‘There were no avatars like me so we made a game’
A lack of black characters led graphic designer Yvonne and daughter Alyssa to create a videogame.
BBC Click’s LJ Rich looks at some of the best technology news stories of the week including: Up to 150,000 security cameras were hacked in schools, hospitals and businesses – the company that makes the cameras is investigating Ride-hailing company Ola announces plans to build the world’s largest two-wheeler factory in India A robot uses…
Mahbouba Seraj is a prominent Afghan women’s rights activist and journalist. When the Taliban came back to power in August 2021, she stayed in the country and continues to voice the concerns of Afghan women. From Kabul, she tells Yalda Hakim for BBC 100 Women about her fears for her nation, and has a personal…
India’s opposition Congress party is calling for a full lockdown in order for the country to get on top of the current wave of coronavirus. Spokesman Pawan Khera said the government had ignored the warnings of experts and been too slow to react to the scale of the current epidemic. He told BBC World News:…
Regular and strenuous exercise increases the risk of motor neurone disease (MND) in people who are genetically vulnerable, scientists have said. One of the researchers at the University of Sheffield, Dr Johnathan Cooper-Knock, told BBC World News that in the future they hoped to be able to work out the risk on an individual basis…
LJ Rich looks at the best of the week’s technology news stories including: The FBI is investigating thousands of fake emails sent from one of its own servers Apple will now let users repair their own phones – selling the tools and parts required for some of the more common fixes DogPhone – a toy…
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin is putting US President Joe Biden and America’s allies and partners to the test, Evelyn Farkas, a former US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defence for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia has said. She told BBC World News the Russian leader was sabre-rattling and carrying out “very dangerous” deployments. “That, plus all the…