US mothers divided on vaccines for young children
Everyone in the Simon family contracted Covid-19, but nine-year-old daughter Makenna went to hospital.
BBC Click’s LJ Rich looks at the best of the week’s technology news stories including: YouTube announces it will remove videos containing vaccine misinformation for all approved vaccines, expanding on its ban of false claims about Covid-19 jabs A new law to stop workers being fired if they are not meeting productivity targets set by…
A new tool which could help detect breast cancer has been trialled at Nottingham University Hospital. The artificial intelligence known as MIA was trained using historical scans to see if it would make the same diagnosis as humans. In the UK mammograms are reviewed by two specialists and it is hoped the artificial intelligence (AI)…
Gunfire rang out at Kabul as the Taliban celebrated the last US troops leaving Afghanistan. BBC News chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet says the skies were full of red tracer and machine gun fire as the Taliban hailed the US departure, nearly 20 years since the US-led invasion forced them from power.
Afghanistan has gone through a lot of transformation in the last 20 years and is a different country to the one the Taliban left in 2001, the author of The Kite Runner has said. Khaled Hosseini told BBC World News that his one sliver of hope was that the Taliban would realise the country had…
When DC Films’ Justice League was in post-production back in 2017, its director, Zack Snyder, had to stand down from the project for personal reasons. The film was completed, but with significant changes from Snyder’s original version, and it received almost universally bad reviews. Fans launched a massive internet campaign for Snyder’s version of the…
With a wide range of shapes, sizes and colours, finding the right pair of glasses can take time. But this means companies may also have to overstock to provide the wide selection of products customers expect. So could face scanning combined with 3D-printing change how we buy glasses and help move towards a more sustainable…