Deepfake porn is ruining women’s lives. Now the law may finally ban it
Helen Mort couldn’t believe what she was hearing. There were naked photos of her plastered…
There’s a tantalizing sign of a habitable-zone planet in Alpha Centauri
An international team of astronomers has found signs that a habitable planet may be lurking…
Auditors are testing hiring algorithms for bias, but find there’s no easy fix
I’m at home playing a video game on my computer. My job is to pump…
The UK’s covid app made a serious difference during the winter surge
The news: Researchers in the UK have calculated that its contact tracing app may have…
A button that tells your boss you're unhappy: Why mental health wearables could be bad news at work
With gyms closed and millions cooped up and restless at home, it's little wonder that…
Why Denmark’s “corona passport” is more of a promise than a plan
When acting Danish finance minister Morten Bødskov announced last week that Denmark would soon launch…
India is betting on glitchy software to inoculate 300 million people by August
On January 28, a physician at a hospital in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad…
The fast-spreading coronavirus variant is turning up in US sewers
A hyper-transmissible form of the coronavirus that causes covid-19 has been found in US sewer…
These might be the best places for future Mars colonists to look for ice
If we ever start an extraterrestrial colony on Mars, we’ll need water for a host…
The UAE’s Hope probe is about to arrive at Mars in a historic first
Fewer than half of all the spacecraft that have been sent to Mars have actually…