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Young girls in the UK drink, smoke and vape more than boys, a major study suggests.

Shares in Meta, the owner of Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram, have fallen sharply after the company revealed it had raised its cost forecast for the current year.

Only two months ago Joe Biden joined the social media platform TikTok with a video captioned "lol hey guys". Now, the US president is poised to sign a bill that could ban the popular app - unless its parent company sells it.

A US woman has become the first person in the world to undergo a pig kidney transplant and also have a mechanical heart pump surgically implanted.

TikTok has promised a court battle over a new law that threatens to ban it in the US - with the app's boss saying "we aren't going anywhere".

Jean-Michel Jarre is no stranger to pioneering technology - so it was fitting he has become the first passenger to take off in KleinVision's flying car.

Children with brain tumours will soon have access to drugs they can take at home, the NHS has announced.

Australia's prime minister said Elon Musk is an "arrogant billionaire who thinks he is above the law" over his reluctance to remove footage of last week's Church stabbing from X.

NASA's longest-running spacecraft Voyager 1 is sending information back to Earth again for the first time since November.

Children as young as three are being manipulated into "disturbing" acts of sexual abuse, according to a report by the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF).

Hundreds of users of the gay dating app Grindr have alleged the company shared their private information, including their HIV status, with third parties, a law firm said on Monday.

Tinder is adding a new safety feature to the app, so online daters can let friends and families know where they are.

Parts of the UK are being treated to a dazzling display as the oldest annual meteor shower known to man streaks through the Earth's atmosphere.

Taylor Swift's The Tortured Poets Department has become the first album in Spotify history to reach more than 300 million streams in a single day.

TikTok could be banned in the US if the social media app's Chinese owner doesn't sell its stake after the House of Representatives voted in support of the measure.

Bitcoin's rare halving event has taken place, according to crypto analysis firm CoinGecko.

The UK's first professional women's gaming tournament of its kind starts on Saturday.

It's crunch time now for those who have been training for this year's London Marathon.

The world's first known combat between a human pilot and a fighter jet controlled by AI has been carried out in California, the US military has said.

Tesla has recalled more than 3,800 of its Cybertruck models following complaints that the accelerator pedal is at risk of getting stuck, US regulators have announced.

Meta's AI has told a Facebook user it has a disabled child that was part of a New York gifted and talented programme.

China is hiding secret military activity in space, NASA chief Bill Nelson has claimed.

Smoking among younger middle-class women has jumped more than 25% in the last decade, according to new research.

Dozens of people around the world have been arrested after police disrupted a UK-founded website scamming victims on an industrial scale.

The technology behind ChatGPT scored better at assessing eye problems and providing advice than non-specialist doctors, a new study has found.

A popular football YouTuber and passionate Chelsea supporter known by his fans as Angry Rantman has died at the age of 27.

A new 'leaked' song thought to be by Drake is causing confusion among fans, with some questioning whether it is him or an AI clone.

Telegram, one of the world's biggest social media networks, "will probably hit one billion active monthly users within the year", according to the app's billionaire founder Pavel Durov.

At least one bumblebee species can survive underwater, scientists have found after a mishap led to an experiment.

Fake videos and images flooded social media in the hours after Iran launched missiles and drones towards Israel on 13 April.