BBC Click’s LJ Rich looks at the best tech news stories of the week including: Amazon signs a $8.45bn (£5.97bn) deal to buy MGM, the Hollywood studio known for releasing movies in the James Bond and Rocky franchises Uber and Lyft start offering free short rides to Americans travelling to get a Covid-19 jab A…
Patience and diplomacy will be needed if we want to find the origins of coronavirus, Prof Dale Fisher, of Singapore’s National University Hospital, has said. His comments came as US President Joe Biden ordered intelligence officials to “redouble” efforts to investigate where the virus started, including the theory that it emerged from a laboratory in…
As cinemas open up after lockdown they are looking at ways to make as much money as possible following months of closure. One solution is renting screens to gamers, allowing people to play their favourite games on screens that would normally be playing Hollywood blockbusters. BBC Click’s Marc Cieslak finds out what it is like…
Ingrida Simonyte, the prime minister of Lithuania, has criticised Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko’s statement about diverting a flight to Minsk on Sunday. “It is so complicated for anyone who believes in the rule of law, institutions and the Western democracies to believe in anything Mr Lukashenko is saying,” she told BBC World News. “I think…
A plane bound for Lithuania has been forcibly diverted while flying in Belarusian airspace. Opposition journalist Roman Protasevich was on board the plane and was arrested when it landed in the country’s capital, Minsk. Franak Viacorka, adviser to Belarus opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya and friend of Mr Protasevich, said it showed the risk of flying…
A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas came into effect early on Friday. Both Israel and Hamas have claimed victory in the recent conflict. But it may prove “difficult” for Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to label the military operation a political success, says former Israeli deputy foreign minister Danny Ayalon. It was a case of…
LJ Rich looks at some of the best technology news stories of the week including: Google previews a skin condition diagnosis app, a 3D video chat platform and more at its online I/O event Volocopter unveils an electric aircraft for suburban-to-city commuters A robot learns how to climb stairs without the aid of computer vision…
Adele Raemer, who lives in a kibbutz in southern Israel, has told BBC World News about her experiences of the Israel-Gaza conflict. She was exhausted from running back and forth to her “safe room”, she said. And the sounds of rocket alerts and artillery were keeping her awake. “This is not something anybody could or…
Economic development advocate Asmaa AbuMezied, who lives in the Gaza Strip, has told BBC World News about her experiences of the Israel-Gaza conflict. “We have to navigate throughout the day how we are going to deal with the drones that hover over our houses,” she said. “And then, when the night comes, we have to…
Sarit, a 26-year-old Israeli student living in a kibbutz near the Gaza Strip has told BBC World News what it is like living through the Israel-Gaza conflict. She said she felt sorry for the citizens of Gaza, but Israelis have been bombed for 20 years. “We know this is exactly why this is being done…
