[ad_1] Corbyn will put forward the ideas later today in the Alternative MacTaggart lecture at the Edinburgh TV Festival. The money raised will go to support quality, public interest and investigative reporting which is currently under threat, he will say, from a “few tech giants and unaccountable billionaires who will control huge swathes of our publicRead more about Corbyn to tax tech to support quality journalism[…]

[ad_1] With the high cost of today’s games consoles providing a barrier to entry for many consumers, the idea of a console maker offering its hardware and games as part of a monthly subscription service seems like a very good one.  According to Windows Central, Microsoft is planning to do just that, with unnamed sourcesRead more about Rumored Xbox One subscription service will bundle a console with games and Live[…]

[ad_1] Enter Google Assistant It was back at Google I/O 2018 that Google announced a redesigned Actions console, intended to simplify developing Actions. But what are they, and how do they relate to Android? Essentially Actions represent a way to extend the functionality of an Android app to different contexts. Particularly conversations, and not necessarilyRead more about What is… an Android Action?[…]

[ad_1] Samsung surprised scores of journalists at CES 2018 when it showed up with an 8K TV, called The Wall, that uses artificial intelligence and microLED technology to transform HD and SD content into brilliant, 7,680 x 4,320 video.  Turns out, those same journalists might get an encore performance at IFA 2018.  Earlier this month,Read more about Samsung 8K QLED TV might show up at IFA 2018[…]

[ad_1] The 19th Silicon Gorge Cup 2018 five-a-side football tournament, organised by Mentor, a Siemens business, took place on Thursday 5th of July. The venue was the Goals Soccer Centre in Bristol. UK Electronics Championship It is the biggest football tournament for the UK’s electronics design community and is quite rightly called “UK Electronics Championship”Read more about Cirrus Invincibles sweep 19th Silicon Gorge Cup[…]

[ad_1] Shopping around for a 4K monitor for your PC gaming needs, but don’t need the bells and whistles of more expensive models? Samsung may have just the display series for you. Samsung’s CJG5 screens, available in 32 and 27 inch sizes, eschew the more dramatic accoutrements of some gaming monitors in favour of focussingRead more about Samsung offers curved 4K PC gaming at 'affordable' prices with new monitor[…]

[ad_1] The organizations are striving to achieve post-K application execution performance up to 100 times that of the K computer. A64FX is the world’s first CPU to adopt the Scalable Vector Extension (SVE), an extension of Armv8-A instruction set architecture for supercomputers. Building on over 60 years’ worth of Fujitsu-developed microarchitecture, this chip offers peakRead more about Fujitsu announces supercomputer CPU[…]

[ad_1] While rumors surrounding Nikon’s new Z6 and Z7 mirrorless cameras have been making the rounds on the internet in the lead up to the announcement, the Japanese manufacturer has mostly been tight-lipped about them, teasing us with videos and nothing more. However, with just a day to go before the official announcement, the pressRead more about Nikon Z6 and Z7 press pics leak, showing off new mirrorless snappers in full[…]

[ad_1] The Machine Learning Chip Market report forecasts the global ML chip market will be worth $37.8 billion in 2025, demonstrating a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 40.8% between 2018 and 2025. The report considers chips by type (GPU, neuromorphic, flash-based, ASICs and FPGAs) across consumer electronics, automotive, healthcare and the robotics industry, whereRead more about ASIC asserts rights to ML chip market[…]

[ad_1] There’s no shortage of bad news out there – with wars, famine and the mediocrity of Matt Groening’s new show, Disenchantment, topping the list – but Google wants to fix that, not by censoring bad news but by making it easier to find good news. The feature is called ‘Tell Me Something Good’ and, accordingRead more about Google Assistant will brighten your day with its new good news feature[…]