Two-player games are great. Co-op games are great. What about both!? In Sky Team, two players represent a pilot and co-pilot trying to land a plane — and let me tell you, after a couple of rounds, you’ll understand why some people applaud after landing. Each round, you’ll both roll four dice and assign them…
A few days ago, I clicked a button on my phone to send funds to a company in Singapore and so took ownership of the video game I co-created and am lead writer for: Zombies, Run! I am a novelist, I wrote the bestselling, award-winning The Power, which was turned into an Amazon Prime TV…
The UK’s media regulator says a porn company it fined £1m for failing to comply with the Online Safety Act has started to include more robust age checks on some of its websites. On 4 December Ofcom announced the £1m fine of AVS Group Ltd, which runs a number of pornographic websites, for not having…
Founded in 2024, this start-up wants to be the ‘investigation fabric’ that powers how organisations understand, connect and act on their data. In 2009, three cybersecurity professionals – Eoghan McKee, David Pigott and Quang Pham – met while working at e-commerce giant eBay, where they built and ran a unique intelligence and eCrime function that…
The European Union has provisionally agreed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 90 percent (based on 1990 levels) by 2040, the EU parliament announced in a press release. That goes beyond the goals of most other major economies, including China, but falls short of the original one recommended by the EU’s climate science advisors. “The…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! If the ads you see in December feel a little too accurate, you are not imagining it. The holiday shopping season is the busiest time of the year for retailers and for data brokers. These companies quietly track, collect and sell your personal information. Every search, click,…
McDonald’s has taken down a Christmas advert made with Artificial Intelligence (AI) following online backlash. The 45-second advert was produced with generative AI clips and released publicly on McDonald’s Netherlands YouTube channel on 6 December. Viewers on social media denounced the use of AI in the film, with one commenter calling it “the most god-awful…
The new Dublin-based team will help develop new RxSense products and advance the company’s AI-powered innovation, the company said. US health-tech RxSense has opened its first European office in Dublin, with 75 full-time engineering and product roles set to be created over the next two years. The company provides technology solutions to pharmacies and health…
Amy Lindberg settled quickly into life at Lejeune. She played tennis and ran on her lunch breaks, flitting through sprinklers in the turgid Carolina summers. But something dark was lurking beneath her feet. Sometime before 1953, a massive plume of trichlorethylene, or TCE, had entered the groundwater beneath Camp Lejeune. TCE is a highly effective…
Spotty Wi-Fi can make even simple tasks feel harder than they should. If you’ve ever had a video call freeze in one room or watched a stream buffer in another, a mesh Wi-Fi system can fix those frustrations. Instead of relying on a single router tucked in a corner, a mesh setup uses multiple units…