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YouTube to regulate sick pranksters with age restrictions

YouTube is finally doing more to crack down on disturbing videos creating sick by pranksters to frighten children. Many of the videos look like normal cartoons [...]

Passive aggressive sign in a NASA bathroom

They’ve landed rovers on distant worlds, and discovered planets beyond our solar system – but even NASA’s top scientists are subjected to everyday frustrations, just [...]

Google adds waiting times for a million restaurants

The wait times feature will soon allow restaurant-goers to better plan their visitsThe new feature lists approximate wait times at different times of the day It [...]

Lanarkshire man filmed girlfriend’s pug making Nazi salute

Mark Meechan, 30,(pictured yesterday outside Airdrie Sheriff Court) from Coatbridge, Lanarkshire, recorded the dog responding to statements such as 'gas the Jews' and 'Sieg Heil' [...]

NASA spots a 7,000mph whirlpool of plasma on the sun

A stunning new Nasa image shows an extremely rare pattern streaming from the sun at close to 7,000 miles per hour (11,200 km/h).A dark snake-like filament [...]

NASA says its SLS megarocket could launch Dec 2019

NASA has completed a comprehensive review of the launch schedule for EM-1, an unmanned mission of the SLS megarocket and Orion spacecraft ahead of future [...]

Google reveals air quality maps of LA and San Francisco

Most air pollution is measures at a city level, but air quality can change by block, as well as hour by hour and from day [...]

Video reveals the MEGAROCKET that will take humans to Mars

NASA has revealed a breathtaking glimpse at what it could look like when the SLS megarocket finally blasts off for its first mission.The space agency [...]

Zoella Instagram story reveals her lipstick collection

Beauty bloggers make a living reviewing products, so one might expect them to have a well-stocked make-up bag.However, hugely successful blogger Zoella, aka Zoe Sugg, [...]

YouTuber in tears as no one attends her fans’ meeting

A heartbroken ten-year-old on YouTube has clocked up almost 1.2million views with her emotional blast at her fans who failed to turn up to a [...]

YouTube stuntman nearly killed himself in tombstoning leap

Dylan Rhodes, 19, pictured, has been spared jail after performing a dangerous 'tombstoning' dive at a children's water polo matchA teenage YouTube stuntman who performed [...]

Apollo 12 astronaut Richard Gordon dies aged 88, NASA says

Former Apollo 12 astronaut Richard Gordon, one of a dozen men who flew around the moon but didn't land there, has died aged 88.Richard 'Dick' [...]

Facebook, YouTube urged to take down gang violence videos

Metropolitan Police commissioner Cressida Dick (pictured) has told politicians websites must do more to remove content that promotes gang violence in London and elsewhereWeb giants [...]

Emily Jensen explains how cancer transformed her face

A teenager who saw her face transformed after surviving cancer as a child has opened up about how she learned to embrace her appearance and [...]

Belgian teen injured after drinking glass of bleach

A Belgian teenager faces losing his oesophagus after downing a glass of bleach while trying to copy an American video he didn't realise was a spoof.The [...]

Married Jehovah’s Witness seduced by actress on YouTube

Trap laid for the suspicious wife with the help of YouTubers To Catch a CheaterArranged for actress to wait at one of the houses on [...]

Nest’s ‘IQ’ AI security camera can spot intruders

It uses facial-recognition technology made by Nest's sibling company GoogleThe Nest Cam IQ camera is so slick that it carries a premium price - $300 [...]

Hayley Quinn says wearing red encourages male attention

A British relationship guru has revealed the key to snagging a date - and it could be as simple as the colour of your winter [...]

NASA shares stunning image of Saturn’s moon Pandora

It was once thought that Saturn’s oddly-shaped moon Pandora worked like a ‘shepherd’ alongside Prometheus, helping to mold the form of the narrow F ring.Cassini’s [...]

Google exec warns AI will trigger ‘difficult episodes’

The rise of artificial intelligence will likely lead the world to ‘difficult episodes’ in the future, Google executive Ray Kurzweil warns – but, he says [...]

Astros fan sneaks into Game 2 of the World Series

A Houston Astros fan successfully blagged his way into a World Series game by dressing up as a Dodgers security guard - using an old [...]

World needs new rules for powerful tech -Web Summit chief

Tech companies like Google and Facebook seem like monopolies and need new rules, the organiser of one of the world's biggest technology summits said.Paddy Cosgrave, [...]

1 MILLION Android users duped into getting fake WhatsApp

It's one of the most popular apps in the world, but it appears that over a million Android users may have been tricked into downloading [...]

Roxy Jacenko’s son Hunter Curtis reviews toy on YouTube

His mother is one of Australia's most successful entrepreneurs.So it's no surprise that Roxy Jacenko's young son Hunter Curtis is busy trying to make it [...]

Dutch YouTube show sees presenters taking drugs on air

YouTube has been accused of glamorising drug abuse by screening a programme in which attractive young presenters take cocaine and LSD then gleefully describe their [...]

Bella Thorne nuzzles up to kissing pal Tana Mongeau

They're as thick as thieves.And Bella Thorne has teamed up with her YouTube star kissing friend Tana Mongeau to star in the music video for [...]

NASA spots comet 96P in rare sighting from two locations

NASA and ESA have spotted an ‘old friend’ passing through our stellar neighbourhood.A comet known as 96P was captured on October 25 by the Solar [...]

Eric Schmidt warns China will overtake US in AI by 2025

Alphabet boss Eric Schmidt has warned the Chinese are poised to erase a key American advantage — and says the Trump administration is helping them.'I'm [...]

Hi Josh throws $1,829 iPhone X at unsuspecting people

YouTuber Hi Josh threw new iPhone X at unsuspecting people in Brisbane streetsHe carelessly tossed it over his shoulder and even up and down a [...]

Kourtney Kardashian wears very plunging top

It was her little sister's 22nd birthday and Kourtney Kardashian was not going to miss it.The 38-year-old was seen arriving in a hurry to Petite Taqueria [...]

Kendall Jenner struggles to keep her jeans on

While the rest of the world tries to keep up with her sisters, Kendall Jenner was just trying to keep her jeans up on Thursday [...]

Bin Laden played games like Counter-Strike, Half-Life

Osama bin Laden (above), the mastermind of terrorist attacks that killed thousands of Americans, was also a fan of popular video gamesTerror mastermind Osama bin [...]

NASA studies the invisible bubbles in our solar system

Invisible ‘bubbles’ are known to surround most of the planets in our solar system, protecting them from high-energy particles known as cosmic rays.While these magnetospheres [...]

Kourtney Kardashian calls Leo DiCaprio ‘first celeb crush’

Though they're almost always in the spotlight, sisters Kendall Jenner and Kourtney Kardashian prefer to keep their love lives more private.But during Ellen DeGeneres' Show Me [...]

Have physicists solved NASA’s ‘impossible’ EmDrive?

Scientists around the world are working to develop the first ‘reactionless’ propulsion system – a so-called impossible engine that could slash space-travel times and reduce [...]

Vlogging families who are getting rich on YouTube

Rebecca Meldrum angles her breakfast cereal — a berry granola — to the camera, to make sure no detail of her meal goes unrecorded.Next, she [...]