The Geneva-based institution says American tariffs will send international trade into reverse.

The ancient oak felled in north London was classified as a "fine specimen" last year, documents show.

Lyft said it is acquiring mobility platform FreeNow, giving the ridehailing company its first major presence in Europe after years of operating exclusively in the US and Canada. FreeNow aggregates taxis alongside private vehicles, including luxury rides. The acquisition of FreeNow nearly doubles Lyft’s potential market and will aide the company as it seeks to […]

Researchers have used a fungus and bacteria to create rigid, living structures similar to bone and coral, which could one day be used as a self-repairing building material

Scientists have used an artificial circulatory system to create lab-grown chicken, which may improve its texture

Falling somewhere between a 3D printer and the inkjet you use to churn out color photos, Anker’s eufyMake brand has announced what it’s calling the “industry’s first 3D-texture UV Printer designed for personal use.” The UV Printer E1 is closer in size to a 3D printer than an inkjet, but is designed to produce 2D […]

Seven prisoners have been moved out of the terrorism separation unit at HMP Frankland, the BBC is told.

Centre Jade Shekells will earn her first start for England as one of nine changes made by John Mitchell for Saturday's Women's Six Nations match against Scotland in Leicester.

Sir Keir Starmer and other leaders have tied themselves in knots over the question: "What is a woman?"

Two decades have passed since NASA made two spacecraft collide

It is twenty years since NASA's DART mission collided with a satellite after depleting its fuel during a rendezvous attempt.…

The Oscar-winning actor Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, both died of natural causes about a week apart.

Figma slapped Swedish AI coding startup Loveable with a cease-and-desist warning for naming one of its new product features “Dev Mode.” It turns out Figma successfully trademarked the term Dev Mode in November last year, according to the US Patent and Trademark office, having introduced its own Dev Mode feature in 2023. “We’re flattered that […]

Enfield Council's leader has said he is "outraged" Toby Carvery gave approval for the felling of an ancient tree without consulting them first.

DJI’s new drone accessory is designed to ensure public safety and emergency officials are heard loud and clear — and I mean really loud. Its enterprise-focused Zenmuse V1 speaker can broadcast the sound of someone’s voice at up to 127 decibels at 1 meter, a number DJI says is “on par with the sound level […]

TikTok has announced “Footnotes,” its own take on the community notes features that started on Twitter and have been spreading to other social networks. As elsewhere, it’s a crowd-sourced approach to moderation — TikTok says contributors will be able to “add relevant information to content on our platform.” US users can apply to become Footnotes […]

Promoter Eddie Hearn is confident Tyson Fury v Anthony Joshua could still happen, and says all it takes is a direct message on social media between the fighters.

People arriving in Britain from the EU and other European countries are no longer allowed to bring in a range of meat and dairy products - including cheese.

The Northern Lights were spotted in the UK on Tuesday - and could return again tonight.

Iran appears to have hit out at the decision to change the venue of its latest nuclear talks with the US from Oman to Italy, saying the "goalposts were being moved" as it blamed "hawks".

Judges deliver a landmark ruling on how a woman is defined under the law.

The government will continue funding the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program. In a statement to The Verge, US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) spokesperson Jared Auchey said it “executed the option period on the contract to ensure there will be no lapse in critical CVE services” last night. On Tuesday, MITRE, the government-funded organization […]

Millions of people have tuned in to watch moose on the move in northern Sweden over the past six years.

Spotify is down according to widespread user reports across the US and Europe, with issues preventing the platform from loading or streaming music. At 8:45AM ET on Wednesday morning, the Spotify Status account on X said it was “aware of some issues” affecting the service right now, and is currently “checking them out.” While most […]

A drugs mule who attempted to smuggle £5.6m worth of cocaine into the UK from Mexico told Border Force officials he had only brought sombreros back from his trip.

DPP Law is appealing against data watchdog's conclusions

A law firm is appealing against a £60,000 fine from the UK's data watchdog after 32 GB of personal information was stolen from its systems.…

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Microsoft has started testing an early version of its Copilot for Gaming experience. Sources familiar with Microsoft’s Xbox plans tell me that employees can now access Copilot within the Xbox mobile app, and that while it looks similar to the existing Copilot chatbot, it’s designed to tap into your Xbox account. Announced last month, Copilot […]

The long-awaited antitrust trial between Meta and the Federal Trade Commission kicked off on April 14th. Over about two months, DC District Court Chief Judge James Boasberg is hearing arguments about whether then-Facebook illegally monopolized the market for “personal social networking services” through its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp. The FTC first brought the case […]

With billions in the balance, the battle may just be starting between the US government and universities.

The scheme would return illegal migrants who cross the Channel in exchange for the UK taking legal migrants.

