Frederick Lamb has never forgotten that evening in July 1961 when John F Kennedy, only a few months into his presidential term, instructed Americans in a television address to build bomb shelters in their gardens to prepare for a possible escalation of the Cold War.

As the UN marks its 80th anniversary, does it direct how technologies spread and develop – or are major states and big corporations still in control?

The UK government plans to introduce new laws banning so-called ‘nudification’ apps, part of a wider strategy to protect young p

The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority has safely converted a can of plutonium residue into a stable waste form for the first time.

Popular short-form video app TikTok was temporarily banned for US users yesterday following the culmination of its owner’s legal challenge to the Supreme Court.

The UK is reportedly considering limiting social media use for children under 16 as part of an effort to protect young people from encountering harmful content online.

TikTok has been accused of providing inaccurate information to Ofcom regarding its parental controls.

TikTok has announced it will invest $1.5bn in Tokopedia, Indonesia’s largest e-commerce platform, to be able to reopen its online shop in Indonesia.

TikTok’s parent company ByteDance has finally agreed to sell most of its US business to a group of investors, bringing an end to

TikTok has been given another 90 days by the Trump administration to operate in the US after a law was passed last year that would force parent company ByteDance to sell the video-sharing platform.

The US Senate has passed a bill to ban the popular social media platform TikTok unless it is sold by its China-based owners.

TikTok has been accused of providing inaccurate information to Ofcom regarding its parental controls.

The updated AirPods bring improvements to water resistance and battery life... but with still no way to change the batteries once they die, Apple continues to neglect its environmental impact.

Pornhub has said it will block access to all UK users that haven’t already generated an account on February 2 due to the “failed

The first of two tunnelling machines has begun excavation works between Old Oak Common and Euston Station as part of HS2’s final 4.5-mile stretch into central London.

French energy giant EDF is petitioning the UK government to allow it continue operating the Sizewell B nuclear power plant for 20 y

Cleantech start-up TheStorage has installed a sand-based thermal storage pilot at a brewery in Finland to provide fossil-free industrial heat.

Failure to effectively address the current space debris challenge could cost the space industry up to $42.3bn over the next decade, according to a World Economic Forum report.

Great Western Railway (GWR) has introduced the UK’s first battery-only-powered passenger train on a suburban rail link in west London.

Flexible, non-toxic hydrogel batteries could power soft, wearable and implantable electronics, according to a study.