A sophisticated worm is attacking Windows machines globally, locking up computers in hospitals, airports and governments. The true scope of the attack remains unknown, but it's widespread, leaving experts scrambling to stop the rot.

Our weekly news round-up: Rocket Lab testing its Electron booster off Mahia Peninsula on NZ's North Island; MP3 audio encoding format "officially dead"; T-Rex's savage chomping power measured; Plastic pollution as big a danger as climate change; Improvement in Google's speech recognition; Net neutrality safeguards going up in smoke; Melting ice threatens Doomsday Arctic seed vault.

Our weekly news round-up: Rocket Lab testing its Electron booster off Mahia Peninsula on NZ's North Island; MP3 audio encoding format "officially dead"; T-Rex's savage chomping power measured; Plastic pollution as big a danger as climate change; Improvement in Google's speech recognition; Net neutrality safeguards going up in smoke; Melting ice threatens Doomsday Arctic seed vault.

A sophisticated worm is attacking Windows machines globally, locking up computers in hospitals, airports and governments. The true scope of the attack remains unknown, but it's widespread, leaving experts scrambling to stop the rot.

Every day, YouTube serves more than a billion hours of video, while Google Maps users navigate over a billion kilometers. Just some of the mind-blowing figures released at the 2017 developers conference.

Our weekly news round-up: Rocket Lab testing its Electron booster off Mahia Peninsula on NZ's North Island; MP3 audio encoding format "officially dead"; T-Rex's savage chomping power measured; Plastic pollution as big a danger as climate change; Improvement in Google's speech recognition; Net neutrality safeguards going up in smoke; Melting ice threatens Doomsday Arctic seed vault.

Every day, YouTube serves more than a billion hours of video, while Google Maps users navigate over a billion kilometers. Just some of the mind-blowing figures released at the 2017 developers conference.

A sophisticated worm is attacking Windows machines globally, locking up computers in hospitals, airports and governments. The true scope of the attack remains unknown, but it's widespread, leaving experts scrambling to stop the rot.

Our weekly news round-up: Rocket Lab testing its Electron booster off Mahia Peninsula on NZ's North Island; MP3 audio encoding format "officially dead"; T-Rex's savage chomping power measured; Plastic pollution as big a danger as climate change; Improvement in Google's speech recognition; Net neutrality safeguards going up in smoke; Melting ice threatens Doomsday Arctic seed vault.

A sophisticated worm is attacking Windows machines globally, locking up computers in hospitals, airports and governments. The true scope of the attack remains unknown, but it's widespread, leaving experts scrambling to stop the rot.