Category: Technology

Twitter provided an update about the unprecedented July 15th attack that allowed hackers to tweet from some of the most high-profile accounts on the service, in a blog post and a series of tweets published Thursday evening. Twitter now says that a few employees were targeted in a phone spear phishing attack. While Twitter doesn’t […]

The second series of the hugely successful live-action The Witcher show on Netflix is the latest project delayed due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. According to Redanian Intelligence – a site dedicated to news about Netflix’s The Witcher series – filming for the second series is expected to commence again on 7th August, 2020. If […]

I have misplaced the book – I can at least tell you it’s called Two Girls, One on Each Knee and it’s by Alan Connor and it’s wonderful – but I remember reading that a newspaper (I think the Telegraph) at one point (I think it was the 1990s) tried to meddle with the way […]

I’ll be honest, regular 2D chess was already enough to sizzle my brain – but apparently that wasn’t difficult enough, as someone has created 5D chess. Released last week by Conor Petersen and Thunkspace, 5D Chess claims to be “the first ever chess variant with spatial, temporal, and parallel dimensions”. There’s multiverse time travel, branching […]

I really enjoy not playing with anyone else in Star Wars: The Old Republic, which seems like a horrible thing to say given it’s a massively-multiplayer online game, but it’s what I’ve always done. It’s not that I hate other people, or that I’m zealously role-playing a Sith Lord who hates people (though I am […]

Be still my beating heart! Lauren Hissrich, showrunner for The Witcher Netflix series, has announced a new six-part series called The Witcher: Blood Origin. It will be a prequel story set 1200 years before Geralt and the events we’re familiar with, and will chart the origin of the Witchers and how they came to be. […]

When a trailer for a fan-made remake of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas burst onto the scene earlier this month, many thought it was too good to be true. And it was, in a sense: as while the trailer displayed a “remade” version of San Andreas in Unreal Engine 4, the project was merely a […]