Bezos' biz and Google tell regulator higher cost of running Windows Server in their clouds isn't fair

AWS estimates that half of the workloads Microsoft enterprise customers run on Azure would migrate to its own datacenters if only the licensing costs of doing so were not prohibitively high and a competitive deterrent.…

Quantum effects like superposition and entanglement have long been seen in single particles, but physicists are on a quest to find out just how big an object can be before it loses its quantumness

There were hints that the world may be quantum long before the development of quantum mechanics in 1925 – could we have come up with this revolutionary theory hundreds or even thousands of years earlier?

As quantum computers mature, they will be transformational. But there are good reasons why we don’t yet know exactly which problems they will excel at – and that makes them all the more exciting

A missing toddler spent the night alone in the remote Arizona wilderness and walked seven miles through lion territory before being led to safety by a dog, local police have said.

Spotify is suffering a widespread outage - with the popular music app failing to load for many users.

Prosper is currently serving a minimum of 49 years in prison for murdering three family members.

Former world snooker champion Graeme Dott has appeared in court and been released on bail over allegations of historical child sex abuse.

There were scenes of jubilation for women's campaigners outside the Supreme Court as the ruling was read out.

Those involved in caring for Isaiah Haastrup and Zainab Abbasi can be named, the Supreme Court rules.

A woman who is under police investigation after assisting the suicide of her husband at Dignitas in Switzerland has told Sky News she has no regrets.

Dutch lithography king sticks to €35B forecast despite investor jitters

Euro tech giant ASML hit its revenue guidance last quarter and still expects the coffers to swell this year, but order bookings are down as Trump's tariff turmoil casts uncertainty over the entire industry.…

Stunned scientists say the extremely rare squid can weigh up to 500kg (1,100lb).

An American pastor abducted by armed men in South Africa has been rescued - and was "miraculously unharmed" in a deadly shootout.

Water falls on Earth every day as rain, and now scientists seem to have found a way of using it to create renewable electricity

Patreon is taking on Twitch with a new feature that lets creators offer live video streams directly on the platform. The feature will be available “starting this week” to “select creators” in an early access test, and the company plans to roll it out more widely this summer, according to a press release. In the […]

Digital picture frame company Aura’s newest product, the Aspen, displays your digital photos in analog style. With a 12-inch anti-glare display, a 4:3 aspect ratio, and a super slim bezel, the $229 frame improves on the company’s 10-inch Carver frame ($149) while retaining Aura’s core photo-sharing feature. It also brings two new software features to […]

Manchester United goalkeeper Andre Onana will be recalled for the Europa League quarter-final second leg against Lyon.

The agreement is designed to ensure more cooperation between nations in the event of another pandemic.

Vintage phishing varietal has improved with age

Russia never stops using proven tactics, and its Cozy Bear, aka APT 29, cyber-spies are once again trying to lure European diplomats into downloading malware with a phony invitation to a lux event.…

Real Madrid players say they are convinced they can overturn a 3-0 first-leg deficit against Arsenal, but is this a comeback too far for the European champions?

The sentence of triple murderer Nicholas Prosper, 19, who killed his family and was planning a school shooting in Luton, has been referred to the Court of Appeal.

Nvidia is releasing a new GPU driver today that includes a massive amount of fixes for bugs and crashes that have plagued its Game Ready drivers recently. After widespread reports of black screens, game crashes, and general stability issues, today’s 576.02 driver release (.exe download) not only bumps the version number significantly from last month’s […]

The far-right activist had argued his segregation in jail was damaging to his mental health.

I’ve been trying to buy a Canon PowerShot G7 X Mark III for two weeks, and I no longer believe this camera exists.  The Canon G7 X III is so popular that strategies for buying them have become a whole sub-genre of videos on TikTok It definitely existed at one point. The camera was released […]

Peru's former president Ollanta Humala has been sentenced to 15 years in jail for money laundering.

For years there has been a toxic, emotion-driven debate over gender and sex in this country. Today came clarity.

Post Office auditor and big four accounting firm EY is being investigated by the industry's regulator.

Outdated and misinformed legal presumptions at the heart of concerns

Digital forensics in the UK is in need of reform, says one expert, as the deadline to advise the government on computer evidence rules arrives.…

Economic uncertainty globally and in the UK means there are conflicting forces at play with prices.

Barcelona defender Mapi Leon is banned for two Liga F matches after allegedly touching an opponent's groin.

Microsoft has enabled a new “computer use” feature for Copilot Studio this week that lets AI agents interact with websites and desktop applications. Much like OpenAI’s Operator or Claude’s identically named “computer use” feature, businesses will be able to use Copilot Studio to build AI agents that treat websites and desktop apps as if they’re […]

A system malfunction led to the wrong anthem being played before Aston Villa's Champions League quarter-final second leg against Paris St-Germain.

Maybe don't push to production without properly testing first?

