BBC Four will become ‘Home of Repeats’ with original programming slashed in cost-cutting drive as BBC Three returns to TV screens BBC 4 will ‘become the home of the most distinctive content from BBC’s archive’ Corporation delivered £880 million savings last year compared to 2016/17 levels Channel will still broadcast programmes BBC Proms and BBC … Read more
Channel Nine was forced to cancel much of its live programming on Sunday due to an ‘unprecedented cyber attack’. TV Blackbox reports that the technical glitches are believed by security experts to have been orchestrated by ‘Russian hackers’ who sought to stop Monday’s episode of Under Investigation, which focuses on Vladimir Putin, from going to air. … Read more
Sci-fi technology could be used on soldiers to ‘reprogram’ cells and give them Wolverine-like abilities to heal wounds five times faster than the human body US military is working on cell reprogramming to heal wounds faster The process entails changing cells into different ones like muscle into skin This would allow wounds to heal five … Read more
Engineers at Twitter successfully petition company to stop using racially-charged programming terms like ‘master’ and ‘blacklist’ Twitter will change references in code and official documents Engineers lobbied Twitter to stop using terms like ‘master’ and ‘slave’ The terms are commonly used to described certain programming processes Terms like ‘grandfathered’ and ‘man hours’ were also altered … Read more