How US employers silence sex accusers
Staff leave some of Google’s US offices over women’s treatment Hundreds of staff at Google offices around the world have walked out in protest at sexual harassment and unequal pay for women. One of their key demands is ensuring women can settle misconduct claims in the courts, but why can’t many do so already? A […]
Commonwealth Games: England win gold in men’s and women’s 4x100m relays
Wightman ran a strong final 150 metres to finish ahead of England’s Charlie Grice as he chased home Kenya’s Elijah Manangoi and Timothy Cheruiyot. Emily Diamond produced a brave run on the final leg for England’s 4x400m team, but was overhauled in the final 50m by Botswana’s 400m champion Amantle Montsho in a duel for […]
Royal International Air Tattoo attendees enjoy the sun on day one
BBC The Red Arrows arrived at RAF Fairford on Thursday Aviation fanatics have travelled from all over the world to catch a glimpse of their favourite planes at a huge military air show. The Royal International Air Tattoo (RIAT) got off to a flying start at RAF Fairford, Gloucestershire earlier, with planes from across the […]
Singapore ‘cruise to nowhere’ ends after passenger tests positive
Royal Caribbean The coronavirus pandemic has largely shut down the cruise industry A Royal Caribbean ship has returned to Singapore on day three of a four-day “cruise to nowhere” after a passenger tested positive for Covid-19. The city state’s “cruises to nowhere” – starting and ending at the same port without stops – launched last […]
Facial recognition bias claims are ‘misleading’
Joy Buolamwini The study author, Joy Buolamwini, has spent years researching bias in algorithms and machine learning Amazon has defended its facial-recognition tool, Rekognition, against claims of racial and gender bias, following a study published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The researchers compared tools from five companies, including Microsoft and IBM. While none was […]
Glasgow 2014: 100 days to go for Wales’ Glasgow 2014 hopes
There was some good news for Team Wales in early April, when it was announced that two of their best gold medal hopes, boxers Andrew Selby and Fred Evans, would be free to compete in Glasgow – despite concerns that their contracts with AIBA, the Sports governing body, would not allow them to go to […]
Superstar cries as she ends her Las Vegas residency
Getty Images British superstar Adele cried on Saturday night as she played her 100th and final show in Las Vegas. She has spent the past two years playing a weekend residency at the 4,000-capacity Caesars Palace. Throughout her residency she often interacted with fans, but has indicated that the experience has been emotionally draining. Earlier […]
Government rejects Derbyshire badger cull
Reuters Badger culling licences will not be granted in Derbyshire until May 2020 A proposed badger cull in Derbyshire this winter has been rejected by the government. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said it would not grant farmers licences. It said it would give further consideration to how to combine vaccination […]
T20 World Cup: Rwanda eye qualification after storied run to final qualifier
In a country where a tragic past means genocide victims now stand side-by-side with perpetrators, sport is viewed as a unifying force for social cohesion. It is considered rude – and potentially even deemed criminally ‘divisionist’ – to use the terms Hutu and Tutsi in the country. Instead, everyone is viewed simply as Rwandan. “It’s […]
Could geo-engineering help save the planet?
BBC If we can’t control rising global temperatures by drastically cutting carbon emissions, could something called geo-engineering be a way to cool the planet? In what is already a multi-billion-dollar industry, scientists around the world, including in the UK, are researching geo-engineering – ways of manipulating the climate to tackle global warming. Some experts are […]