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Mobile alerts system could eventually be used for terror and nuclear threats

Millions of mobile phones across the UK will emit a loud alarm and vibrate at 3pm on April 23 in a nationwide test of a new public alert system (Jane Barlow/PA)

Details of next week’s UK mobile emergency alert system test released

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Ford brings ‘hands-free’ driving to UK motorways

Researchers have designed a low-cost, energy-efficient robotic hand that can grasp a range of objects – and not drop them – using just the movement of its wrist and the feeling in its ‘skin’

Scientists design robot hand that can grasp objects based on wrist movement

Someone using a mobile phone (Tim Goode/PA)

Outage which hit 1% of Vodafone broadband customers ‘fixed’

The King and the Queen Consort

Coronation Twitter emoji revealed as Charles’s 17th century golden crown

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Deal to allow tech companies to trial products in NHS test beds

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National test of mobile alert system set for 3pm on April 23

Passengers at Waterloo station

Rail passengers offered virtual reality experience to tackle sexual harassment

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Student aims to stop cheats using essay-writing bots with his own AI app

A camera being used during trials of facial recognition technology at New Scotland Yard in 2020

Police hail improved accuracy of facial recognition tech as campaigners urge ban

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Judges end contempt of court proceedings involving ‘Bitcoin inventor’

Musk is now the second-richest billionaire

Elon Musk no longer the world's richest man after takeover of Twitter

Social media apps on a smartphone

Police leaving vulnerable children at risk of sexual abuse online, report finds

Cost of living crisis

Virgin Media forced to apologise twice over broadband outages

David Hockney: Bigger & Closer (not smaller & further away) exhibition

Verification fears as Graham Norton’s Twitter reactivated without his knowledge

A self-driving bus

World’s first self-driving bus service launches next month

Laya DeLeon Hayes with the performer in a supporting role award for their performance as Angrbooa in God Of War Ragnarok at the Bafta Games Awards at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, London

God Of War Ragnarok the big winner at Bafta Games Awards