Technology

As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolds, scientists are rushing to carry out and publish research which will help us understand how the virus works, and how the disease it causes can be treated.

As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolds, scientists are rushing to carry out and publish research which will help us understand how the virus works, and how the disease it causes can be treated.

More than half of the population will need to use the app in order to stop the virus completely.

Buddy Holly’s done it, Roy Orbison’s done it, and now Whitney Houston’s doing it. It’s a hologram tour – where singers take to the stage long after their deaths by using the latest technology.

Would you agree to a total ban on all diesel cars in your city centre to bring down air pollution?

The first privately-funded mission to the moon has ended rather abruptly.

Are social media firms doing enough to tackle extremism and stop the live-streaming of violence?

Just how dangerous are drones to aircraft? And what can be done to stop them flying in such sensitive airspace and causing such mayhem?

Facebook has fired a PR firm which it allegedly hired to dig up dirt on some of its competitors and critics, following a major investigation in the New York Times.

He hasn’t had a proper job since losing his seat as an MP. But now Nick Clegg, the former deputy prime minister, has landed on his feet in Silicon Valley. He’s off to California in a new, and presumably well-paid, role as global affairs and communications chief at Facebook. Mr Clegg said he was looking forward…

He’s the Israeli historian best known as the author of “Sapiens”, which looked at the evolution of humankind – and now Yuval Harari has published “21 Lessons for the 21st Century,” a book warning us how to harness the greatest global revolution to date: the rise of artificial intelligence. Cathy Newman went to meet him…

Three anti-fracking activists have been jailed for causing a public nuisance, after they climbed on to lorries outside a fracking site near Blackpool. The judge at Preston crown court said their actions had also significantly disrupted local residents, who depended on using the surrounding main road.

A new play by the National Youth Theatre – ‘F Off’ – examines the complex relationships between young people and social media.

On Monday the company said it had taken down a series of pages associated with Jones because they glorified violence and used dehumanising language.

Jack Dorsey insisted that Jones had not violated their rules, declaring he would not ‘succumb’ or ‘react’ to outside pressure.