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Speaking in the House of Commons, UK chancellor of the exchequer Jeremy Hunt said that Brexit “freedoms” could be leveraged to “turn Britain into the world’s next Silicon Valley.” How? Mr Hunt highlighted artificial intelligence (AI), quantum technology and robotics as key areas he believes the UK could excel in. In his speech, he drew upon ‘lessons’ from … Continue reading Tech News : UK Could Be Like Silicon Valley Says Hunt
Following the roll-out of a range of new features for Google’s Maps, Search and shopping, we take a look at what they are and what benefits they could bring to users. Two New Features For Shopping It’s the ideal time of year to introduce new features to Google Shopping, hence the roll-out of two new … Continue reading Tech Insight : Google’s New Features For Maps, Search, And Shopping
After a new report published which says that most business leaders plan to increase investment in sustainability initiatives to protect against disruption, we look at what this means. Report A recent Gartner report highlighted how 86 per cent of business leaders plan to increase their organisation’s investment in sustainability initiatives to protect against disruption and … Continue reading Featured Article : How Investment In Sustainability Could Protect Against Disruption
A feasibility study is to be carried out into whether solar powered data centres could be put into orbit to reduce their carbon footprint. Who And What? The European Commission has chosen Thales Alenia Space, a joint venture between aerospace and defence companies Thales (67 per cent) and Leonardo (33 per cent) to lead the … Continue reading Sustainability : Data Centres In Space?
After analysis of 1,237 Google Chrome extensions available via the Chrome Web Store, researchers from data protection company Incogni concluded in a recent report that almost half (48.6 per cent) have a high or very high-risk impact. This means that they may be storing sensitive, personally identifiable data. The advice is for users to be … Continue reading Security Stop-Press : Google Chrome Extensions Risk
If you’d like to save time by making your most often used and/or favourite pages load automatically whenever you open Google Chrome, here’s how: – In Chrome, click on the three dots top-right and select ‘Settings’. – In the left-hand menu select ‘On startup’. – Select ‘Open a specific page or set of pages’. – … Continue reading Tech Tip – Set Pages To Load Automatically In Chrome
Following announcements that Twitter under Musk will generate revenue by blue tick subscriptions, we look at what this means and at the blue tick chaos that followed the announcement. What Is this ‘Blue Tick’ ? Twitter’s paid-for Blue service, launched last year, is a subscription service – $7.99 (£6.99) per month in the US, also … Continue reading Featured Article : What Is Twitter’s ‘Blue Tick’ All About?
Meta has announced that it is laying off a masive 13 per cent of its workforce globally in re-structuring market uncertainty about the Metaverse vision. Losses Lead To Layoffs Meta’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, announced the 11,000-employee layoff from Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, after Reality Labs, the division building the metaverse, … Continue reading Tech News : Meta Cuts 13% Of Its Workforce
Amazon is reported to be testing the machine learning ‘Sparrow’ robot arm that could handle 65 percent of its 100+ million diverse parcels. Challenge Although Amazon already uses robot arms called ‘Robin’ and ‘Cardinal’ to re-direct boxed-up pre-delivery items around its warehouses, the challenge has been to create a robot arm that can detect, recognise, … Continue reading Tech Insight : Amazon’s Sparrow Robot Could Replace Humans
Zoom has announced that its new (beta) productivity tools, Zoom Mail and Calendar (clients and Services), combined with its existing features will mean that workers will have everything they need in one app. Give Workers A ‘Toggle Tax’ Break Zoom says that the new productivity tool, working together with existing features within Zoom, such as … Continue reading Tech News : Zoom Hopes New Features Make It “One Stop Shop”