A “major scientific breakthrough” in the decades-long quest to harness fusion, the energy that powers the sun and stars, has been announced by US energy secretary Jennifer Granholm. Researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California for the first time produced more energy in a fusion reaction than was used to ignite it, something […]
Twitter’s subscription service that will allow users to pay to be verified on the platform is relaunching on Monday after a failed rollout last month. Twitter Blue will give users who sign up a blue tick badge, the ability to edit tweets and a range of other features in exchange for the eight dollar (£6.50) […]
US federal regulators will open their campaign to block Facebook parent Meta’s acquisition of a virtual-reality company. Opening statements will begin on Thursday in a San Jose, California, courtroom. In a landmark legal challenge to a Big Tech merger, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has sued to prevent Meta’s acquisition of Within Unlimited and its […]
Dyson’s first pair of noise-cancelling headphones, which also come with a personal air purification system, will go on sale in Ireland in March starting at €799, the company has confirmed. The Dyson Zone were first unveiled earlier this year as the UK-founded firm’s unique take on combating noise and air pollution in urban areas around […]
Google has to delete search results about people in Europe if they can prove the information is clearly wrong, the European Union’s top court said. The European Court of Justice ruled search engines must “dereference information” if the person making the request can demonstrate the material is “manifestly inaccurate”. People in Europe have the right […]
A London photographer has beaten more than a million rivals to clinch a place on the first civilian trip to the moon. Rhiannon Adam, 37, who was born in Cork and is based in Hackney, is among eight artists and creatives picked by Japanese billionaire entrepreneur and art collector Yusaku Maezawa to be part of […]
Dinosaurs were struck down in their prime and were not in decline at the time the asteroid hit, according to a new study. The landmark findings provide the strongest evidence yet that the animals dominated the world right up until a deadly asteroid hit the earth, leading to their mass extinction some 66 million years […]
Google, Oracle, Microsoft and Amazon will share in the Pentagon’s 9 billion dollar (£7.3 billion) contract to build its cloud computing network. The move was announced a year after accusations of politicisation over the previously announced contract and a protracted legal battle resulted in the military starting over in its award process. The Joint Warfighter […]
Apple has said it will now offer full end-to-encryption for nearly all the data its users store in its global cloud-based storage system, which will make it more difficult for hackers, spies and law enforcement agencies to access sensitive user information. The world’s most valuable company has long placed customer security and privacy at a […]
Facebook’s dating platform is to introduce age verification tools to confirm that only adults are accessing the over-18 version of the app. Parent company Meta is to use age assurance technology from UK firm Yoti on Facebook Dating, which will ask users to upload an ID document or use Yoti’s facial age estimation technology, which […]
