TECHNOLOGY

Just hours before Isis' "news agency" website Amaq was reportedly taken down, the site claimed it had beefed up security to handle "any type of hack".

The elaborate, 3D-printed mask reportedly cost about $150 (£114) to make and can bypass Apple's new Face ID security.

Investment vehicles created to encourage sustainability projects have seen their global popularity soar, report says.

Bill Gates' investment firm has invested approximately $80m (£61m) to buy nearly 25,000 acres of undeveloped land in Arizona.

Al-Awlaki was cited as an influence in numerous terrorist attacks over the years, including the ones at Fort hood, the Boston Marathon and San Bernardino among others.

At least 61 people have died in Iran after a powerful 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck near the city of Halabja, Iraq, close to the border of Iran.

Star Wars Battlefront 2 player works out the enormous amount of time required to unlock characters without paying real world money.

Land ice is melting rapidly, faster than previously thought, and the changes in sea level have a significant impact on the planet.

The thin and flexible material works on the piezoelectric effect – the idea of converting mechanical stress into electric charges.

"Gruesome" incident in remote Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean captured by researcher.

The massive SLS rocket will carry four astronauts in Orion spacecraft and will produce a thrust of 8.8 million pounds at lift off.

A rare conjunction of the planets Venus and Jupiter will take place on 13 November where the two brightest objects in the night sky will appear close to each other.

Apache helicopters have been the mainstay of the US military and have now received upgrades that could make the gunship a lot more powerful.

The unexpected entry of the flying guest has led Orbital ATK, which has a $1.9bn contract with Nasa for ISS resupply missions, to postpone the rocket launch to November 12.

The founder of Kernel, Bryan Johnson, plans to develop a brain implant within the next two decades that will enhance our cognitive abilities.

The bio-coal stores similar amounts of energy to coal, but can be burned without releasing pollutants and impurities into the air.

Last week, over 580 Parity wallets containing millions of dollars worth of Ethereum were mysteriously locked down and inaccessible.

"Careful walking in case those bone spurs flare up," one person tweeted.

Scientists estimate that during the Permian Period, before dinosaurs even existed, Antarctica was covered in trees.

"Find you a man who looks at you the way Donald Trump looks at Vladimir Putin," one Twitter user wrote.

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From the return of WikiLeaks to the Nepal bank cyber-heist: Here are the biggest cybersecurity stories of the week from the IBTimes UK technology team.

The data exposure was caused by an unsecured Apache Hive database, which leaked extensive data about both customers and drivers.

A Reddit user reported that Lovense's remote control vibrator app recorded a six-minute session without their knowledge.

The Facebook CEO travelled to dozens of states across America as part of his ambitious 2017 resolution to meet and talk to people in every US state.

The Dark Overlord hackers stole a trove of confidential photos of high-profile clients from the plastic surgery clinic last month.

Hollywood legend John Carpenter, the man behind The Thing, Halloween and They Live, has expressed his unlikely love for Sonic the Hedgehog.

Emails sent between the UK's Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and Swedish lawyers, discussing the case of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, were reportedly deleted back in 2014.

In 2019, Nasa's New Horizons spacecraft will fly past a mysterious, distant object - currently known as (486958) 2014 MU69 - in the outer regions of the solar system.