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Parts of the southern Indian city of Bengaluru, often called India's Silicon Valley are under water after heavy rainfall. The city is on high alert for more pre-monsoon showers on Tuesday due to cyclonic formations over the Andaman Sea,...

Eleanor LawrieSocial affairs reporterBBC"Whenever I was struggling, if it was going to be a really bad day, I could then start to chat to one of these bots, and it was like a cheerleader, someone who's going to...

BBC England InvestigationsBBCEarlier that year, Mrs Lanigan gave evidence in Parliament about the attack. She said the response had cost £11.3m and they had received £3.68m compensation from the government.As the authority was not insured for the attack, the...

BBCAmong the cactuses in the desert of Arizona, just outside Phoenix, an extraordinary collection of buildings is emerging that will shape the future of the global economy and the world.The hum of further construction is creating not just a...

Co-op narrowly averted being locked out of its computer systems during the cyber attack that saw customer data stolen and store shelves left bare, the hackers who claim responsibility have told the BBC.The revelation could help explain why Co-op...

Chris VallanceSenior Technology ReporterGetty ImagesAn artificial intelligence (AI) tool has been used to sort through comments about botox and lip fillers, that were submitted as part of a public consultation, in what officials said was the first use...

Dua Lipa, Sir Elton John, Sir Ian McKellen and Florence Welch are among a list of stars calling on the prime minister to update copyright laws in a way that protects them from artificial intelligence.A letter signed by...

Adrienne MurrayTechnology ReporterReporting fromLongyearbyen, NorwayGetty ImagesThe Arctic World Archive receives deposits three times a year, and as the BBC visited, recordings of endangered languages and the manuscripts of the composer Chopin, were among the latest reels placed in the...

Lily JamaliReporting fromSan FranciscoReutersApple is asking an appeals court to pause a US district judge's recent ruling in a case which could determine the future of its highly lucrative App Store.Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers found last week the tech...

Foxconn, the maker of Apple's iPhones, has announced plans to produce electric vehicles (EV) for Japanese car giant Mitsubishi Motors.Under the agreement in principle, a Foxconn joint venture will design and build cars in Taiwan for Mitsubishi.The companies say...