By Michael Le Page Gene edited and virus resistantPavel Trefil CRISPR genome editing has been used to make chickens resistant to a common virus. The approach could boost egg and meat production worldwide while improving welfare. The altered chickens showed no signs of disease even when exposed to high doses of the avian leukosis virus […]
In the UK, the debate around so-called Asian grooming gangs and the sexual threat they pose to vulnerable white girls shows no sign of abating. A leaked report produced by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) has upheld a complaint made by a father whose daughter had been missing for a week. He said […]
Pros ✓Durable chassis ✓Minimal-bezel 15-inch screen ✓10th-generation Core i7 CPU ✓Discrete Nvidia GPU ✓Bundled Asus Pen ✓All-day battery life Cons ✕ScreenPad may prove superfluous ✕No on-device stylus housing The Asus ZenBook Flip 15 UX563FD is a stylish 360-degree convertible laptop. Its 15-inch screen makes it a little large for carrying around on a daily basis, […]
Over 160,000 data breach notifications have been made to authorities in the 18 months since Europe’s new digital privacy regulations came into force, and the number of breaches and other security incidents being reported is on the rise. Analysis by law firm DLA Piper found that after General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force on 25 […]
By Adam Vaughan A view from the Muara Sekalo villageF Otten, University of Göttingen Tyre giant Michelin and green group WWF have been criticised by researchers over a rubber plantation in Indonesia that was billed as protecting the environment, but which villagers say has caused deforestation, destroyed elephant habitat and resulted in land grabs. In […]
Gravitational waves are caused by calamitous events in the Universe. Neutron stars that finally merge after circling each other for a long time can create them, and so can two black holes that collide with each other. But sometimes there’s a burst of gravitational waves that doesn’t have a clear cause. One such burst was […]
The news that UK printed newspapers are continuing to lose circulation comes as no surprise, extending – as it does – a trend that has been gathering pace for two decades after digital media began to cannibalise print sales. But the latest release of Audit Bureau of Circulation (ABC) circulation figures came with a postscript. […]
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, carrying the Crew Dragon astronaut capsule, lifts off on an in-flight abort test , a key milestone before flying humans in 2020 under NASA’s commercial crew program, from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S. January 19, 2020. REUTERS/Joe Skipper CAPE CANAVERAL (Reuters) – Elon Musk’s SpaceX simulated […]
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) – Elon Musk’s SpaceX simulated a successful emergency landing on Sunday in a dramatic test of a crucial abort system on an unmanned astronaut capsule, a big step its mission to fly NASA astronauts for the first time as soon as this spring. A Crew Dragon astronaut capsule launched at 10:30 […]
This is your Inspiration. Screenshot by ZDNet × screen-shot-2020-01-15-at-1-49-05-pm.png Please lay down on my newly-upholstered purple chaise-longue, clutch at this small glass of Moscatel and answer me this: How did you decide which browser to use? I’m not sure too many people would have an instant response. Nor to this one: Do you remember the […]