Media

From wildfires to our wars on nature and each other, the subjects captured in the winning 42 images of the 69th World Press Photo Contest are not the easiest to view – but it's what makes this annual competition such a prestigious and powerful one.

This Halloween scientists at MIT’s Media Lab are embarking on a massive social experiment. Called BeeMe, the project will let internet users control a real human actor. New Atlas reached out to Niccolo Pescetelli, one of the creators behind the experiment to find out exactly what is about to happen.

In a fight against "offensive or clearly misleading" results that make up about 0.25-percent of daily search traffic, Google has outlined new efforts to stymie the spread of fake news and other low-quality content like unexpected offensive materials, hoaxes and baseless conspiracy theories.​

Toshiba Europe has announced Q4 availability for its new media tablet, the Folio 100.

In one of the more bizarre media announcements of recent times, News International's LCD British Tabloid The Sun is to publish a 3D edition on June 5 complete with 3D glasses, editorial images, adverts and World Cup Wall Chart.

LaCie has revamped its LaCinema Classic multimedia hard drive to be a media player with up 2TB internal storage, 802.11n WiFi and a built-in DLNA server that lets users browse, play and share HD 1080p media collections from anywhere in the home.