May 14, 2024
Christie’s £670m art auctions hit by cyber attack
Lots ranging from a Vincent van Gogh painting, valued at $35m, to rare wine are going under the hammer in its spring auctions.Would-be buyers are unable to view them on its website because it has been taken offline. The sale of a collection of rare…
April 21, 2024
Bill to ban TikTok in US moves ahead
The US House of Representatives approved a bill Saturday that would force the wildly popular social media app TikTok to divest from its Chinese parent company ByteDance or be shut out of the American market. US and other Western officials have…
April 15, 2024
UK competition watchdog has ‘concerns’ over big tech AI dominance
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is looking into a new breed of powerful AI tools - foundation models. They include text and image generators, such as ChatGPT. The CMA found an "interconnected web" of AI partnerships involving the same…
April 7, 2024
4-minute Total Solar Eclipse
Eclipse fever is building. Millions in North America are hoping to spend around four minutes of total darkness as the Moon blocks the Sun's light on Monday.For some, those precious minutes will be an opportunity for often impossible science…
March 15, 2024
Why does the US want to ban TikTok?
US politicians are debating new legislation that would ban TikTok in the US unless its Chinese owners sell the company.The video-sharing app has millions of users around the world but is facing questions over the security of users' data, and its…
March 5, 2024
Facebook and Instagram restored after outages
Meta says it has resolved a "technical issue" which caused Facebook, Messenger, and Instagram to go down. Hundreds of thousands of users worldwide were unable to access them for around two hours on Tuesday.People trying to log onto the websites and…
March 4, 2024
Star Wars game cancelled as EA cuts 670 jobs
Electronic Arts (EA) is canceling an upcoming Star Wars game and will lay off 5% of its employees globally- approximately 670 people. The game, which was in early development, would have been a first-person shooter set in the Star Wars universe.The…
February 27, 2024
PlayStation to axe 900 jobs
Sony has announced it will lay off 8% of PlayStation employees globally, amounting to approximately 900 people.In addition to cuts in the US and Japan, the gaming giant said this would mean closing PlayStation's London Studio entirely. In a blog…
February 21, 2024
Xbox games coming to Nintendo Switch and PS5 named
Four games that were formerly exclusive to Microsoft will soon be available on rival consoles. Hi-Fi Rush and pirate game Sea of Thieves are coming to Sony's PS5 only. Meanwhile, the narrative adventure game Pentiment and the co-op game Grounded…
February 13, 2024
UK chip designer Arm sees shares almost double
UK chip designer Arm Holdings has seen its stock market value almost double in less than a week as investors bet on the artificial intelligence (AI) boom. The Cambridge-based company reported financial results last Wednesday that showed demand for…