People are leaving Spotify over decision to host Alex Jones Infowars podcast

Customers threaten to leave unless host, who claimed Sandy Hook was a hoax, is removed | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 6 years ago

Mars cannot be terraformed

We will 'need technologies well beyond our current grasp' if we plan to move to the red planet, a new study has found | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 6 years ago

Police accused of deploying facial recognition 'by stealth' in London

Fresh trial in Stratford results in no one being stopped and zero arrests | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 6 years ago

Sacha Baron Cohen Sells Dick Cheney-Signed Waterboard Kit on EBay

'This is a professional grade piece of military hardware' | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 6 years ago

Are You Ignoring My Message?

You can’t ask me that! Continuing her series tackling socially unacceptable questions, Christine Manby explores our obsession with getting an immediate text back | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 6 years ago

Toxoplasma gondii may help promote the entrepreneurial spirit

Toxoplasma gondii known to invade the brain and may cause personality changes associated with risk-taking | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 6 years ago

Theresa May announces she will keep UK under EU laws for another 21 months

The 1972 Act which took the UK into the common market will not be repealed the end of 2020 - not next March, as prime minister pledged | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 6 years ago

London taxi drivers to sue Uber for £1.25bn over lost earnings

Members of the London Taxi Drivers' Association (LTDA) exploring legal action against ride-hailing firm | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 6 years ago

The current heatwave is providing unprecedented opportunities for archaeologists

Gold-rush style excitement as researchers scramble into aircraft and fly drones to find the outlines of previously hidden remains before the rain makes them disappear again | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 6 years ago

Office workers spend 1,700 hours a year in front of a computer screen

The survey of 2,000 workers also revealed 37 per cent have attributed a headache to excessive screen time | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 6 years ago

Britain so badly scorched by heatwave it has turned brown in satellite photos

UK has seen just 47mm of rainfall between 1 June to 16 July | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 6 years ago

DDG: Google uses bizarre tactics to dominate rivals and confuse their customers

Google controls the duck.com web address, meaning users searching for its rival DuckDuckGo are diverted back to Google | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 6 years ago

Belgium air traffic control grounds all planes after data glitch

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@independent.co.uk | 6 years ago

Why are the words 'mongol', 'mongoloid' and 'mongy' bandied about as insults?

Uuganaa Ramsay explores how the proud name of her people came to be used as an offensive term, and not just for those - like her son - with Down’s Syndrome | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 6 years ago

The idea of brainwashing is 'pseudoscientific' and 'dehumanises people'

Sister of women who helped plan 1978 Jonestown massacre says she is disheartened by how casually the word is used | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 6 years ago

“Meghalayan Age” announced as official new chapter in Earth’s history

Newly described period began with enormous drought 4,200 years ago | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 6 years ago

Art technicians: The industry's dirty secret, or all part of the process?

All the work and none of the glory? Or just another job? Art technicians, and the artists who rely on them, open up about what goes on behind-the-scenes in the studio | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 6 years ago

Chineasy: Image-led dictionary making learning Mandarin Chinese simpler (2014)

The book was developed by Taiwanese entrepreneur ShaoLan Hsueh and uses fun, eye-catching designs help people memorise each character | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 6 years ago

Lemaître: Who was the Belgian priest who discovered the universe is expanding?

'This is the most beautiful and satisfactory explanation of creation to which I ever listened' | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 6 years ago

Rising sea levels will soon destroy underground US internet cables

'The expectation was that we'd have 50 years to plan for it. We don't have 50 years' | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 6 years ago

Elon Musk calls diver who helped rescue Thai schoolboys 'pedo guy' on Twitter

'Bet ya a signed dollar it's true' | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 6 years ago

Elon Musk can 'stick his submarine where it hurts', says British caver

'It had absolutely no chance of working. He had no conception of what the cave passage was like' | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 6 years ago

Driverless cars could offer governments new forms of control

Autonomous vehicles are set to enable new forms of surveillance and oppression | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 6 years ago

Confronting phobias in virtual reality can treat fear of heights

Treatment could be adapted to other mental health conditions, potentially saving the NHS money and freeing-up therapists | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 6 years ago

