North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un has congratulated his team of scientists for launching a spy satellite, calling it a “new era of space power”. He described the mission as a “full-fledged exercise in self defence”. North Korea fired a rocket believed to contain the spy satellite on Tuesday. It claimed it was a success but South
In a world first, medical regulators in the UK have approved a gene therapy that aims to cure two blood disorders. The treatment for sickle cell disease and beta thalassemia is the first to be licensed using the gene-editing tool known as Crispr, for which its discoverers were awarded the Nobel prize in 2020. This is
Elon Musk’s social media platform X has sued a left-leaning pressure group that accused the site of allowing antisemitic posts next to advertising. X’s lawsuit alleges that Media Matters for America “manipulated” data in an attempt to “destroy” the platform formerly known as Twitter. Firms including Apple, Disney, IBM and Comcast have paused adverts on
Microsoft boss Satya Nadella has called for changes to OpenAI’s board after its shock firing of Sam Altman. He told CNBC “something has to change” at the firm, but did not specify what that was, or rule out the tech giant getting a seat on the board. Microsoft is OpenAI’s biggest investor by far, and
Hundreds of families are suing some of the world’s biggest technology companies – who, they say, knowingly expose children to harmful products. One plaintiff explains why they are taking on the might of Silicon Valley. “I literally was trapped by addiction at age 12. And I did not get my life back for all of
Head down to your local high street, and you might trawl a few shops in search of a new outfit. In popular online game Roblox, you can do the same thing for your avatar by heading to in-game shop the “Catalog Avatar Creator experience”. It’s been visited more than 1.6 billion times, making it one
Stable demand for business jets combined with high backlogs at major OEMs and relatively low preowned inventory “should enable the industry to weather any potential economic downturns in the foreseeable future,” business jet financier Global Jet Capital (GJC) said in its third-quarter Business Aviation Market Brief. “Within the business jet industry, flight operations were down compared
Boeing will soon fly the third F-15EX Eagle II development aircraft for the U.S. Air Force, having rolled out the fighter from its St. Louis factory in August. That event occurred more than two years since the first two F-15EXs went to the U.S. Air Force in early 2021 to begin testing. While Boeing attributed
Isabella Day founded her jewellery shop, The Remarkable Goldsmiths, in Dartmouth just two years ago. Since then they’ve had around £3,000 worth of goods stolen. “We’re in a difficult position,” she says. “My partner’s very unwell. We are a family business, a small business. Literally everything we make in the shop, we haven’t been paid
Meta has called for laws that would force app stores to get parental approval when a child downloads an app. The proposal would put app stores, like those run by Apple and Google, on the hook for implementing parental controls – rather than social media companies. Meta, owner of Instagram and Facebook, has faced criticism
