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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” →

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 →