Sam Shedden

Jan 7, 2025 | readwrite.com | Graeme Hanna |Sam Shedden |Adrian Zmudzinski |Paul McNally

The U.K. government announced on Tuesday (Jan 7) it would outlaw the creation and sharing of sexually explicit deepfake images. The action has been taken to protect women and young girls, who are mainly targeted with this type of material. It is already illegal to make such imagery of children, but the law is being extended to protect those aged over 18. Deepfake is a term given to AI-powered images or videos that have been altered or edited to depict a real person.

Jan 6, 2025 | readwrite.com | Graeme Hanna |Sam Shedden |Adrian Zmudzinski |Jacob Woodward

Nvidia has used the significant platform at CES 2025 to unveil its latest generation Blackwell graphics cards. The company’s CEO Jensen Huang made his presence felt, donning a snakeskin-design jacket instead of his typical leather jacket, but this presentation was about more than him. The new release of Blackwell GPUs has been long-awaited and with the world’s biggest tech show in Las Vegas providing the backdrop, the all-important details were displayed.

Nov 29, 2024 | readwrite.com | Paul McNally |Sam Shedden |Graeme Hanna |Radek Zielinski

A huge patch bringing over 650 fixes to Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl has been released by GSC Game World to make venturing into the Zone this weekend a lot more enjoyable. We always knew it was going to take some major patching to get the game ship-shape and this one will likely be the first of a fair few to make strides towards that. AI has come in for a lot of work here, although as yet there are still no fixes for the largely broken A-Life aspect of the game.

Nov 28, 2024 | readwrite.com | Paul McNally |Sam Shedden |Suswati Basu |Ali Rees

Depending on your view of the UFO (or UAP to use the trendy, less-tainted vernacular) “scene”, the strange lights appearing over the Capitol building in Washington DC this week have caused an international stir, with news outlets the world over-reporting the potential phenomena.

Nov 28, 2024 | readwrite.com | Paul McNally |Sam Shedden |Joel Loynds |Hamza Tariq

The Nokia 6110 (or 6190 in North America) is synonymous with the mainstream arrival of mobile phones in everybody’s pockets, alongside one other thing – Snake. The tiny arcade game that basically became a precursor to every mobile game, well, ever. Play Assassin’s Creed on your iPhone? Thank Snake. Candy Crush on the bus? Cheers Snakey, and so on. The concept of a game on your cellphone was alien to everybody. Wtf was it doing there? Changing the world, that’s what. Thanks Snake.