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With lab-grown, cultivated meat looking as though it could tackle environmental and animal welfare issues, we look at the Dutch origins of this new produce, its benefits, and how tech has played an important role in creating the product. What Is ‘Cultivated Meat’?  Cultivated meat / cultured meat is real meat, but not taken from as … Continue reading Sustainability : Environmental Benefits of Lab-Grown Meat →

Check Point’s latest Global Threat Index has highlighted how three particular malware families (info-stealers) made up approaching a fifth (16 per cent) of global detections in September. These are AgentTesla (RAT malware) that affected 7 percent of organisations, SnakeKeylogger, a Modular .NET keylogger and credential stealer that affected 5 per cent of organisations, and the … Continue reading Security Stop-Press : Top Three Malware Threats Identified →

Microsoft Excel is still one of the world’s most widely used data tools and a new feature (for desktop), ‘Data from Picture’, means that you can now import a picture of a data table and convert it into a usable one within Excel. Here’s how: – Save a cropped-down screenshot of an excel data table. … Continue reading Tech Tip – Convert Picture Of A Data Table To A Usable One In Excel →

Privacy campaign group Big Brother Watch has filed a complaint to the ICO that the face recognition search engine PimEyes may be unlawful, plus it could be enabling surveillance and stalking. What Is PimEyes?  PimEyes is a search engine that uses facial recognition technology to provide a reverse image search tool, and a photo search … Continue reading Tech News : ‘PimEyes’ Search-By-Photo Stalker Scare →

Meta’s WhatsApp has announced the global rollout of it ‘Communities’ feature along with in-chat polls, 32-person video calling, and groups with up to 1024 users. Communities  The Communities feature, for iOS and Android, allows users to connect multiple groups, e.g. schools, local clubs, non-profit organisations, and businesses together under one umbrella to organise group conversations … Continue reading Tech News : WhatsApp Launches ‘Communities’ →

In this insight, we look at how you can use voice commands to carry out tasks in Windows, plus how speech recognition technology can be used for voice control of different systems and devices. How Does Speech / Voice Recognition Work?  Voice commands can be used to carry out tasks in Windows, plus Android and … Continue reading Featured Article : Speech Recognition And Voice Commands →

Here we look at what Matter 1.0 is, its advantages for the IoT and setting up a smart home (or office), and what its current limitations are. What Is Matter?  Released just recently this October, Matter 1.0 is the new open standard that resolves interoperability and connectivity issues between all the IoT devices in smart … Continue reading Tech Insight : What Is ‘Matter’? →

A prototype of an award-winning robotic fish design that fish filters water to trap microplastics has now been tested in lakes as well as the lab. Gilbert Wins  Eleanor Mackintosh’s design for the glow-in-the-dark, water-filtering ‘Robo-fish’ named “Gilbert” won the University of Surrey’s public competition, the Natural Robotics Contest, which resulted in Gilbert being turned … Continue reading Sustainability : Microplastic-Eating Robot Fish Takes To The Water →

Avanan researchers have warned that threat actors could send a phishing email through Microsoft’s Dynamics 365 Customer Voice CRM tool. This could be done by disguising it as an important voicemail from the customer where the “Play Voicemail” button redirects the victims to a phishing landing page. The advice to users is to look carefully … Continue reading Security Stop-Press : Phishing Threat In Microsoft Customer Feedback Tool →

It’s been reported that if you have Google’s Enhanced Spellcheck enabled, it could be sending everything you type to Google’s servers, including passwords. Here’s how to stop that from happening: – To check if you have enabled Google’s ‘Enhanced spell check’ copy and paste chrome://settings/?search=Enhanced+Spell+Check into the Chrome address bar (the omnibox). – If ‘Basic … Continue reading Tech Tip – Stop Password Risk From Google’s Enhanced Spellcheck →