Technology

In a world first, BBC Click’s Marc Cieslak has interviewed the creator of Watch Dogs: Legion inside the video game itself. Developed at Ubisoft’s Toronto Studio, the same technology used to create the game was employed to create an interview which takes place inside a virtual London. The game imagines a post-Brexit dystopian Britain as […]

BBC Click’s Marc Cieslak looks at some of the week’s best technology stories including: Microsoft issues a second update for Windows 7, just days after it said it would provide no more patches for the decade-old operating system The Metropolitan Police announces it will use live facial recognition cameras operationally on London streets – despite

Amazon says it now employs more than 500,000 people in the U.S., another sign of the online shopping giant’s rapid growth By JOSEPH PISANI AP Retail Writer January 31, 2020, 9:38 PM 3 min read NEW YORK — Need more proof that Amazon is big? It came this week. Amazon’s U.S. workforce has topped 500,000

Each week, we review the week’s news, offering analysis about the most important developments in the tech industry. Hi, this is David McCabe. I report on tech policy from The Times’s bureau in Washington. But this past week, one of the biggest stories began with an announcement an ocean away. For weeks, we had been

The cosmic detector that required a series of challenging spacewalking repairs is back in action By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer January 31, 2020, 8:12 PM 2 min read CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The cosmic detector that required a series of difficult spacewalking repairs is back in action. The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer is working better

NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenya’s high court on Thursday temporarily suspended the country’s new national biometric identity program until the government enacts laws to protect the security of the data and prevent discrimination against minorities. The government had said the IDs would be required for all Kenyan citizens and foreign residents to access a broad range

Waymo says one of its self-driving vehicles was operating in manual mode when it was involved in a rear-end collision in a Phoenix suburb and that the crash was caused by reckless driving of the other vehicle January 31, 2020, 6:06 PM 2 min read TEMPE, Ariz. — A Waymo self-driving vehicle was operating in

SAN FRANCISCO — Earlier this month, when Dan Shure was searching on Google for information about butchering meats, he did something he had avoided for the last 20 years: He unknowingly clicked on an ad. Mr. Shure, a 40-year-old consultant who helps companies manage where they appear in Google search, had always thought it was

For decades, sex education in the classroom could be pretty cringey. For some adolescents, it meant a pitch for abstinence; others watched their teachers put condoms on bananas and attempt sketches of fallopian tubes that looked more like modern art. On TikTok, sex ed is being flipped on its head. Teenagers who load the app

A telescope in Hawaii is revealing the turbulent gas surface of the sun in what scientists called unprecedented detail By MALCOLM RITTER AP Science Writer January 30, 2020, 11:16 PM 1 min read NEW YORK — A telescope in Hawaii has produced its first images of the sun, revealing its turbulent gas surface in what