It may be too late to save some animals from extinction, but Tullis Matson has a backup plan: freeze their cells to preserve their genes | Continue reading
John McAfee went to Belize to get away from it all. But he couldn’t escape himself | Continue reading
In 2020, DeepMind solved one of biology’s biggest challenges. Now it’s working on using its AI to find drugs to target neglected diseases | Continue reading
Practical quantum computers may be decades away – but the race to build them is already tackling thorny global problems, and unlocking the secrets of the universe | Continue reading
Amazon has huge amounts of information about you. Is its convenience worth your personal data? | Continue reading
Research shows that five work hours a day can improve productivity and bolster wellbeing. There’s only one thing holding companies back | Continue reading
Matrix has become the messaging app of choice for top-secret communications | Continue reading
Fastly’s outage took out a chunk of the internet. The next one could be even bigger | Continue reading
In 2005, an alternate reality game asked players to find a man named Satoshi based just on a photograph. Fifteen years later, the mystery was solved | Continue reading
As well as collecting your data, Chrome also gives Google a huge amount of control over how the web works | Continue reading
mRNA brought us a Covid-19 vaccine in record speed. Next it could tackle flu, malaria or HIV | Continue reading
Hundreds of thousands of children are born each year with fatal neurodegenerative diseases. A gene therapy breakthrough offers hope of not just a treatment, but a cure | Continue reading
The iMac’s first major redesign since 2012 is in almost all respects a hit. And, yes, Apple’s former chief design officer was involved | Continue reading
The Indian government made its booking API free to everyone. Bots, profiteers and automation have made it impossible for people to book slots | Continue reading
Apple’s iOS 14.5 update has triggered an unstoppable collapse in Facebook’s ability to collect user data | Continue reading
For some people, the end of lockdown isn’t as exciting an idea as they thought it would be | Continue reading
The latest fight between Uber and taxi drivers once again pits the gig economy against centuries-old laws | Continue reading
Solar-powered acoustic monitoring devices are listening out for illegal loggers in the Ecuadorian forest | Continue reading
Some European startups have not just weathered the crisis, they’ve laid the groundwork to thrive | Continue reading
A trail of clues helped police close in on a dangerous predator. Now, a battle over the future of end-to-end encryption could change the rules of engagement | Continue reading
The Alphabet-owned company is working with Liverpool to apply AI smarts to the high-stakes world of football tactics | Continue reading
Instrumental spots hidden gems before they go big. But is it ruining music? | Continue reading
Regulators and rivals have raised concerns about Google’s grand plan to rewrite the rules of online advertising | Continue reading
TS Anil took over the challenger bank at a time of existential crisis. A year on, he’s got a plan to (finally) break even | Continue reading
Riders for companies like Deliveroo and Glovo are on the brink of being told how the algorithms ranking them really work | Continue reading
Chewing gum – the gooey blight of pavements everywhere – now has a biodegradable, natural- ingredient alternative to oil-based synthetics | Continue reading
Terror-linked groups in war-torn Idlib are changing their crypto tactics to avoid detection by Western law enforcement | Continue reading
For a third day, the Ever Given is stuck in one of the world’s most vital waterways. This is how the vessel – and global trade – can be salvaged | Continue reading
In the future, we’ll likely get an iPhone without any ports. It’s an idea riddled with complications | Continue reading
When trawlers turn off their transponders, they "go dark", allowing them to hide illicit activity such as illegal fishing and modern slavery. Now, a team of ocean experts is using satellite data to light them back up | Continue reading
Streaming platforms finally have a tool to evaluate the size of their carbon footprint. Now they need to take action and go green | Continue reading
At Facebook's FAIR labs, researchers are working hard to put AI to use. But, faced with competition from Google's DeepMind, the social media giant has to pick its battles wisely | Continue reading
We swapped the office for workplace messaging platforms and boy was it hard. As we prepare for a hybrid working future, the race is on to fix it | Continue reading
The Investigatory Powers Act, or Snooper’s Charter, was introduced in 2016. Now one of its most contentious surveillance tools is being secretly trialled by internet firms | Continue reading
The Investigatory Powers Act, or Snooper’s Charter, was introduced in 2016. Now one of its most contentious surveillance tools is being secretly trialled by internet firms | Continue reading
In 2021, we will discover even more uses for the innovative gene-editing technology | Continue reading
After a crushing Supreme Court defeat, Uber now faces a deluge of lawsuits and legislators keen to get a grip on the gig economy | Continue reading
Despite its boom in popularity, the Clubhouse app has been found lacking in some basic privacy and security protections | Continue reading
Xiaomi has been launching low-cost, occasionally half-baked tech for years. Now it’s time everyone took it seriously | Continue reading
Uber drivers in the UK are workers, not contractors. What comes next will affect the entire gig economy | Continue reading
The number of mutations in the UK variant took scientists by surprise. Now they think its origins may lie in one person, chronically infected with the virus | Continue reading
The theories we have to describe the nature of the Universe are completely incompatible. Enter an eccentric Polish physicist with a possible solution to the biggest of conundrums | Continue reading
Google’s impending takedown of third-party cookies in Chrome is a big win for privacy. And Google | Continue reading
As the world scrambles to replace fossil fuels with clean energy, the environmental impact of finding all the lithium required could become a major issue in its own right | Continue reading
The internet will become totally balkanised unless countries put aside differences and continue to develop standards and technology together | Continue reading
Low latency and decentralised servers will boost the power and spread of Internet of Things devices | Continue reading
Airbnb is perhaps best known for providing a platform that enables people to rent out their room, flat or even just their sofa to willing tourists. However, if you need a bit more room it now lets you rent out entire towns and even countries | Continue reading
Black people made up only three per cent of the UK tech workforce, but disparities set in long before people reach employment | Continue reading