Flexible displays for wearable devices can now be made using fish scales instead of plastic – and the new displays biodegrade within a month of being discarded

An artificially intelligent eco-assistant can persuade hotel guests and staff to reduce their electricity use by up to a third

Kate Darling researches human-robot interaction. She explains why we are prone to forming emotional connections with robots and what we can learn from our relationships with pets and other animals

Always forgetting birthdays? Terrible at staying in touch? New tech promises to turn you into the best buddy ever. We put it to the test

Lab-grown ‘meat’ often uses gelatin produced in slaughterhouses to give artificial beef a meat-like texture – but substituting soya protein can achieve that without killing animals

Pandemics of the past can teach us about the current one, says John Troyer, who studies how we use technology to alter the experience of death

Join Pearse Keane to find out why the NHS is collaborating with AI company DeepMind and how deep learning could transform ophthalmology

Pollen has a natural tendency to adsorb mercury and forms the basis of a new class of tiny robots that speed through toxic water to purify it

An analysis of the media consumption habits of people in the US shows that fake news makes up a tiny fraction of what they watch or read every day

Is our love affair with AI really about building a new kind of deity to meet human needs no amount of rationality can fill? Max Barry's disturbing novel Providence lays out the case, says Sally Adee

A program that combines artificial intelligence and geometrical modelling can create an accurate 3D model of your face from a single 20-second video

The covid-19 pandemic has many of us stuck at home. The result could completely reshape how we use the internet, writes Annalee Newitz

Fabric with tiny vibrating motors elicits sensations associated with clouds, water and rocks on the skin and has been made into a dress that could improve emotions

A high-speed 3D printer is being tested by the US Army for producing spare steel parts near the front lines – it could also make weapons or aircraft parts

An image-editing program designed by researchers at Abode uses AI to let you quickly transform the shape of objects in images and change the lighting

Many countries are hoping to use contact-tracing apps to leave lockdown and suppress further coronavirus outbreaks, but the use of such technology has many issues

Artificial intelligence can tell whether a human or a bot is posting on Twitter based on how regularly they post and how much they reply to others, which could help identify fake accounts

The US Navy is researching how to use lasers to form plasma into 2D or 3D infrared images of aeroplanes that can distract heat-seeking missiles

An AI-powered application lets you create real-time deepfakes during video calls, making you appear to be speaking as anyone from Albert Einstein to the Mona Lisa

Bamboo is a renewable material that when microwaved becomes stronger by weight than steel or concrete – which could make it ideal for constructing buildings, cars and planes

Psychologist Pete Etchells explores what the scientific research has to say about game violence and addiction and busts some myths

Robots made of 3D-printed muscle and rat spines could help us understand conditions like motor neurone disease and the technique may eventually be used to build prosthetic devices

Telling Lies is a game where you sift through video calls to solve a mystery. Half the time you don't know what you should be doing, but that's part of the fun, says Jacob Aron

People in lockdown are no longer trying to use technology to get their old lives back and that's a good thing, says Annalee Newitz

सरायइनायत थाना क्षेत्र के कोड़रू गांव में शनिवार की सुबह दस साल के मासूम ने घर के भीतर फांसी लगाकर खुदकुशी कर ली। घटना के वक्त बालक के मां-बाप खेत में काम करने गए थे। लौटने पर बालक को फांसी पर लटका देखा तो शव को फांसी के फंदे से नीचे उतारकर आनन...

This could be a trial run for the rest of Disney’s parks in the US, Japan, France, and Hong Kong.

On bank holiday... Friday. For NHS charities.

Sonos has been busy these past few months.

Plus you'll know where everything's come from, so it'll be even more delicious.

Why? Because that’s our reality here in the year 2020.

Get an all day breakfast on a pizza before you go on your killing spree. Only psychopaths will order this, is what I'm saying.

While such a plan might sound appealing, it’s likely to provide a false sense of security

Personally, I welcome whatever reality TV drivel Twitch dreams up to feed our insatiable appetite for content.

Not because of public concerns, although there are plenty of those, but because of the pandemic-induced plunge in local real estate.

This unusual contraption recreates the sounds of an old-school mechanical typewriter on a modern keyboard.

Sony has managed to best its top-of-the-line noise cancelling earbuds with a new, improved, and best of all, cheaper model.

However, this new arrival isn't exactly great news for the environment.

McDonald's is opening (some of) its doors next week, but if you want a bank holiday Big Mac fix, here's how.

With the acquisition of a start-up specialising in encrypted messaging and cloud services, Zoom will finally be able to make good on its claims of offering end-to-end encryption.

Because Amazon movie purchases are really just long-term rentals that can disappear from your library at any time.

Don't analyse them too closely, they didn't have HD in the 1970s.

Perhaps astronomers need help from something that thinks a bit less like a human.

Exhaust fumes and cold KFC?

Strange as it may sound, Animal Crossing: New Horizons feels like where Breath of the Wild should have ended up gameplay-wise.

As well as announcing reminders to stay away from each other, the robots also estimate how many people are in the park at any given time.

It does make several enormous assumptions about the future that now seem perilously flaky.

Please, I implore you: jump on this bandwagon.

Up until now mask-wearing had only been an unenforced suggestion by the company.

Anything that encourages more people to enable two-step verification can only be a good thing.

"This government has failed to show any self-criticism whatsoever, when it is glaringly obvious to everybody that big mistakes have been made."