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Tech News : Spotify Introduces Real-Time Listening Activity And Jam Requests
14 January 2026Spotify has introduced two new Messages features that let users see what friends are listening to in real time and invite them into shared listening sessions, signalling a deeper shift towards in-app social interaction. Wider Rollout By Early February The update, confirmed by Spotify on 7 January, adds Listening Activity […]
Tagged Jam, Listening Activity, Spotify
Company Check : Google Brings Gemini AI To Gmail With A Personalised Inbox
14 January 2026Google is reshaping Gmail around its Gemini AI models, introducing a personalised AI Inbox, natural-language AI Overviews in email search, and a wider rollout of writing and summarisation tools designed to help users manage rising email volumes more efficiently. To Help Manage Information Overload Google says more than 3 billion […]
Tagged AI, Gemini, Google
Security Stop-Press : ChatGPT Health Brings New Data Security Risks
14 January 2026OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Health, a dedicated space for health and wellness conversations that allows users to link personal health data, raising fresh security and privacy concerns around highly sensitive information. OpenAI says more than 230 million people ask health-related questions on ChatGPT each week, prompting the creation of a […]
Tagged AI, ChatGPT, Security
Sustainability-in-Tech : Bacteria Could Turn Martian Soil Into Sustainable Building Material
14 January 2026An international research team has proposed using bacteria to bind Martian soil into concrete-like structures, offering a lower-energy and more sustainable way to build future habitats on Mars. What The New Research Is Proposing A new perspective paper published in Frontiers in Microbiology examines whether biomineralisation, a natural process driven […]
Tagged Building Material, Martian, Soil, sustainability
Video Update : How To Create Visual Storyboards with Copilot
14 January 2026This video shows how you can do away with paying for packages like Canva if you want to create visual storyboards, simply by asking Copilot to create your visual storyboards for you … it’s easier than ever! [Note – To Watch This Video without glitches/interruptions, It may be best to […]
Tagged AI, Copilot, Storyboards
Tech Tip: Use Outlook To Find the Best Meeting Time Fast
14 January 2026Streamline meeting planning in Outlook by creating a poll to find the perfect meeting time, boost attendee turnout, and save hours of back-and-forth emails. Here’s how: How to do it – Create a new meeting in Outlook.– Click ‘New Meeting’, then select ‘Scheduling Poll’ in the toolbar.– Enter meeting details […]
Tagged Emails, Outlook
Featured Article : HMRC Wants UK Crypto Buyers’ Details
7 January 2026People using cryptocurrency services in the UK are now required to provide personal and tax identifying details to cryptoasset platforms, following new reporting rules that came into force on 1 January 2026. What Are The Rules? From the start of 2026, anyone buying, selling, transferring, or exchanging cryptoassets through a […]
Tagged Buyers, Crypto, Data, HMRC, UK
Tech Insight : How The Thirty-Year-Old IPv6 Still Underpins the Internet’s Growth
7 January 2026In this Tech Insight, we look at why IPv6 is now 30 years old, what it was designed to solve, how it works in practice, and why it continues to matter to the modern internet despite never fully replacing IPv4. What Is IPv6? IPv6, or Internet Protocol version 6, is […]
Tagged Internet, IPv4, IPv6
Tech News : EU Renews UK Data Adequacy Decisions Until 2031
7 January 2026The European Commission has renewed its decisions allowing personal data to flow freely between the EU and the UK, confirming that the UK’s data protection framework continues to meet EU standards despite recent legal changes. Applies To Two Frameworks The decision, announced on 19 December 2025, extends the EU’s existing […]
Tagged data protection, EU, UK
Tech News : Physical Letter Delivery Ends in Denmark
7 January 2026PostNord delivered its final letter in Denmark on 30 December 2025, bringing an end to more than four centuries of nationwide letter delivery after letter volumes collapsed as most communication moved online. Just Parcels Now For the first time since organised postal services were established in Denmark in 1624, the […]
Tagged Denmark, Letters, PostNord
Company Check : Starlink To Lower Thousands Of Satellites
7 January 2026SpaceX says it will move roughly half of the Starlink satellite network into lower orbits during 2026, arguing that the change will materially reduce collision risk and speed up the removal of failed spacecraft as low Earth orbit becomes increasingly congested. Starlink Starlink is the satellite broadband network operated by […]
Tagged Satellites, SpaceX, Starlink
Security Stop-Press : OpenAI’s ChatGPT Atlas Getting Prompt Injection Protection
7 January 2026OpenAI has said it is strengthening security in its ChatGPT Atlas browser to reduce the risk of prompt injection attacks, warning the threat is unlikely to ever be fully eliminated. ChatGPT Atlas includes an agent mode that can read web pages and take actions inside a user’s browser, such as […]
Tagged AI, ChatGPT, OpenAI, Protection