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Facebook removes Chinese-backed network of fake accounts spreading COVID-19 disinformation

Facebook has removed hundreds of fake accounts linked to a campaign by China to spread unfounded claims about the pandemic.The bogus profiles originated claims the US pressured scientists to blame China for COVID-19. An investigation fo...

Mathematicians hail breakthrough in using AI to suggest new theorems

Scientists have for the first time used artificial intelligence to suggest and prove new mathematical theorems.The potential breakthrough came in a collaboration between mathematicians who specialise in pure mathematics at the universit...

Twitter bans sharing images of people without their consent

Twitter is prohibiting the sharing of private images and videos without the consent of the people involved.Although publishing private information is already banned on the platform - as is sharing private nude images - the new policy co...

Revealed: The fastest and slowest streets for broadband in the UK

The fastest and slowest streets in the UK for broadband have been revealed. Topping the charts for quickest broadband, was Haul Fryn in Birchgrove, Swansea, recording an average speed of 882Mbps, according to new research by price compa...

Fastest and slowest streets in the UK for broadband speeds - find out if you live in one

Mild and moderate COVID cases during pregnancy doesn't harm babies' brains, finds study

Mild and moderate coronavirus infections in pregnant women appear to have no effect on the brain of the developing foetus according to a new study.Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic "there is evidence that pregnant women are more vuln...

Elizabeth Holmes testifies alleged sexual assault by former partner influenced her to mislead investors

Elizabeth Holmes, the former chief executive of Theranos, has testified that an alleged sexual assault by her former romantic and business partner influenced her when she misled investors.Holmes has pleaded not guilty to duping investor...

Earth's water may have come from the Sun, new research finds

The origin of Earth's water continues to be debated by scientists - whether it was here when the planet formed or if it had an extraterrestrial source.But new research points the finger at a previously uncounted point of origin: the Sun...

New COVID study warns hospitalised patients need quicker brain scans

Approximately one in 100 patients hospitalised with COVID-19 develop complications of the central nervous system, according to a new study which urges quicker brain imaging for patients.Strokes and brain haemorrhages are among the poten...

Government aims to make its 'black box' algorithms more transparent

The government has launched an algorithmic transparency standard amid concerns that biased algorithms are impacting the way Britons are treated by the state.Algorithms are computer systems that ingest a wide range of data to produce a s...

'Sexism, ageism and misogyny': Madonna criticises Instagram for taking down risqué photos

Madonna has hit out at Instagram for taking down provocative photographs in which her nipple was exposed.The 63-year-old star had shared a series of risqué pictures of herself on and underneath a bed, wearing a cut-out bra, a thong, fis...

'Rare postcard' from Mars as NASA inspired by rover's view of red planet's sweeping landscape

NASA has released a "rare postcard" from Mars after being inspired by a "remarkable" image that its rover sent back from the red planet.The US space agency was able to combine two black and white images of the landscape taken at differe...

Neanderthal children may have cut their teeth earlier than modern humans

New research is shedding light on the differences between how human and Neanderthal infants developed after birth.Scientists at the University of Kent's school of anthropology believe that modern human children may develop over a much s...

NASA mission or no, thousands of people could still be killed by a completely unpredictable asteroid impact

Before we get too excited about NASA's asteroid deflection test, we should recognise that humanity is very bad at predicting impacts.Since 1988 our planet has been hit by more than 1,200 asteroids larger than a metre in size. These were...

NASA launches first ever asteroid deflection mission

A spacecraft has been launched from California this morning carrying with it humanity's greatest hopes of being able to protect our planet from a cataclysmic asteroid impact.Fortunately the DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) missio...