The UK's plan to block online pornography could be a privacy disaster
27 March 2019
A scheme designed to limit children's access to adult content could end up creating a massive database of people's pornography habits
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By all means back healthcare tech, but only once it is shown to work
27 March 2019
It makes sense to champion high-tech innovations, but UK health minister Matt Hancock would do well to wait until they have been shown to work effectively
Antony Gormley’s virtual reality adventure lets you ski on the moon
27 March 2019
Best known for his figures celebrating the human form, Antony Gormley’s latest endeavour is an epic virtual reality project letting you fly through space
Don't miss: Missing women, metallic mysteries and a classic dystopia
27 March 2019
This week: A Clockwork Orange is re-released, women abandon technology careers and everyone hankers after gold.
AIs go up against animals in an epic competition to test intelligence
26 March 2019
AIs have some superhuman abilities, but just how clever are they overall? To find out, a new competition will adapt tests used to study animals
The pigment in our skin could be used to make electrical body implants
26 March 2019
Melanin’s electrical conductivity can be boosted a billion-fold using heat and the result could be used to make body-friendly electrical implants
Crashed Boeing 737s lacked upgrades that could have warned pilots
25 March 2019
Reports suggest a flight control system and missing safety features could have contributed to the recent crashes involving Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft
Exclusive: Thousands of security flaws found on UK government websites
23 March 2019
The Wannacry attack locked down NHS computers in 2017. Now an investigation has uncovered thousands of unpatched vulnerabilities on UK government websites
AI can mistakenly see cancer in medical scans after tiny image tweaks
21 March 2019
Medical artificial intelligence is brittle. Although it promises to quickly analyse medical scans, it can trip up on seemingly innocuous issues
Elizabeth Holmes: The hypnotic tale of the rise and fall of Theranos
21 March 2019
Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes built a $10 billion company on the promise of a miracle blood test. But it didn’t work. A new film, The Inventor, follows the fallout
