Australian female players get funding boost with new pay deal
Leading Australian female players are set to be the main beneficiaries of a new five-year deal between Cricket Australia and the Australian Cricketers’ Association. All male and female professionals will share a projected A$634m (£344m) over the next five years, a 26% increase on the existing agreement. Women will be paid from a A$133m (£72.1m) […]
Google city sparks fresh controversy
Sidewalk Labs An image from Sidewalk Labs’s plans for Toronto Sidewalk Labs, a sister company of Google, has published its plans to build a smart city in Toronto, sparking fresh controversy. In a 1,500-page document, the company laid out its ambitions to “improve the urban environment” with a variety of high-tech innovations. Waterfront Toronto, the […]
Face masks for Scotland’s high schools and quiet bailiffs
Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this Monday evening. We’ll have another update for you on Tuesday morning. 1. Scotland set to make face coverings compulsory in secondary schools PA Media 2. Appeal to save Bletchley Park once more Computing academic Sue Black has saved Bletchley Park once before […]
The story of a giant
Getty Images “There’s no guarantee that Amazon.com can be a successful company. What we’re trying to do is very complicated,” said Jeff Bezos in 1999, just five years after launching the online firm. That the firm’s founder was so uncertain of its future seems surprising. Today, 25 years on from when it started, Amazon is […]
Meet the people ‘hacking’ their bodies
BBC Liviu wants to end what he calls “generation screen” Biohackers want to make their bodies and brains function better by “hacking” their biology. The BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire programme meets the people who are inserting technology under their skin, adopting extreme diets and trying to change their DNA. Liviu Babitz wants to create new human […]
Apparently, it’s the next big thing. What is the metaverse?
Getty Images Facebook has just announced it’s going to hire 10,000 people in Europe to develop the “metaverse”. This is a concept which is being talked up by some as the future of the internet. But what exactly is it? What is the metaverse? To the outsider, it may look like a souped-up version of […]
Man of Steel returns with a superdog to save superhero movies
DC Studios/WB David Corenswet is the fourth person to play the role in a major Superman movie The first trailer has been released for James Gunn’s hotly-awaited reboot of Superman, a film that Hollywood is hoping will come to its rescue as one of the biggest releases of 2025. David Corenswet plays the Man of […]
Mexico students develop electric shock self-defence coat
Conacyt The coat is fitted with electrodes on its sleeves Four students in Mexico have developed a jacket they say could protect those wearing it from attacks. Once armed, the sleeves of the coat can emit an electric shock making anyone holding on to them recoil. The students say they came up with the idea […]
Can Boris Johnson’s levelling-up mission survive Covid?
PA Media The UK can and will “build back better”. The Conservatives’ theme at their virtual party conference this week is a message that Boris Johnson has sought to impart continuously since the country emerged from lockdown in early July. But as the prime minister prepares to deliver his leader’s speech on Tuesday, his party […]
‘Put education at heart of Covid recovery’
Willie Rennie: “At the heart of the Covid recovery must be education” Scottish LibDem leader Willie Rennie has called for education to be put at the heart of Scotland’s recovery from the coronavirus pandemic. Mr Rennie told delegates at the party’s virtual autumn conference that the country needed hope and unity after a “decade of […]