Bosses at Google consistently isolate and push out employees who speak out against it, a former manager at the company has claimed. Claire Stapleton, 33, announced that she was leaving Google this... | Continue reading
Mobile phone sleep-tracking apps intended to help people to beat insomnia are actually keeping them awake, according to a leading expert. Guy Leschziner, a neurologist and clinical lead for the... | Continue reading
If there was one overriding message from voters in last night’s European election it was that when it comes to Brexit a fudge won’t do. The big winners were those parties with the least ambiguous... | Continue reading
Everyone in Sweden has been urged to stockpile coins and banknotes in case the country’s move towards a cashless society leaves them without money in a cyber-crisis. In a move that will sound alarm... | Continue reading
I first met Gavin Williamson amid the excitement of the Great Wyrley carnival in his South Staffordshire constituency. He was a first-term backbench MP in his mid-thirties; I was a fresh-faced... | Continue reading
Passengers travelling from Heathrow will be able to check in and board their flight without showing a passport from this summer. A £50 million project to install permanent facial recognition... | Continue reading
British children will no longer be able to “like” posts on Facebook and Instagram under plans for strict rules that will force social media giants to protect children online. A code of conduct... | Continue reading
Seventy years ago this month Nato was established to protect western Europe and the freedoms of its inhabitants from the threat of Soviet communism. It has become clear to me that we now need a... | Continue reading
Nineteen years ago, the mathematics department at the University of Nottingham received an email from an asylum seeker who wanted to talk to someone about algebraic geometry. They replied and... | Continue reading
A British effort to build a revolutionary “spaceplane” that would fly at 25 times the speed of sound has passed a critical testing milestone. Reaction Engines, which is based in Oxfordshire, has... | Continue reading
Nineteen years ago, the mathematics department at the University of Nottingham received an email from an asylum seeker who wanted to talk to someone about algebraic geometry. They replied and... | Continue reading
Scientists may have cracked one of the trickiest problems in chemistry: how to mimic the remarkable abilities of the leaf. Researchers have battled for half a century to create an artificial leaf... | Continue reading
It was hailed as the urban boulevard of the future, sweeping away kerbs, pavements and clutter to make a “shared space” where motorists would mix respectfully with pedestrians. Now Britain’s... | Continue reading
An Italian populist politician who campaigned against compulsory vaccinations for children was taken to hospital suffering from chickenpox. Massimiliano Fedriga, governor of the northern Italian... | Continue reading
The social network that Sir Tim Berners-Lee hoped would be free from abuse has been found to contain gun sales, drugs and antisemitism. When Sir Tim, inventor of the world wide web, joined the... | Continue reading
Hercule Poirot and Tom Ripley. At first sight, the retired Belgian detective and the gentleman psychopath have little in common: Poirot solves crimes, Ripley commits them. Their creators, too... | Continue reading
When Rocco the parrot is peckish, he knows who to turn to — Alexa. The African grey parrot has become so adept at giving orders to Amazon’s smart speaker system while his owner is out that he uses... | Continue reading
A scientist whose DNA discovery won him a Nobel prize has been stripped of the last of his honorary titles after he repeated a belief that blacks were intellectually inferior to whites. James... | Continue reading
The influence on juries of crime dramas such as CSI is causing a large number of innocent people to be convicted, an expert on the use of forensic evidence has said. Ruth Morgan, of the Jill Dando... | Continue reading
President Trump is preparing to declare a national emergency and outlaw two of China’s biggest telecoms companies over claims that they are being used to spy on America. An executive order is said... | Continue reading
The Which? website is not usually the place where politicians seek advice but the absurd twists of Brexit have made it so. Matt Hancock, the health secretary, has declared that, as part of the... | Continue reading
Sheryl Sandberg has changed her account of how much she knew about a PR firm that Facebook recruited to conduct smear campaigns against opponents. The chief operating officer of the social media... | Continue reading
Imagine you are a press officer and the legal practice you work for has been listed in the inaugural 200 Best Law Firms guide published by The Times – a list compiled by peer review of the law... | Continue reading
