Tag: call of duty
1 in 5 Under 18s in UK use fake age on social media, Gen Z spends 6 hours a day online
Ofcom has warned social media companies they will be punished if they fail to take significant extra steps to address the problem of children pretending to be adults online. A newly released survey, conducted by the UK media regulator, indicates 22% of eight to 17 year olds lie that they are 18 or over on…
iPhone app sideloading coming to EU users, 80% of COD hardware sales on Playstation
iPhone users in the EU next year will be able to download apps hosted outside of Apple's official App Store to comply with European regulations, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. Otherwise known as sideloading, the change coming sometime in the first half of 2024 will allow customers to download apps without needing to use the App…
Return of Fortnite’s original map generates record Virgin Media O2 network surge
Record number of players returning to Fortnite’s original map has resulted in Virgin Media O2’s busiest ever day of broadband data downloaded on its network On Friday 3 November, the first day the original map was made available to download as part of its Fortnite OG update, close to 154,000 Terabytes (TB) was downloaded on…
UK drivers make ‘scary EV’ claims, Apple to host ‘scary fast’ event
One owner claims the BMW iX's autopilot engaged without warning - claims which BMW denies. Image: BMW An electric car owner has claimed her vehicle’s autopilot engaged without warning and accelerated to 65mph, zigzagged across the road and caused a serious crash, the Guardian can reveal. The alleged incident involved a…
Tech Digest daily roundup: UK set to clear Microsoft deal to buy Call of Duty maker
The UK's competition watchdog has said Microsoft's revised offer to buy the Call of Duty maker Activision Blizzard "opens the door" to the deal being cleared. The Competition Markets Authority (CMA) said the updated deal appeared to address concerns it had raised. Under the new proposals, Microsoft will not buy the cloud gaming rights owned…
Tech Digest daily roundup: Call of Duty to use AI to listen out for hate speech
Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare II Shooter video game Call Of Duty has started using AI to listen out for hate speech during online matches. Publisher Activision said the moderation tool, which uses machine learning technology, would be able to identify discriminatory language and harassment in real-time. Machine learning is what…
Tech Digest roundup: Protecting British jobs from AI ‘will be a challenge’ warns taskforce head
Protecting British jobs will be a challenge as artificial intelligence systems become more advanced, the new head of the government's AI taskforce has told the BBC. Ian Hogarth said it was "inevitable" that more jobs would become increasingly automated. The whole world will have to rethink the way in which people work, he added. "There…
Live football and gaming drives Virgin Media O2’s busiest broadband day ever
Virgin Media O2 saw its busiest day on record for network traffic on Wednesday 15 February, hitting a peak of 24.77Tbps at peak (8-10pm average) – a 10% increase on the previous record The surge was associated with football fans streaming Arsenal v Manchester City in the Premier League as well as Champions League matches…
Why Are More than Half of Brits Playing Online Games?
It’s no secret that online gaming is not so slowly taking over the world. Where in previous years, console and PC gaming had a clear lead in sales, mobile gaming now makes up almost half of the gaming industry’s revenue. With the recent advances in the quality of mobile gaming devices, the battery life, the…
Tech Digest daily roundup: Google to cut 12,000 jobs worldwide
Google's parent company Alphabet will cut 12,000 jobs, in the latest staff redundancies to hit the tech industry. Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said he took "full responsibility" for the cuts, in an internal email. The cuts will affect 6% of Alphabet's workforce worldwide, in teams including recruitment and engineering. This comes days after…
