The Kenyan start-up aiming to electrify transport
Zipping around, amid the traffic of Kenya’s capital city Nairobi, are hundreds of electric bicycles from the Kenyan start-up eWaka Mobility. Founded in 2021 by Celeste Vogel and Jimmy Tune,…
Cryptoqueen who fled China for London mansion to be sentenced over £5bn Bitcoin stash
Tony HanGlobal China Unit Metropolitan Police Qian Zhemin enjoyed a lavish lifestyle of travel and shopping before UK police discovered her stash of crypto A woman, said by police to…
Tech Life – Web-scraping bots
Available for over a year We look at the impact data-scraping robots from AI firms are having on the online encyclopedia used by hundreds of millions of people. Also in…
Dundee and US surgeons achieve world-first stroke surgery using robot
Graham FraserBBC Scotland University of Dundee Prof Iris Grunwald demonstrates the technology which she says now shows that a specialist doesn’t need to be “in the same hospital, or even…
A hacking kingpin reveals all to the BBC
Joe TidyCyber correspondent, Colorado BBC Vyacheslav Penchukov, aka “Tank”, left thousands of victims across the world After years of reading about “Tank” and months of planning a visit to him…
China exempts Nexperia chips from export controls
China has lifted export controls on computer chips vital to car production, the country’s commerce ministry said on Sunday. Exemptions have been granted to exports made by Chinese-owned Nexperia for…
Football Manager has finally added women’s teams
Tom GerkenTechnology reporter Football Manager 26 The most recent edition of the Football Manager game was played by a mind-blowing 20 million people. But last year a new game wasn’t…
‘I don’t know who he is,’ says Trump after pardoning crypto tycoon
US President Donald Trump says he does not know who Changpeng Zhao is, despite pardoning the cryptocurrency multi-billionaire last month. Trump was asked about the pardon during an interview with…
AI ‘godmother’ Fei-Fei Li says she is ‘proud to be different’
The ‘godmother’ of AI, Professor Fei-Fei Li has told the BBC that being the only woman amongst seven pioneers of artificial intelligence being presented with a top engineering prize by…
Fire-blocking chemicals promise safer buildings
Chris BaraniukTechnology Reporter Getty Images Fire resistant materials can buy time for fire fighters I’m peering into a large vat containing a perfectly clear liquid – a special kind of…