Month: January 2022
Microsoft to buy Activision Blizzard
Microsoft says it plans to buy major games company Activision Blizzard in a deal worth $68.7bn. It would be the biggest acquisition in the company’s history and is expected to be finalised in 2023.Microsoft claims it will help them grow their gaming business across mobile, PC and consoles along with providing building blocks for the
Lisbon council fined
Lisbon’s City Hall has been fined €1.25m for passing protesters’ details to the foreign embassies they had been picketing. Their details were shared with the the embassies of several countries, including Russia’s, by former Socialist Mayor Fernando Medina’s office. Several of the violations occurred just months before the scandal became public, when some of the
Tesla Starts Accepting Dogecoin
Tesla, the electric carmaker headed by billionaire Elon Musk, has started to allow people to buy brand merchandise using Dogecoin, a cryptocurrency initially started as a joke. The move, which sent Dogecoin prices more than 14% higher at one point, comes a month after Mr Musk said Tesla would test out the digital token as
Instagram Design Change
The Instagram grid currently displays all posts fixed in chronological order, with the newest posts at the top. If you want to draw attention to an older post, you have to repost it or share a direct, perhaps in your stories. Despite continual changes, one area of Instagram has always remained constant- the personal profile
Writing and Remote work
The pandemic has given a big shove to all forms of digital communication. Video-conferencing platforms have become verbs. A workplace dominated by time on screens may seem bound to favour newer, faster and more visual ways of transmitting information. But an old form of communication writing is also flourishing. The strengths of the written word
DeFi ecosystem
Pblic blockchains provide a second chance at building a digital economy. The fact that the applications built on top of such blockchains all work with each other, and that the information they store is visible to all, harks back to the idealism of the internet’s early architects, before most users embraced the walled gardens offered
Racism on Twitter
The “failure” of Twitter to tackle racist abuse six months after the Euro 2020 final risks dragging British society back 30 years, according to a prominent social commentator. Six months on from the Euro 2020 final, the social media platform has been accused of a ‘massive failure’ in dealing with online abuse. Marcus Rashford, Jadon
online child sexual abuse
The Internet Watch Foundation’s latest figures show a drastic increase in the amount of obscene material online. The organisation, which finds and helps remove abuse content from the internet, said it investigated 361,000 reports of suspected criminal material in 2021 – more than it dealt with in its entire first 15 years of existence between
Nigeria lifts ban on Twitter
Nigeria suspended Twitter’s operation on June 4, citing “the persistent use of the platform for activities that are capable of undermining Nigeria’s corporate existence”. The action triggered criticism as it came shortly after the social media network deleted a post by Mr Buhari in which he threatened to treat separatists “in the language they will
Electric Vehicle Battery Breakthrough
Scientists have developed a biologically-inspired membrane that could quintuple the charge capacity of electric car batteries, thereby massively increasing their range. They will be used to fix fundamental issues with a next-generation battery type, known as lithium-sulfur. Until now, this type of battery’s cycle life – the number of times it can be charged and