Researchers are going on a bear hunt, using AI and radar to spot dens and track the threatened Arctic predators Genghis Khan got his dying wish: despite attempts by archaeologists and scientists to find the Mongolian ruler’s final resting place, the location remains a secret 800 years after his death. The search for his tomb, …
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Car company makes $438m on revenues of $10.39bn Delivery doubled to 184,800 vehicles in early 2021 Tesla announced a record quarterly profit on Monday as sales of its electric vehicles boomed in the first three months of year. Related: Tesla crash: investigators ‘100% sure’ no one driving car in fatal Texas incident Continue reading… Car …
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In the century since the first on-air report in 1921, meteorologists have – almost – got the science of forecasting down to a fine art Exactly 100 years ago today, at 10.05am on 26 April 1921, an unassuming cleric and academic, Rev William F Robison, the president of St Louis University, made history as the …
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How am I supposed to wean my children off screens when they know I’m addicted too? It started, last March, as an act of necessity – sticking the kids on iPads all day so I could make a hard deadline that fell six weeks into lockdown. There was no way around this; at five years …
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37m people use the gaming platform every day in search of adventure – and for teenagers exploring their gender identity, it is also a place of liberation When she was a child, Hannah discovered two portals to other worlds. The first was her Nintendo 64, which could transport her to the dark dungeons of Zelda …
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Big, fast screen, flagship chip, long battery life and slick experience – but a few corners cut to save money The OnePlus 9 offers the same top-performance, slick experience and long battery life as the firm’s best phone but with a few corners cut to slice £200 off the price. The £629 handset looks almost …
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Such an update would be another signal that Covid lockdown entertainment boom is over Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Spotify is expected to report this week a significant slowdown in the number of new subscribers in the first quarter, the latest pandemic winner to signal that the lockdown entertainment boom is …
The bosses of Tesla and Amazon want to take humans to Mars and beyond – but won’t show basic humanity on Earth Elon Musk’s SpaceX just won a $2.9bn Nasa contract to land astronauts on the moon, beating out Jeff Bezos. Related: Revive the US space program? How about not | Nicholas Russell Continue reading… …
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The takeaway service may have felt like a lifeline during lockdown, but its ambitious vision will dramatically change the way we eat Shukran Best Kebab – the finest Turkish restaurant in the Seven Sisters area of north London, according to some people (although it is surrounded by fierce rivals to the throne) – joined Deliveroo …
The UK government is finally taking a look at the sale of the chip designer to US firm Nvidia, but why not just buy a controlling interest? Last September, Nvidia, the American manufacturer of graphics processing chips, and the Japanese company SoftBank announced an agreement under which Nvidia would acquire the British chip designer Arm …
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