Tech

Kit Harington to replace Nicholas Hoult in HBO’s Harry Potter TV series

Actor best known as Jon Snow in Game of Thrones will now play Gilderoy Lockhart in show’s second season

Climate-saving wonder

MVRDV – the firm behind Marble Arch Mound – says Rotterdam ROCKS! will inspire visitors to live sustainably. But in an era when the greenest building is the one that already exists, this tottering cairn looks set to misfire

A Pocket Full of Slagford

Developer Patrick Grant was born in Australia and lives in New Zealand, but a childhood of British TV inspired him to set a comedy game in a bleak vision of the north

Seam me up, Scotty! After 60 years, Star Trek has had a muppet takeover. About time too

Star Wars has embraced the magic of puppetry since the 70s, but Trekkers have been starved of any muppet action … until now. The creators of Strange New Worlds talk about boldly sewing where no one has sewn before

Speeding for online glory: the internet subculture where young men drive dangerously for likes

Social media trend feeds on footage shot from cars racing down busy roads, with potentially lethal consequences

Tell us: do you think AI has made Google search better or worse?

As people grow used to AI chatbots, we’d like to hear your views about Google’s search engine

‘Never seen this level of objection’: Scotland pushes back against datacentre boom

Holyrood ‘inching towards moratorium’ amid concerns over massive proposed developments in Auchtertool and beyond

Clowns, archangels and fake heads: Nairobi’s anime convention

Organised by Movie Jabber, the annual Otamatsuri is Africa’s only comic-con festival. Over the two-day event, people dressed in costumes and accessories gather at Carnivore Grounds in Kenya’s capital to celebrate creative arts, gaming tournaments and comic book culture

Freddie Mercury’s ‘splendid things’ to go on display at V&A

Eight costumes spanning Queen frontman’s career will feature in a free trail developed with his former fiancee

Porsche inks $1.5 billion deal for AI deployment with India’s largest IT services firm Tata Consultancy

Indian IT services giant TCS has secured a $1.5 billion contract to deploy AI for German sports carmaker Porsche.

Japan enlists 1,800 people to drag a 360-tonne castle keep using ropes and rollers

After repairs to Hirosaki Castle in Aomori prefecture, officials employed a technique known as hikiya to move the structure more than two metres

From Mixed Martial Arts to Mechanical Dogs: The World Robot Conference 2026

More than 3,000 products were shown at the 2026 World Robot Conference in Beijing as China showcased its rapidly growing robotics industry.