A committee investigating disinformation and fake news has concluded that tech giants such as Facebook should be held accountable for harmful content posted by their users. The Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee (DCMS), one of the Commons Select Committees in the UK, has spent over a year looking at how fake news and disinformation is spread and the effects it can have. According to...

How life has changed since the advent of the internet. The fact that most people on this planet have access to the wealth of human knowledge is something we often take for granted, and indeed children nowadays think of pre-internet times as virtually prehistoric. But as Uncle Ben once wisely told Peter Parker, "with great power comes great responsibility". Today is Safer Internet Day, so what...

Apple has acknowledged a recently publicised bug in their FaceTime app, which inadvertently allows a caller to eavesdrop on the person they are calling. The bug appears to take effect when both the caller and the recipient are running iOS version 12.1 or newer. It allows the caller to hear audio through the recipient's device before they answer the call, and in addition if the recipient...

According to leaked benchmark data discovered by Twitter user TUM APISAK, NVIDIA could be poised to announce a new graphics card based on its Turing architecture. The data was found in a benchmark database for Ashes of the Singularity, showing that the card achieved a score of 7,400. If the figures are accurate then this means that the GTX 1660 Ti could be around 20% faster than the GTX 1060....

If you're not already using a password manager, now is certainly the time to make the change... According to Troy Hunt, cybersecurity expert and man behind 'Have I Been Pwned?', the data breach comprises nearly 773 million unique email addresses and over 21 million unique passwords. The data totals more than 87GB across 12,000 separate files, and was reported to Hunt from a number of sources....

This year marks the first time that AMD have delivered a keynote presentation at CES, and it certainly packed a punch. The President and CEO of AMD, Dr Lisa Su, hosted the event in which she laid out the company's plan for 2019. Read on for the highlights. [MEDIA] AMD Radeon VII The big news of the night was that their latest high-end graphics card, the AMD Radeon VII, will be available on...

The Consumer Electronic Show (CES) 2019 is currently underway in Las Vegas at the moment, where tech companies show off their latest gadgets and gizmos. We've been taking a look at the latest news from the event. Apple Apple is usually absent from the event, and whilst they did not make a presentation they were visible in a couple of other ways. The first was was in the form of a giant...

The UK entertainment market is at an all-time high of £7.537 billion after six years of consecutive growth, according to new findings from the Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA). The growth has been largely driven by the increasing popularity of digital services such as Spotify and Netflix, which now represent 76% of the entertainment market. The research looks at three different...

We previously reported the rumour that Microsoft would be launching a new line of Xbox consoles, codenamed project Scarlett. Windows Central have been looking into the rumours in more detail, and it appears that there will be a disc-less version of the Xbox One (slated to launch in Spring 2019) plus two next-generation consoles in 2020. Jez Corden reports that "According to our sources, there...

Google announced in October that they had begun the process of winding down their unpopular social media platform, Google+, following the discovery of a security flaw that exposed the data of up to 500,000 users. It has now been revealed that a further vulnerability has been discovered, exposing the personal data of 52.5 million users. As a result, Google is expediting the 'sunsetting' of...

NVIDIA have announced a new graphics card in their line up, and it's a beast; the NVIDIA Titan RTX, also known as the 'T-Rex'. NVIDIA teased an announcement yesterday on Twitter, and there was much suspicion that a new Titan card would be revealed. [MEDIA] The card will be available in the US and Europe later this month, and will cost an eye-watering £2,399 ($2,499 USD). The GPU is powered...

A group of Google employees have published an open letter calling on their employer to cancel Project Dragonfly, a censored search engine developed with help from the Chinese government. Together with Amnesty International, hundreds of employees have raised the issue of human rights concerns and condemned the project for helping a government monitor each citizen. They state that they have...