The creators of South Park – Trey Parker and Matt Stone – have struck a deal for the long-running satirical cartoon to stream on Paramount+. Under the five-year deal, Paramount+ will show all 26 previous seasons of the cartoon and debut 50 new episodes starting this week. The move comes after a months-long bidding war…
The 2025 Labor Day sales event is nearly a month away, which is a reminder that summer is winding down and impressive deals are on the horizon. To help you find all the top offers in one place, I’ve created this guide to bring you all the best Labor Day sales and stand-out deals as…
Suzanne Bearne Technology Reporter Fermentalg There are hundreds of thousands of microalgae species French firm Fermentalg has been all over the planet in its search for useful microalgae. “One of our lucky scientists got to go and climb the volcanoes in the Caribbean for example, and I have to restrain myself from collecting more every…
Hate to be a ‘Debbie Downer’ but all those prompts we’re using to make action figures, Ghibli memes, and the countless less exciting life and business prompts we’re stuffing into ChatGPT and other popular generative AI systems are coming at a cost, and one that may be landing on our doorsteps. Don’t get me wrong,…
Experts say quantum computing is the future of computers. Unlike conventional computers, quantum computers leverage the properties of quantum physics such as superposition and interference, theoretically outperforming current equipment to an exponential degree. When a quantum computer is able to solve a problem unfeasible for current technologies, this is called the quantum advantage. However, this…
Liv McMahon & Andrew Rogers BBC News Getty Images Around 6,000 sites allowing porn in the UK will start checking if users are over 18 on Friday, according to the media regulator Ofcom. Dame Melanie Dawes, its chief executive, told the BBC “we are starting to see not just words but action from the technology…
WhoFi uses Wi‑Fi signal distortions to fingerprint individuals without visual data Deep neural network maps signal changes to identify people with near‑perfect accuracy Academic research opens new privacy debates around biometric tracking via Wi‑Fi signals Researchers at La Sapienza University in Rome have created WhoFi, a system which claims to be able to identify individuals…
Neutrinos are cosmic tricksters, paradoxically hardly there but lethal to stars significantly more massive than the sun. These elementary particles come in three known “flavors”: electron, muon and tau. Whatever the flavor, neutrinos are notoriously slippery, and much about their properties remains mysterious. It is almost impossible to collide neutrinos with each other in the…
A dating safety app that allows women to do background checks on men and anonymously share “red flag” behaviour has been hacked, exposing thousands of members’ images, posts and comments. Tea Dating Advice, a US-based women-only app with 1.6 million users, said there had been “unauthorised access” to 72,000 images submitted by women. Some included…
A new SteamOS plugin allows gamers to use Lossless Scaling for better performance in games It has 2x, 3x, and 4x frame generation options and works with most games Input lag and ghosting is less noticeable compared to the previous Decky Framegen plugin While we await the arrival of more powerful handhelds like the ROG…
