A graphic suicide video that went viral on TikTok in early September was “the result of a coordinated raid from the dark web”, the company has told MPs. Giving evidence to the Commons committee for digital, culture, media and sport (DCMS), Theo Bertram, TikTok’s European director of public policy, said the video, which was originally […]
Shooter games have always had a sneaking love affair with rhythm. Players of classics such as Halo operate as much by ear as eye, internalising the cadences of fire rates and reload times. Awe Interactive’s BPM: Bullets Per Minute borrows from actual music games by having you perform every action besides movement to a background […]
Why is TikTok for sale? Donald Trump has accused the video-sharing social networking service, which is wildly popular in the US, of being a threat to national security. He claims its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, would give the Chinese government access to user data upon request. TikTok denies the accusation. The US president has demanded […]
Facebook has suspended the accounts of several environmental organizations less than a week after launching an initiative it said would counter a tide of misinformation over climate science on the platform. Groups such as Greenpeace USA, Climate Hawks Vote and Rainforest Action Network were among those blocked from posting or sending messages on Facebook over […]
In Gujarat, a tiny independent studio is drawing on India’s rich literary history to create surreal games that flow like visual poems, evoking decades of colonial literature and folk theatre to draw attention to the politics of today. Through fantastical environments where buildings and oversized monuments are made of rubber sandals and toothpaste tubes, Studio […]
Everyone has mobile, laptops, and PCs their home. The internet is the main thing which made a global connection among the people around the world. The whole internet is based on a website and nowadays, in today’s world, everything is on the internet. If someone is starting his/her own business, someone wants to do blogging, […]
Microsoft is acquiring ZeniMax Media, the parent company of Bethesda Softworks, publisher of the best-selling video game franchises The Elder Scrolls, Fallout and Doom. The $7.5bn deal (GBP5.85m) will see all future releases from Bethesda’s studios included on the Xbox Game Pass subscription service. Xbox chief Phil Spencer said: “Like us, Bethesda are passionate believers […]
Covid-19 has changed many things. It has changed how we behave, how we communicate and how we work. One element that incorporates all of these changes is face-to-face presentations. For the most part, they quite simply don’t happen anymore. Video presentations are part of this ‘new normal’ caused by the global pandemic. To be fair, […]
Twitter has apologised for a “racist” image cropping algorithm, after users discovered the feature was automatically focusing on white faces over black ones. The company says it had tested the service for bias before it started using it, but now accepts that it didn’t go far enough. Twitter has long automatically cropped images to prevent […]
Following a bit of a false start with the original Fold last year, Samsung has hit a home run in its second attempt to make cutting-edge folding phone-tablets a reality – as the Galaxy Z Fold 2 is something really quite special. The new device costs GBP1,799, which makes it a super luxury purchase. Make […]