Red Dead Redemption 2 review: Rockstar’s cowboy sim is the most impressive game world ever created November 1, 2018 Never have I inhabited a video game like I have inhabited Red Dead Redemption 2. It's a mind-boggling achievement in open-world game design, to be mentioned in the same breath as The Witcher 3 or Breath of the Wild, setting a new high bar for immersion and visual fidelity. The sheer scale of human endeavour involved is [...]
Apple chipmaker Dialog Semiconductor predicts double-digit growth after $600m deal November 1, 2018 British chipmaker Dialog Semiconductor said it is expecting revenue growth for the rest of the year to be in the mid-teens, after it closed a deal with Apple to the tune of $600m (£462.3m) last month. Apple will gain some patents and a team of engineers from the chip designer as part of the transaction, and [...]
Huawei Mate 20 Pro review: Huawei’s latest flagship is a contender for phone of the year November 1, 2018 The Huawei Mate 20 Pro is easily the best and most premium phone the Chinese company has ever made. It is an extremely impressive, cutting-edge flagship, with a beautiful design that draws inspiration from the curviness of the Galaxy S9, as well as the edge-to-edge notchiness of an iPhone XS Max. Inside it has specs [...]
Google Nest Hub review: The touchscreen-equipped smart speaker is a dashboard for your connected home November 1, 2018 Like mice in the winter, smart screens have been finding their way into our homes lately, appearing seemingly overnight. But rather than dying inside the walls and leaving tiny poops underneath the fridge, these screens live out in the open, brazenly occupying our kitchen work surfaces and bedside tables. Amazon was one of the first [...]
Caught off-guard by GDPR? Wait until you meet its unruly younger sibling: ePrivacy November 1, 2018 Remember earlier this year, when every other email warned you of the countdown to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)? Now it’s time for the sequel – ePrivacy – and a shake-up that could cost businesses trading in the EU €551.9bn (£492.6bn) each year. The ePrivacy regulation, expected to be finalised at EU level in [...]
DEBATE: Given the ethical issues exposed in a recent MIT study, will we ever fully trust autonomous vehicles? November 1, 2018 Given the ethical issues exposed in a recent MIT study, will we ever fully trust autonomous vehicles? Daniel Pitchford, co-founder of AI Business, said YES. There are approximately 1.3m global road deaths each year, and 95 per cent of these are caused by human error. The deaths due to driverless cars currently stand at four. [...]
FAANGs come out to play in Halloween shares surge October 31, 2018 Technology's biggest players, lumped together as the so-called FAANG stocks, have ended their October losing streak which had left investors spooked with just one day to go. Netflix's share price saw the biggest gains out of the FAANGs grouping, rising almost seven per cent this afternoon off the back of better-than-expected results for Facebook last night. The social [...]
Panasonic earnings down as surging Tesla battery costs hurt profit October 31, 2018 Panasonic suffered a 15 per cent profit dip in the second quarter thanks to its investment in Tesla's battery business, the Japanese firm revealed today. The technology giant's disappointing profit yield saw it take ¥95.2bn ($840.9m) between July and September, down on the 112.7bn yen it took for the same period a year ago. The company blamed [...]
Bitcoin turns 10: Crypto trader Etoro sets up a free bitcoin ATM in London with a unique twist October 31, 2018 To celebrate the 10-year anniversary of bitcoin, cryptocurrency trading platform Etoro has set up a crypto ATM on London's Finsbury Avenue Square. However the machine comes with a twist: you have to tunefully wish it a happy birthday to it if you want to get your hands on some free bitcoin. The ATM, which Etoro said is the first [...]
British jets scrambled to investigate Russian planes October 31, 2018 British jets were scrambled earlier today to investigate suspected Russian fighter plans flying close to UK airspace. “Typhoon fighters … were scrambled today as a precautionary measure against a potential incursion into UK area of interest by one or more unidentified aircraft,” a spokesman for the Ministry of Defence (MoD) told Reuters. “At no time was [...]