by Andy O'Hare | Nov 1, 2023 | Uncategorised
Tech-Trivia : Did You Know? This Week in Tech-History … November 2, 1936 : BBC Basics “Gentlemen, you have now invented the biggest time-waster of all time. Use it well.”, said Isaac Shoenberg, head of the EMI research team that developed the first fully electronic...
by Andy O'Hare | Oct 25, 2023 | Uncategorised
Tech Tip – How To Get A Full Long Page Screen Capture In Chrome If you’d like to capture long web pages in their entirety, e.g. for use in documentation, presentations, or competitor analysis, Google Chrome has a lesser-known but built-in way for doing this. Here’s...
by Andy O'Hare | Oct 25, 2023 | Uncategorised
Sustainability-in-Tech : Giant Solar Space Farm By 2035 Oxfordshire based Technology firm, Space Solar, says that giant solar panel farms could be in orbit and operational above the Earth by 2035. The Challenge There are significant energy and environmental challenges...
by Andy O'Hare | Oct 25, 2023 | Uncategorised
Tech-Trivia : Did You Know? This Week in Tech-History … October 10, 2023 : “A Thousand-Year Name Extension” Around a thousand years before electronics, a monk called Poppo was asked to prove his faith, because Sweyn Forkbeard was having doubts about his baptism....
by Andy O'Hare | Oct 25, 2023 | Uncategorised
Tech News : 21-Fold Increase in AI-Assisted Jobs Human content writers have surged in demand recently, as part of a broader effect, where ‘prompt engineers’ have seen salaries of $300,000. LinkedIn’s figures show that job posts in English with references to “GPT” or...
by Andy O'Hare | Oct 25, 2023 | Uncategorised
Tech News : Protect Kids from War Content It’s been reported that some schools, in the UK (as well as Israel and the US) have advised Jewish parents to delete social media apps from their children’s phones over fears that they may see distressing hostage videos or...