Amount of rent being paid 10 years ago was only 30 per cent of the total handed over by homeowners – now the figure is more than 75 per cent | Continue reading
Sonar search for missing Malaysia Airlines plane uncovered two lost shipwrecks in Indian Ocean | Continue reading
Streaming service says it is 'proud of the anti-harassment training we offer to our productions' | Continue reading
The Brothers Grimm might have been dead for more than 150 years, but they’ve just released a new fairytale... with a little bit of help from artificial intelligence | Continue reading
The huge, violent event sees a blast of matter shot across the universe | Continue reading
Computers can take minutes to autonomously analyse a sample that previously took hours to test | Continue reading
The federal space agency says it 'illegal for private citizens to own lunar material' | Continue reading
A dust storm has stopped the rover from making contact with its team on Earth | Continue reading
Psychedelics could be 'next generation' of safer treatments for mental health | Continue reading
America's most celebrated writer, Ernest Hemingway, ended his life 50 years ago – in a manner his biographers have struggled to explain. | Continue reading
‘A lot of the bullying on social media and the grooming is because those people know you cannot identify them’ | Continue reading
People have always had an exaggerated respect for facts and, thanks to the internet, these are now easily accessible in far greater quantities than ever before | Continue reading
Analysis: Chief executive Sundar Pichai faced an internal revolt about tech giant's ties with US military | Continue reading
The eggy green salad is no more | Continue reading
Gang members gunned down by officers during 'fierce shoot-out' at park on Ugandan border | Continue reading
The gold smartwatches caused controversy and confusion when they were first released | Continue reading
Naive or desperate graduates subjected to 'desperate unfairness' under 'astonishingly asymmetric' contract, says barrister leading case | Continue reading
'This needs to be investigated and the people responsible need to be held accountable' | Continue reading
'Should I drop ethereum and work for Google?' | Continue reading
Woman disease-free for two years after trial of pioneering new therapy that could be used to tackle treatment-resistant cancers | Continue reading
Making your password ‘superman12345’ may not have been the smartest idea | Continue reading
Bonnie Greer's bold new play about the friendship between Marilyn Monroe and Ella Fitzgerald reveals a bond forged in adversity. Ciar Byrne hears an unlikely story | Continue reading
'They confiscated one robot but they didn't know there was another one' | Continue reading
Much of the Earth's heavy industry will move off the planet – leaving it as a mostly 'residential' world, claims billionaire | Continue reading
'I didn't want to deprive my kids, so I went on Amazon' | Continue reading
The apparent pitfalls of online shopping | Continue reading
Facebook boss accused of using weak format to avoid questions | Continue reading
Use of Silicon Valley search giant's TensorFlow technology in unmanned flights over warzones leaves employees questioning defence role | Continue reading
Salary may attract millennial employees but it won't keep them loyal to a company | Continue reading
The price of bitcoin has risen by $500 over the last three days to reverse a slide in value that saw the cryptocurrency briefly fall below $8,000 last week. | Continue reading
Microdosing is hot. If you haven’t heard – but you probably have, from reports of its use at Silicon Valley workplaces, from Ayelet Waldman’s memoir A Really Good Day, from dozens of news stories – to microdose is to take small amounts of LSD, which generate “subperceptual” effec … | Continue reading
World Goth Day takes place on 22 May, an occasion for the pale and morbidly-inclined to emerge squinting into the sunlight to celebrate their individuality. | Continue reading
An American doctor bankrolled his “lavish” lifestyle by performing unnecessary chemotherapy and prescribing costly medication to potentially, thousands of patients, according to the US Justice Department. Texas based Dr Jorge Zamora-Quezada, 61, flew on a six-seat Eclipse 500 bus … | Continue reading
An American doctor bankrolled his “lavish” lifestyle by performing unnecessary chemotherapy and prescribing costly medication to potentially, thousands of patients, according to the US Justice Department. Texas based Dr Jorge Zamora-Quezada, 61, flew on a six-seat Eclipse 500 bus … | Continue reading
A suspect is in custody after an active shooter incident at a Texas high school. Santa Fe High School was placed on lockdown following an "incident involving an active shooter," according to the school district. Assistant Principal Cris Richardson told reporters that one suspect … | Continue reading
UK tech workers are flocking to a historic market town – following a huge growth in the technology sector there. Newbury, in Berkshire, is home to Vodafone’s headquarters and has a higher "digital density" than anywhere else in the UK, as companies seek to expand beyond London. | Continue reading
If you’ve taken the time to learn music or to speak another language, you’ve also trained your brain into being more efficient, according to a new study. Researchers at Baycrest’s Rotman Research Institute found that musicians and people who are bilingual utilised fewer brain res … | Continue reading
The bitcoin network currently uses as much electricity as Ireland and is set to consume 0.5 per cent of all the world’s electric energy by the end of this year, according to new calculations. | Continue reading
Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of a military horse entombed in the volcanic ash of Mount Vesuvius in Pompeii. The “extraordinary” discovery came after authorities were alerted to illegal excavations by tomb raiders near the ruins of the ancient city in August last year … | Continue reading
Rumours are beginning to swirl about an update to Apple's hugely popular iPhone SE. The little phone has gone for years without an update but is still one of the company's most popular handsets. Now it appears that it will be getting a refresh, likely to bring new features that h … | Continue reading
Artificial intelligence researchers have called on Google to abandon a project developing AI technology for the military, warning that autonomous weapons directly contradict the firm’s famous ‘Don’t Be Evil’ motto. | Continue reading
At least 58 Palestinians were killed and more than 2,000 people wounded in protests at the border fence between the Gaza Strip and Israel, according to Palestinian officials, on the same day the US fulfiled its controversial promise to move its embassy to the contested city of Je … | Continue reading
When Su Yun bought her family a puppy two years ago, she was surprised by how much the dog ate. “A box of fruits and two buckets of noodles every day,” she told Chinese media. There was, it turns out, a reason for its prodigious appetite: the animal has grown into a 250lb bear. T … | Continue reading
Facial recognition software used by the UK’s biggest police force has returned false positives in more than 98 per cent of alerts generated, The Independent can reveal, with the country’s biometrics regulator calling it “not yet fit for use”. | Continue reading
America is regressing to have the economic and political structure of a developing nation, an MIT economist has warned. Peter Temin says the world's’ largest economy has roads and bridges that look more like those in Thailand and Venezuela than those in parts of Europe. | Continue reading
The UK could halve its annual carbon emissions by avoiding waste from products like food, clothing and electronics. Resource inefficiency is a major source of emissions, and one that has been largely overlooked in the response to climate change. Fast fashion, wasteful eating habi … | Continue reading
Falling into poverty appears to make people become less intelligent and become old before their time, according to a new study. Researchers found life on the breadline for 20 years was “strongly associated” with “worse cognitive function” and premature aging. And they suggested t … | Continue reading
Known as “the man with the golden arm”, James Harrison is estimated to have saved the lives of 2.4 million babies after giving blood almost every week for 60 years. The 81-year-old Australian has donated more than 1,100 times since turning 21. Because his blood has unique disease … | Continue reading