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A US radio journalist who lost his voice two years ago will soon return to the air, thanks to artificial intelligence. Jamie Dupree, 54, a political radio journalist with Cox Media Group, is unable to talk due to a rare neurological condition. A new voice was created for him by …

Children were left distressed after seeing ads for a horror film on YouTube, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has revealed. Three parents contacted the ASA after their children saw ads for Insidious: The Last Key – rated 15 in the UK. One ad for the film was shown before videos …

Indiegogo has said that it is willing to extend the deadline it gave to a project attempting to make a handheld version of a classic British computer. But the crowdfunding site says that the team behind the ZX Spectrum Vega+ has yet to meet its conditions. In February, Indiegogo threatened to …

HP Inc reported better-than-expected quarterly revenue and raised its full-year profit forecast, helped by strong demand for its notebooks and desktops. The company also named Steve Fieler as its chief financial officer, succeeding 32-year HP veteran Cathie Lesjak. Mr Fieler, whose appointment is effective from July 1, currently leads HP …

Women continue to receive a tiny fraction of the venture capital on offer for tech and biotech startups in Ireland. While new statistics paint a stark picture, a number of industry figures say there is some progress being made. Adrian Weckler looks at the figures and talks to some of …

It’s the latest attempt to cash in on gamers’ nostalgia – a throwback console that promises “100+” classic games built in, with new online play. Pre-orders for the Atari VCS went into overdrive on Wednesday, with a campaign on crowdfunding site Indiegogo raising more than $2m (£1.5m). That’s well in …

  A service used to identify and contact website owners has been forced to strip out most of the information on its site to comply with the EU’s GDPR legislation. Whois, which is used by the police and journalists to check the legitimacy of websites, no longer displays the name, …

The makers of Fortnite, one of the world’s most popular video games, have been accused of copying rival title PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG). The studio behind PUBG has asked a court in South Korea to determine whether Epic Games copied its intellectual property. Fortnite and PUBG have both attracted millions of …

Are night lights on earth captured by satellites from outer space a good way to measure inequality? Economists Praveen Chakravarty and Vivek Dehejia certainly believe so. They acquired images grabbed by satellites from the US Air Force Defence Meteorological Satellite Programme. These satellites circle the earth 14 times a day …

Former US astronaut Alan Bean, who was the fourth man to walk on the Moon, has died in Texas aged 86, his family has said. In later life he became an accomplished artist, producing paintings that were inspired by space. His family said he had fallen ill two weeks ago …