Jasper Hamill

Jasper Hamill | Science and technology reporter

Tech journalist based in London.

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A view of the region where the mammoth explosion took place (Image: Nasa)

Black hole blamed for most powerful explosion ever seen in the universe

Channel: Tech Tech February 28, 2020 By Jasper Hamill
Dry and trimmed cannabis buds stored in a glas jars.

Weed has a 'hidden antibiotic potential' and can defeat feared superbugs

Channel: Tech Tech February 27, 2020 By Jasper Hamill
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Hollandse Hoogte/REX (10549096f) A woman with a mouth cap holds a blood tube with a positive blood test with the 2019-nCoV coronavirus. Coronavirus Outbreak, Mierlo, Netherlands - 05 Feb 2020

Coronavirus has 'HIV-like mutation' which allows it to attack human cells, scientists say

Channel: Tech Tech March 3, 2020 By Jasper Hamill
SIPA USA via PA Images People wear antivirus masks to protect themselves from Coronavirus infection in Rome in St. Peter's Square and along Via della Conciliazione, the day of the beginning of Lent (Photo by Matteo Nardone/Pacific Press/Sipa USA)

Amazon 'tells sellers to stop hiking up the price of coronavirus masks'

Channel: Tech Tech February 27, 2020 By Jasper Hamill
An illustration of the exoplanet K2-18b (Image: Amanda Smith)

Exoplanet twice the size of Earth could be home to alien lifeforms, astronomers say

Channel: Tech Tech February 27, 2020 By Jasper Hamill
The Uber Technologies Inc. logo is seen on the windshield of a vehicle in New York, U.S., on Thursday, Aug. 9, 2018. New York's city council dealt a political blow to??Uber Technologies Inc.??and other app-based car-for-hire companies by approving a one-year industry wide cap on new licenses and giving the city Taxi & Limousine Commission authority to set minimum pay standards for drivers. Photographer: John Taggart/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Uber accused of polluting cities and tempting people away from public transport

Channel: Tech Tech February 26, 2020 By Jasper Hamill
SIPA USA via PA Images In this photo illustration a Bitcoin logo seen displayed on a smartphone. (Photo by Omar Marques / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)

Bitcoin suffers price crash as coronavirus fears prompt stock market slump

Channel: Tech Tech February 26, 2020 By Jasper Hamill
ANKARA, TURKEY - DECEMBER 10: A phone screen displays the logo of WhatsApp application in Ankara, Turkey on December 10, 2019 (Photo by Ali Balikci/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

WhatsApp's mega-hyped 'dark mode' is coming to even more devices

Channel: Tech Tech February 26, 2020 By Jasper Hamill
Embargoed to 0001 Monday February 24 Undated handout photo issued by Nasa/JPL-Caltech of The InSight lander, a Nasa spacecraft sent to study the deep interior of Mars has confirmed the planet to be seismically active. PA Photo. Issue date: Monday February 24, 2020. Scientists say understanding more about the seismic activity of other planets could reveal clues about how the solar system formed. See PA story NASA Mars. Photo credit should read: Nasa/JPL-Caltech /PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.

Nasa Mars Insight lander buzzed by thousands of mysterious 'dust devils'

Channel: Tech Tech February 26, 2020 By Jasper Hamill
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'Pick not thy nostrils': Medieval book of British manners is here to show us how to live

Channel: Tech Tech February 25, 2020 By Jasper Hamill
A worker in protective gear stacks plastic buckets containing medical waste from coronavirus patients at a medical center in Daegu, South Korea, Monday, Feb. 24, 2020. South Korea reported another large jump in new virus cases Monday a day after the the president called for "unprecedented, powerful" steps to combat the outbreak that is increasingly confounding attempts to stop the spread. (Lee Moo-ryul/Newsis via AP)

Samsung shuts down flagship phone factory after employee contracts coronavirus

Channel: Tech Tech February 25, 2020 By Jasper Hamill
Embargoed to 0001 Monday February 24 Undated handout photo issued by Nasa/JPL-Caltech of The InSight lander, a Nasa spacecraft sent to study the deep interior of Mars has confirmed the planet to be seismically active. PA Photo. Issue date: Monday February 24, 2020. Scientists say understanding more about the seismic activity of other planets could reveal clues about how the solar system formed. See PA story NASA Mars. Photo credit should read: Nasa/JPL-Caltech /PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.

Mars is seismically active and rocked by 'earthquakes', scientists discover

Channel: Tech Tech February 25, 2020 By Jasper Hamill
WhatsApp logo is seen displayed on a phone screen in this illustration photo taken in Krakow, Poland on November 18, 2019. (Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto)

WhatsApp scammers are trying to lure people into a dodgy porn trap

Channel: Tech Tech February 24, 2020 By Jasper Hamill
Undated handout photo issued by Bristol Zoological Society of a Wild western lowland gorilla pictured in an area of Equatorial Guinea for the first time in more than a decade. PA Photo. Issue date: Saturday June 8, 2019. The images, caught by camera traps, show curious young gorillas deep in their jungle home in central Rio Muni. They were taken by one of a series of cameras set up by conservationists from Bristol Zoological Society and the University of the West of England. See PA story ANIMALS Gorilla. Photo credit should read: Bristol Zoological Society /PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.

Rare endangered breed of gorilla pictured in the wild for first time in 10 years

Channel: Tech Tech February 24, 2020 By Jasper Hamill
SHANGHAI, CHINA - 2019/09/08: American multinational technology company Apple store and logo seen at the IFC Mall in Shanghai. (Photo by Alex Tai/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Apple is about to release new over-ear AirPod headphones, leaker claims

Channel: Tech Tech February 24, 2020 By Jasper Hamill
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Netflix is testing an incredibly cheap new way of signing up for a subscription

Channel: Tech Tech February 24, 2020 By Jasper Hamill
London, UK - July 31, 2018: The buttons of WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter and other apps on the screen of an iPhone.

WhatsApp security alert: Strangers could get an invitation to your private group

Channel: Tech Tech February 24, 2020 By Jasper Hamill
Pic Shows: Detail of the works done in the glyptodonts found in the riverbed; An Argentine farmer has found the 20,000-year-old remains of four prehistoric armadillos that could grow to the size of a Volkswagen Beetle at the bottom of a dried-out riverbed.

Ancient armadillo the size of a car discovered in dried-up riverbed

Channel: Tech Tech February 21, 2020 By Jasper Hamill
"Cape Town, South Africa - August 23, 2011: Mail icon on an iphone 4, manufactured by Apple"

Apple is finally going to let you delete all those annoying default apps

Channel: Tech Tech February 21, 2020 By Jasper Hamill
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Ancient humans enjoyed kinky cross-species sex with Neanderthals and Denisovans

Channel: Tech Tech February 21, 2020 By Jasper Hamill