Archive for July 2023
Apple Photo Stream Shutdown Warning
Those with photos and videos stored on Apple’s Photo Stream may wish to back them up elsewhere or lose them when Apple retire Photo Stream on 26 July. What Is Photo Stream? Apple’s Photo Stream was a feature introduced in 2011 as part of their iCloud service, which allowed users to sync and share photos…
Read More1.5 Million Seat NHS IT Support Deal
Microsoft and NHS England have announced the signing of new five-year contract whereby Microsoft (via a major reseller) will roll out the Microsoft 365 cloud-based online productivity suite to 1.5 million NHS staff. Trusted Relationship Continues Coinciding with the 75th Anniversary of the NHS, Microsoft says the partnership, through a contract awarded to the reseller,…
Read MoreComputers Before Keyboards
Computing was a lot more challenging before July 4th 1956 because that’s when MIT revolutionised their Whirlwind Computer … by introducing a keyboard ! Before that, interacting with computers was a laborious, time-consuming process. Programmers would offer instructions to these mammoth machines by the manual insertion of punched cards, an operation requiring meticulous accuracy. They…
Read MoreHow MSPs Can Use The ‘Baader Meinhof’ Illusion
The Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon refers to the experience of encountering a concept or an object for the first time and then noticing it frequently afterwards. It is a cognitive bias where after being exposed to something new or unfamiliar, that information suddenly seems to appear with a higher frequency in one’s surroundings. Continue reading … …Free…
Read MoreVoice Changers
In this insight, we look at ‘voice changers’, technology that lets users change and disguise their voices in real time and in playback. What Do They Do & How? Voice changing software (and hardware) alter the sound of a person’s voice in real-time or during playback. Voice changers can be implemented through software applications installed…
Read MoreWhy Is Apple The First $3 Trillion Company?
Following Apple recently becoming the first publicly traded company to close a trading day with a $3 trillion market value, we look at some of the main reasons for the company’s incredible popularity and growth. The First $3 Trillion Company Although Apple actually reached the $3 trillion market cap at the beginning of last year,…
Read MoreAndroid Update Glitch Causing Silent 999 Calls
A recent update to Android 13 has led to reports of an increase in the number of false 999 calls / ‘silent’ calls. Reports By Police The police have reported that an increase in the number of silent 999 calls in recent months is likely to be the result of the updated ‘SOS’ feature in…
Read MoreAI Improving Coding & Data Sorting
Google DeepMind’s AlphaDev artificial intelligence (AI) system has produced new algorithms that can write code better than humans and could create better programs. Discovering Enhanced Algorithms In a recent research paper, Google’s Deepmind has outlined how AlphaDev is able to use ‘reinforcement learning’ to discover enhanced computer science algorithms which surpass those honed by scientists…
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