Sony announces plans to end one-to-one PlayStation customer support on Twitter

Sony has announced plans to end one-to-one PlayStation customer support through Twitter. From 1 August, the company’s individual accounts for Europe, Australia and New Zealand and the Americas will no longer be available to take support requests from gamers. Currently, the round-the-clock customer service is on hand to millions of users and has been running…

Minecraft will not allow NFTs

Minecraft has drawn a red line around the use of NFTs inside and adjacent to Microsoft’s hugely-popular survival sandbox game, effectively banning their use. Last night, Minecraft developer Mojang posted a blog laying out a clear policy on NFTs, which it said created “models of scarcity and exclusion that conflict with our guidelines and the…

Do these heatwaves mean climate change is worse than we thought?

Millions of people are now experiencing the effects of climate change firsthand. Blistering heat waves have smashed temperature records around the globe this summer, scorching crops, knocking out power, fueling wildfires, buckling roads and runways, and killing hundreds in Europe alone. The dizzyingly quick shift from an abstract threat to an era of tumbling temperature…