Microsoft’s vice chair and president has slammed the UK competition watchdog’s decision to block the software company’s 68.7 billion dollar (£55 billion) takeover of gaming firm Activision Blizzard, calling it a “bad day for Britain”. Brad Smith said the UK regulatory environment compared unfavourably with the EU and warned the “English Channel has never seemed […]
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and dyslexia are a “powerful combination”, Sir Richard Branson has said as part of a campaign to promote the potential of dyslexic people in the workplace. The 72-year-old businessman has joined forces with global charity Made By Dyslexia to launch DyslexAI, a campaign that calls upon businesses to commit to undertaking free […]
Archaeologists have used satellite images to make a “spectacular” find of Roman military camps in the Arabian desert. University of Oxford researchers identified three new Roman fortified camps – in the typical playing card shape – across northern Arabia. The discovery may be evidence of potential surprise attacks during a previously undiscovered Roman military campaign […]
Car grilles have been getting increasingly bolder in recent years – from BMW’s highly-controversial ‘nostrils’ to various grilles that are able to illuminate. What a grille has never done before is display warning messages to pedestrians. Until now, as Skoda has devised a way for animations to be displayed at the front to show various […]
Microsoft’s 68.7 billion dollar (£55 billion) takeover of gaming firm Activision Blizzard has been blocked by the UK competition watchdog, in a potentially fatal blow to one of the technology industry’s biggest ever deals. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said it has prevented the mammoth buyout over concerns in the cloud gaming sector. Xbox […]
Outsourcing firm and government contractor Capita said customer, supplier or colleague data may have been accessed by hackers in a recent cyber attack on the firm. The group – a major contractor for local authorities – said investigations since the hack was discovered on March 31 have shown evidence of a “limited” data breach. It […]
While many people will love belting out their favourite song at the top of their lungs, a new study suggests our favourite singers have become quieter over the years. Researchers analysed hundreds of popular song recordings from 1946 to 2020, tracking the volume of lead singers’ vocals and bands they played with. They found that […]
British scientist Rosalind Franklin was “an equal contributor” in the discovery of DNA structure and not a “victim”, according to scientists. Matthew Cobb, a professor of zoology at the University of Manchester and Nathaniel Comfort, a professor of history of medicine at Johns Hopkins University, US, said they have found new evidence, in an overlooked […]
An unusual blinking fish is helping scientists understand more about how human ancestors transitioned to life on land from water millions of years ago. It is thought that life on Earth first began in the ocean around 3.5 million years ago. As oxygen in the atmosphere increased over time, the descendants of these organisms began […]
Images of children aged as young as seven being abused online have risen by almost two thirds while the number of webpages found to contain the most extreme material has doubled in recent years, according to a report. As children become more active online, they are growing in vulnerability to grooming and abuse by strangers […]
