voice & space worms? plus more
After coming under fire earlier this year over a ‘seizure challenge’, TikTok is offering a new feature to its users who have photosensitive epilepsy. The tool will allow people to tailor their profil…
Elon Musk marks world’s second richest man with a Space X rocket launch
Elon Musk has pushed Bill Gates down to third place on the Bloomberg Billionaires index as his personal fortune soared by $7.2 billion dollars. It came as Tesla shares soared after it was announced t…
Snapchat takes on TikTok with Spotlight, PS5 deliveries 'go missing' & China launches moon mission - plus more
Snapchat has become the latest competitor to TikTok, launching its own short form video feature Spotlight. And, for at least the rest of the year, users who create the most engaged-with content could…
How does the Oxford vaccine work?, Space X sea cartographer satellite goes to space & K-pop's aespa launch AI avatars
AstraZeneca and Oxford University report their vaccine could prevent up to 90% of people getting Covid-19, so how does it work? And, while we wait for the jab to be rolled out, scientists warn that a…
Instagram graphic content increase, PS5 delays, dementia tech innovations & blue whales blossom
Sony’s PS5 launch, Oprah Winfrey’s virtual Obama interview & what's your cat's chat?
Social media grilled by senators, bitcoin booms, TikTok parental controls & a robot to help social distancing
Facebook and Twitter chief executives are grilled again by Senators, who attacked their corporate policies. Donald Trump fires a top election security tech official who contradicted him. Bitcoin hits…
Musk rakes in billions as astronauts dock with ISS, Christmas work parties on Zoom and QR codes at the chemist.
Covid tests keep Musk from Nasa launch, TikTok gets brief Trump reprieve and drones spy on sun-seekers
‘Planet hunter’ space telescope given green light to explore worlds outside our solar system
The planet hunter, the world’s first space telescope, has been given the green light to study atmospheres of planets outside our own solar system. Professor Giovanna Tinetti says it’ll give a fuller …
SpaceX to launch ISS ‘taxi service’, ‘factory-in-a-box’ could churn out 600 vaccines a minute & robot monster wolves
Elon Musk’s aerospace company is to send four astronauts into low-Earth orbit on a Crew Dragon capsule and Falcon 9 rocket on Sunday - the first commercial human spaceflight system in history. Plus, …
Apple’s M1 chip to have a ‘profound impact’ on Macs, Russia’s Covid-19 vaccine ‘92% effective’, a new monkey already critically endangered
Covid jab could be rolled out by Christmas, Xbox Series X launch, & a moon that glows in the dark
Virgin Hyperloop’s first passenger journey, mouthwash could fight coronavirus, the first electric wingsuit takes flight
Virgin Hyperloop has trialled its first every journey with two passengers on board. The pair were strapped to a pod as they hurtled down a 500 metre track at 100 miles per hour. Its hoped the system …
Facebook’s double-click misinformation crackdown, bionic piano gloves and $1 billion Bitcoin mystery solved
New measures to fight election misinformation on Facebook are announced as YouTubers are accused of profiting from peddling election falsehoods. Nearly $1 billion worth of Bitcoin sent in a mystery t…
Mystery over $1 billion Bitcoin transaction, why tunes give us the chills - and fancy a glass of Klingon bloodwine?
Facebook has added warning labels to both Trump and Biden posts as protests flare at ballot-counting centres in US presidential election. Someone just made a Bitcoin transaction of nearly $1 billion …
Gremlins in the US election computers, the Covid-era middle class private flights boom and swimming burritos
As election fever grips the US, some states have suffered IT problems causing waits at polling stations, while President Trump is once more reprimanded by Twitter for “misleading” tweets. How a NASA …
Covid cybersecurity alert, pandemic job tips on TikTok and a chatbot for lonely people
Britain’s National Cybersecurity Centre battles wave of Covid crime. How pandemic jobseekers are turning to TikTok to fine-tune their interview skills, while Amazon is taking on more staff in the boo…
Fake Biden video suckers Twitter users and the flying car bringing Back to the Future to life
