Former US first lady Rosalynn Carter dies aged 96

She died peacefully with her family by her side at her home in Plains, Georgia, according to the Carter Center, a not-for-profit organization founded by her husband and former president Jimmy Carter, 99. They were married for 77 years. Mrs Carter had been suffering from dementia. "Rosalynn was my equal...

Elon Musk sues watchdog group after major companies pull ads

Elon Musk's X (formerly Twitter) has sued the watchdog group Media Matters alleging it manufactured a report to show advertisers' posts alongside neo-Nazi and white nationalist content. Major US companies including Disney, Warner Bros and Sky News' parent company Comcast pulled advertising from X over concerns about their ads showing...

Frank Borman: NASA astronaut dies aged 95

Astronaut Frank Borman, who commanded NASA's first Apollo mission to the moon, has died aged 95.  Borman commanded Apollo 8's historic Christmas 1968 flight, which saw the spacecraft circle the moon 10 times - paving the way for the following year's lunar landing. He died on Tuesday 7 November in...

Racial bias in AI: Officers questioned father in watch theft probe after he was wrongly identified by facial recognition technology

Three years ago in Detroit, Robert Williams arrived home from work to find the police waiting at his front door, ready to arrest him for a crime he hadn't committed. Facial recognition technology used by officers had mistaken Williams for a suspect who had stolen thousands of dollars worth of...