Beyond Infinity

Our weekly news round-up: Morocco fossil discovery suggests that as a species, we're 100.000 years older than we thought; Curiosity rover studies ancient minerals at Gale Crater; Rookie astronauts train on board Aquarius, the world's only undersea research station, off Florida; Backlash against Facebook's role in recent elections; Bitcoin continues record run, as Japanese budget airline says it will accept the digital currency; Apple's Chinese subcontractors selling customer data; Peter Sunde, founder of Pirate Bay, says data is way too centralised on today's 'awful' internet; Tesla will build 10-20 more Giga Factories and disconnect fossil fuel powered charging stations.

The tech giant proclaims its first new hardware since the Apple Watch launched in 2015. The HomePod, a smart speaker, will take on Amazon Echo and Google Home. Also flagged were updates to MacOS and iOS11, an 18 core iMac Pro (!), a bigger iPad Pro, plus machine learning and AR for iPhone.

Theresa May proposes that an industry-wide levy be charged to multinationals to help foot the bill for policing the internet.

The first spacecraft designed to visit a star, the Parker Solar Probe will study how the solar wind drives space weather throughout our solar system. With a top speed of 700,000 km/h.

The tech giant proclaims its first new hardware since the Apple Watch launched in 2015. The HomePod, a smart speaker, will take on Amazon Echo and Google Home. Also flagged were updates to MacOS and iOS11, an 18 core iMac Pro (!), a bigger iPad Pro, plus machine learning and AR for iPhone.

The first spacecraft designed to visit a star, the Parker Solar Probe will study how the solar wind drives space weather throughout our solar system. With a top speed of 700,000 km/h.

Theresa May proposes that an industry-wide levy be charged to multinationals to help foot the bill for policing the internet.

The tech giant proclaims its first new hardware since the Apple Watch launched in 2015. The HomePod, a smart speaker, will take on Amazon Echo and Google Home. Also flagged were updates to MacOS and iOS11, an 18 core iMac Pro (!), a bigger iPad Pro, plus machine learning and AR for iPhone.

The first spacecraft designed to visit a star, the Parker Solar Probe will study how the solar wind drives space weather throughout our solar system. With a top speed of 700,000 km/h.

Theresa May proposes that an industry-wide levy be charged to multinationals to help foot the bill for policing the internet.