TECHNOLOGY

With the help of a Google Home speaker, a speech-impaired boy has been able to say his first word. Unfortunately it's "Google".

The ink of the tattoo is developed from genetically modified bacterial cells, which are engineered to light up in response to a range of stimuli.

Electronic Arts boss Blake Jorgensen responds again to controversy over Star Wars Battlefront 2's implementation of loot boxes and microtransactions.

Relic believed to have come from Saint Nicholas confirmed as dating back to around time of his death in 343AD.

Anastasia Knyazeva has amassed more than 560,000 Instagram followers and has been dubbed the most beautiful girl in the world, which many people have said is creepy.

2017 is almost over so Tenor.com has revealed its most popular memes and gifs including Trump draws and Salt Bae.

"This woman travels around the world touting herself as the voice of American women. I'm at the 'peak' of disgust," one Twitter user wrote.

A Brazilian physicist believes that the singularity did not exist and that the Big Bang was not an event that kicked off the expansion of the universe.

Palaeontologists say that the new discovery provides more information about the evolution of ancient underwater creature.

"This will drive 45 mad..." one Twitter user wrote.

Scientists believe that an ancient skeleton discovered in Michigan was kept in a pond to preserve the meat and hide it from predators.

Firefighters are battling to contain at least four wildfires marching across southern California, whipped up by fierce Santa Ana winds.

Back in October, the robot received Saudi citizenship, a move that sparked a debate about rights given to machines and women in the kingdom.

The tweets of LeBron James, Floyd Mayweather, John Cena and Conor McGregor all feature in Twitter's list for top 10 most retweeted sports athlete posts of 2017.

The attack strategy and trajectory of these aerial predators could be employed to develop visually-guided defence drones.

Preliminary investigations into the crash point out to guidance computer errors that caused the spacecraft to make a 360 degree turn in the wrong direction.

Experts raised serious questions about why a virtual keyboard app would need to collect such detailed and personal information that has nothing to do with its functionality.

Beijing is reportedly slated to invest over $3bn on perfecting the cold war-era nuclear "motlen salt" technology to power the country's future weapons.

The beating and abuse known as "ketti azhikkal" is regularly inflicted on the animals after they come out of the mating season.

Despite having no sound or music accompanying the GIF, many who watched it claim they can hear a thudding sound every time the skipping pylon lands on the ground.

The exoplanet sits in a potentially habitable zone around its parent star and also has a neighbouring super-Earth, K2-18c.

Europol, the FBI and other European law enforcement authorities recently took down the massive Andromeda malware botnet that has been active since 2011.

Bacteria seem to thrive in the Space Station and researchers find that most of them are harmless.

Satori can also exploit a recently discovered zero-day flaw, which the botnet has already used to infect two widely-used home routers.

As the UN oceans chief warns we are facing a 'planetary crisis', researchers are trying to replace synthetics with biodegradable fungi.

Japan Airlines has invested $10m in a plan to reintroduce supersonic passenger flights, more than a decade after Concorde was pulled from service.

James Slaney, co-founder, Dubber, looks at how innovative cloud call recording and speech recognition can deliver efficiencies and improve the quality of care in the NHS.

Two studies have looked at repercussions of childhood traumas into adulthood. Aggressive kids or kids who bully other children are more likely to be unemployed.

Thousands of people have been evacuated as the Thomas Fire threatens Santa Paula and Ventura, destroying homes and vehicles in its path.