A digital forensics expert has warned that consumers can do more to prevent cyber criminals from targeting them on Black Friday and Cyber Monday, ahead of a new theatre production by Royal Birmingham Conservatoire challenging the idea that 'if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear'.

Richard Hale, Senior Lecturer in Digital Forensics at Birmingham City University, highlighted web cookies as a common weakness exploited by criminals – and security analysts alike.

A forest ranger robot dog has been unveiled as part of a project using cutting edge technology to boost tourism and help protect the environment in Nottinghamshire’s legendary woodland. With functionality designed by experts from Birmingham City University, the prototype, remote-controlled, dog-shaped robot is taking the lead by trialling how data gathered from areas which are usually inaccessible, and monitoring and assessing the health and condition within a forest environment. 

Shoppers can save themselves money this Black Friday by buying energy saving gadgets that will reduce their power bill, reveals Uswitch.com, the comparison and switching service.

Slow cookers, heated airers and electric blankets are among the low-energy devices that can be cheaper to run than other household appliances. 

Virgin Media O2 has demonstrated the power of its network by successfully delivering next-generation 2,200Mbps broadband speeds to homes in Birmingham in a real-world trial. The multi-gigabit speeds – more than 29 times faster than the Birmingham average broadband speeds – have been delivered via Virgin Media O2’s existing future-proof cable network.

Bookmaker Wiliam Hill today opened its book on the UK being treated to a white Christmas, with prices being assigned to 10 major UK airports. For many of us, snow is synonymous with Christmas - Bing Crosby even dreamt of it - but in the UK, snow or sleet falls an average of 3.5 days in December, with the MET Office able to accurately forecast whether snow is likely on any given Christmas Day up to five days beforehand.

Off the back of a successful in-person event this October, the UK’s largest games trade fair will be returning for two events in 2022 – EGX Birmingham (formerly EGX Rezzed) on 3rd-5th March 2022 and EGX London on 22-25 September, both in partnership with Virgin Media. 

This year’s EGX was a very special event for fans and developers alike, bringing the video games community back together for their first in-person event since 2019.