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Carbon Pollution From Your Emails
A Financial Times report based on work by Tim Berners-Lee has highlighted how sending fewer emails could help tackle climate change by reducing carbon emissions.
Emails and Carbon Production
The idea from Tim Berners-Lee, referenced also…

Facial Recognition, Facial Authentication and the Future
Facial Recognition and facial authentication sound similar but there are distinct differences and this article takes a broad a look at how both are playing more of a role in our lives going forward. So firstly, what's the difference?
Facial…

Just What Is The Internet of Things?
With a vast and growing number of business, industry, consumer and civic IoT (internet of things) devices and systems now being used, we look at their advantages, the threats to the IoT and how we move forward in a way that maximises the benefits…

Elon Musk Demonstrates ‘Neuralink’ Using Live Pigs
Tesla-founder and SpaceX boss Elon Musk gave an update on the progress of his Neuralink project using live pigs with the device implanted.
What Is Neuralink?
The Neuralink idea is to create an implantable device that can act as an interface…

Remote Working Means Public Cloud and DaaS Spend Increase
Gartner has forecast continued spending on the public cloud and particularly desktop-as-a-service (DaaS) through 2020, fuelled by remote working during the pandemic.
Growth
The Gartner market watcher’s global public cloud services market…

Electric Vehicles, Batteries & Renewables
7 million electric vehicles are already on the world’s roads and it is predicated that 31 per cent of the overall car fleet will be electric by 2040 (i.e. 58% of all vehicles sold). How these vehicles are powered by (or can store) renewable…

Internet Speed Record
Researchers from Australia’s Monash, Swinburne, and RMIT universities claim to have set a new Internet speed record of 44.2 Tbps.
Fibre Connection
The claim, which is featured in the ‘Nature Communications’ journal (https://www.nature.com/)…

Innovations/Gamechangers to Expect in 2020
This is the time of year for looking ahead to how technology could be affecting business and hopefully, enhancing our lives over the coming year and here is a selection of just some of the possible game-changing technological innovations that…

Glimpse of the Future of Tech at CES Expo Show
Last week, at the giant CES expo in Las Vegas, the latest technology from around the world is on display, and here are just a few of the glimpses into the future that are being demonstrated there, with regards to business-tech.
Cyberlink…

‘Moore’s Law’ and Business Innovation Challenged By Slow-Down In Rate of Processing Power Growth
Many tech commentators have noted a stagnation or slow-down period in computing related to ‘Moore’s Law’ being challenged, but has the shrinking of transistors within computer chips really hit a wall and what could drive innovation further?
What…

Digital ‘Pressure’ For Accountants
A report by IT company Prism Solutions has highlighted how traditional accountancy firms are having to change rapidly to meet challenges such as Cloud computing, GDPR and HMRC pressing quickly ahead with ‘Making Tax Digital’ (MTD).
MTD
According…

Major Workforce Changes Over The Next Five Years
A new global Forrester Consulting study predicts major changes in their service workforce over the next five years, including replacing call centre and customer service centre staff with automated dispatch notification.
The Study
The…

Robot Tuck Shops About To Hit U.S. College Campuses
San Francisco-based start-up, Starship Technologies, has announced that it will be putting food delivery robots that respond to phone app orders on 100 U.S. university campuses in the next 24 months.
The Bots
It has been reported…

Scientists Discover How To Store Data On Matter Smaller Than DNA
Scientists from Brown University are reported to have discovered how to store data on metabolic molecules, which are pieces of matter that are even smaller than DNA.
Storage In Artificial Metabolomes
The results of the recent research…