The dating app which recently ditched its "women-first" chat rule has been bought by an investment firm.

Advances in self-driving technology have made it easier to traverse distant worlds.

Advances in self-driving technology have made it easier to traverse distant worlds.

Quebec is the largest producer of organic cranberries in the world and leads the country in production. The operations are mainly in the Centre-du-Québec region, and the province produces more than 250 million pounds annually.

Apple unveiled its HomeView smart home hub, updated HomePod Mini 2, new Apple TV 4K and Apple Home Collection at its ‘Welcome Home’ event on October 13, 2026. The HomeView features a touchscreen, AI-powered Siri, personalised interfaces and smart home controls, with a starting price of $299.

The Norwegian Data Protection Authority (DPA) has fined Xandr, an advertising unit owned by Microsoft, €8.6 million ($9.62 million) for illegally relaying ​Grindr users' sensitive data to advertisers. The administrative penalty is the largest issued by the data protection watchdog, arguing the case merited a high fine because of the "very serious" nature of the breach. The infringements

Huawei Technologies has shipped more than 100 million devices powered by its Kirin processors since 2023, when it returned to the smartphone market with a new generation of premium handsets. The company says testing of its next-generation Kirin 2027 chip is also progressing in line with expectations. The company disclosed the figure on Tuesday as it unveiled new details about its flagship Kirin 9050 series, the first mass-produced chip using its proprietary LogicFolding architecture, developed...

A wife and mother claims she had a life-changing meeting with Jesus in the afterlife while her husband attempted to kill her before he could be cut out of her life insurance policy.

New research decoding their DNA is helping to shed light on how the collapse and slow, scattered return of herds to the landscapes they once dominated has forever changed the mighty species.

The dangerous part of a stolen identity isn't always the initial login. It's what an attacker can do with that access next. With AI accelerating reconnaissance, exploitation of vulnerabilities, and privilege escalation, attackers can move through systems faster than security teams can investigate. A compromised account that looks legitimate at first could become the starting point for a much

Apple is expected to unveil a new smart home hub with a screen, an updated HomePod mini and a refreshed Apple TV at its ‘Welcome Home’ event on October 13, 2026.

A barn owl and 15 chicks are ringed to see if conservation-focused farming is working.

Hurricane-fueled storms are set to barrel across a large swath of the US, unleashing hazardous weather for several days.

El Niño has continued to strengthen, with several key measures now in record territory. Simon King explores how it compares to previous events.

Three vulnerabilities in LG's webOS can be chained to give an attacker on the same local network root access to certain smart TVs without a PIN or any interaction from the owner. LG has issued a fix, according to an advisory published by SSD Secure Disclosure on October 12. The chain was tested on two TV models, the 32LQ636BPSA and the 27TQ600SW, running webOS 7.5.7-25 on firmware

Londoners aged four to 18 can suggest names for the kits, born at Paradise Fields, until 7 December.

SpaceX Falcon 9 launches Dragon with 6,300 pounds of supplies to ISS SpaceX launched a Dragon CRS-35 cargo mission for NASA to the International Space Station on Tuesday. SpaceX’s 35th commercial resupply services mission utilized a Dragon spacecraft on a Falcon 9 rocket. The lift-off...

The second instalment of Planet Zoo champions raising animals to be released into wildlife reserves.

A sharp sell-off in Asian memory chip stocks this week signals growing investor doubts over whether the sector’s AI-driven profit boom can last, even as soaring prices drive strong quarterly earnings across the sector. Shares in market leaders Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix plunged in Seoul on Tuesday, extending a days-long slide that has also swept up Chinese rival ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT). Samsung and SK Hynix closed down 7.4 per cent and 10.1 per cent, respectively. The companies...

A user opens a browser tab, pastes data into a chat assistant, and nothing is installed. A developer adds a coding assistant as an editor extension, and nothing shows up in the installed programs list. Someone downloads a local model runtime, a program that runs models directly on the machine instead of sending data to an external service, because they were told not to send company data

TFG London has apologised to customers for disruption after it identified a "cybersecurity incident" on Sunday.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) forecasts that global economic output will slow to 3.1% this year in spite of geopolitical disruptions, but warns that high inflation and AI share valuations could be risks for financial stability. Also in this edition: Russia says it has exported $320 billion worth of oil and gas to European countries since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, despite sanctions. Plus: Dangote refinery extends its IPO deadline by two weeks to attract even more retail investors.

Loggers are finding it impossible to profitably harvest some federal forests. That leaves more fuel for fires to accumulate.

Chinese AI chipmaker Iluvatar CoreX debuted its first supernode system, a computing system that squeezes 144 graphics processing units (GPUs) into a single cabinet, breaking an industrial record. The new product, dubbed the Tiangai 300 IXL144, was unveiled on Monday at the 2026 China International Industry Fair (CIIF) in Shanghai. Designed for large-scale AI model training and inference, the system packs 144 GPUs and 18 central processing units (CPUs) into a single cabinet and boasts around 10.1...

Attackers took remote control of fridges and freezers at hundreds of French supermarkets on the night of October 11 and warmed them, forcing stores to throw food away, several retail chains said. The attackers reached them through the controller that runs all of a store's fridges and freezers, a device made by Danish company Danfoss that maintenance firms can manage remotely. Les Mousquetaires

Two of 31 newly disclosed flaws in Progress Software's MarkLogic Server database could let an account given only some management privileges take administrator control of the server, the company says. Progress published all 31 on October 12 and scored five of them critical. Fixes have been available since September 10, in MarkLogic 11.3.7 and MarkLogic 12.1.0. Affected

GitLab has released patches for a maximum-severity security flaw impacting its Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE) software that could result in arbitrary code execution. "GitLab has remediated an issue that, under certain conditions, could have allowed an unauthenticated user to execute arbitrary code on the GitLab server via a specially crafted regular expression in a CI/CD

How far can a rover go? NASA’s Perseverance breaks Mars driving record NASA’s Perseverance rover has set a new record after driving farther than any other vehicle on the surface of the Martian planet since arriving on Mars in 2021. The announcement of the milestone comes from the...

World's largest industrial fair opens in Shanghai

CMF has launched Bluetooth speakers, the Speaker S and Speaker M, with up to 18 hours of battery life, IP68 protection and customizable panels. The Speaker S is priced at GBP 49 (approx ₹6,000), while the Speaker M costs GBP 99 (approx ₹12,000) in the UK.