He died seven months ago, but this has not stopped Professor Stephen Hawking sparking controversy about a new race of “superhumans”. In his final prediction, one of the world’s most celebrated... | Continue reading
The third time Katherine Grainger won an Olympic silver medal, she could not hide her disappointment. Standing on the podium at Beijing, the Team GB rower famously sobbed. She said later that it... | Continue reading
The Russian journalist behind the Salisbury poisoning exposé flies back to Moscow today expecting to be detained by the authorities. Roman Dobrokhotov, editor of The Insider, the Russian... | Continue reading
What form is the intelligence that enables someone to become rich? Is it the sort measured by IQ tests? Or is it something else altogether? From my observations of self-made men and women over 30... | Continue reading
Sharing social media posts which threaten violent hate crime could become punishable by six months in prison under proposals issued yesterday. Tougher sentences are being considered for spreading... | Continue reading
Newcastle United and Cardiff City are considering launching their own cryptocurrencies to raise funds to boost their hopes of Premier League survival. Both clubs are involved in talks with SportyCo... | Continue reading
We all know what is meant to happen when the genders become more equal. As women smash glass ceilings and open up education, other differences should disappear too. Without the psychological... | Continue reading
On the east bank of Lake Washington, across the water from Seattle, is Medina, a town of about 3,000 people that has become a home for tech billionaires. Among them are Bill Gates, the founder of... | Continue reading
It’s healthy, it’s organic, it already comes at a smoothie-like consistency — and it uses a resource that we would otherwise just throw away. What’s not to like about the latest promising probiotic... | Continue reading
Investors left stunned by the sudden collapse of Conviviality have been asking, what on earth went wrong? They had lost £500 million in three weeks as the owner of Bargain Booze and Wine Rack... | Continue reading
Vegan campaigners are free to brand British milk production as inhumane after a ruling by the advertising regulator. Dairy farmers had argued that an advert stating “humane milk is a myth — don’t... | Continue reading
Ministers have drawn up plans to send in the army to deliver food, medicines and fuel in the event of shortages if Britain crashes out of the EU without a deal. Blueprints for the armed forces to... | Continue reading
Labour officials ran a secret operation to deceive Jeremy Corbyn at last year’s general election, micro-targeting Facebook adverts at the leader and his closest aides to convince them the party was... | Continue reading
Omega-3 supplements and fish oil taken by millions of people are useless at preventing heart attacks, strokes and other fatal illness, the most authoritative overview of medical evidence has... | Continue reading
Britain is in high-level talks with Ecuador in an attempt to remove Julian Assange from its London embassy, where he has been sheltering for more than six years. Ministers and senior Foreign Office... | Continue reading
Labour officials ran a secret operation to deceive Jeremy Corbyn at last year’s general election, micro-targeting Facebook adverts at the leader and his closest aides to convince them the party was... | Continue reading
The IQ scores of young people have begun to fall after rising steadily since the Second World War, according to the first authoritative study of the phenomenon. The decline, which is equivalent to... | Continue reading
The IQ scores of young people have begun to fall after rising steadily since the Second World War, according to the first authoritative study of the phenomenon. The decline, which is equivalent to... | Continue reading
Revellers who rely on Uber to get home may have to take night buses in future because of technology that can detect if they are sozzled. The taxi company has filed a patent for an algorithm that... | Continue reading
Psychiatrists have been routinely taking thousands of pounds in kickbacks from upmarket private clinics as inducements to refer vulnerable people suffering from addictions, The Sunday Times can... | Continue reading
Google is helping its users to uncover the identity of rape victims whose anonymity is protected by law, The Times has found. Searches for attackers and alleged attackers in several prominent... | Continue reading
A smartphone app has been developed that allows users to exchange text messages with an accredited counsellor whenever they need to share concerns or let off steam. The property company Rightmove... | Continue reading
Britain has been transformed into a country where the self-made can succeed, with almost all the 1,000 richest people now entrepreneurs who built their own fortunes. Inherited wealth and old money... | Continue reading