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BBC News - Technology

How AI unlocked a 400-year-old cipher at the Vatican - The coded text is among the historic documents and messages that are being cracked with the help of machine learning.

16 hours ago

AI versions of Churchill, Kahlo and Gandhi on Question Time

2 days ago

'Controversial' North Korean invasion setting for next Call of Duty game

2 days ago

How my brother went from liberal Hollywood actor to manosphere 'messiah'

3 days ago

Science says dating app users fall into the same cycle. Here's how to spot it -- Download, burnout, delete, repeat: Dating app users follow a predictable and dangerous pattern. These are the signs you're falling for it – and how to escape.

1 day ago

Businesses use Google's AI to trick you. Google is quietly fighting back -- A BBC investigation revealed a simple way to get AI chatbots to spit out misinformation. Google and other AI companies are now trying to fix the problem.

7 days ago

Can Pope Leo save us from AI?

3 days ago

The space tech solving the world's signal problem

2 days ago

How to stop AI from turning your brain to mush -- GPS ruined our sense of direction. Search engines weaken our memory. AI, scientists warn, could do the same to everything from creativity to critical thinking.

25 days ago

We can now track animal panic from space - and it's bad news for poachers -- The new Icarus satellite is tracking signals hidden in animal behaviour – which could save the lives of cheetahs, rhinos and elephants.

7 days ago

Big tech bets on new mascots in bid to seem more cuddly -- The likes of Apple, Microsoft and Google are all putting cartoon characters centre stage.

16 days ago

How sunburn inspired a new way to store energy -- Scientists are developing molecules that can store heat for months and release it when needed - a potential step towards cleaner energy for heating.

23 days ago

How the Victorians Built Britain

3 days ago

How to Build A Dinosaur

17 days ago

Inside the Rage Machine

1 month ago

The Darkest Web

3 months ago

Dating Apps: The Inside Story

5 months ago

Trump and the Tech Titans

3 months ago

Isaac Newton: The Last Magician

1 month ago

TikTok urban exploring trend leads to warning -- People are visiting derelict buildings and posting it online, but authorities warn it is unsafe.

16 hours ago

Ferrari wanted to take on Chinese EVs with the Luce - then the backlash started -- The brand's first EV has been heavily criticised, with some saying it has abandoned Ferrari's roots.

23 hours ago

How a 19th Century visionary helped shape Sheffield's green spaces today -- Victorian entrepreneur J. G. Graves is also described as "the forerunner of the Amazon parcel".

1 day ago

Ukraine using AI drones to strike vital convoys supplying Russian troops -- BBC Verify has analysed videos of attacks in occupied Ukraine on Russian trucks carrying ammunition, fuel and food.

1 day ago

Social media ban 'won't keep children safe', commissioner warns -- Scotland's children's commissioner has warned a social media ban could drive children to less regulated or riskier parts of the internet.

2 days ago

Endless creepy yellow corridors, 30bn TikTok views - and now a Hollywood film -- YouTuber Kane Parsons' eerie YouTube series has been adapted for a film called Backrooms.

1 day ago

AI will be used to estimate age of asylum seekers from next year -- The Home Office says the tool will make it easier to identify adult migrants "attempting to game the system".

2 days ago

Humanoid robots 'the future' of car making, says BMW -- BMW is introducing humanoid robots to a car plant in Europe, building on similar projects in the US.

2 days ago

Valve hikes Steam Deck prices by more than 40%, blaming rising costs -- The gaming giant said the handheld had not changed but the rise reflected "the current state of component costs"

3 days ago

King's College team wins access to cutting-edge Google quantum chip -- King's College London researchers hope the chip will help answer previously unanswerable questions about the most important natural processes.

3 days ago

Meta repeatedly snubs EU body over Facebook and Instagram user bans -- The BBC has been contacted by hundreds of users who claimed they had been wrongly banned from the sites.

3 days ago

Google worker charged with using internal data to make $1.2m on bets -- The longtime Google employee was charged in New York for allegedly breaking insider trading laws.

3 days ago

The world's carmakers are struggling to compete with China -- The BBC visited China's EV factories and found they are dominating the ecosystems shaping the global auto industry.

4 days ago

Former US Attorney General Pam Bondi diagnosed with cancer -- Bondi, who was diagnosed shortly after being ousted in April, is also joining the White House's new advisory council on AI.

4 days ago

Public warned after discarded batteries spark fires -- Householders are being urged not to put batteries and vapes in their bins.

4 days ago