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…
At least 120 people have died and hundreds are unaccounted for after some of the worst flooding in western Europe in decades. The acting mayor of Liege in Belgium, Christine Defraigne, told BBC World News that while the river level was now dropping, the city was now facing a “terrible aftermath”. “I think our population…
BBC Click’s Romana Kreider looks at the best technology news stories of the week including: Google is fined €500m (£427m) by France’s competition authority for not negotiating “in good faith” with news organisations over their use of content. Google has told the BBC the decision “ignores our efforts to reach an agreement” One of the…
The former boss of the Japanese car maker Nissan, who fled the country in a daring escape while under house arrest, has been talking about his experience. Speaking exclusively to BBC’s Business editor Simon Jack, from his home in Beirut, Carlos Ghosn said he had to disguise himself, take a fast train to a regional…
Four Iranian intelligence officials have been charged with plotting to kidnap a New York-based journalist critical of Iran, US prosecutors have said. While the indictment did not name the target, Masih Alinejad, an Iranian-American author and activist, has said it was her. She told BBC World News about learning she was a target for kidnapping…
Music group Duran Duran decided to collaborate with artificial intelligence (AI) software to create their new music video, Invisible. But what would the band, which has sold over 100 million records and has been performing for five decades, make of the finished product? BBC Click’s Lara Lewington speaks to Nick Rhodes to find out more….
The lifting of almost all coronavirus restrictions on 19 July in England, needs to be done with the right messaging, the World Health Organization’s special envoy on Covid-19, Dr David Nabarro has said. “I’ve been hearing from some that the mood in Britain is one of great relief that everything can be sort of stopped…
Cloud-based software which enables digital characters to be created quickly and by anyone has been released by Epic Games. MetaHuman Creator allows digital renderings to be produced in a process which would have previously required professional digital artists and taken weeks or months to complete. BBC Click’s Alex Humphreys reports. See more at Click’s website…
With lockdown restrictions easing in some parts of the world, many people are looking forward to the prospect of travelling again. But how easy will it be and how will vaccines affect travel? Tim Willcox put questions from BBC World News viewers to epidemiologist Daniel Lopez Acuna and Lisa Minot, the travel editor at the…
BBC Click’s Jen Copestake looks at the best technology news stories of the week including: After 27 years Jeff Bezo steps down as the head of Amazon Footage of the world’s first 3D printed school, based in Malawi, is released – the school opened its doors last month A Belgian artist creates an artificial intelligence…
