Vishal Garg: 'Your employment here is terminated, effective immediately'
Vishal Garg, the boss of US mortage firm Better.com, fires about 900 of his staff on a single Zoom call.
A new tool which could help detect breast cancer has been trialled at Nottingham University Hospital. The artificial intelligence known as MIA was trained using historical scans to see if it would make the same diagnosis as humans. In the UK mammograms are reviewed by two specialists and it is hoped the artificial intelligence (AI)…
Jen Copestake looks at some of the best technology news stories of the week including: Customers can now buy a Tesla car with cryptocurrency Bitcoin, company chief Elon Musk announces Nintendo and Niantic, the companies behind Pokemon Go, announce a long-term deal to collaborate on augmented reality apps Microscopic robots deliver drugs into the brains…
Ex-PM Malcolm Turnbull tells the BBC he believes Australia’s borders won’t reopen until early 2022.
As the Taliban advance there are feelings of grief and fear, a child rights activist in Kabul says.
The Indian government has left individual states in the country to deal with the Covid-19 “tsunami” of infections on their own, Pawan Khera of the opposition National Congress Party said. He told BBC World News that during the first wave the government had carried out a centralised response and had “an obsession” with “premature credit…
The attorneys selecting the jurors for the in the trial of Derek Chauvin, the police officer accused of killing George Floyd will face a difficult task, Derrick Johnson, the CEO of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) has said. They would need to find 12 people who could come to the…