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…
February 6, 2024
Facebook and Instagram to label fake AI images
Meta says it will introduce technology that can detect and label images generated by other companies' artificial intelligence (AI) tools. It will be deployed on its platforms Facebook, Instagram and Threads.Meta already labels AI images generated by…
February 5, 2024
Zuckerberg wins on Wall Street after Washington hit
Mark Zuckerberg's Meta had a bad day in Washington this week. But on Wall Street, it took a victory lap.The social media firm updated investors with a slew of good news: quarterly profits that tripled year-on-year to more than $14bn (£11bn), a surge…
January 29, 2024
Deepfakes spark calls in Congress for new legislation
US politicians have called for new laws to criminalise the creation of deepfake images, after explicit faked photos of Taylor Swift were viewed millions of times online. The images were posted on social media sites, including X and Telegram.US…