From moon missions to fast-charging batteries and AI-sourced antibiotics, in no particular order, the year’s significant scientific developmentsThe year opened with a bang. Or rather, it didn’t. The successful film Don’t Look Up, in which a comet is found to be on a collision course with Earth, had been released just before Christmas 2021. In the bleak days of post-festive gloom, the news media were on an adrenaline high, chasing any and every story about potential asteroid collisions to cheer us all up. Five asteroids were to pass close to the Earth in January alone! Happily for the...

Former Superman star Henry Cavill linked to project, and agreement includes film and merchandise plansAmazon has struck a deal with the high street games chain Games Workshop to create a series based on its hit franchise Warhammer, the science-fiction fantasy miniature war game, potentially featuring the former Superman star Henry Cavill.The London-listed Games Workshop, which has a £2.7bn market value and runs about 530 stores, has struck a deal with Amazon to develop the company’s intellectual property into film and TV productions as well as sell merchandise. Continue reading...

Xbox, PC; Squanch GamesThis first-person shooter from Rick and Morty’s co-creator pairs a barrage of nihilistic jokes with flimsy gameplayI honestly can’t tell you whether High on Life is funny. Humour is subjective, sure, but also, after eight hours of this game’s rapid-fire jokes, I’m not sure I even know any more. You spend enough time spacefaring in Rick and Morty co-creator Justin Roiland’s orbit and eventually, you get sucked into the void. It’s no longer a series of clearly delineated jokes, more a transcendental oneness with an eternal bit. Body fluids. Self-reflexive...

Artificial intelligence is creating increasingly sophisticated images. But what does it mean for the art world? Gilbert and George, Gillian Wearing, Mat Collishaw, Elizabeth Price, Polly Morgan and Lindsey Mendick found outFor more than 30,000 years we have been the only art-making species on Earth, give or take the odd paint-throwing Neanderthal or chimpanzee. Art is the oldest and most spectacular triumph of human consciousness, from Lascaux to the Sistine Chapel. But a new generation of artificial intelligence (AI) art software may be about to end that. It will whip you up a Picasso or a...

Musk ‘fires top executives’; the $44bn deal will give the world’s richest man control of a social media platform with 230m usersHow have Twitter users reacted? The Guardian’s Matthew Cantor in San Francisco has taken a look.Richard Murphy, economic justice campaigner and professor of accounting practice at Sheffield University, says: Continue reading...

Experts say it is the roboticists we need to hear from – and the people and jobs AI is already affectingWhen it announced that “the world’s first robot artist” would be giving evidence to a parliamentary committee, the House of Lords probably hoped to shake off its sleepy reputation.Unfortunately, when the Ai-Da robot arrived at the Palace of Westminster on Tuesday, the opposite seemed to occur. Apparently overcome by the stuffy atmosphere, the machine, which resembles a sex doll strapped to a pair of egg whisks, shut down halfway through the evidence session. As its creator, Aidan...

Elon Musk says he will resign as soon as he finds someone "foolish enough" to take over the job.

The social media giant has also suspended the Twitter account of its new rival.

Some reporters for the New York Times, CNN and Washington Post have had their accounts suspended.

FTX filed for bankruptcy last month, leaving many unable to withdraw their funds from the cryptocurrency exchange.

Elon Musk says Apple has cut Twitter advertising and has threatened to remove it from the app store.

Videos showed workers marching, with some confronted by people in hazmat suits and riot police.

Twitter's owner responds to Chris Heaton-Harris after fake resignation rumours about the Tory MP.

The boss of the social media firm also warns workers to prepare for "difficult times", reports say.

Users changing their date of birth to that of an adult can upload a video of themselves to prove their age.

The social media giant says staff will be told on Friday whether they are to be laid off.

Corporations, speculators and individuals have spent nearly $2bn (£1.75bn) on virtual plots.

Technology used in the Manchester Arena to find weapons has limitations, according to a report.

The move means he cements his control over the company by becoming its sole director.

The social media platform's management begins to exit as the billionaire seals his takeover of the firm.

The tech giant warned of slower growth as shoppers return to bricks and mortar stores.

A report says an additional 20,000 black women need to be recruited to match numbers in the wider workforce.

Users are complaining that they are unable to send messages from the Meta-owned platform.

Tens of millions of people work in the global gig economy across services like food delivery and transport.

This year's Ada Lovelace Day will be the last because of a lack of corporate funding.