DEBATE: Is Elon Musk right to predict that AI will overtake humans within five years? August 6, 2020 Is Elon Musk right to predict that artificial intelligence will overtake humans within five years? Chetan Dube, chief executive of IPsoft, says YES. Elon Musk is right. For the last few years we have been saying that by 2025 we will pass someone in the corridor and not know if they are human or android. [...]
Tiktok reveals new measures to fight misinformation for US 2020 election August 5, 2020 Tiktok has unveiled a host of new measures it is undertaking to fight misinformation ahead of the US 2020 presidential election, as the app tries to appease threats of a total ban. Tiktok, which is under fire for its alleged links to the Chinese government via parent firm Bytedance, said it was working with experts [...]
21st century story tellers August 5, 2020 | Sponsored Blazing Griffin produced the award winning Anna and The Apocalypse (Orion/MGM) Blazing Griffin is a BAFTA-winning Glasgow-based digital entertainment company which specialises in telling stories across a wide range of platforms and mediums with a specific focus on video game development, film and TV development and production and post production services. The Pictures division produced [...]
Games industry shows COVID resilience August 5, 2020 | Sponsored Launched today, Ukie’s ‘Playing On’ report shows the UK games sector has risen to the challenges raised by the current pandemic, rapidly adapting to new ways of working and maintaining very high levels of productivity throughout difficult circumstances, without over-reliance on governmental and public funds for support. However, constraints in access to finance, business networking [...]
DIT is there to help gaming companies broaden their horizons August 5, 2020 | Sponsored The DIT provides Tradeshow Access Programme grant support to the UK games sector to enable UK games SMEs to exhibit at international trade shows such as Game Developers Conference, Gamescom and China Joy. DIT partners with the games sector to deliver trade missions, such as organising Chinese companies to visit Games London. DIT provides digital [...]
Flexibility key to Blazing Griffin’s soaring success August 5, 2020 | Sponsored Within 24 hours our entire games’ studio was working from home. Inadvertently, we had made the sudden transition slightly easier as have given staff the option to partially work from home for some time now and are used to flexible working. This meant that our work was already entirely cloud based, that we had device [...]
Tiktok faces EU privacy review over data collection methods August 5, 2020 Tiktok’s attempts to restructure its European operations are facing a review from EU privacy watchdogs, as the video sharing app prepares to sell its US arm to Microsoft. Last week, Tiktok shifted data about its UK, EU and Swiss users from computer servers in the US to holding bases in the UK and Ireland, as [...]
North East take support for gaming companies to the next level August 5, 2020 | Sponsored The North East of England is a powerhouse in the global gaming. It’s home to more than 60 internationally renowned, specialist gaming companies including Ubisoft Reflections, Coatsink and Sumo Digital. International blockbuster games made in the area include Mortal Kombat 11 and the Tom Clancy’s The Division franchise. Access to an established talent pool has [...]
Nottingham – where the living and working is easy August 5, 2020 | Sponsored “Nottingham is an easy city, easy to do business, easy to find talent and we’ve been able to grow our business here easily” said Halli Bjornsson, Co-Founder and CEO at Lockwood Publishing, creators of the hit 3D virtual world Avakin Life which has 500,000 Daily Active Users. Many more who live, work and run gaming [...]
Instagram rolls out Tiktok rival Reels in the UK August 5, 2020 Instagram has today launched Reels, a short-form video feature to rival Tiktok. Users can make 15-second videos inside the Instagram app using editing tools to help film different clips, which can be shared within a new tab on Instagram’s public Explore page. The social app, which is owned by Facebook, is seeking to capitalise on [...]