U.S. Navy divers are scouring the seabed for debris from the 200ft tall device, which potentially weighed nearly half a ton, after it was shot down by F-22 fighter jets.
Military command’s decision to down the balloon over sea instead of land was apparently fuelled by fears it could contain some kind of ordnance.
As the Pentagon investigation gathers pace, an irked Beijing maintains it was a weather monitoring balloon blown off course.
Could a ‘Britcoin’ soon be available? The Bank of England and the Treasury have launched a consultation into minting Britain’s ‘digital pound’.
Evening Standard tech reporter Simon Hunt examines possible use cases for a UK virtual currency.
As part of Safer Internet Day, a survey by online safety organisation i-vengers finds nine per cent of parents say their child had been approached online by a stranger, and an even more worrying 37 per cent of school-age children report being targeted by web predators.
It comes as a plethora of child-tracking apps for parents hit the market, including Find My Kids for the Apple Watch.
Plus, AI clone wows Twitch World of Warcraft streamer Asmongold, Google’s own AI chatbot, vaping danger link to blood cells, titanosaur comes to London, awesome polar sounds and golf health benefits.
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