Month: May 2019
New Pokemon Sleep game rewards players for sleeping
Pokemon has unveiled a new game, Pokemon Sleep, which will use a person’s sleeping patterns and the time they wake up to affect game play when it launches next year. The Pokemon Company’s president and chief executive, Tsunekazu Ishihara, said the move is designed to transform the time we sleep into entertainment, similar to the…
Police may shut down illegal streams at critical point of European finals
Police will consider pulling the plug on illegal streams of sporting events at crucial points to put people off using illegal sites. Sports fans are being warned about streaming ahead of the Europa and Champions League finals. The City of London Police said illegal streams were more popular during high-profile sporting events and said people…
Nissan installs sustainable power at community cricket club
Nissan has installed a cutting edge solar energy storage system at a Surrey community cricket club to demonstrate how sustainable energy can help save money. As part of the Japanese firm’s sponsorship of the 2019 ICC Cricket World Cup, taking place in England and Wales from next week, it has donated one of its xStorage…
Apple revamps iPod Touch with improved chipset for Arcade
Apple has refreshed its iPod Touch device for the first time in almost four years, adding a higher-performing chip to run features such as Group FaceTime and augmented reality. The latest iPod Touch, now in its seventh generation since launching in 2007, gains Apple’s own A10 Fusion chip which will make it twice as fast…
Ramadan means fasting and Facebook for many in Middle East, data shows
Facebook’s Ramez Shehadi (Kamran Jebreili/AP) The Muslim holy month of Ramadan, with its long days of fasting and prayer, is being reshaped by technology. People in the Middle East spend close to 58 million more hours on Facebook during Ramadan and watch more YouTube videos than any other time of…
Virus-ridden laptop sold for over £1 million as work of art!
An old laptop loaded with some of the world’s most crippling viruses has sold for more than £1 million as a work of art at auction. The Persistence of Chaos is running six well-known pieces of malware, including WannaCry which brought down parts of the NHS in May 2017, disrupting 80 trusts across England alone.…
Global smartphone sales down, Samsung and Huawei still top list
Global sales of smartphones to end users declined 2.7% in the first quarter of 2019, totalling 373 million units, according to latest figures from Gartner. Despite its absence from the US, Huawei maintained its ranking as the No. 2 smartphone vendor worldwide and continued to reduce the gap with Samsung. “Demand for premium smartphones remained…
ICO receives 14,000 data breach reports in first year of GDPR
More than 14,000 data breaches have been logged by the the ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office) in the UK alone during the first year since the introduction of new data protection laws. Between May 25 2018, the day which GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) was introduced, and the beginning of May this year, the ICO (Information…
Facebook plans to launch ‘GlobalCoin’ cryptocurrency next year
Facebook is edging closer to starting its own cryptocurrency, with the aim to launch as early as next year, a report has claimed. Chief executive Mark Zuckerberg is thought to have met Bank of England governor Mark Carney last month to discuss the plans, according to the BBC, as well as speaking to the US…
Nearly half of over 75s now on the internet, ONS study shows
The number of older people regularly using the internet is on the rise, closing the age gap with younger users, new figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show. Since 2011, the 65- to 74-year-old age range has seen the largest increase in recent internet use, climbing from 53% in 2011 to 83% now,…