Science and Tech

Tiger tracking cameras have been misused to take videos of women in a forest in India.

Getty Images Career-networking site LinkedIn has told Australian lawmakers it is too dull for kids to warrant its inclusion in a proposed ban on social media for under 16 year olds. “LinkedIn simply does not have content interesting and appealing to minors,” the Microsoft-owned company said in a submission to an Australian senate committee. The Australian government has said it …

Getty Images MrBeast is the most popular YouTuber in the world with more than 300m subscribers MrBeast has claimed he has footage showing that allegations his upcoming reality game show “shamelessly exploited” contestants were “blown out of proportion”. The YouTuber, real name Jimmy Donaldson, released a teaser for Beast Games on Monday and announced it would be released next month. …

Genysys Engine Whiskers help the AI identify what is – and isn’t – a red squirrel An artificial intelligence (AI) tool which has been trained to tell the difference between grey and red squirrels could be “an absolute game changer”, conservationists say. The system, called Squirrel Agent, has been trained on thousands of images of the animals allowing it to …

PDD Holdings, the Chinese owner of online shopping platforms Temu and Pinduoduo, has reported disappointing sales and profit as Chinese consumers continued to hold back amid an economic slowdown. US-listed shares of the e-commerce giant fell nearly 11% on Thursday following the announcement. It comes after PDD’s main rivals in its home market, Alibaba and JD.com, also posted underwhelming results …

Getty Images Jet engines wouldn’t run without high-performance coatings Jet engines are one of the most jaw-dropping feats of engineering humans have ever come up with. But jet engines shouldn’t be possible, says Ben Beake, director of materials research at Micro Materials, an equipment testing company in Wales. “The air coming in is hotter than the melting point of the …

Payment app PayPal experienced a brief outage worldwide on Thursday, it confirmed. It said in a post on its service status page it was experiencing “a system issue” that affecting multiple PayPal Products – including account withdrawal and express checkout. The company said the technical issue was swiftly resolved. However, even a brief outage was enough to cause problems for …

Wikipedia/Makeworldpedia Jay Graber, the chief executive of Bluesky, said there were no plans to introduce advertising The chief executive of the social media network Bluesky – which has exploded in popularity in recent weeks – was unable to give the correct age limit for users on the platform in an interview with the BBC. While speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live’s Breakfast …

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has proposed a series of remedies aimed at stopping Google from maintaining its monopoly in online search. In a court filing late on Wednesday, the DOJ said the technology giant should sell off its Chrome web browser. Government lawyers also recommended that District Judge Amit Mehta force the firm to stop entering into contracts …

A London-born teenager nicknamed “God’s influencer” for his online skills will be made a saint in April. Carlo Acutis, who died of leukaemia in 2006 at the age of 15, will be the first millennial – a person born in the early 1980s to late 1990s – to be canonised by the Catholic church. Pope Francis previously cleared the way …