Today at E3: Politics, polygons and palm trees
Avatar, Rabbids and an alien infection – Marc Cieslak runs us through the first day of E3.
Huawei has revealed the third iteration of its folding smartphone, abandoning its previous designs and taking some inspiration from Samsung. This time, the folding display on the Mate X2 is protected inside the phone. BBC Click’s Chris Fox went hands-on with the phone and described it as the best folding phone so far – but…
Two commercial greenhouses powered by the waste heat generated from a nearby water treatment plant are growing crops which will supply UK shops. Fossil fuels are often used as a source of heat in conventional commercial greenhouses, so this method also reduces carbon emissions. BBC Click’s Jen Copestake, who visited the greenhouses in 2020 while…
LJ Rich looks at some of the best technology news stories of the week including: Uber says it will pay UK drivers a minimum wage, holiday pay and pensions after losing a legal battle around workers’ rights A series of mindfulness videos designed to help children and families combat stress around online learning, screen time…
People need to be able to decide for themselves whether to be vaccinated against Covid-19, Colorado Republican congressman Ken Buck has said. “I don’t believe in vaccine mandates,” he told BBC News’s Hardtalk programme’s Stephen Sackur. “I don’t believe that the government should require individuals to put a foreign substance in their body for disease…
Western countries with higher rates of obesity are seeing more deaths from coronavirus than Asian countries with less obesity, the World Obesity Federation’s Dr Olivia Cavalcanti has said. She told BBC World News it was not clear why overweight people were more at risk, but could be due to an inflammatory response of the body….
When buildings are demolished the valuable materials they contain can also go to waste with materials crushed and then burnt at incineration plants. But one recycling plant in Finland is trying to recover more of the materials which could be reused. BBC Click’s Spencer Kelly finds out more. See more at Click’s website and @BBCClick