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An onlooker filmed the moment when several drones with red and green lights fall out of formation and crash to the ground at a holiday show in Orlando on Saturday. The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating the incident after a seven-year-old boy was seriously injured Seven-year-old boy begins open-heart surgery after being hit in Florida …

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As co-chair of ‘government efficiency’ panel, Musk would influence policy that could help SpaceX, Tesla and X Elon Musk’s position as Donald Trump’s co-chair of an advisory panel tasked with proposing huge cuts in spending and regulations has sparked criticism from legal experts and watchdogs who warn of conflicts of interest that could benefit the …

Musk’s conflicts of interest as Trump adviser could benefit him, experts warn Read More »

Amid claims of sabotage of undersea cables, a small wooden structure houses a key cog in Europe’s digital connectivity At the end of an unmarked path on a tiny island at the edge of Stockholm’s extensive Baltic Sea archipelago lies an inconspicuous little wooden cabin, painted a deep shade of red. Water gently laps the …

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Immigration, culture wars and shrinking the public sector all feature highly on their agendas The get-together last week of Elon Musk, Nigel Farage and Reform UK’s treasurer, Nick Candy, was not just a gathering of Donald Trump fans. It was a meeting of minds. Immigration, culture wars and shrinking the public sector all feature highly …

How far do Elon Musk and Reform UK share a political vision? Read More »

From holding space to a baby pygmy hippo, there’s much to be learned about the world through the memes and trends that dominated our social media feeds this year “Brain rot” has been named Oxford’s word of the year, meaning “the supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual state, especially viewed as the result …

Brain rot 2024: the best and funniest viral moments of the year Read More »

Female athlete power on social media became ever more strident in 2024 – but the backlash also damaged careers and wellbeing Lina Nielsen remembers the moment she had the idea. She was sitting around the Olympic Village in Paris with her sprinting teammates – and she was bored. “I said to Yemi Mary John: ‘I’m …

Generation TikTok: how sportswomen set the bar higher than the men Read More »

Suchir Balaji, listed in court filing as having ‘relevant documents’ about copyright violation, died on 26 November Suchir Balaji, a former OpenAI engineer and whistleblower who helped train the artificial intelligence systems behind ChatGPT and later said he believed those practices violated copyright law, has died, according to his parents and San Francisco officials. He …

OpenAI whistleblower who died was being considered as witness against company Read More »

Jorge Rivera-Herrans’s musical sensation Epic is just one of a series of works making a splash on the online platform When Jorge Rivera-Herrans released part of Epic: the Musical last Christmas, he managed to push Taylor Swift off the top of the US iTunes album charts. So there is a lot at stake when the …

‘We’re figuring out cool ways of storytelling’: how TikTok is changing the way we watch musicals Read More »

Although politicians have called to shoot them down, experts say the lights are likely legal drones, planes – or stars At first, in mid-November, the mysterious lights were seen blinking across the night skies of New Jersey. Then, they spread. Reports of incandescent flying objects were logged in New York, Pennsylvania and Maryland. Bystanders in …

It’s probably just a plane: drone experts advise calm over New Jersey sightings Read More »

Experts explain the pontiff’s appeal as the most recent AI images of Francis, with the singer Madonna, go viral For the pope, it was the wrong kind of madonna. The pop legend, she of the 80’s anthem Like a Prayer, has stirred controversy in recent weeks by posting deepfake images on social media which show …

The god illusion: why the pope is so popular as a deepfake image Read More »