Hundreds of UK online safety workers at TikTok have already signed agreements to leave the company, whistleblowers have told Sky News, despite the firm stressing […]
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Australia’s under 16s social media ban: How will it work and could the UK bring in a similar law? | Science, Climate & Tech News
Australian teenagers under 16 are set to face a world-first social media ban from 10 December. The legislation has left tech platforms such as TikTok […]
Apple’s AI chief steps down as company falls behind in tech race | Science, Climate & Tech News
Apple’s head of artificial intelligence and machine learning has stepped down from the company. John Giannandrea, the current senior vice president for machine Learning and […]
More than 800,000 young children seeing social media content ‘designed to hook adults’, figures show | Science, Climate & Tech News
Children as young as three are “being fed content and algorithms designed to hook adults” on social media, a former education minister has warned. Lord […]
Airbus fleets return to service after A320 software fixed faster than expected | World News
Airbus fleets have returned to normal operations after a software issue that could have affected flight controls was fixed faster than expected. The manufacturer issued […]
Weight loss jabs conditionally backed to tackle obesity by World Health Organization | Science, Climate & Tech News
Weight loss injections have been conditionally recommended for treating obesity by the World Health Organization (WHO) for the first time. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus […]
‘Women are afraid to get pregnant’: Fighting mercury poisoning from illegal gold mining in Brazil | Science, Climate & Tech News
“Many women end up losing their children,” says Alessandra Korap, a community leader of the Munduruku people from the Brazilian Amazon. “Either they can’t get […]
More than 600 dead in Indonesia and Thailand after floods and landslides – and Sri Lanka reporting more than 200 deaths from cyclone | World News
The death toll following flooding and landslides in Indonesia and Thailand has risen to more than 600 – with nearby Sri Lanka also reporting more […]
Bigger than COVID? The graph that explains why AI is going to be so huge | Science, Climate & Tech News
Artificial intelligence is getting very good, very fast. Whether it’s music, text, code or imagery, the time when it was reliably possible to tell the […]
Why prostate cancer is expected to be left as the only major cancer without national screening | Science, Climate & Tech News
Prostate cancer is expected to remain the only major cancer not to have a national screening programme under new recommendations from government advisers. The National […]