Time to kill over the holidays? Here are the best games of 2016 December 21, 2016 Superhot A first-person shooter in which time only moves when you move, Superhot strips down gunfights to the fundamentals. Each level is a short Jon Woo-style action film vignette – a bar brawl, a heist – in which you plan your moves precisely, dodging gunfire and grabbing weapons in mid-air as they fly from the [...]
Netflix Twitter account is hacked by group gloating at lack of cyber security December 21, 2016 Netflix's US Twitter account has been hacked by an organisation infamous for breaking into the social media accounts of high profile individuals and companies. After gaining access to the social media account, OurMine sent a series of mocking tweets from the online media firm's account, boasting about the inadequacies of cyber security. "We are here to prove this," [...]
Snooper’s charter: Bulk internet data collection ruled illegal by EU court December 21, 2016 Theresa May's attempt to introduce greater surveillance powers has suffered a major set back after an EU court ruled part of the UK's new laws are illegal. The highest court in Europe has ruled that electronic personal data from email and other online communications can not be retained on a general and indiscriminate basis such as [...]
Twitter’s chief technology officer and vice president of product both said they will quit the company December 20, 2016 Two Twitter executives today announced they will leave the company, adding to a string of executive departures throughout the year. Twitter's chief technology officer Adam Messinger said he would resign from the company in a Tweet. After 5 years I’ve decided to leave Twitter and take some time off. Grateful to @jack for the opportunity and to my team [...]
Uber’s financials just leaked – here’s how much it lost December 20, 2016 Uber's losses clocked in at $800m in the third quarter of the year, according to leaked documents. It brings total losses to more than $2.2bn for the first nine months of the year, while revenues for the startup are expected to come in at $5.5bn for the year, according to the figures first reported by The Information, indicating [...]
Blackberry ups full-year forecast despite revenue fall and growing losses December 20, 2016 Declining revenue at former phone-maker Blackberry continued in the latest quarter, but the former star tech company has increased its full-year forecast. Sales fell to $289m in the third quarter to the end of November. That was down 47 per cent on the same period last year and 13 per cent on the previous quarter as [...]
Brussels slams Facebook’s WhatsApp deal over “misleading” information December 20, 2016 Authorities in Brussels have slammed Facebook over its 2014 deal to buy WhatsApp for $19bn. The EU competition commission has accused the tech giant of providing "misleading information" in connection with the deal in light of changes to the WhatsApp privacy policy announced in August. Official charges, known as a Statement of Objections, have been filed against Facebook, with a [...]
Are you with Britain’s most complained about telecoms provider? December 20, 2016 The number of people complaining about their broadband service is on the rise, according to the regulator. There were 20 complaints for every 100,000 customers in the three months to the end of September, up from 15 in the previous quarter according to the latest complaint data from Ofcom. BT topped the naughty list with 36 complaints [...]
NatWest and RBS mobile banking apps hit by technical problems December 20, 2016 RBS and NatWest have assured customers that its mobile banking is now running as normal after after experiencing technical problems that left people unable to use the service.. RBS had been tweeting customers directly on Twitter saying it is aware of some issues and that it was working to fix them. NatWest, owned by RBS, also experienced [...]
Reform visas to make Britain the tech leader of the twenty-first century December 20, 2016 In my career, I have been privileged to work in some of the world’s greatest universities – Imperial, UCL, Harvard – on some of the world’s most interesting problems. Most recently, we used quantum systems to sense individual electrons, a billion times smaller than had been possible before, helping to transform what humans can understand and effect [...]
