Eve Air Mobility By Emily McGarvey BBC News The Brazilian plane maker Embraer says a new factory will be built near Sao Paolo to produce electric flying taxis which it hopes will take to the skies from 2026. The aircraft, to be made by its subsidiary Eve, will resemble a small helicopter with enough space…

Getty Images By Chloe Kim BBC News The National Football League (NFL) has fined former Washington Commanders owner Dan Snyder $60m (£46.6m) after a 17-month long investigation. The investigation concluded that Mr Snyder sexually harassed a former employee and that the team intentionally underreported revenues to the NFL. Mr Snyder has called the misconduct allegations…

Students, lawyers and others are passing off writing drafted by artificial intelligence as their own. Alex O’Brien investigates the technological tools and critical thinking skills needed to identify if AI is the real author “Labyrinthian mazes”. I don’t know what exactly struck me about these two words, but they caused me to pause for a…

From compelling stories about family dynamics to a satire of chaotic 1970s Harlem, these are BBC Culture’s picks of the best fiction of the year so far. (Credit: Penguin Random House) After the Funeral by Tessa Hadley “It is hard to imagine stories more skilfully paced and polished than these,” writes The Observer of After…

charisma.ai By Steffan Powell Gaming correspondent Artificial Intelligence will lead to more jobs in the video game industry, one of the bodies representing games developers has told the BBC. Dr Richard Wilson, boss of TIGA, says AI will “reduce the cost of making games and speed up the process”. Video games have been using forms…

Reuters Lebanon’s central bank governor Riad Salameh is about to step down from the top job after 30 years. But he leaves behind an economy in a state of collapse, and a country in the grip of one of the world’s worst financial crises, as our Middle East correspondent Anna Foster reports from Beirut. It…

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Reuters By Sam Cabral BBC News Florida has approved controversial new standards for teaching African American history at the state’s public schools. The updated guidelines include a requirement that students learn “how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit”. Critics called the new guidelines “sanitized” and “a big…

Getty Images By Christine Ro Technology of Business reporter Most people don’t realise just how many pollutants are swirling around indoors, where they typically spend most of their time. For example, many of the products we use for cleaning and freshening our homes, schools and workplaces are adding invisible toxins to the air. “The smell…

This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. By Madeline Halpert & Kayla Epstein BBC News, New York A boom in drone photography has helped shed new light on the murky ocean, and closer-than-you-think encounters between humans and sharks. Joanna Steidle, 50, grinned as she…