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Sustainability-In-Tech : Repealling Climate Act Sparks Warnings
A plan to scrap the UK’s Climate Change Act has triggered warnings over energy costs, investor confidence, and the future of net-zero innovation. What Is The Climate Change Act? Introduced in 2008 with near-unanimous cross-party support, the Climate Change Act (CCA) is the foundation of the UK’s statutory approach to […]
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Video Update : How To Create Your Brand Kit With CoPilot
Creating visuals with brand elements in Microsoft 365 CoPilot helps with brand consistency, increased productivity, and enhanced creativity by quickly generating branded content, managing brand assets, and offering AI-powered visual creation tools integrated into workflows. [Note – To Watch This Video without glitches/interruptions, It may be best to download it […]
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Tech Tip – How To Undo Send in Gmail and Outlook
Avoid email mistakes with Gmail and Outlook’s Undo Send feature, a handy safety net for business communications. Here’s how: For Gmail: – After sending an email, look for the “Undo” prompt in the bottom left corner. Click Undo before the time limit expires (5-10 seconds, or up to 30 seconds […]
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UK Digital ID Mandatory By 2029
UK Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, has announced that digital ID will become mandatory to prove the right to work in the UK by 2029, triggering both ministerial praise and civil liberties concerns. Interestingly, a petition on the UK Government’s site : https://petition.parliament.uk/ had attracted approaching three million signatures of people opposed to […]
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Friendship Tech Goes From Novelty To Necessity
In this Tech Insight, we look at how a new generation of digital platforms and community initiatives is rising to meet the growing UK demand for meaningful friendship, tackling loneliness through apps, events, and innovative social design that prioritises connection over dating. A Growing Demand (And Rising Cost) Loneliness in […]
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App Pays You For Your Phone Calls
A new iPhone app that pays users for their call recordings to train AI systems rose rapidly in late September. However, it then went offline after a security flaw exposed user data. What Neon Is And Who Is Behind It? Neon is a consumer app that pays users to record […]
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Ad‑Free Facebook & Insta … For £3.99 Monthly
Meta will let UK users pay a monthly fee to use Facebook and Instagram without adverts, introducing a lower‑priced “consent or pay” model in response to UK data protection guidance. Users Offered A Choice Meta has confirmed that UK users will soon be offered a choice, i.e., continue using Facebook […]
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Company Check : Claude In CoPilot & Google Data Commons
Microsoft has confirmed it is adding Anthropic’s Claude models to its Copilot AI assistant, giving enterprise users a new option alongside OpenAI for handling complex tasks in Microsoft 365. Microsoft Expands Model Choice In Copilot Microsoft has begun rolling out support for Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4.1, two […]
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Security Stop-Press: Insider Threats : BBC Reporter Shares Story
Cybercriminals are increasingly targeting employees as a way into company systems, with insider threats now posing a serious and growing risk. In one recent case, a BBC reporter revealed how a ransomware gang tried to recruit him through a messaging app, offering a share of a ransom if he provided […]
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Sustainability-In-Tech : Robots Refurbish Your Old Laptops
A research team in Denmark is building an AI‑driven robot to refurbish laptops at scale, offering a practical route to reduce e‑waste while creating new value for businesses. RoboSAPIENS At the Danish Technological Institute (DTI) in Odense, robotics researchers are developing a system that uses computer vision, machine learning and […]
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Video Update : How To Schedule Tasks in ChatGPT
It’s easier than ever to setup scheduled tasks in CoPilot and so whether you want a summary of the news each week or updates about your stock portfolio every morning, this video shows how you can get CoPilot to run scheduled tasks for you, with (importantly) an email sent to […]
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Tech Tip – Turn Off WhatsApp Read Receipts for More Privacy
Feel under pressure to reply the moment you’ve read a message? Turning off WhatsApp’s read receipts hides the blue ticks, letting you read messages privately and respond in your own time. How to: – Open WhatsApp and go to Settings > Privacy > Read Receipts.– Toggle it off. What it’s […]
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