Plastic crisis: soon more plastic in sea than fish
The world’s seas are facing a plastic crisis that is devastating wildlife and could potentially choke the planet within 30...
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Tech companies must rebuild public trust
One of the UK’s leading technology thinkers has called for profound changes to technology companies' relationship with the public in...
Family Rules for children’s time online
A new survey reveals fear, uncertainty and doubt about children's online activity and how to control it. Pollsters commissioned by...
Ghost in the shell: not sci-fi but reality
Surprisingly for an action movie set in a world of cyborgs, this is a film about motherhood. Major (Scarlett Johanssen)...
House of Lords report criticises Government robot car policy
The House of Lords Science and Technology Select Committee have criticised Government policy in its recent report about Connected and...
Yahoo hack: US charges two Russian spies
Two Russian secret agents and two paid hackers have been charged by a grand jury in California for hacking Yahoo...
Diva robot learns to sing and dance
Developers in Berlin have built a robot that teaches itself to sing Famously an opera's not over until the...
Robots’ Guild learns to fake human feelings
Sixty-five early adopters are training an Artificial Intelligence to recognise emotions and match moods from a cube-shaped console in the...
‘Atechdad’ warns strangers of potential cyber threats
White hat hacker ‘Atechdad’ carried out an experiment, selflessly emailing 97,931 strangers to inform them that their credentials had been...
Political parties’ surveillance positions
Conservative Party A Conservative Party spokesman said: 'We are determined that as far as possible there should no safe spaces...