Sonic Superstars emerged as one of the most exciting announcements to come out of Summer Game Fest 2023, and now we’re diving deeper into the exciting 2D adventure starring Sega’s Blue Blur. We spent two days in Sonic Team’s studio in Burbank, California playing through nearly half the game and speaking with the developers behind…
Two more Post Office Horizon scandal convictions referred for appeal by the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC), which warned against referring similar cases “en masse”. The appeals of former subpostmasters Therese Gooding and Ian Davies will now go to Southwark Crown Court. Between 2000 and 2015, a total of 736 subpostmasters who ran Post Office…
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Let’s be honest: GPU driver updates are rarely a source of much excitement. We’re normally talking about tiny, marginal improvements, or simply fresh support for performance-boosting software in newly-released games. But every now and then, we see an update that makes a genuine difference – and that’s what we’ve seen today.A new graphics driver update…
My Radeon RX 7900 XT just got a lot more powerful, for free – thanks, AMD! Read More »
Sean Green’s career has gone a full circle from IT through marketing, back to IT at his local university, where he is now heading up IT. Before taking up what he describes as a “pretty rounded CIO role”, at the University of East Anglia (UEA), Green had been on a journey through different sectors and…
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Generative AI – including services such as ChatGPT and Google Bard – looks like being the next wave of business automation. In IT, a growing number of suppliers now have some artificial intelligence (AI) or machine learning (ML) capabilities built into their management tools. Much of the day-to-day work of IT departments can benefit from…
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The average cost of a data breach to a UK organisation now stands at £3.4m, but this figure drops by approximately £1.6m at organisations that have “extensively” deployed artificial intelligence (AI) and automation as part of their cyber security stack. This is one of the key findings in the 18th edition of IBM’s annual Cost…
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Those awaiting the release of Armored Core VI Fires of Rubicon with bated breath can look forward to a broadcast showcasing gameplay tomorrow. Bandai Namco is airing a 12-minute livestream on Twitch and YouTube on July 25 at 7 a.m. Pacific/10 a.m. Eastern. While the event promises gameplay footage, it’s unclear what else to expect…
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The Bank of England has reached a major landmark in its programme to replace its 27-year-old real-time gross settlement (RTGS) system after completing the first of two major components of the project. Replacing the RTGS system is a “once-in-a-generation” project, according to the Bank of England, with planning beginning in 2016 for a project set…
The way we pay has changed over the centuries, from shells, to coins, to banknotes, to cheques, to cards, to smartwatches and much in between. Technology has played a major role in this transformation and the pace of change has never been faster. It is important that the core payment systems – often thought of…
Britain’s most secret court is investigating claims that UK agencies unlawfully monitored the phone communications of two Northern Ireland journalists. The Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) has agreed to investigate whether the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PNSI), Durham Constabulary, GCHQ and MI5 used intrusive surveillance in an attempt to identify the journalists’ sources. Trevor Birney…
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