Apple and Google asked whether they secretly spy on users by US lawmakers

Letters make reference to common idea that phones are listening in ways that aren't made clear | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 6 years ago

Psychedelics could be the new class of antidepressant

Growing evidence suggests that hallucinogenic drugs can help quell depression. Following the government’s review of medicinal cannabis last month, Jack Dutton asks whether we are at a turning point in drug policy | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 6 years ago

Today is the 372nd birthday of Leibniz, the German philosopher and mathematician

He is credited with developing the binary code | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 6 years ago

Digging deeper into the luxury basements of London’s super rich

Basement developments are on the rise among the capital’s more affluent residents, with planning permission granted for thousands – including one with a built-in beach | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 6 years ago

I'm leaving Facebook – and it's got nothing to do with Cambridge Analytica

Far from its promises of utopia, the internet has not seen an end to history. It has simply speeded it up and put it on YouTube | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 6 years ago

Facial recognition rolled out by London police sparking human rights concerns

The Independent on the scene as police trial controversial new technology | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 6 years ago

Facebook lifts cryptocurrency ban amid rumours of Coinbase takeover

Some experts believe the internet giant may also be planning to launch its own cryptocurrency | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 6 years ago

Best evidence yet for alien life on Saturn's moon Enceladus

Enceladus is only body besides Earth known to 'simultaneously satisfy all of the basic requirements for life as we know it', say scientists | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 6 years ago

SLACK DOWN: WORKPLACE MESSAGING SERVICE HIT BY MYSTERIOUS OUTAGE

The popular messaging platform says it is investigating 'connectivity issues' | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 6 years ago

Flight attendants have a higher risk of all types of cancers, finds study

Exposure to cancer-causing radiation, usually blocked by atmosphere, sleep disruption and other carcinogens may all factor in disease rates | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 6 years ago

Modern MRI machines pose mercury poisoning risk for people with fillings

Mercury leakage after high powered MRI increasingly available on NHS four times greater than for previous less powerful scan | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 6 years ago

Amazon workers refuse to build tech for ICE

'IBM’s systems were employed in the 1940s to help Hitler. We will not let that happen again' | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 6 years ago

US migrant youth centres allegedly force child inmates to take drugs

Some children report being given up to nine different pills in the morning and six in the evening | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 6 years ago

Why is the sky blue?

A basic understanding of how light works will clear everything up | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 6 years ago

Sweden’s recycling is so revolutionary, the country has run out of rubbish

Sweden’s recycling is so revolutionary, the country has to import rubbish from other countries to keep its recycling plants going. What lessons can we learn, asks Hazel Sheffield | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 6 years ago

John McAfee has been poisoned

'It takes more than poison, bullets or hanging to kill me,' tech tycoon says | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 6 years ago

Carbon monoxide alarms removed from Amazon and eBay after failing safety tests

Which? calls for government to take 'more active role' in product safety after investigation exposes dangerous devices | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 6 years ago

How to use Instagram's strange new video app, and why it exists

Downloading the app is just the beginning of the confusion | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 6 years ago

Antarctica has lost nearly 3 trillion tonnes of ice since 1992

Scientists used 11 different satellite missions to track Antarctica’s contribution to rising sea levels | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 6 years ago

50,000 ships worldwide are vulnerable to cyberattacks

Vulnerabilities in shipping show how far the industry has to go but proper cyber security is more complex than you might initially think | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 6 years ago

The government is blocking life-saving research into MDMA and magic mushrooms

The government makes it intentionally difficult for researchers to work with drugs like MDMA and psilocybin despite the fact that these drugs could be potential life-savers for those with psychological trauma | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 6 years ago

Aliens could harness and move stars to keep powering their civilisations

We might be able to spot such activity happening deep in space, paper suggests | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 6 years ago

EU committee approves new rules that could 'destroy the internet as we know it'

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@independent.co.uk | 6 years ago

Amazon shareholders demand it stop selling facial recognition to governments

Concerns that surveillance technology could be used to target activists, immigrants and people of colour | Continue reading


@independent.co.uk | 6 years ago