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The Swedish musician is building copyright software with fellow producers, using £1 million funding from Spotify and YouTube. New star wars: US Space Force satellite jammers to knock out Chinese and Russian comms. Climate change conspiracies appeared on Facebook during Cop26 eco summit. We’ll hunt criminals down with your Fitbit data, Scotland Yard warns...but could it frame the innocent? Dyson launches VR store to test out virtual vacuum cleaners and hairdryers. Crypto consortium bid to buy constitution fails as price of rare 1787 document rockets. Nightmare before Christmas as Crazy Frog makes comeback.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Thousands of people living with HIV will be eligible for the six times-a-year shots, so they’ll no longer need daily pills to keep viral load low. Apple right-to-repair bombshell: what does it mean for your iPhone, and why is this happening now after so much pushback? Biggest space ship in history set for orbital launch in New Year, teases Elon Musk. A deceased rhino is helping scientists to save her species after dying at 40 years old. Prince William: British overseas territories “on front line” of climate crisis. Los Angeles gets arena name-change after $700 million crypto investment...as Ethereum crowdfunding bid to buy US constitution raises $13 million. Sustainable chocks away as RAF sets world record for first successful flight using synthetic fuel, but how eco-friendly is it? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The e-retailer says UK-based Visa credit customers cannot buy goods after 19 January in a Brexit-based commissions row - we speak to the Evening Standard’s City Editor Oscar Williams-Grut on what this means for customers. Resident Evil Village and Call of Duty: Warzone in running for Game Awards 2021 amid pandemic surge in console purchases. Dog and bone for 21st century...meet Dr Ilyenag Hirskyj-Douglas, the canine computing expert who built a videophone for her faithful labrador. TikTok updates software in bid to curb dangerous viral dares. Vaccine research sparks record number of cyberattacks. And make it snappy...how your fingers are the fastest part of your body. Blur star Damon Albarn: I’ve seen climate change in action as Iceland glacier melted. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Panic as Moscow defence chiefs bomb old space hardware 280 miles above Earth into 1,500-chunk shrapnel cloud, sending seven on ISS scrambling for ‘lifeboat’ escape pods. Xbox at 20: What are the 70-plus classic titles Microsoft has repurposed for newer consoles? Netflix hit Tiger King to be turned into five-act mini-opera. Are you ready to clock-on for work in the metaverse? Bitcoin has major upgrade...as crypto’s value slumps again. Activision deploys anti-cheating tech to ban crooked CoD gamers, but is it spyware? Spectacular Leonid meteor shower expected to light up skies with visibility from Earth...with a clear sky.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Microsoft is celebrating 20 years of its Xbox console on Monday, and it could be time to dust off your very old 360 CDs because the company’s also updating some of its relatively ancient titles. World’s biggest spaceship fires up all engines for first time. China’s developing a mega-ship able to launch satellites into space and retrieve boosters from ocean. The 1.5C global heating pledge is ‘barely alive’ after Cop26, warns Greenpeace boss. Apple is bricking iPhone Face ID if you try and fix yourself. Childhood cancer survivors ‘at greater risk of ill health as they age’. FBI probes ‘ongoing situation’ after hacking breach sends thousands of emails. The Bureau is investigating how hackers compromised its network to send deluge of fake messages warning of cyberattack. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Adele and Ed Sheeran’s impact on the vinyl shortage means that smaller artists face an even bigger wait when it comes to pressing. A lack of availability of materials and supply chain issues means there’s currently a global backlog. Couldn’t the big guys just use an NFT? Scientists say that an asteroid near Earth is actually a chunk of the Moon and researchers have found a way to make sustainable, biodegradable, vegan glitter with the same shine as the original. Why PS5 shortages could be about to get a lot worse, a new therapy that has reversed paralysis in mice and SpaceX’s internet-from-space initiative - Starlink - launch 53 more satellites. Plus Vodafone says it’s set to become the largest provider of ultra-fast broadband in the UK and how you could soon take a trip back in time to ancient Greece. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Four astronauts blasted off on Wednesday night - after being delayed by nearly two weeks. The 600th person to travel to space - astronaut Matthias Maurer - talked to us before his historical launch on a SpaceX rocket. Elon Musk goes through with the results of his Twitter poll and sells $5billion of his Tesla shares. We speak to the retired GP who has discovered a dinosaur with an ‘unusually large nose' and find out about the study that’s given hundreds of patients with rare diseases a diagnosis for the first time. Plus, the new ‘soft robots’ which could be used to go inside the human body, the world’s most premature baby, venomous sharks found in the River Thames and an ancient hangover cure unearthed by archaeologists.Hear more about the ISS mission here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Prince Harry says he warned Twitter boss Jack Dorsey ahead of the Capitol riot in January. He claims he emailed the CEO saying that the platform was allowing a coup to be staged - a day before the attack. Google has won a £3billion legal fight over UK iPhone ‘data misuse’, one of Apple’s original computers has sold at auction and scientists have made a groundbreaking breakthrough with inflammation. Plus the latest scientific crossing of Antarctica, how we’re one step closer to a potential ‘Britcoin’ and all about Sir Peter Jackson selling his visual effects studio - Weta Digital. And, the app which can match your photos of your pet with classic works of art. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Four astronauts have safely returned to earth after 6 months onboard the International Space Station. Their return paves the way for four replacements who could blast off as early as Wednesday.Environmentalists call out the Cambo oil field project for jeopardising deep sea life. How choosing the right bedtime could impact your heart, Can air travel ever really be green? Plus members of notorious cyber gang REvil have finally been caught, endurance swimmer and ocean advocate Lewis Pugh on the magnitude of COP26. We'll also tell you the reason why thousands of phone boxes - including a number of those iconic red ones - have been saved from closure and why Instagram’s ‘plant a tree for every pet pic’ trend might not be all it seemsHear Lewis Pugh's 'coldest swim on earth' hereHear more on green aviation here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Be careful what you poll… A vote on Twitter by Elon Musk has urged him to sell 10% of his stake in Tesla in order to pay tax. The poll was done in response to a "billionaires tax" proposed by US Democrats. The successor to the Hubble Space Telescope is set to launch in six weeks... after more than a decade of delays. Astronaut Wang Yaping has made history by becoming the first Chinese woman to walk in space. The US offers bounty of up to $10m for information on hacking group known as ‘DarkSide’. Has frozen semen from the 1960s repopulated an extinct species of cow? Why SpaceX has had to delay four astronauts’ return to Earth. A mysterious app climbs top of the charts but no one really knows why. And, a nine-foot-tall joystick breaks records. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.