Elder Scrolls Online: first impressions
I spent much of last weekend on Stros M’Kai – an island in the vast virtual world of Tamriel that will be the setting for a the long-awaited game Elder Scrolls Online.
A Briton who has been protesting at Mt. Gox, fearing he may have lost bitcoins worth hundreds of thousands of dollars held at the exchange, tells Channel 4 News the industry needs more regulation.
The chief executive of Mt. Gox, one of the world’s biggest Bitcoin exchanges, says the business is at a “turning point” after its website went offline.
Microsoft is cutting the price of its Xbox One games console under heavy pressure from its major rival the Sony Playstation 4.
This week Senator John McCain moved to shift control of US drones from the CIA to the defence department. Meanwhile, fears grow about the application of activity-based intelligence to drones.
Environmental experts say the damage caused by the recent flooding could have been prevented if the correct water management techniques had been used.
British Gas reports a small drop in profits for 2013 as its chairman warns political intervention could increase the chance of the “lights going out.”
Facebook acquires instant messaging service WhatsApp in a $19bn deal that Mark Zuckerberg describes as “extremely valuable”. But is it?
Journalists react angrily on Twitter after a PR company representing Mastercard tells them to mention the company in their tweets from the Brit awards.
As David Cameron says money is no object on flood relief, a team of Dutch engineers arrive in the UK and reveal that British defences are under severe strain. Tom Clarke reports.
While some computer whizz-kids have got a bad name in San Francisco for pushing up house prices and making insensitive remarks about less affluent residents, others have the community firmly at heart.
Fracking has sparked protests in Britain, but these look subdued compared with a campaign in Romania by peasant farmers, who are fighting their own government. Jim Wickens and Paraic O’Brien report.
Sinkholes are appearing across Britain as rain batters the UK and floods continue to swamp some areas – but what are they, and is heavy rain really to blame for that sinking feeling?
I spent much of last weekend on Stros M’Kai – an island in the vast virtual world of Tamriel that will be the setting for a the long-awaited game Elder Scrolls Online.
If the latest bout of turbulent weather provides further evidence of climate change, then we need a joined-up strategy to deal with it. But first, we need to agree on the nature of the threat.
We’re used to seeing police officers protecting our streets – what about the people guarding our computers? There’s an industry of researchers, investigators and enforcers fighting the bad guys.