Getty Images Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson says funding will help mainstream schools adapt buildings for Send pupils The government has announced £740m of funding to increase the number of places for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (Send) in mainstream schools in England. The money, part of the £6.7bn of education spending announced in […]
Ubisoft is shutting down shooter XDefiant and sending refunds to players
Despite the game officially launching in the spring of this year, Ubisoft has has already been announced It’s ending development and ending its free-to-play team-based shooter xdefiantLike hyper scape Before this, xdefiant Ubisoft had over 1 million players in its closed beta last year, leading to great expectations. Now, it will soon disappear, as it […]
Today’s Connections hint and answer on 4th December for 542
Stuck? We’re here to help you with the Connections answer for today, 4th December. If you haven’t played it before, Connections challenges you to sort a group of 16 words into four groups where all of the words are well… connected. This connection could come from them sharing a similar meaning, being part of a […]
Mark Cuban’s war on drug prices: ‘How much money do I want?’
When Mark Cuban Feeling spicy, he’ll always tell you. billionaire businessmanbasketball owner, and shark Tank The impresario delivered a powerful performance on WIRED’s The Big Interview program on Tuesday Elon MuskThe pharmaceutical industry, and why he thinks “couch fucking” and Gary Gensler’s crypto policy are what caused Kamala Harris to lose the election. Speaking with […]
The anatomy of a scare: how do games frighten you?
Imagine you’re standing in a hallway in a game – what does the scene need in order to make it scary? Should we turn the lights off? Should we have a door where you can’t see what’s behind it, but you can hear something behind it? Should there be a threat somewhere, lurking nearby? Is […]
Stalker 2 gets third patch in less than a week, it targets crashes, memory leaks and more
Stalker 2: Heart of Chernobyl It was in a bit of a rough state when it launched as a developer earlier this month gsc game world Everyone was very aware. The studio took less than a day to build Accept “Rough Edges” of the post-apocalyptic shooter, and improvements have been made since then. And today […]
WD’s 4TB Blue SN5000 SSD has dropped under £200 – here’s our mini review
The WD Blue SN5000 is a surprisingly rapid budget NVMe SSD, offering read speeds up to 5500MB/s and write speeds up to 4850MB/s through a PCIe 4.0 connection. We used the SN5000 for our Intel Core Ultra 285K and 245K CPU benchmarking, and we were impressed with the level of performance on offer for a […]
The 10 PS1 games that mattered the most
This was originally going to be a list of the best PlayStation games. It’s the 30th anniversary of Sony’s industry-shaking console, so it made sense to pick the best, but that’s not so simple when looking at games that are decades old. What does “best” even mean when looking back that far? A lot of […]
Dylan Fields got a ‘real kick’ from this week’s Enron relaunch
Figma co-founder Dylan Fields appears to be a big fan of Enron—or rather, crypto-fuel The company’s semi-parodic relaunch that hit the web earlier this week. wearing an oversized enron hoodie During his conversation with a WIRED editor steven levy During The Big Interview event in San Francisco on Tuesday, Fields said he had always been […]
Microsoft accuses FTC of leaking news of its antitrust investigation
Microsoft is asking the Federal Trade Commission’s inspector general to investigate whether agency management improperly leaked news of an antitrust investigation into the company, and make its findings public. bloomberg first reported Investigation was going on last week, which The Verge confirmed laterThe investigation covers Microsoft’s cloud and software licensing businesses, AI and cybersecurity offerings. […]