Image copyright PA Image caption Staff have been told the AJ production line will be closed for five days from 29 October Staff at Ford’s plant in Bridgend working on the new Jaguar engine have been told not to come into work for five days. The AJ production line at the plant will shutdown from …
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionLord Hain: “I stand fully by what I’ve said in the House of Lords” Lord Hain says he “will not be silenced” after naming Sir Philip Green as the businessman who prevented the Telegraph from publishing allegations of sexual and racial harassment. Sir Philip has said it …
Image copyright Getty Images Political campaigners in Brazil have used software that scrapes Facebook for citizens’ phone numbers, and then automatically sends them WhatsApp messages and adds them to WhatsApp groups. Almost three weeks ago, 147 million voters in the country went to the polls for legislative elections and the first round of the presidential …
Aardman Animations, famous for creating Wallace and Gromit, has stepped into the video game arena. Described as a “video game with a difference”, its first game has been created to commemorate the centenary of the end of World War One. Set in 1917, it is called 11-11: Memories Retold and took four years to make. …
A photographer has taken some surprisingly clear shots using a camera lens he made out of ice. Mathieu Stern travelled to Iceland where he hoped to find the clearest possible ice. He then moulded chunks of ice into lenses for his camera. While the lenses only lasted about a minute each, he was able to …
Western-style adventure Red Dead Redemption 2 is released on Friday. The game allows players free rein to explore a virtual version of the old Wild West and is so big that it had to be created in nine studios in four different countries. Red Dead Redemption 2 is the first major release from Rockstar Games …
Image copyright Christie’s An artwork created by an artificially intelligent program has been sold at auction for $432,000 (£337,000). The final price is far higher than the $7,000-$10,000 estimate put on it by Christie’s in New York before the sale. The painting, called Portrait of Edmond Belamy, was created by a Paris-based art collective called …
Image copyright Reuters Image caption Mr Barriss was extradited from his LA home to Kansas to face charges, including manslaughter An American man accused of orchestrating a deadly “swatting” incident now faces 46 more charges. The charges against Tyler Barriss include financial fraud and fake threats of bombs and shootings made to police and schools. …
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A soft robotic arm which will allow underwater sea life to be studied in greater detail has been created. Traditional underwater robot arms can be rough and clumsy and make it difficult to interact and handle delicate marine plants and animals. The new system has a range of interchangeable bending, rotating and gripping modules to …