A cryptocurrency project described as being “dystopian” has been launched by AI entrepreneur Sam Altman.

Worldcoin gives people digital coins in exchange for a scan of their eyeballs.

In sites around the world thousands of people queued to gaze into silver orbs on day one of the project’s full launch.

Mr Altman, the chief executive of Open AI which built chat bot ChatGPT says he hopes the initiative will help confirm if someone is a human or a robot.

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The trial opened on a long awaited antitrust case that could see Meta forced to sell two of its social media sites Instagram and WhatsApp, after being accused of creating a monopoly.

Adam speaks to the BBC’s social media investigations correspondent Marianna Spring and Mark Scott of the Atlantic Council, asking, what does this court case tell us about the relationship between Trump and big tech?

Also, why are we talking about Katy Perry going to space? Adam is joined by science journalist Jonathan Amos and Suzie Imber, Professor of space physics at the University of Leicester.

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The US and China currently have the world’s biggest economies but which country does the rest of the world think will dominate in future? The BBC’s David Botti looks at the numbers.

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The BBC’s Jonah Fisher tries a local delicacy in the remote Wa region of Shan State in eastern Myanmar – fried wasp.

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The lynching of a man over rumours he kept and consumed beef was premeditated and not spontaneous, an Indian commission of inquiry has concluded. A panel from the National Commission for Minorities visited the village near Delhi where Mohammad Akhlaq – a Muslim – was beaten to death. They said a Hindu temple had been used to plan the attack. Government ministers of the Hindu nationalist BJP have said the incident was a spontaneous expression of anger.
But why are Indians up in arms about beef?
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