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Nasa’s Ingenuity helicopter has had its Wright Brothers moment after it successfully launched off Mars. The test was the tiny helicopter’s baby step towards proving powered flight on another world. Plus, why young people who’ve previously had Covid-19 are to be deliberately re-infected with the virus, Facebook set ‘to launch audio-social products’, two men killed in Tesla, which officials say had no one at the wheel, and the Lord of the Rings MMO is officially cancelled. Listen to our other podcasts:Women Tech Charge: interviews with incredible women leading in Science, Technology, Engineering and MathsThe Leader: a daily news podcast helping you make sense of the day’s most important stories Ask your Smart Speaker to ‘play the news from the Evening Standard' Visit standard.co.uk/tech for more tech news Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Scientists have grown human cells in monkey embryos. Researchers from the Salk Institute in California have produced what’s known as monkey-human chimeras, but some ethicists are raising concerns, saying this type of work “opens Pandora’s box to human-nonhuman chimeras”, plus previous coronavirus infection ‘doesn’t fully protect young people against reinfection’, scientists calculate how many billions of T-rexes roamed the Earth and, live 3D holograms are allowing friends kept apart to dine together again. Listen to our other podcasts:Women Tech Charge: interviews with incredible women leading in Science, Technology, Engineering and MathsThe Leader: a daily news podcast helping you make sense of the day’s most important stories Ask your Smart Speaker to ‘play the news from the Evening Standard' Visit standard.co.uk/tech for more tech news Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Can you smell your friend’s breath? Then you’re probably close enough to catch Covid. That’s according to scientist Dr Julian Tang who says people should employ the "garlic-breath" test to measure if someone is too close and could transmit the virus. Plus, a study finds magic mushroom compound performs at least as well as antidepressant, the Evening Standard’s Jim Armitage on why Coinbase’s stock exchange listing is such a big deal for cryptocurrency and, scientists figure out why dinosaurs with ‘ridiculously long’ necks were able to fly. Listen to our other podcasts:Women Tech Charge: interviews with incredible women leading in Science, Technology, Engineering and MathsThe Leader: a daily news podcast helping you make sense of the day’s most important stories Ask your Smart Speaker to ‘play the news from the Evening Standard' Visit standard.co.uk/tech for more tech news Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ludwig Ahgren has live-streamed on Twitch non-stop for 31 consecutive days. In doing so, he’s broken the platform’s record for having the most paying subscribers - hitting more than 280,000. Plus, hear what a spider web sounds like, Apple and Samsung confirm special events this month, a man sues Detroit police over his wrongful arrest based on facial recognition tech, and ‘fairy lights’ in the night sky turn out to be Starlink satellites.  Listen to our other podcasts:Women Tech Charge: interviews with incredible women leading in Science, Technology, Engineering and MathsThe Leader: a daily news podcast helping you make sense of the day’s most important stories Ask your Smart Speaker to ‘play the news from the Evening Standard' Visit standard.co.uk/tech for more tech news Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The artificial intelligence and speech tech firm behind Apple’s Siri has been bought by Microsoft for $16 billion. The purchase of Nuance Communications is the second largest in Microsoft's history. Plus, the Kent coronavirus variant 'spreads more easily, but doesn’t make you more sick,’ Japan plans to release into the sea more than a million tonnes of radioactive water, Cyberpunk 2077 ‘will sell for years to come’ and, why the latest dinosaur discovery has been dubbed ‘Monkeydactyl’.  Listen to our other podcasts:Women Tech Charge: interviews with incredible women leading in Science, Technology, Engineering and MathsThe Leader: a daily news podcast helping you make sense of the day’s most important stories Ask your Smart Speaker to ‘play the news from the Evening Standard' Visit standard.co.uk/tech for more tech news Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nasa’s tiny helicopter it hopes will prove powered flight on another world is possible is gearing up for its first attempt to take to the Martian skies. Ingenuity had been scheduled to fly on Monday but a tech issue during a rotor test means the Nasa team is now hoping for a Wednesday launch at the earliest. Plus, more than half of children think gaming should be part of the school curriculum, but parents aren’t so sure, Nintendo warns of a possible stock shortage of Switch consoles this year and, with the help of robotics, transforming a Transformer has finally got easier. Listen to our other podcasts:Women Tech Charge: interviews with incredible women leading in Science, Technology, Engineering and MathsThe Leader: a daily news podcast helping you make sense of the day’s most important stories Ask your Smart Speaker to ‘play the news from the Evening Standard' Visit standard.co.uk/tech for more tech news Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It’s a big day in space history - marking 60 years since Russian Yuri Gagarin was the first human in space, and also 40 years since the launch of Nasa’s first space shuttle. How women are crowdsourcing their own security for protection against street predators with app SafeUp. Egyptologists announce the discovery of a 3,000-year-old royal city thought lost forever beneath the desert. Ocean study will use underwater microphones to monitor whale migration and disintegration of icebergs. Monkey tennis: Elon Musk releases video apparently showing a macaque using his brain implant controlling a video game. Twitter launches Milk Tea Alliance emoji as anti-Beijing protest movement grows. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Twitch says it will ban users for offline offences such as child abuse, threats of mass violence or membership of “hate groups” that happen entirely away from the site. Facebook says it does not plan to notify half-billion users affected by data leak, Carbon dioxide pollution hits record high despite pandemic lockdowns, a mystery of the exoplanet born ‘far away from current location’ is zooming through deep space. Rugby player develops a tech wearable to monitor head trauma. How the Ganges river dolphin's rare hearing powers helped it fight extinction, plus scientists reconstruct oldest female DNA from remains more than 45,000 years old. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Google-owned platform says some 1.6 million out of every one billion pieces of content uploaded were flagged and deleted for sexual abuse, misinformation and hate speech. A new search tool lets Facebook users check if their data was among half a billion users hacked. The health regulator NICE says opioids should not be prescribed for phantom chronic pain. Google, Facebook and Amazon face a new regulator in a bid to curb tech giants’ dominance. The E3 gaming expo will be streamed to everyone for free this year without paywalls. Nasa’s Ingenuity mini-chopper snaps its first colour photo of Mars, and, forget smartphone map apps - a Bronze Age slab found in cellar is one of world’s oldest 3D maps. Listen to our other podcasts:The Leader: a daily news podcast helping you make sense of the day’s most important storiesWomen Tech Charge: interviews with incredible women leading in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths Ask your Smart Speaker to ‘play the news from the Evening Standard' Visit standard.co.uk/tech for more tech news Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Millions of social media users are being urged to keep an eye out for fishy emails and dodgy feed activity after personal account details, including phone numbers, were splurged over the internet. A five-minute breast cancer jab is being rolled out. NASA’s Mars helicopter Ingenuity survives first night in sub-zero Martian weather. Russia will use space conference to push forward plans for China moon base. Moscow extends throttling of Twitter until mid-May over Navalny protests. Sexual violence is promoted on most used pornographic websites, legal study finds. The $1 parts causing a worldwide PlayStation and Xbox chips shortage. Plus, how chemical weapons gas ended up in a Welsh landfill. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.