The one thing that has stopped me from buying this £3,499 headset without any compelling vision behind it or specific use case is the lack of backgrounds which simulate me being in Iceland.

it's been brought to my attention that Baroness Jenkin is at it again

Because people keep asking me about this... https://t.co/YB8igZSjHN

Not sure about the choice of getting The Unknown from Willy’s Chocolate Experience to do parkour and carry around the Olympic torch. #BBCOlympics

Sailing along the Seine, with a man playing an accordion on the bridge above has to be the most fantastically French thing to do. I love it. #BBCOlympics

Excellent news for the BBC, and the UK, from the latest figures from GAM, the authoritative Global Audience Measure: 450 million people worldwide access the BBC each week, up 3.5 m on last year. 414 m access BBC News, up 2.5 m. BBC World Service radio is up 2.3m to 320 m.

"It all started when they tried to install a software update to much of Earth's PCs"

Mum has just messaged the group chat asking ‘how can I text you all if there’s an IT outage?’

Someone’s installed an update they shouldn’t have done to an old Windows Server 2000 machine in the back end of Microsoft’s office, haven’t they?

Looks like it has been a VERY busy day.

Larry’s enjoying the 27 degree London heat today.

This is why I don’t do betting on things.

fwiw, I think Alcaraz win at Wimbledon and England win at the Euros. Let’s see.

100s of BBC staff use our in-house iPhone/iPad PNg to record, edit & send video, audio & photos at broadcast standards into BBC systems Usually 2000 items are filed a day. Since midnight, it’s over 5,600. Well done to all the reporters, producers & tech team behind this success.

The BBC had a camera - a smartphone, of course - live-streaming pictures from every single election count. Here is how it was done, in terms of kit. For the signal, it was a sim card bonding to wifi at the venue.

https://t.co/sl4oO71kIR

Story of the night: a candidate dressed up as Elmo standing against Sir Keir Starmer, a man who was about to become Prime Minister, got 19 votes.

Love this.

Larry the Cat is in there due to strict balance and impartiality reasons.

You may be wondering, ‘how does the BBC do a live stream on the election on polling day itself?’ Dogs. Lots and lots of dogs. Also Larry the Downing Street Cat! https://t.co/H4SvvHYcF0