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Sustainability-in-Tech : Sailing Towards Sustainability

Here we look at the new technologies could lead to a more environmentally friendly and ‘cleaner’ shipping industry, and we look briefly at promising clean tech innovations for air freight.  The Challenge  With 90 per cent of global trades transported by sea, traditional cargo ships are responsible for a significant portion of the world’s carbon emissions i.e., the international…

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Security Stop-Press : 14 UK Schools Hacked And Data Leaked Online

Hackers from ‘Vice Society’ have stolen confidential pupil data from 14 UK schools and leaked the data online on the dark web. A variety of documents and data were stolen during the attacks in 2021 and 2022 including SEN information, child passport scans, staff pay scales and contract details. The ICO and Police are reported to be investigating and…

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Tech Tip – Edit A PDF Using Google Drive

If you have a Google account, you can use Google Drive to open and edit a PDF. Here’s how: Right click on the PDF in Google Drive and select ‘Open With > Google Docs’. Edit the PDF. To re-save it as a PDF, go to ‘File’ (top left), ‘Download > PDF Document (.pdf)’.

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Tech-Insight : Merry Messages (Tipsy Texting) : Don’t Do It!

In this insight, we look at some of the ways to avoid the potential awkwardness of ‘tipsy texting’ over the Christmas period.  Regrets… I’ve Had A Few  A 2015 study (Dunne, Katz), for example, showed that 89 percent of participants said they’d sent a drunk text, and 40 per cent said they’d felt guilty about it after the fact….

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Featured Article : What’s All The Fuss About ChatGPT?

In this article, we look at what ChatGPT is, what it can do, and what type of businesses could get the most out of it. What Is ChatGPT?  Released by OpenAI in November 2022, ChatGPT is a free, text-based AI Chatbot that can answer questions, write essays seemingly on any subject, tell jokes, write literary parodies, answer complex coding questions,…

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Tech News : Rent-a-Robot

It’s been reported that global logistics firm DHL is using “a good number” of leased robots to help it deal with high demand over the Christmas period.  What For … And Where?  The Wall Street Journal has reported that DHL is using leased robots for package handling over the Christmas period. Jobs the robots can help with include sorting/receiving/unloading , moving…

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Tech News : Microsoft Tops List Of Best-Run Companies

Microsoft has retained the No.1 spot in Drucker Institute’s annual Management Top 250 ranking for the best-run companies in the U.S. for the third year in a row, while rankings for some other tech companies have slipped.  Top Five Not All Tech This Year  One of the most notable aspects of this year’s rankings is that unlike last year, tech…

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Sustainability : Fuss Over Fusion

US scientists have announced a major breakthrough in their efforts to create nuclear fusion energy after they were able to produce more energy from a fusion experiment than was put in.  What Is Nuclear Fusion?  Whereas current nuclear power plants split atoms in a process known as ‘fission’ to generate energy, ‘fusion’ generates energy by fusing atoms together (hence…

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Security Stop-Press : Signed Malicious Windows Drivers Used In Ransomware Attacks

It’s been reported that kernel-mode hardware drivers that have been certified (signed) by Microsoft’s Windows Hardware Developer Program have been used maliciously in post-exploitation cyber attacks, i.e. where the attacker had already gained administrative privileges on compromised systems. The attacks have been linked to known ransomware and SIM swappers. It is understood that Microsoft has now released security updates…

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Tech Tip – Upload An Image To Google To Aid A Search

Google’s Image Search allows you upload an image (or paste in the URL) to identify what a product is and where it can be found on the Web. This could be very useful when searching for Christmas presents. Here’s how it works. – Go to Google and click on ‘Images’ (top right). – Click on the camera icon (right…

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