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Finnish engineers, Markku Ylönen and Tommi Eronen have made a giant battery which stores heat from green energy in sand that can be used as an all-year-round energy supply. Sand Battery  The Finnish engineers’ company, Polar Night Energy, has made a sand battery in Kankaanpää, in the west of Finland. The battery consists of large … Continue reading Sustainability-In-Tech : Sand Battery For Year-Round Heat →

Threat hunters at Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 have warned that a Russia-based hacking group known as Cozy Bear, Nobelium, APT29 and Cloaked Ursa, are using trusted, legitimate cloud services such Dropbox and Google Drive in their attacks. For example, the group’s recent attacks on some western diplomats use a pdf to call out to … Continue reading Security Stop-Press : Russian Hackers Using Dropbox and Google Drive To Target Victims →

Save time effort with this easy way to copy web data to excel. Instead of copying and pasting chunks of data at a time e.g., from a table on web page, simply copy the URL of the page you’d like to get the data from. Here’s how: – Open Excel. – Click on ‘Data’ (top … Continue reading Tech Tip – An Easy Way To Copy Web Data To Excel →

In this tech-insight, we look how extreme heat can affect IT hardware and what measures you can take to keep the equipment cool and prevent damage. High Temperatures  Hot weather UK-style is not normally a problem. With an average temperature here of about 14 °C, temperatures over 30 °C are a fairly rare occurrence – although becoming more … Continue reading Tech-Insight : Hot Weather & Hardware →

BMW UK is now offering ConnectedDrive owners Front Seat Heating for a £15 per month or £150 per year subscription. BMW ConnectedDrive Services  BMW ConnectedDrive Services use the smart / Internet connected element of the car to enable owners to use software to activate more services in the car by paying a subscription for each, … Continue reading Tech News : Heated Seats ‘as a Service’ →

Vodafone and Virgin Media O2 have announced that their customers will be joining both Three and EE’s customers in having access to high-speed mobile connectivity on London’s Tube network, including within the tunnels. Joined BAI  As confirmed by Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, Vodafone and Virgin Media O2 have joined BAI Communications’ 4G and … Continue reading Tech News : Subway Surfing : Tube Talk →

In this article, we look at what eyestrain is, what causes it, and the many measures you can take to prevent it. What Is Eyestrain?  Eyestrain is eye fatigue, caused by intensely focusing the eyes during a task, such as staring at a computer screen (or phone screen) for extended periods, driving, reading, or engaging … Continue reading Featured-Article : Avoid Eyestrain →

With some research now showing that rental escooters haven’t reduced carbon emissions in cities, we look at whether they are as green an option as you may think. US Research  2019 US research (Hollingsworth, Copeland, Johnson) showed that shared, dockless stand-up rental electric scooters produce 202 grams of CO2 per passenger mile over their lifecycle, which is actually … Continue reading Sustainability : Is Renting An Escooter Really A Green Option? →

Microsoft’s 365 Defender Research Team has warned that a flaw in macOS coupled with Microsoft Word’s backward compatibility could allow the circumvention of App Sandbox rules. This could enable potentially malicious macros to run in Word, leading to users downloading malware, or ransomware. The advice is for macOS users to install the security updates released … Continue reading Security Stop-Press : Threat From Exploiting Macros In Microsoft Word Due To macOS Flaw →

If you are reading a web page or blog in Google Chrome and come across a term you’d like to know about, Google has a built-in way to search for that term simply as a result of when you highlight the text with your mouse. Here’s how it works: – In Google Chrome, find a … Continue reading Tech Tip – Instant Google Search From Highlighted Text →