Motorists Facing A New Deterrent In Mobile Phone TrialMotorists Facing A New Deterrent In Mobile Phone Trial New technology to catch errant mobile phone using drivers is now on trial in Norfolk. Road signs equipped with radio signal analysing gear have been designed to determine whether a mobile is on use in an approaching car and also if it is in hands-free mode…
READ MORE... Friendly Bot Now On StationFriendly Bot Now On Station For decades, the best space travel tales have featured artificial intelligence with personality. In 1968, sci-fi enthusiasts everywhere were buzzing about HAL, the face recognising, chess playing, computer in 2001: A Space Odyssey. A decade later, we fell in love with R2-D2 and C-3PO, not to mention Marvin in the…
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READ MORE... Now Scientists Can ‘See’ Through WallsNow Scientists Can ‘See’ Through Walls Boffins at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have announced a remarkable new system that can “see” people moving the other side of solid brick walls. Called RF-Pose, it uses Artificial Intelligence to monitor wifi signals, which can penetrate walls but are disrupted by movement. By using CCTV cameras…
READ MORE... Cookie Consent Before Browsing Sparks A DebateCookie Consent Before Browsing Sparks A Debate If, like me, you do a lot of web browsing and visit a large number of sites, you will probably have encountered a high level of ‘cookie consent’ pop-ups in the past month. This is, of course, a result of the GDPR legislation. Cookies allow website providers to…
READ MORE... Face-ing Up To Falling NumbersFace-ing Up To Falling Numbers Signs of decline in Facebook use are coming thick and fast. A recent report from Edison Research into social media usage showed that the number of Facebook users in the USA had fallen back to 2015 levels. This was the latest issue of an annual study into use by Americans…
READ MORE... Battle Royole Set To Decide Where We Get Cinema ExperienceBattle Royole Set To Decide Where We Get Cinema Experience Change is afoot, but which direction is cinema going in? Will new super-comfortable multiplexes win out or personal film theatres for us to wear on our heads? The plush new Everyman cinemas in The Mailbox and at Bell Court in Stratford with their wide armchairs…
READ MORE... Uber Customers Get Set For Wheely Good ChoiceUber Customers Get Set For Wheely Good Choice The smartphone driven, gig economy giant of the urban roads, Uber, is diversifying on two wheels. Just last month, it bought about 15,000 electric bikes. It freewheeled into this new market by snapping up the bike sharing start up, jump, and its operations in 40 cities. Uber…
READ MORE... Healthier Gizmo Deployment May Spark ObsessionHealthier Gizmo Deployment May Spark Obsession A sudden interest in our health and wellbeing emerged as a key theme of last week’s Google developer conference and caused a mixed reaction. The annual bash for partner organisation boffins was used to announce a new Google Wellbeing toolset to encourage people to make less use of their…
READ MORE... TSB Calamity Gives Pause For Thought On Storage Of DataTSB Calamity Gives Pause For Thought On Storage Of Data It was a time bomb that ticked for three years – late last month, it blew! You do not need to search hard on the Internet to find warnings by experts in 2015, to the Spanish bank Sabadell. These predicted that transferring TSB from the…
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