Technology

Augmented reality goggles that can help swimmers track their swim time and distance have been put to the test by BBC Click’s Chris Fox. The Form swim goggles were developed by former competitive swimmer Dan Eisenhardt, while UK firm Swim AR is working on a similar device that can clip on to any pair of […]

BBC Click’s Paul Carter looks at the week’s best technology stories including; The European Court of Justice ruled that courts in the EU can order Facebook to remove users comments that have been deemed illegal. Elon Musk unveiled Starship, a shuttle intended to carry crew and cargo to the Moon, Mars and Beyond. Osteoarthritis patients

Scientists are using light 10 billion times brighter than the Sun to decipher scrolls buried when Mount Vesuvius erupted in AD79. A team at Diamond Light Source in Oxfordshire is working to read the scrolls, which were carbonised almost 2,000 years ago as the Roman town of Herculaneum was buried in volcanic ash. The two

The U.S. government’s highway safety agency is gathering information on reports of malfunctions with a Tesla feature that lets drivers summon their cars in parking lots. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration stopped short of saying it had opened a formal investigation. But in a statement Thursday it said that it’s aware of the reports

The body of a California tech businessman, Tushar Atre, was discovered on Tuesday, just hours after he was kidnapped from his home in Santa Cruz County, Calif., according to the police. At the time of the episode, several people were inside the home, Sgt. Brian Cleveland of the Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office said Thursday,

LONDON — Europe’s top court said on Thursday that individual countries can order Facebook to take down posts, photographs and videos not only in their own countries but elsewhere, in a ruling that extends the reach of the region’s internet-related laws beyond its own borders. The European Court of Justice said Facebook could be forced

Climate activists sprayed hundreds of gallons of fake blood on a British government building, hoping to underscore the damage humans are causing to the planet. Extinction Rebellion activists used an out-of-commission fire engine to drench the front of the Treasury building in red liquid. They then erected a banner reading “Stop funding climate death.” Police

A series of sophisticated cyberattacks targeting Egyptian journalists, academics, lawyers, opposition politicians and human rights activists has been traced to Egyptian government offices, a cybersecurity firm has found. The attackers installed software on the targets’ phones that enabled them to read the victims’ files and emails, track their locations, identify who they contacted and when,

An American, a Russian and the first person from the United Arab Emirates to fly into space landed safely on Thursday after a six-hour flight from the International Space Station. Interested in Space? Add Space as an interest to stay up to date on the latest Space news, video, and analysis from ABC News. The

HONG KONG — There’s no sign to mark it. But when travelers from Hong Kong cross into Shenzhen in mainland China, they reach a digital cut-off point. On the Hong Kong side, the internet is open and unfettered. On the China side, connections wither behind filters and censors that block foreign websites and scrub social