Afghanistan: ‘A red signal for the entire globe’
Afghan politician Shukria Barakzai on her fears as the Taliban continues to advance in Afghanistan.
Mixed-reality platform, Microsoft Mesh, will allow people to join and share the same virtual experience wherever they are in the world. The system was announced at the company’s Ignite digital conference, earlier this month. While augmented reality overlays virtual objects in front of you, mixed reality allows the user to interact with what they can…
A pharmacist whose brother died after having the AstraZeneca vaccine has told the BBC she still feels strongly that people should continue have their jabs. Alison Astles’ brother Neil, 59, died of a blood clot on the brain on Sunday, after having the vaccination on 17 March. She said he was “extraordinarily unlucky” and that…
BBC Click’s Jen Copestake looks at the best of the week’s technology news stories including: The US becomes the largest bitcoin miner in the world after regulations banning the practice in China come into effect Australia’s space agency announces its first mission to the Moon in a collaboration with Nasa Sea-like robotic creatures float above…
A federal investigation into policing practices in the city of Minneapolis has been launched, a day after one of its former officers, Derek Chauvin, was convicted of the murder of George Floyd. Speaking before the investigation was announced Dr Rashawn Ray, a professor of sociology told BBC World News that he was not sure whether…
China is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the ruling Communist Party with a crowd of about 70,000 people in Beijing’s iconic Tiananmen square. President Xi Jinping told the country that the Chinese people would not allow a foreign power to bully or subjugate them and that China would resolve the “Taiwan question” to achieve complete…
The previous game, Rainbow Six Siege, will continue to receive updates as the competitive team combat game in the series, Ubisoft said. It also announced it would be adding cross-play for players on different platforms – such as PC and Google Stadia, and Xbox and PlayStation – but not between PC and console.