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She’s worked on global hits including Shrek, and now the woman leading tech communications at DreamWorks Animation discusses the importance of data for wowing cinema audiences. Kate Swanborg, senior vice-president of technology communications and strategic alliances at the US movie giant founded by Steven Spielberg, says there has been a “leap forward” in computer graphics capabilities since the 2...

Blockchain network Ronin is investigating how over $600 million worth of cryptocurrency was stolen from its virtual coffers - making it one of history’s biggest virtual heists. Britney Spears and Justin Bieber’s choreographer is suing Fortnite’s maker Epic Games over character "emotes" in the popular title. Artificial intelligence art start-up Nebula 41 says anyone can now paint like a digital Pic...

Chunky Dyson headphones + mask to combat air and noise pollution - but are you brave enough to wear them in public? Russian hackers ‘scanning US energy giants’ for cyber weakness, says FBI. Nasa astronaut returns to Earth after record-breaking year living on ISS. Invisibility Shield: We speak with the British inventor behind the most curious invention of 2022. Plus, Sony's PlayStation Plus subscri...

Ukrtelecom says as an immediate result of the breach it throttled customers usage to focus on internet access for critical infrastructure and the military. FBI names Russians wanted over hacking of nuclear plants. Sensory hats to probe astronauts’ brain waves on International Space Station. Elden Ring: speedrunner completes game in 20 minutes (with 15 hours practice). Why the human body’s cells co...

First the latest from the Oscars: The reboot of the sci-fi epic Dune’s wins include best visual effects, and with SFX supervisor Paul Lambert previously working on Blade Runner 2049, First Man and Tron: Legacy. Apple TV + Film became the first streaming service to win Best Picture at the Oscars with CODA. Warn kids about social media risks at young age, parents urged. Covid latest: 200,000 mo...

The UK and its allies say Russian spies are behind ‘calculated and dangerous’ cyber attacks happening around the world.  Microplastics have been found in human blood for the first time and research has found we naturally switch between social identities - like ‘work mode’ or ‘home mode’ - much quicker than we can switch between different tasks.  Europe agrees to a new law designed to cur...

Male contraceptive pill 99% effective A contraceptive pill for males has been found to be 99% effective in preventing pregnancy through tests in mice. The hope is that the breakthrough medication could bring balance to the contraceptive burden. British tech firm ‘Nothing’ launches the first UK smartphone in five years, hoping to challenge global tech giants. The MoD is pressing YouTube to remove ‘...

An independent think tank has accused UK ministers of ‘government by Whatsapp’. It comes as the High Court has been hearing claims that ministers are breaching the law by deleting messages and using private accounts for government business. US securities regulators warn that someone really needs to monitor Elon Musk’s tweets. We hear about the science behind a new DNA guessing game TV show, a Brit...

US comedian Pete Davidson’s replacement for the upcoming Blue Origin NS-20 space flight will be the New Shepard chief architect, Gary Lai. Lai has been with the space tourism company for 18 years and holds several patents related to the New Shepard rocket's design.   We find out why dinosaurs were “just really unlucky” that sulphur gases and climate cooling sped up their extinction. President...

Fortnite Chapter 3, Season 2 is finally here. Epic Games has taken the game offline for the new season titled 'Resistance'. It centres around the battle between the IO and The Seven. The spring Covid booster vaccine launches for over-75s in England. A taxi driver files a lawsuit against Tesla after a fatal crash in Paris. The UN Secretary General says the rush to use fossil fuels because of the wa...

A mission to Mars planned between the European Space Agency and Russian Space Agency has been suspended. A British built rover was due to be blasted into space this year, but the ESA said cooperation with Russia is ‘impossible’ because of the invasion of Ukraine. Plus, divers are heading to the Titanic shipwreck to collect environmental DNA from the site, and find out what lives there. Marine biol...

Game developer 11Bit Games has raised $850,000 for the Ukraine Red Cross, in just 9 days. It raised the cash purely through sales of its game This War Of Mine, an anti-war title all about surviving conflict. We hear from Pawel Miechowski who called the fundraiser a ‘phenomenon’.  Plus, a crypto compliance firm has suggested sanctioned Russian oligarchs have been using crypto to protect their...

In this episode, we learn about Ukraine’s cyber-army, targeting Russia's Mars and nuclear projects. Jeff Carr, a US-based cybersecurity and digital warfare researcher describes who they are and what they are doing. Plus, Mark Zuckerberg says NFTs will soon be available on Instagram. He revealed they hope to bring them to the social network in the ‘near term’ at a conference in America. Also: Meta...

