Image copyright Sala Lewis/World Bank Image caption A crowd has gathered on Juma to watch a world-first drone flight A crowd has gathered on Juma, an island in Tanzania’s Lake Victoria, the world’s second largest freshwater lake. The local people are standing behind makeshift nets which cordon off an area where a small group of …
Image caption “Why didn’t my child get all As?” is the type of question Lotta Juvin doesn’t want to see in her emails An overload of emails, including in the evenings and weekends, is threatening to leave England’s teachers exhausted, with no off-switch from their working lives, warns the Education Secretary, Damian Hinds. Speaking at …
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionPolice IT system ‘pushed us to the edge’ (Officers played by actors) A police IT system is “unfit for purpose” and causing some criminals to escape justice, officers have told the BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire programme. Nine forces in England and Wales use Athena, which promised to speed …
Image copyright Amazon Image caption Scout will deliver goods ordered for same-day, one-day or two-day delivery Amazon is experimenting with delivery robots, starting with a little truck called Scout which is taking to the pavements in Washington State. Six of the autonomous electric trucks will deliver parcels “at walking pace” round Snohomish County. The robots …
Image copyright AFP Image caption The underlying software for Chrome is widely used in other web browsers Blocking ads could become much harder if Google makes proposed changes to its Chrome web browser, warn developers. The changes could “destroy” ad-blockers, said one maker of widely-used blocking software. Others said the update would make it far …
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Mark Zuckerberg is known for setting yearly challenges The revelation that Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg had fed cold goat killed by his own hand to Twitter founder Jack Dorsey was met with gleeful chuckles. That one of the world’s richest men had taken to slaughtering his own goats with what …
Contains spoilers for Far Cry 5 The last instalment in popular first-person shooter franchise Far Cry, caused online controversy with the action taking place in rural Montana. The latest addition to the series, Far Cry New Dawn, takes a different approach to its US location by setting the game in the same town but 17 …
Image copyright Reuters Image caption Tyler Barriss was extradited from his LA home to Kansas to face charges Three American men have been charged with aiding a hoaxer whose prank led to a fatal shooting. The US Department of Justice (DoJ) claims the three men “conspired” with another man, Tyler Barriss, to make calls about …
BBC Click’s Jen Copestake looks at some of the best technology stories of the week including; Chinese company Xiaomi reveals a fold-in-three smartphone Facial recognition tools are being used to tackle the illegal trade in chimpanzees London’s Gatwick airport announces a trial in which valet parking robots will go live later this year More at …
Image copyright Philip DeFranco Image caption Subscribers to Mr DeFranco’s channel and many others received the scam messages High-profile YouTubers have been impersonated by scammers sending fake messages to subscribers crafted to look like they were sent by the video stars. The scam messages sent via YouTube’s message system asked recipients to click a link …