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Amazon.com Inc is rolling out machines to automate a job held by thousands of its workers: boxing up customer orders. The company started adding technology to a handful of warehouses in recent years, which scans goods coming down a conveyor belt and envelopes them seconds later in boxes custom-built for …

Manchester City retained their Premier League title and finally ended Liverpool’s magnificent challenge after surviving a scare to come from behind and outclass Brighton at the Amex. Pep Guardiola’s side started the day knowing victory would ensure they would be the first team to retain the crown since Manchester United …

Leonardo da Vinci could have experienced nerve damage in a fall, impeding his ability to paint in later life, Italian doctors suggest. They diagnosed ulnar palsy, or “claw hand”, by analyzing the depiction of his right hand in two artworks. It had been suggested that Leonardo’s hand impairment was caused …

Production has reportedly started on a key part of Apple’s next generation of iPhones. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing has started early test production of the A13 processor that will power Apple’s next phone, possibly called the iPhone 11, according to a Bloomberg report Friday citing unnamed sources. The chip could reportedly …

Scientists in Cambridge plan to set up a research center to develop new ways to repair the Earth’s climate. It will investigate radical approaches such as refreezing the Earth’s poles and removing CO2 from the atmosphere. The center is being created because of fears that current approaches will not on …

Facebook is suing a South Korean firm it accuses of unlawfully using data to sell marketing and advertising. The social network is asking a judge to force Rankwave to allow it to audit the firm’s activities to see if user data was obtained and potentially sold. A source at Facebook …

The “holy grail” of plastic – a material that can be broken down and repeatedly recycled without any loss of quality – has been created by scientists. Placed in an acid bath, it can be fully broken down into its component parts. Like lego, these monomers can then be reassembled …

A new drug could be used to target previously “untreatable” childhood brain cancer, scientists have said. The drug could also help patients who suffer from the rare but deadly inherited disease “stone man syndrome“, in which their muscles and ligaments turn to bone. The study, led by the Institute of …

David Beckham has been banned for driving for six months and given a £750 fine after he admitted to using his phone while driving in November. During the hearing at Bromley Magistrates’ Court, the former England captain appeared and confirmed his name and west London address. He had previously pleaded …

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte was rudely accosted by an unlikely assailant during a campaign rally on Wednesday night in the form of a rather large cockroach. The 74-year-old was mid-sentence when his aide tried to shoo the bug away but it merely scrambled down Duterte’s chest before he nonchalantly swatted …

Tottenham Hotspur have snatched a 3-2 win at Ajax after a thrilling comeback to seal a place in the Champions League final on away goals. Spurs, who had lost the home leg 1-nil, conceded another on the night when Matthijs de Ligt sent a brilliant header into the bottom-right corner …

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has warned the UK that allowing Huawei to bid on 5G contracts could spell the end of the US-UK “special relationship” – and, apparently, the UK’s membership in the Five Eyes. “With respect to 5G, the United States has an obligation to ensure that …

The small French Alps village of Crets en Belledonne is counting sheep, but not to cure insomnia. Instead, they’re enrolling them in school to make up for low attendance. Yes, you read that right: the Jules Ferry elementary school registered some 15 sheep as pupils on Tuesday in order to …

The hugely popular video game Mortal Kombat is notorious for extremely graphic in-game violence, setting the industry standard, but now one developer claims they were diagnosed with PTSD after working on the game. Physics-defying gory finishing moves called ‘fatalities’, replete with gratuitous blood spatter and bone splintering attacks, have become …

The BBC has fired a British radio presenter who tweeted an image of a chimpanzee dressed in clothes below the caption “Royal Baby leaves the hospital”. Meghan, the wife of Prince Harry, gave birth in the early hours of Monday morning to a baby boy, Archie, the first mixed-race child …

Facebook has chosen London as its base for a payment system on WhatsApp, its mobile messaging service confirmed Wednesday, highlighting the capital’s attractiveness as a fintech hub despite Brexit strains. The Financial Times said that WhatsApp would hire about 100 staff, with most of the required software engineers based in …

US President Donald Trump’s businesses reported losses of $1.17 billion from 1985 to 1994, The New York Times reported Tuesday, citing information from tax documents from those years. It appears Trump lost more money than nearly any other individual US taxpayer year after year, the Times reports, according to the …

Scientists have described a diminutive new tyrannosaur from New Mexico, US. Called Suskityrannus hazelae, the dino would have stood about 1m tall at the hip and was perhaps no more than 3m in length – not much longer than just the skull of fearsome T. rex. “Suski” lived earlier in …

Spanish goalkeeping great Iker Casillas left the hospital in Portugal on Monday and said that his football future is uncertain, five days after suffering a heart attack during training with his club. The 37-year-old, who has played for Porto since 2015, was admitted to hospital last Wednesday after suffering what …

A relentless pursuit of economic growth, twinned with the impact of climate change, has put an “unprecedented” one million species at risk of extinction, scientists say in a landmark report on the damage done by modern civilization to the natural world. Only a wide-ranging transformation of the global economic and …