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Taking a look at the lighter side of IT - technology may be a serious business but it rarely fails to raise a smile too.
Recent Posts
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A smartphone for your smartphone?
- Business Editor 17 Oct 2018 -
Algorithm gets cancelled
11 Oct 2018 -
Russian cyber crime sends us crackers
04 Oct 2018
As if smartphone devices aren't already taking over our lives enough, a US company has launched a miniature phone to act as a companion to your main device. In a world where smartphones are ...
Amazon has had to rein in the artificial intelligence it was using to help vet job applicants after picking up on its male chauvinist tendencies. As is the case with its human bigot counterparts, ...
The UK government has condemned Russia’s military intelligence service for a variety of cyber attacks in its routinely stern way, but at this point, we might as well be told about this kind of ...
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Delivered and read
27 Sep 2018 -
The importance of binning idols
20 Sep 2018 -
Provocation, provocation
13 Sep 2018 -
Buoy, that’s a gnarly app!
- Business Editor 06 Sep 2018 -
You don’t know you’re porn
29 Aug 2018 -
Taste the deference
15 Aug 2018 -
AI makes wallies of us all
09 Aug 2018
If you were to make a list of things least worthy of your tears, the wistful tale of a man who sold his soul to Facebook for billions of dollars would surely nestle somewhere between, say, Tim Cook ...
The art of 3D printing has suffered a setback in Kuwait, after pressure from hysterical clergymen forced the closure of its local Doob 3D store with accusations of idolatry. The company offers a ...
You don’t need to be told by two self-satisfied dudebros that poking AI with a stick might come back to bite us one day, but Joe Rogan’s recent podcast with Elon Musk has certainly reminded us to ...
Australian tourist favourite Bondi Beach has taken a bite of the app market by creating a mobile app which tells lifeguards whether there’s a shark nearby. According to the Telegraph the system of ...
What’s all this about deepfakes? We can’t move lately for the sinister imagery that accompanies this ubiquitous news item designed to make baby boomers put down their Oat So Simple. While the likes ...
Sainsbury’s is trialling its first ever till-free supermarket, entrusting us with the task of scanning our own items via our smartphones. This comes as good news for those of us who feel the ...
As much as we try to embrace all the various wonders of modern technology, we still turn into Danny DeVito’s character as the bitter, resentful father in Matilda whenever we see a news story about ...
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Drone accidentally announced in Argos catalogue
- Business Editor 02 Aug 2018 -
Kuri curries favour but Bosch favours Currys
26 Jul 2018 -
Chitty Chitty Bond Bond
19 Jul 2018 -
The analogue minister
12 Jul 2018 -
Siri, show me a threat to national security
04 Jul 2018
Technology companies are always coming up with increasingly elaborate ways to announce their new products. But when drone manufacturer decided to postpone the press event where it would announce ...
Bosch has forced startup firm Mayfield Robotics to cancel the release of Kuri, a home robot that was all set to patrol your house and rob your dog of its last shreds of dignity. Could it be that ...
Aston Martin unveiling plans for a “sports car of the skies” will presumably cause some headaches for those James Bond fans of the school of thought that nothing about the franchise should ever ...
When Theresa May’s unstoppable reshuffle tour eventually reached as far as grinning app namesake Matt Hancock, he found himself thrust from his role as secretary of state for digital, culture, ...
Gavin Williamson unwittingly summoning Siri on his iPhone whilst updating Parliament on the fight against Daesh has marked him as national security’s weak link, which couldn’t really be any less ...