E3 2021: Microsoft shows off Halo Infinite, Starfield and Forza Horizon 5
A release date for Halo, a new Forza racer, and the unveil of Starfield were all at Microsoft’s E3.
Artificial intelligence (AI) researcher, Joy Buolamwini, has spent the last four years raising awareness of the social implications and possible harm of the technology. Inspired by her own experiences of facial recognition tech she founded the Algorithmic Justice League and recently became the star of the Netflix documentary Coded Bias. BBC Click’s Spencer Kelly finds…
Bollywood star and philanthropist Sonu Sood is helping India in the battle against coronavirus. He has been using social media to help find hospital beds and oxygen supplies for those in need. He has recently had Covid-19 and told BBC World News things had been “tough” not because he was recovering from coronavirus but because…
“Long Covid” is affecting a significant number of people in the UK, Dr Deepti Gurdasani, a clinical epidemiologist has said. She told BBC World News that long Covid was not just limited to patients who were very ill or hospitalised. About 13% of people with just mild symptoms went on to develop long Covid with…
It is a 100 days before the 2021 Olympics begins in Tokyo and athletes all over the world are back in training. Marathon runner Stephanie Davis, who will be competing in the Games for the first time, told BBC World News that she was really grateful that the Olympics was going ahead after it was…
Hungarian opposition leader Peter Marki-Zay has said if he wins the election, he would “probably” rescind the 2018 law criminalising lawyers and activists who help asylum seekers. He told Stephen Sackur, of BBC News’s Hardtalk programme, he would have to look at the details but there was “no simple answer”. Watch the full interview on…
Covid vaccines are less effective against the variant of the virus identified in India, research has shown. But they would still prevent very seriously illness, University of Cambridge microbiologist Prof Ravindra Gupta said. He told BBC World News: “The virus can potentially infect people who have already been vaccinated, albeit with reduced severity – so…