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With the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) launching India’s first pilot for a retail digital rupee (e₹-R/eINR/E-Rupee) this month, we look at what this means and what the benefits could be. Why?   The pilot will help to decide whether India could intrpduce one of the world’s first nationwide digital currencies. It is thought that having … Continue reading Tech Insight : Digital Dosh →

FlyZero’s and UK Aerospace Technology Institute’s (ATI) study has concluded that green liquid hydrogen powered aircraft could deliver the net-zero 2050 target for aviation. Two Technologies  The 12-month study results suggests that aviation can achieve net-zero by 2050 through the development of both sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and green liquid hydrogen technologies. What Is Green … Continue reading Sustainability : Hydrogen Aircraft Fuel & 2050 Net Zero →

The German Data Protection Conference (DSK) has banned the use of Microsoft Office 365 in German schools over an alleged lack of transparency about how personal data is processed, and the potential for third-party access to it. The ban has also been issued because the DSK believes the use O365 is not legally compliant with … Continue reading Security Stop-Press : Microsoft 365 Banned In German Schools →

If you need to quickly find images on any subject which already have a transparent background, there’s a quick and easy way to do it with Google’s Image Search. Here’s how: – Go to Google and click on ‘Images’ (top right) for Image Search. – Type in what you’re looking for, e.g. Christmas, and hit … Continue reading Tech Tip – Find Images With Transparent Backgrounds In Google →

The announcement by San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors to allow the city’s police to use robots that can deploy “deadly force” in the fight against crime has been met with concern. What Killer Robots?  According to a San Francisco Police Department policy document, the city has essentially approved the use of 17 robots, 5 of … Continue reading Tech News : Robots Now Legally Lethal →

A report from Seagate has highlighted how the rising costs of storing and managing data is hitting businesses hard. One-Third Of Company Budgets  The report highlights how up to a third of company IT budgets are being eaten up by data management and storage costs at an average spend of £213,000 per year! Sleeping Giant  … Continue reading Tech News : Rising Data Management Costs Affecting Businesses →

In this insight, we look at what ‘quiet quitting’ is, what its causes are, together with what could be done to prevent it. Quiet Quitting?  Quiet quitting is a term commonly associated with employment where it refers to how workers decide to only do the job they’re being paid to without taking on extra duties … Continue reading Tech Insight : ‘Quiet Quitting’ …? →

Following news of the collapse of FTX, we look at what it was plus the events leading up to its demise and the effects going forward. FTX  FTX, until very recently, was a Bahamas-based cryptocurrency exchange, founded in 2019 which at its peak (July 2021) had more than one million users and was the third-largest cryptocurrency exchange … Continue reading Featured Article : What Was FTX All About? →

A report which shows huge sales of EVs in the US only resulted in only a 0.54 per cent fall in gasoline consumption in 2021 has led to disappointment and questions about the beneficial Impact of EVs so far. EV Sales  A recent Argonne National Lab report shows that a massive 2.1 million plug-in vehicles, … Continue reading Sustainability-in-Tech : Report Questions Benefits Of Electric Cars →

Password app company LastPass has reported a second data breach that may be related to a previous breach in August where source code and some proprietary LastPass technical information were taken. The company has reported that in this most recent attack, a threat actor using information from August’s attack accessed “certain elements of our customers’ … Continue reading Security Stop-Press : LastPass Second Data Breach →