It’s 2018 — why aren’t there electric airplanes yet?
As electric cars and trucks appear increasingly on U.S. highways, it raises the question: When will commercially viable electric vehicles take to the skies?
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Eight mummies discovered in Egypt
Cue the "Indiana Jones" theme tune: there's been another impressive archeological discovery in Egypt -- and this time it's mummies.
New MacBook Air and Mac mini show the Apple Tax on storage lives on
When Apple announced the first new versions of its MacBook Air laptop and Mac mini desktop in years, it left the bad news behind its site’s “Buy” buttons: a scant storage allocation that’s expensive to upgrade.
Air taxis — why they’re no longer pie in the sky
Imagine a taxi service that picked you up (into the sky) and then dropped you off after an exciting journey, completely free of road works and traffic lights.
Humans ‘off the hook’ for African mammal extinction
New research has disputed a longstanding view that early humans helped wipe out many of the large mammals that once roamed Africa.
Blackout for thousands of dark web pages
Hackers have deleted more than 6,500 sites being held on a popular dark web server.
Exoplanet discovered around neighbouring star
Astronomers have discovered a planet around one of the closest stars to our Sun.
‘Ugly’ mistake sends Google data to China
Google data for search and cloud services went astray for more than an hour on Monday thanks to an "ugly" mistake by an African ISP.
Chinese archaeologists discover 2,000-year-old liquor in ancient tomb
Archaeologists in Central China's Henan province on Tuesday poured liquid out of a bronze pot unearthed from a Western Han Dynasty (202 BC to AD 8) tomb into a measuring glass, which gave off an aroma of rich wine.
5G will let users ditch fixed-line home broadband, says Three
5G mobile data will be so reliable and fast most homes will no longer need a separate home broadband connection, according to one of the companies planning to launch a UK service.
