BBC Click’s Paul Carter looks at some the week’s best technology stories including: Lawmakers in New York have proposed a bill to make crossing the street while texting illegal with transgressors having to pay fines Google has barred the world’s second biggest smartphone maker, Huawei, from some updates to the Android operating system The US […]
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Simona Halep is experiencing something new at the French Open this year. The Romanian player is back in Paris to defend her title, a situation she’s never been in before. And she likes it. “Much better and much easier, because I have the title already,” Halep said Friday at Roland Garros. “Doesn’t matter anymore what
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RAYMOND, N.H. — For years, climate change was an issue of passionate concern to a few voters, but never enough to ripple presidential politics. The Hillary Clinton-Donald Trump debates in 2016 notoriously did not include any questions from moderators about global warming. But after an alarming onslaught of floods, wildfires and catastrophic weather, dire scientific
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Many farmers are. In North Carolina, Ms. Overman, 57, said she could not handle another bad year. Last season, she lost $450,000 when most of her wheat and soybeans were wiped out by a hurricane, the second in three years. Her son and son-in-law have both come home to farm. “But neither of them wants
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Image caption Nathan Gayle gets around 20 migraines a month People who suffer from chronic migraines are calling for a new drug to be offered on the NHS in England. The monthly injection of Aimovig has been described as “life-changing” by those who have tried it. If it gets approved, it will be for people
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WWE superstar Roman Reigns has spoken exclusively to BBC Radio 5 Live after telling fans he is in remission from leukaemia. He was forced to step back from wrestling in October 2018 when the disease came back, 11 years after he first beat it. But in February, he returned to the ring to tell fans
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Scottish shops are outperforming the rest of the UK Retail sales stalled in April, but warmer weather boosted sales of clothing, which offset falls in other areas of spending. The Office for National Statistics said sales in April were flat on March, and higher than the 0.3% fall expected.
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The SpaceX company has begun the roll-out of its orbiting broadband system. A Falcon-9 rocket launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida late on Thursday, packed with 60 satellites capable of giving users on the ground high-speed connections to the internet. Entrepreneur Elon Musk’s firm aims eventually to loft nearly 12,000 spacecraft for its “Starlink” network.
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Last summer, on a typical weekend at Surf Lodge in Montauk, Jaden Smith performed Saturday night while the surfer Evan Valiere cheered him on and Tiffany Trump and Naomi Biden posed for photos — with each other. The next day, the rapper Lupe Fiasco would draw almost 400 people at a packed, outdoor performance; some
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NASA has launched the final stage of a four-year effort to develop a national traffic management system for drones, testing them in cities for the first time beyond the operator’s line of sight as businesses look in the future to unleash the unmanned devices in droves above busy streets and buildings. Multiple drones took to
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