Among the year's UK success stories on the App Store are fast fashion apps from China including Temu and Shein, along with the trendy 'preloved marketplace' Vinted.
Scientists at UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) have come up with a 'Christmas dinner of the future', boasting seaweed-fed pigs in blankets and genetically engineered 'super spuds'.
A Google quantum computer's ability to solve an impossible problem in under five minutes has left researcher believing it is working in multiple parallel universes simultaneously.
Cliff Richard has described his gravy as 'probably the greatest in the world' and wants to see it in the shops - but our taste test suggests he shouldn't get too hopeful.