Microsoft ready’s Xbox remote play feature for iPhone
Microsoft is about to launch an Xbox app update for iOS that will allow console owners to stream games directly to their iPhones. Microsoft is readying an update for its Xbox companion app that will soon allow digital titles to be played remotely on iPhone. Dubbed Remote Play, which is already...
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AI delves into the creative world with original writing function
Computer scientists have been left stunned by a language AI’s ability to write original articles and compose poetry. While AI has only really become a mainstay of the tech world in the last five years or so, the rate at which its sophistication is growing is pretty darn scary… certainly...
Exclusive: welcome to Impactr, the app turning social media into social change
Thred has been given an exclusive, pre-launch peek at new app Impactr, the self-proclaimed ‘anti-Amazon’ about to revolutionise online interaction. What’s next in social media? It’s a question people have asked themselves since David Fincher’s The Social Network premiered in 2010, seemingly the swan song of a digital juggernaut...
Burberry the first luxury brand to livestream a runway show on Twitch
Burberry has taken to Twitch to debut its SS21 collection in yet another step towards the fashion's integration in the world of gaming. Acknowledging that Gen Z is predicted to make up 60% of the entire luxury market by 2026, high-end fashion has been flocking to the world of gaming,...
Microsoft’s Bethesda purchase cements gaming as world’s biggest entertainment industry
It’s difficult to find a silver lining to a global pandemic, but the gaming industry is winning big out of Covid-19. The economic fallout (no pun intended) caused by Covid-19 has shaken up entire industries and changed consumer behaviours drastically. People are spending more time than ever before within the confines...
Are microscopic robots the future of invasive human treatment?
Microrobots the size of single cells could soon patrol the human body, according to professors at Cornell. In 1959, Cornell’s Nobel Prize winning physicist Richard Feynman talked up the possibility of ‘shrinking technology’ revolutionising the medicinal industry in his lifetime. He may have been wide of the mark in that...
The rise of ‘dark social’ is changing brand marketing
Gen Z is one of the biggest drivers of dark social traffic, often blurring the line between private and public social media activity - it’s only set to increase. Dark social is commonly used to describe any online interaction or click that can’t be traced by third parties or marketers. This applies to WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger chats, private emails, or Snapchat photo sending, for example. It means that web...
Is VR technology set to take over the videocall space?
Are virtual reality meetings the next logical step from videocalls in a post Covid world? While the coronavirus pandemic has decimated certain job markets, it has inspired tech companies to innovate and keep businesses thriving from a remote setting. In a radically shifting 12 months, we’ve adapted into something of a Zoom-centric society where people are accustomed to living out something close to their ordinary lives through the guise of...
Venus may hold the key to discovering extra-terrestrial life
NASA is set to investigate a recent discovery showing possible signs of microbial life in the clouds of Venus. Researchers have discovered the presence of a rare and toxic gas called phosphine floating around the atmosphere of Venus. Known to biologists as one of the strongest indicators – or ‘biosignatures’ – of microbial life, this breakthrough suggests we may have found the first signs of life beyond Earth… and not...
Facebook promises to cut emissions by 2030
The social media giant has also launched a ‘Climate Science Information Centre’ for some users alongside ambitions carbon reduction plans. Facebook joins many larger tech firms in promising to heavily reduce its greenhouse gas emissions in the coming decade. It has said it will be purchasing renewable energy and offsets to counterbalance its current carbon footprint, with a future focus on investing in renewable energy projects and initiatives. In addition,...
