27/04/2013

Podcaster Helen Zaltzman is here to tell us how a respected news agency's twitter feed got hacked this week, and a convincing fake tweet caused the Dow share index to drop $136 BILLION momentarily before people realised it was fake. Also, how the Scrubs actor Zack Braff has been getting a kicking online, for trying to raise cash for his new project on kickstarter (you can see his video appeal here. It is quite amusing).

In technology news with Dan Maudsley from the T3 Podcast, a worldwide campaign has been launched to stop the development of weapons that can operate by themselves – the group Human Rights Watch are calling them “killer robots”, and how scientists have made living, functioning liver tissue, using 3D printing.

Steve Fowler, the Editor in Chief of Autoexpress is here with car news, with the research suggesting that drivers who use speech programmes like Siri to text while driving are no safer than those who use their fingers to type, and how electric car manufacturers in the US could be forced to make their vehicles produce artificial sounds, so that pedestrians can hear them.

And games journalist Guy Cocker is here with the latest Gaming news. Microsoft has announced just when its new console will be unveiled (but will it be called the Xbox 720?) and as always, he's got his games of the week 

His game to play with friends is here

His game to play with the kids is here

His game to take over your life is here (and it's on a cool fake retro website!)