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Amazon has announced that it will be expanding its ultra-fast Prime Air drone delivery operations to the UK, Italy and also to an as yet unnamed US city by the end of 2024. Prime Air Drone Delivery Amazon Prime Air is a service is intended to (safely) deliver packages to customers in 30 minutes or … Continue reading Tech News : UK Joins Amazon’s Fast Drone Delivery Expansion →

November 2, 1936 : BBC Basics “Gentlemen, you have now invented the biggest time-waster of all time. Use it well.”, said Isaac Shoenberg, head of the EMI research team that developed the first fully electronic television system to be used in regular broadcasting. On the second of November 1936, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) transmitted the first-ever … Continue reading Tech-Trivia : Did You Know? This Week in Tech-History … →

It’s been reported that following a hack of online travel agency Booking.com’s email system, customers have been receiving phishing emails asking for their bank card details to avoid cancellation of their hotel booking. The emails, which have been reported to come from a standard booking.com email address, appear to be targeting customers who have checked-in … Continue reading Security Stop Press : Booking.com Customers Targeted By Phishing Emails →

Independent energy thinktank Ember’s Global Electricity Review 2023 reports that fossil fuel power generation has peaked for the half the world and that clean energy sources now account for nearly 40 per cent of the world’s electricity supply. Five Years Ago  Ember’s review report, which analyses electricity data from 78 countries representing 93 percent of … Continue reading Sustainability-in-Tech : Fossil Fuels Peak as Solar & Wind Rise →

If you’d like to protect your privacy and prevent yourself from being tracked by websites other than the one you are currently visiting, there’s a way to automatically block third-party cookies in Google Chrome. Here’s how: – In Chrome, click on the three dots (top right) and click on ‘Settings’. – Click on ‘Privacy and … Continue reading Tech Tip – Automatically Block Third-Party Cookies In Google Chrome →

Microsoft has announced the launch of Azure AI Content Safety, a new content moderation service that uses AI to detect and filter out offensive, harmful, or inappropriate user and AI-generated text or image content. What Kind of Harmful Content? The type of content Microsoft’s developed Azure AI Content Safety to filter out includes anything that’s … Continue reading Featured Article : Microsoft Launches New AI Content Safety Service →

It’s been reported that some schools, in the UK (as well as Israel and the US) have advised Jewish parents to delete social media apps from their children’s phones over fears that they may see distressing hostage videos or videos of civilians being killed in the Israel-Hamas-Gaza conflict. In Israel  In Israel, schools and parents … Continue reading Tech News : Protect Kids from War Content →

Human content writers have surged in demand recently, as part of a broader effect, where ‘prompt engineers’ have seen salaries of $300,000. LinkedIn’s figures show that job posts in English with references to “GPT” or “ChatGPT” have increased 21-fold since November 2022. Interestingly, after almost a year of generative AI and predictions that it could … Continue reading Tech News : 21-Fold Increase in AI-Assisted Jobs →

October 10, 2023 : “A Thousand-Year Name Extension” Around a thousand years before electronics, a monk called Poppo was asked to prove his faith, because Sweyn Forkbeard was having doubts about his baptism. Legend has it that Poppo proved his faith by holding a red-hot metal glove, yet he remained unharmed. Sweyn Forkbeard’s father (King … Continue reading Tech-Trivia : Did You Know? This Week in Tech-History … →

As featured in a recent Wall Street Journal report, iPhone thieves are exploiting a security setting called the ‘recovery key’ to permanently lock owners out of their own iPhones and gain access to their financial apps. The method, however, hinges first upon ‘shoulder surfing’, i.e. looking over the iPhone user’s shoulder to get the passcode, … Continue reading Security Stop Press : iPhone Permanent Lock-Out Threat →