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DNA for entire human stored on crystal, Hunger Games studio announces AI deal
This tiny crystal could bring humans back to life. Pic: University of Southampton British scientists have stored DNA information for an entire human on a crystal, which could be used to bring back humanity if we become extinct. The team from the University of Southampton's Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) used lasers…
TikTok hack targets Paris Hilton, £13.6 billion claim against Google can go ahead
TikTok says it is addressing a cyber-attack that targeted brands and celebrities, including Paris Hilton and CNN. However, the video-sharing app told the BBC that a "very limited" number of accounts had been compromised. It added that it was working with users to restore access to their accounts. TikTok, which is owned by Chinese company…
Emojis should be more biodiverse, Honda e to be killed off
Emojis should better reflect the breadth of biodiversity on planet Earth, scientists have said. The library is too skewed towards animals like 🦁, 🐯, and 🐻 (oh my), according to a study in the iScience journal, leaving plants, fungi, and microorganisms underrepresented. Biologists who carried out the research said the icons were now such a…
WhatsApp’s secret codes for ‘love rats’, James Dyson loses libel case
WhatsApp has announced ‘secret codes’ which adds extra layer of security for your most private chats, by completely hiding them from the conversation list. The new feature will hide chosen conversations, which can only be revealed by typing a password into the search bar. This builds on the relatively new ability to lock chats. While that…
X launches ‘playful’ Grok AI chatbot, reinstates far-right ‘influencers’
Elon Musk has launched an AI chatbot called Grok on his social media site X, formerly Twitter, but so far it is only available to selected users. "In some important respects, it is the best that currently exists," he posted on X, before its release. Mr Musk boasted that Grok "loves sarcasm" and would answer…
1 year of Twitter under Musk, Cruise pulls all self-driving cars
Elon Musk and James Clayton. Image: BBC Elon Musk wrote within hours of buying Twitter that he “didn’t do it because it would be easy”. That statement has proven to be one of the few certainties about his ownership of the influential social media platform, which has tipped the business into a…
WhatsApp is UK’s most popular messaging app as traditional texting declines
While mobile phone calls are still a popular way to keep in touch with friends and family, most adults would rather go without them for a day than forgo their favourite messaging apps, according to new research published by Ofcom. Online communication services like WhatsApp and Snapchat have become increasingly important to our daily lives.…
Engineers fly 6.4m quadcopter drone, Tinder introduces Matchmaker option
Engineers at the University of Manchester have flown what they claim may be the biggest unmanned quadcopter drone yet built. The university says it is unaware of a bigger unmanned quadcopter, but there is no independent verification of the record. As the name suggests, quadcopters are drones with four propellers. The drone is made from…
Elon Musk announces premium tiers for X, Tesla Cybertruck due in November
Elon Musk has said his social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, will launch two new tiers of premium subscriptions. "One is lower cost with all features, but no reduction in ads, and the other is more expensive, but has no ads," the billionaire said in a post on X. It comes as the firm…
Face search company Clearview AI overturns fine, NY mayor uses ‘audio deepfakes’
A company that enables its clients to search a database of billions of images scraped from the internet for matches to a particular face has won an appeal against the UK's privacy watchdog. Last year, Clearview AI was fined more than £7.5m by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) for unlawfully storing facial images. Jack Mulcaire,…
