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Does Your Phone Know All Your Secrets?

Smart devices are getting ever-smarter. Already too clever, who is giving them all these secrets, and are they listening to me covertly?

Sep 4, 2020

Does Your Phone Know All Your Secrets?

Sep 4, 2020

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Can You Trust The Algorithm?

The most threatening thing about modern tech is that we don’t know how it works. How far can we trust it with what’s most important to us?

Oct 25, 2023

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Oct 25, 2023

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Has The Electric Car Finally Made It?

A few years down the line and new cars are still using decidedly old fashioned tech. Is it time we entered the age of the electric vehicle?

Sep 21, 2023

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Sep 21, 2023

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The Problem With W3W

One of the world’s most popular navigation tools could also prove to be one of the most dangeroud

Sep 13, 2023

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Sep 13, 2023

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You Don’t Need An AI Detector, You Need Quality Control

AI detection tools don’t offer anything that smart process and editing skills can’t easily exceed.

Sep 8, 2023

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Sep 8, 2023

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The Responsibility Held by Great Tech

How does groundbreaking tech tidy up after itself when it leaves the market? Does it have a responsibily to the users it previously served?

Aug 16, 2023

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Aug 16, 2023

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The Long-Con of Academic Publishing

Academic publishing embarks on a remarkable ‘triple-dip’ funding model that may well be coming to an end at last.

Mar 17, 2023

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Mar 17, 2023

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A Step Change in Technology: At Home AEDs

Taking life-saving tech to where it’s needed most; AEDs are capable of more than one paradigm shift in healthcare technology

Oct 12, 2021

A Step Change in Technology: At Home AEDs

Oct 12, 2021

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Defining Success

There are so many guides to succeeding that the word may have lost meaning by now

Nov 27, 2020

Defining Success

Nov 27, 2020

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The Death Of The Lecture

Some of the year’s changes to our traditions and institutions may be for the better…

Nov 17, 2020

The Death Of The Lecture

Nov 17, 2020

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Ian

Freelance writer with interests in tech, politics, and science; occasionally also the outdoors often escaping from the first two.

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