Microsoft Teams experienced a file-sharing outage overnight that disrupted collaboration for many users and forced the software biz to roll back a recent backend change.…

Tiny cash-based Pacific nation gets electronic banking for the first time.

Betsy Arakawa searched online for whether Covid can cause dizziness or nosebleeds, police files say.

When the Breakthrough Prize, founded by Facebook, Apple, and Google moguls and sometimes called “the Oscars of Science” by people who want that to be true, invited a comedian to present one of its awards it probably should have expected a few jokes. Remarks made by Seth Rogen during the April 5th livestream about the […]

Inflation falls in the year to March as the price of petrol drops.

A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a woman in her 30s was fatally stabbed inside a flat in Liverpool.

The government is facing a backlash for "slipping out" cuts to the amount that families can access for adopted children to have therapy.

The UK accounting regulator says it will look at whether EY met accounting standards.

The camera was lost seven years ago on the island off Cornwall.

The attorney general of Cyprus attorney has appealed against the acquittal of five Israeli men accused of gang raping a British tourist on the island.

Small mobile network providers have outclassed the big four in a survey of more than 4,000 customers - especially when it comes to value for money.

The suspect, 40, is accused of setting fire to the homes of some of his alleged victims to cover his tracks.

£5.2B more thrown at the never-ending quest to modernize HMRC

In 2022, the UK's tax collector put £4.5 billion ($5.9 billion) on the table to help its applications become "less dependent upon legacy technologies." The extent to which His Majesty's Revenue & Customs (HMRC) achieved that goal is debatable, but there is no doubt it intends to spend up to £5.2 billion ($6.9 billion) more to continue the job.…

Body camera footage of Gene Hackman's home has been released by authorities investigating the deaths of the actor and his wife.

A colossal squid has been filmed in its natural environment for the first time - exactly 100 years after the species was first identified. 

4Chan, an online forum notorious for its extreme right-wing content, appears to have been hacked - in a development some believe could spell the end of the controversial messageboard.

Tommy Robinson has lost a Court of Appeal challenge against the length of his prison sentence for contempt of court.

Two protesters were tasered and three people arrested when a town hall hosted by hard-right Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene descended into chaos.

Wildfires 'could spell the end' for rare species such as water voles and hen harriers.

It's not DNS. It can't be DNS? Right?

TalkTalk Business customers were forced to survive without email nearly a week after a technical fault disrupted domain hosting.…

The former US president says his successor has "done so much damage and so much destruction" in his first days in office.

Following Luka Modric's investment in Swansea City, the BBC Sport's Ask Me Anything team looks into why more and more footballers are snubbing management.

New Zealand centre Rieko Ioane will join United Rugby Championship and Champions Cup frontrunners Leinster for the 2025-26 season.

A political leaders' debate in Canada is moved to avoid a clash with the Montreal Canadiens' fixture against the Carolina Hurricanes.

The shift comes as Beijing refuses to back down in an escalating trade war with Washington.

Three people died in the "high-intensity shootout" that led to Josh Sullivan's rescue, officials say.

It's LLMs all the way down

Apple, having starved its AI models of data by respecting customer privacy, plans to improve its chatbot suggestions by using made-up emails.…

British officials have confirmed a pilot scheme is being considered to deport migrants who cross the English Channel, in exchange for the UK accepting asylum seekers in France with legitimate claims.

The ex-president uses the speech to criticise the Trump administration's cuts to the welfare agency.

Not to brag, but I’m somewhat of an expert in folding wagons. Huge flex, I know. But I’ve never tested one with a motor like BougeRV’s new Electric Foldable Wagon. I have a little surf shack that sits almost exactly 1km (0.6 miles) from the parking lot, where I regularly carry supplies and sports gear […]

A wet Easter is in store for parts of the UK as a spell of unsettled weather moves across the UK, and heavy rain is possible in places.

It involves a number close to three or six depending on the fiend

Ransomware operators jack up their ransom demands by a factor of 2.8x if they detect a victim has cyber-insurance, a study highlighted by the Netherlands government has confirmed.…

The number of people vaping in the UK has stalled, while disposable vape usage has fallen, a study suggests.

"Socially irresponsible" adverts for liquid Brazilian butt lifts have been banned - with a watchdog claiming they trivialised surgery and exploited the uncertainties women may have about their body image.

Researchers say there has been a shift away from disposable vapes ahead of their ban in June, but it may have only a "limited impact" on vaping rates.

Reverend Pippa White is the curate for Fauls, Tilstock, and Whitchurch - and has become a rising star on video-sharing app TikTok.

Fancy a doctorate in semiconductor design? The land of K-Pop wants you to help future-proof its industry

South Korea has decided to dish out over $25 billion in help to industries impacted by the USA’s new tariff regime.…