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Software issue is blocking Apple Card owners from pre-ordering the new iPhone 13

Software glitch prevents customers using Apple Card from buying tech giant’s new iPhone 13 as pre-orders open TODAY Apple opened pre-orders for its new iP... read more

Archaeology: Modern Japanese populations descended from THREE ancient cultures, not two as thought

Modern Japanese populations are descended from three ancient cultures — rather than just two, as previously thought — a new genetic analysis has determined.... read more

MailOnline reviews Facebook’s £299 smart glasses

Facebook Ray-Ban Stories do other things too – firstly, they automatically play your ringtone into your ear from small speakers at the end of the temples.  ... read more

Mass extinction 252 million years ago was caused by a ‘toxic soup’ and we are following this recipe

Earth experienced its worst mass extinction about 252 million years ago that was caused by a ‘toxic soup’ – and scientists warn humans today a... read more

Stone idol of the elephant-headed Hindu god made 800 years ago is unearthed in an Indian village

A 12th-century idol representing the Hindu god Ganesh has been discovered accidentally in southeastern India. A farmer in the village of Motupalli in Prakasam D... read more

Climate change: Coral reef cover has been decimated by HALF since the 1950s

Coral reef cover has diminished in size by more than half since the 1950s due to climate change, overfishing, pollution and other human impacts, a study has fou... read more

Winners of the Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2021 are revealed

The winning images from the Royal Museums Greenwich Astronomy Photographer of the Year have been revealed. Shuchang Dong was crowned the overall winner of Astro... read more

Apple threatened to remove Facebook from the App Store in 2019 over human trafficking, report claims

Apple threatened to remove Facebook from the App Store in 2019 over human traffickers in Middle East using the site and Instagram as sex ‘slave markets... read more

Pregnant man emoji will come to smartphones later this year 

Two new emoji – ‘pregnant man’ and a gender neutral ‘pregnant person’ – are among those coming to smartphones later this year, it ha... read more

Ancient bird had fancy tail feathers like a peacock, fossils show

An ancient bird that lived 120 million years ago had fancy tail feathers like a peacock, a study of fossilised remains shows.  Researchers in China and the US ... read more

IKEA will launch a line of furniture for gamers next month, including desks, chairs and accessories

It’s the go-to store for people looking for furniture on a budget, and now IKEA has announced that it’s venturing into the world of gaming. The Swed... read more

More than 800 minor objects spotted beyond Neptune

More than 800 minor objects have been detected beyond Neptune in a discovery that could help identify our Solar System’s hypothesised planet, known as Pla... read more

Lucid beats Tesla in most miles on a single charge

Lucid’s upcoming Air Dream electric car found to get 520 miles on a single charge – beating Tesla by more than 100 miles EPA confirmed Lucid’s... read more

Vinland Map is ‘awash in 20th century ink’ and deemed a fake, new analysis confirms 

The Vinland Map, which shows a section of North America’s coastline southwest of Greenland, is famed for being the earlies imagery of the New World, but a... read more

EIGHT additional miles of Kentucky’s Mammoth Cave have been uncovered

‘There is no end in sight’: EIGHT additional miles of Kentucky’s Mammoth Cave have been uncovered that extends the 10-million-year-old structu... read more

Microsoft: Users can now delete all passwords from their accounts and log in with other methods

Microsoft has announced that all users can now go ‘passwordless’ — logging in to their accounts using other methods like fingerprints or authentic... read more

Fossils: Footprints discovered in Spain reveal a NURSERY for elephants from 129,000 years ago

Analysis of a series of fossilised footprints in the southwest of Spain has revealed that the site was a nursery for prehistoric elephants some 129,000 years ag... read more

Humans may have started making clothes 120,000 years ago, scientists say

Old fashioned! Humans may have started making clothes 120,000 YEARS ago, scientists say as they discover ancient bone tools in a Moroccan cave that were used to... read more

Whales have five FINGERS hidden in their flippers that are a trait from their ancient ancestor

Early whale ancestors walked on land when they roamed the Earth 50 million years ago and new photos reveal the modern-day animals still bear a trait from the an... read more

Sky is back online following outage that left customers in Scotland unable to access the internet

Sky is back online following two hour outage that left customers across East and Central Scotland unable to access the internet According to Down Detector, the ... read more

Dundee: How the city would have looked 20,000 years ago under a 0.6-mile-thick ICE SHEET

An incredible visualisation has revealed what the city of Dundee would have looked like some 20,000 years ago, when the landscape was covered in an 0.6-mile-thi... read more

Facebook quietly changed its algorithm in 2018 to prioritise reshared material

Facebook quietly changed its algorithm in 2018 to prioritise reshared material, only for it to backfire and cause misinformation, toxicity and violent content t... read more

Fossils: School kids find remains of 4ft 7in penguin that roamed New Zealand 34 million years ago

A giant, human-sized penguin whose fossilised remains were first discovered by New Zealand school children has been revealed to be a previously-unknown species.... read more

The Great Bronze Age migration was fuelled by milk, study finds

At the beginning of the Bronze Age, a mass migration of people from the steppes of Russia embarked on a series of journeys that would change history. Some nomad... read more