Techno Updates

Unity's latest interactive demo is an impressive technical showcase Game engine Unity continues to shake off its humble origins with a new interactive demo designed to demonstrate exactly what it can do. This technical showcase is the work of the team behind 2016's Adam short film, which told the story of a humanoid robot awaking from a Matrix-like pod before being put to work by evil human overlords. This is Book of the Dead: Of course, most Unity games do not look like this - few games do. But there's little doubt that, in the right hands, Unity is a powerful tool. "The project is built on the new High-Definition Render Pipeline template shipping with Unity 2018 and various powerful customisations enabled by the SRP," Unity's description explains. "A preview of the High-Definition Render Pipeline is coming soon to 2018.1 public beta. Recent big-name games built using Unity include Cuphead, Life is Strange: Before the Storm and Yoo

YOUTUBE ANNOUNCES MAJOR CHANGES TO HOW IT WORKS IN WAKE OF LOGAN PAUL 'SUICIDE FOREST' VIDEO YouTube is making it far harder to make money from adverts to stop the site being used by "bad actors". The change comes after the site was criticised for its close relationship to Logan Paul, the controversial vlogger. That intensified when Mr Paul posted a video on YouTube that showed him standing and laughing next to a dead body – which stayed up on the site for some time, and seemed only to go down when it was removed by a member of Mr Paul's team, not YouTube. The site has also been criticised for putting marketing from high-profile advertisers, like the Government and Marks & Spencer, next to extremist videos and other illicit content. Google has announced that it will now tightly restrict the users that can join its YouTube Partner Program, which lets them take some of the money earned through ads that go in front of videos. Before, YouTube users o

WhatsApp for BlackBerry 10 is dead, time to switch to a BlackBerry KEYone or Motion! Although there was plenty of warning,  the two-week grace period for WhatsApp on BlackBerry 10 is up  and the app now no longer works. Those trying to use WhatsApp on BlackBerry 10 are now greeted with a 'Switch to a Supported Phone' message. If you still need to access WhatsApp, now is a great time to move into a  BlackBerry KEYone  or  BlackBerry Motion  where WhatsApp continues to be supported. At this point, even exporting your existing data from WhatsApp for BlackBerry 10 has become a chore and the included Export to Android option found within WhatsApp for BlackBerry 10 remains a beta option and is less than reliable. Workarounds to keep WhatsApp working on BlackBerry 10 involve installing the Android version along with WhatsFixer but even then you're not getting the full experience of WhatsApp that moving to a supported device such as the  BlackBerry KEYone  or  BlackBerry