Author: SKYNEWS

If you are a film fan, Autumn Durald Arkapaw is a name to remember this award season.Ahead of this year’s BAFTAs and Oscars, the cinematographer has already made history for her stand-out work on Ryan Coogler’s vampire horror film. She is the first woman of colour ever to be nominated for cinematography in the history of both awards, as well as being one of just a handful of women ever to have been nominated.Her work on Sinners, filming in the stifling heat of the deep south, certainly meant she earned her place in this year’s competition. Image: Michael B Jordan as Smoke and as Stack…

BrewDog, the leading independent craft brewer behind brands including Punk IPA and Elvis Juice, has called in advisers to oversee a sale that could trigger a break-up of one of Scotland’s best-known businesses.Sky News has learnt that the board of BrewDog has appointed AlixPartners, the restructuring experts, to field interest from potential bidders. Sources said that AlixPartners had begun sounding out prospective suitors in the last few days, with a quickfire deadline for indicative offers understood to have been set.A deal could see many of BrewDog’s roughly 220,000 individual shareholders, who became investors through its ‘Equity for Punks’ scheme, left…

Men who buy illegally-traded erectile dysfunction (ED) pills online have been warned they are gambling with their health – after authorities confiscated more than four million doses last year.The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) said criminals were exploiting “stigma and embarrassment” and many pills had no active ingredient, the wrong dose, or toxic ingredients.The UK watchdog warned unlicensed pills were especially dangerous for men with heart disease, high blood pressure or those taking other medicines.Working alongside Border Force agents, the MHRA confiscated 4.4 million doses last year and about 19.5 million between 2021 and 2025 – enough to…

A GoFundMe collection set up following the death of Dawson’s Creek star James Van Der Beek has raised over $2m (£1.5m) in just two days.The 48-year-old actor died on Wednesday, after being diagnosed with bowel cancer in 2023. He rose to fame playing Dawson Leery in the popular US drama Dawson’s Creek, which ran from 1998 to 2003, and followed a group of high school friends and the highs and lows of their friendships and romances. Image: Dawson’s Creek stars clockwise from top left: Joshua Jackson, Katie Holmes, James Van Der Beek and Michelle Williams. Pic: Fergus Greer/ Columbia TriStar…

You might have seen or used it – pay by bank is a new way to buy products online without the hassle of entering any of your card details. This week, we learnt that Amazon had become the latest mega merchant to roll out the payment method for shoppers to use when purchasing products or setting up Prime subscriptions. Here’s an example of what it looks like… Pay by bank allows customers to transfer funds directly from their bank accounts to retailers, without the need to enter any credit or debit card details.As well as Amazon, the method is supported…

More than 10 years ago, I filmed my kids for a report on the impact of screens on young minds.My eldest daughter was six at the time, her twin sisters nearly three. They didn’t have their own devices – Instagram, Snapchat and YouTube were beyond their imagination. TikTok hadn’t even been invented.Yet now as teenagers their lives, like pretty much every other child we know, are dominated by social media. Snapchat is central to their social lives and TikTok is a go-to dopamine fix. Image: More than 10 years ago, Tom Clarke’s children didn’t have their own devices… Image: ……

A former Strictly Come Dancing star who took his own life in 2024 was “vulnerable to rejection both emotionally and professionally”, an inquest jury has concluded.Professional dancer Robin Windsor, 44, was found dead in a hotel room in Shepherd’s Bush. He left a note saying the way he was treated when he was dropped from Strictly Come Dancing in 2015 “destroyed him”, jurors at West London Coroner’s Court heard.After deliberating for around two hours, the forewoman gave the jury’s findings on Thursday, saying: “We agree that the probable causes are an accumulation of many attributes to depression.”Robin Jamie Windsor suffered…

A satellite data start-up which shrinks file sizes in order to transmit larger quantities of information has won backing from an early investor in SpaceX, Elon Musk’s rocket-making behemoth.Sky News understands that The Compression Company will on Friday announce a $3.4m (£2.5m) fundraising led by Long Journey, which has backed some of the world’s biggest technology businesses, including SpaceX, Uber and Anduril. The Compression Company uses AI-driven compression which runs onboard satellites in order to reduce file sizes by more than 95%, which it says unlocks one of the principal bottlenecks in the delivery of useful data back to Earth.The…

Decades after the first demonstration of brain computer interfaces, we have reached a “tipping point” in creating the first reliable devices that can read our thoughts, according to the man who pioneered the technology.Professor John Donoghue, who developed BrainGate – the first “brain chip” – at Brown University in Rhode Island, has just shared in the Queen Elizabeth Prize, the world’s preeminent engineering award, in recognition of his work to “unlock” the minds of people with paralysis. “If you want to control a computer, or you want to be able to restore speech, I think there’s no reason why we…

The Prince of Wales has visited a nature reserve on the final day of his first tour of Saudi Arabia to learn about a programme reintroducing endangered species.The future king toured the Sharaan Nature Reserve in the east of the country to hear about ongoing conservation initiatives aimed at protecting and reintroducing native species such as gazelles and the Arabian oryx.He was also told about a flagship programme to bring back the critically endangered Arabian leopard.The prince planted an acacia tree at the reserve as he was given details about ongoing efforts to protect its natural wildlife and landscape. Image: William plants…