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Here are 10 top iPhone tips / tricks you may not know about that could make your life easier and help you to be more productive: 1. Digitally Sign Documents Gone are the days when you needed a printer or scanner to sign important documents. With your iPhone, you can quickly add your signature to … Continue reading Summer Apple Pips : 10 Top iPhone Tricks →

It’s been reported that US Security Awareness Training Company ‘KnowBe4’ unknowingly hired a North Korean hacker as a (remote) software engineer. The hacker used stolen identity and AI-generated imagery to circumvent KnowBe4’s due diligence and was even able to make it through four rounds of interviews before being offered the position. However, KnowBe4 discovered the … Continue reading Security Stop Press : Hiring a Hacker? →

New research has concluded that floating solar panels could have the potential to meet the entire electricity needs of certain countries. Helping To Decarbonise National Economies  The findings of the research (from Bangor and Lancaster Universities and the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology) suggest that with a conservative 10 per cent surface area coverage, … Continue reading Sustainability-in-Tech : Floating Solar Panels Could Power Entire Countries →

This video tutorial shows two different ways to summarise a web page using ChatGPT. https://videovault.vip/videos/social/2024-August-2-Ways-of-Summarising-a-Webpage-Using-ChatGPT.mp4 [Note – To Watch This Video without interruptions, It’s best to download it first].

You may not know thay Windows allows you to sync your clipboard across devices so you can copy content on one device and paste it on another. This is especially useful if you work across multiple Windows devices. Here’s how it works: – To enable Clipboard Sync, go to Settings > System > Clipboard. – … Continue reading Tech Tip – Clipboard Sync Across Devices for Seamless Copy-Paste →

In light of two recent reports of motorcyclists being killed in collisions with Tesla vehicles in Autopilot mode, we look closely at the issue of whether automated driving is really safe. Death of Two Motorcyclists  If automated driving is a factor in death on the roads, it seems legitimate to ask the question ‘is automated driving … Continue reading Featured Article : Is Automated Driving Safe Yet? →

In this insight, we look at how a recently developed ‘World Cybercrime Index’ appears to show the globe’s key cybercrime hotspots by ranking the most significant sources of cybercrime at a national level. Three Years To Develop  The world-first World Cybercrime Index (WCI) was developed by following three years of intensive research as part of a joint … Continue reading Tech Insight : New Index Reveals Cyber Criminal Countries →

As part of the NGI TrustChain initiative, 15 startups have been awarded €1.8 million in funding to use blockchain to tackle online misinformation, fraud and fake identities. What Is Blockchain?  Blockchain technology (first released in 2009 and the technology behind Bitcoin) is the decentralised digital ledger system that securely records transactions across multiple computers, ensuring … Continue reading Tech News : EU Funds 15 Blockchain Startups To Fight Misinformation →

The UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has shut down a global call-spoofing operation called ‘Russian Coms’ which is believed to have been used to swindle more than 170,000 victims. Russian Coms  Russian Coms is the name of the major caller ID spoofing platform used by criminals to make over 1.8 million fraudulent calls to victims … Continue reading Tech News : Global Call-Spoofing Operation Shut Down →

Following concerns about AI companies scraping data from the web to train their AI models, Apple has sought to present itself as being a better and more ethical AI provider by highlighting how the training and development of its AI models have been done responsibly. Apple Intelligence  At its 2024 Worldwide Developers Conference, the tech … Continue reading An Apple Byte : Apple More Responsible In Training Its AI Models? →