SpaceX has successfully delivered a new team of astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) in a short 15-hour trip. The four US, Russian and Japanese astronauts pulled up in their SpaceX capsule after launching from NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre. Their arrival brought the current number of people at the station to 11. While a…

Some of the world’s leading tech companies are betting big on very small innovations. Last week, Samsung released its Galaxy Z Fold 7 which – when open – has a thickness of just 4.2mm, one of the slimmest folding phones ever to hit the market. And Honor, a spin-off from Chinese smartphone company Huawei, will…

A jury has ruled that Tesla is partly to blame for the death of a young woman who was hit by an electric car on Autopilot. Naibel Benavides was stargazing at the time of the collision, which sent her flying 22m (75ft) through the air in Florida. Her boyfriend was seriously injured in the 2019…

A “united front” of US social media giants could try to “fight off” regulation implemented in Europe, an American politician has suggested. The idea that big tech companies like Meta, Apple, Microsoft and others could work together against both the UK and EU laws was made by Republican senator Scott Fitzgerald, who is chair of…

The Scottish Government has given approval for what is being called the world’s “biggest offshore windfarms” just days after US President Donald Trump pressured Scotland’s First Minister to scrap renewable projects. The US president branded the turbines a “con-job” and described those along Scotland’s coastline as “some of the ugliest you’ve ever seen”. Mr Trump…

Hotel tycoon Surinder Arora has put forward an expansion plan for Heathrow which rivals that by the airport’s owners. The billionaire’s Arora Group said they are proposing a shorter new runway which would avoid the costly need to divert the M25 motorway while being able to accommodate aircraft of all sizes. The company said building…

The UK’s internet watchdog has launched an investigation into how four companies – that collectively run 34 pornography sites – are complying with new age-check requirements. Last week, new rules came into force requiring sites that allow adult content to bring in measures to prove that someone using them is over the age of 18.…

The British Medical Association has hit back at claims the organisation refused to allow doctors to keep working in critical areas during five days of strike action. Resident doctors – previously known as junior doctors – began a five day strike across England on Friday as part of an escalating row between NHS bosses and…

J Sainsbury, the supermarket chain, was on Wednesday racing to resolve an issue with the card payments giant Visa which was impacting customers’ ability to pay for their online grocery orders. Sky News understands that Sainsbury’s is working with Visa to address the issue after a number of shoppers reported that their card payments had…

Donald Trump has declared the United States is going to “win” the artificial intelligence race, as his administration unveiled its AI Action Plan. The new blueprint is designed to speed up the building of energy-intensive data centres – which run AI products – by loosening environmental rules, while also vastly expanding the sale of AI…