This week we hear from journalist and Mozilla Fellow Odanga Madung who uncovered a paid disinformation campaign on Twitter in Kenya. He says social media firms mustn’t rely on AI to tackle the spread of false information online. Also, a brand new dinosaur has been discovered in China.  Fossils show it’s in the same family as the Stegosaurus, with large armour plates and spines. Plus: Microsof...

In today’s episode: Ukraine invasion threatens “vital” climate research (0.16) Plans for ‘space power station’ and quicker Mars to Earth communication (0.56) Pete Davidson going to space on Blue Origin (1.32) Researchers warn of Amazon ‘tipping point’ (1.55) Fears US astronaut could be left in space (2.55) Scientists reverse ageing process in mice (3.39) Plus: Instagram finally lets moderators on...

In the final episode of our week celebrating leading women in tech and science, we hear from Justine Ezarik, aka iJustine, one of the most successful YouTubers of all time.  iJustine launched 16 years ago and she truly was one of the original queens of the platform. Now, she has 6.98 million subscribers, created over 2000 uploads and has more than a billion views across her channel. Despite t...

Next up in our week of special episodes of Tech & Science Daily, we hear from Lucy Hawking, science educator and children’s writer. You’ll also likely be familiar with her father, the theoretical physicist, Stephen Hawking. Lucy created the ‘George’ book series, a collection of fantasy adventure novels based on real science. She’s since gone on to publish many other children’s books but all of...

On Tech & Science Daily, we're carrying on our week of special episodes to mark International Women’s Day. Today we hear from Nobel Prize winner, Andrea Ghez, professor of Physics and Astronomy at UCLA. Andrea is only the fourth woman to ever win the Nobel Prize in physics which she received for her part in providing evidence of a supermassive black hole, with the mass of four million suns, at...

This week on Tech & Science Daily, to mark International Women’s Day, we’re speaking to some of the world-leading women in their fields. Today is the turn of computer programmer and network engineer, Radia Perlman. She is known by many as ‘the mother of the internet’ - although she’s been trying to shake that title for years. Radia invented the Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) - an innovation that...

To mark International Women's Day, this week on Tech & Science Daily, we're hearing from some of the leading women in their fields. We're kicking things off with biochemist and Nobel prize winner, Dr Jennifer Doudna. She won a 2020 Nobel prize for her discovery, which is changing the game in the way we protect people, animals and plants from disease. While studying bacteria in 2012, Jennifer d...

Following Russia’s attack on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine, we hear from Malcolm Grimston, Senior Research Fellow at Imperial College London’s Centre for Energy Policy and Technology. He tells us why it wouldn’t cause a similar disaster to Chernobyl if it was used as a target. Ukraine is to sell NFTs to fund the war and Elon Musk has taunted Russia as the country stops selling ro...

Ukraine’s vice prime minister, Mykhailo Fedorov, has asked Xbox and PlayStation to block Russian and Belarusian players in response to the Ukraine crisis. The boss of Binance, the world’s largest crypto-exchange, has ruled out a Russian user ban while Elon Musk has been asked to “turn off” Teslas in the country. A survey finds that electric cars might not be as reliable as everyone thinks, Apple a...

Professor Timothy Darvill from the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology at Bournemouth University tells us about his analysis of Stonehenge which has found it was designed as a solar calendar. Apple has stopped selling its products in Russia over its Ukraine invasion and OneWeb is facing pressure to call off a launch of satellites from a Russian-run facility later this week. Meanwhile, Ukrai...

Bitcoin has overtaken the Russian Ruble after a crypto market surge coincided with Russia’s currency crashing. The cryptocurrency reached above $41,000 on Monday afternoon, having traded below $35,000 on Thursday. The Ruble fell by around 25 per cent to $0.01, in that same time period reaching a new record low. Hacking group Anonymous says it has shut down a Russian gas supply as its cyber battle...

Questions remain over the Russian involvement in the Mobile World Congress amid the ongoing invasion of Ukraine. Event organisers, the GSMA, said in a statement that it “strongly condemns” Russia’s actions and confirmed that a Russian Pavilion would now not be present at the convention. However, they have not confirmed if a wider Russian presence would be allowed. Preparations are happening in rel...