Gadget reviews: Smart cool boxes and neck fans
Lara Lewington looks at some of the latest gadgets to help make the most of your summer.
A virtual summit of 40 world leaders is discussing ways of fulfilling the 2015 Paris climate agreement. US President Biden has pledged to cut carbon emissions by 50-52% below 2005 levels by the end of this decade. Speaking ahead of the summit, Prof Lord Nicholas Stern told BBC World News that it was important that…
The latest James Bond film, No Time To Die, was delayed due to Covid three separate times. The stars of the movie are finally hitting the red carpet at the Royal Albert Hall in London on Tuesday evening. Daniel Craig, in the titular role of James Bond, spoke to the BBC’s Lizo Mzimba.
Some grieved, some helped and some worried. Two decades after the terror attacks on the United States on 11 September, 2001, four people from around the world reflect on how they reacted that day, and what’s changed since. Video by Alexandra Ostasiewicz and Dan Lytwyn
Belarus’s authoritarian leader says it is “absolutely possible” his forces helped migrants cross into Poland, but denies they were invited. Alexander Lukashenko has been accused by the EU of orchestrating the border crisis with Poland, Lithuania and Latvia in recent months in retaliation for sanctions imposed on Belarus for its brutal crackdown on opponents who…
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…
UK online grocery retailer Ocado has been expanding its operations during the coronavirus pandemic. The company’s largest warehouse opened in 2018 and has 2,400 robots which pick orders from a range of 50,000 products. But they are also developing robots to work in other areas too including machines designed to collaborate with human workers to…