Self-appointed voice of the UK tech industry techUK has been hit by a Twitter backlash from some of the country’s leading tech figures after calling for support for Theresa May’s Brexit deal. The lobbying group, which says it speaks for nearly a thousand technology firms across the UK, has been widely criticsed following a tweet …
16/11/2018
Buying a pre-built gaming PC is a great option for those that just want to get on with gaming. But building your own is a hugely rewarding experience. Not only can you spec it out however you like, and customise the look too, but you can even save yourself a few quid in the process. …
16/11/2018
Adobe has come up with a free video editing app for iOS and Android called Premiere Clip. As you’d expect from a phone and tablet app, its design is very simple. Before you can use it, you have to log into your Adobe Creative Cloud account. This allows you to sync your projects across your …
16/11/2018Houdini, a CSS (cascading style sheets) standards effort at the World Wide Web Consortium to give developers more control over how a web page looks, now has its first APIs available. Four high-level APIs are part of Houdini: for the parser, layout, painting, and animation worklet, representing major stages of the rendering pipeline. The animation worklet API …
16/11/2018A Windows expert this week urged Microsoft to put its money where its mouth is and produce a status dashboard or website that reports and tracks problems with the operating system. Coincidentally or not, on Wednesday Microsoft said it would launch a “Windows update status dashboard,” but did not name a timetable except for a …
16/11/2018
It’s no secret that the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) is one of the biggest gaming conventions in the world. Major game developers and platform holders announce their latest titles and hardware there every single year, and usually, there’s at least a handful of games to get excited about.
16/11/2018
Facebook’s day was consumed with the fallout from Wednesday’s New York Times story about its slow response to Russian interference, which generated a furor greater than anything the company has seen since the Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal. The company answered its critics, put Mark Zuckerberg on the phone with reporters for an extended question-and-answer …
16/11/2018
Back in 2015, the director of a British 5G research centre declared “5G will be the first generation of reliable connectivity to the extent we won’t have anything called 6G.” Ignoring the fact that one project in Northern Finland has already started work on 6G networks, the quote encapsulates the nature of the 5G hypetrain. …
16/11/2018BlackBerry has revealed a $1.4bn deal to acquire AI security firm Cylance. The purchase, the company’s largest to date, will help BlackBerry to boost its cybersecurity capabilities, particularly in its Spark and QNX divisions – the latter of which provides the software used in many connected cars on the road today. Cylance uses high-end AI …
16/11/2018BlackBerry was best known for keyboard-totting smartphones, but their demise in recent years has seen the Canadia firm pivot towards enterprise services and in particular cybersecurity. That strategy takes a big step further forward today after BlackBerry announced the acquisition of AI-based cybersecurity company Cylance for a cool $1.4 billion. Business Insider reported that a …
16/11/2018
In the modern business world, it is no longer a luxury to have a high-quality business Wi-Fi in place, but it is a necessity in order to stay competitive. SMB owners and IT managers are becoming increasingly dependent on network solutions that support data requirements seamlessly, securely and flexibly. Finding the right balance between a …
16/11/2018
With Intel having delayed mass production of it 10nm process until next year, and 14nm CPUs in short supply, a DigiTimes “industry source” claims the company has reduced shipments of desktop processors so it can increase capacity for notebook and server CPUs. Shipments of desktop processors are reportedly set to…
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