Summer holidays: Testing, quarantine and 'vacci-cations'

BBC Click’s LJ Rich looks at the best of the week’s technology news stories including: The EU has proposed a common charger for mobile phones, tablets and headphones China’s version of TikTok, announced it will limit the use of the platform for users under 14 to 40 minutes per day Students from the Netherlands have…

Deaths from opioid use in the US have skyrocketed over the last year. Provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showed that 88,000 people had died from drug overdoses in the 12 month period ending in August 2020 – an increase of 27% on the previous year. The US authorities say…

Watch our exclusive interview with the CEO of Pfizer Albert Bourla, as he hits out at the “rubbish” that has been published about him and his wife – including a fake story that she had died from the vaccine. Speaking to the BBC’s medical editor Fergus Walsh, Mr Bourla also defends the billions of dollars…

Avatar, Rabbids and an alien infection – Marc Cieslak runs us through the first day of E3.

Younger people may be offered alternative vaccines to the AstraZeneca jab, says Prof Paul Hunter.

A former colonel describes a leadership making cash by any means, from drug factories to illegal arms deals.