Category : BBC - Technology

Callisto Protocol: Gory new game pushes horror to new limits

Whereas some horror experiences rely on a player's imagination to do most of the work, Stone and his team have also opted to harness the graphical power of the latest consoles to show, in intricate detail, what happens to the game's characters when t...

Kate Winslet: Parents feel powerless over children's social media use

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'Merry Christmas': 30 years of the text message

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No more airplane mode? EU to allow calls on flights

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'5G makes my phone pretty worthless'

The UK's major networks, EE, O2, Three and Vodafone, told me they were on track to meet them, happy with the progress of their rollouts, their customers generally satisfied with the service - and people tended not to notice when networks were working...

Russian mercenary videos 'top 1bn views' on TikTok

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Elon Musk's Starlink to help strengthen internet in remote UK places

Recent tests have shown that in many locations, Starlink satellites can deliver internet speeds of up to 200 megabits a second - four times faster than the current UK average of just over 50Mbps, said the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sp...

San Francisco to allow police 'killer robots'

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Can age verification stop children seeing pornography?

"Just as someone on the door of a nightclub might guess your age by how old you look, for those who are well over a legal age artificial intelligence software can estimate your age based on a selfie or even a voice recording, and has been tested to p...

Government denies weakening Online Safety Bill

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Facebook: Meta fined €265m by Irish Data Protection Commission

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The birth pangs of the Grand Theft Auto franchise

Colin Macdonald, who joined DMA a few months before the launch of the action-adventure video game in 1997, explains: "In mid-development, there was an informal staff survey on which of the seven titles they were working on would be the most successfu...

Twitter: Romance, business and campaigns born on the platform

I love Twitter. There's so many people out there that I feel very, very strongly about even though we've never met, which does sound a bit weird. Online friends are a different sort of friend from real-life friends, but they're really important. I fe...

Mercedes-Benz to introduce acceleration subscription fee

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Foxconn: iPhone maker apologises after huge protests at China plant

"Although the zero-Covid strategy has become nimbler over time, the combination of more contagious Covid variants and persistent gaps in vaccinations have led to the need for more frequent lockdowns, weighing on consumption and private investment, in...