• Tech News : EU’s AI Regulations Agreed

    13th December 2023

    Following 36 hours of talks, EU officials have finally reached a historic provisional deal on laws to regulate the use of artificial intelligence. The Artificial Intelligence Act  The Council presidency and the European Parliament’s negotiators’...

  • Tech News : Google’s Ultra-Powerful Gemini AI

    13th December 2023

    Google has announced the phased rollout of its new ‘Gemini’ family of large language models with the Ultra version said to rival the abilities of OpenAI’s GPT-4. What Is Gemini?  Gemini, which Google describes as...

  • An Apple Byte : $4 Jobs Cheque Sells For $46,063

    13th December 2023

    A single 1976 $4.01 cheque from (and signed by) Apple co-founder Steve Jobs has been sold at auction for a whopping $46,063. The cheque, written just four months after Apple was founded, was written for...

  • Sustainability-in-Tech : Tree-Planting Gen-AI Search/Chatbot Released

    13th December 2023

    Berlin-based green search engine company Ecosia has released a chatbot with a “green answers” option and ploughs all its advertising profits into tree-planting. Ecosia AI Chat   The not-for-profit company, which has been developing its “green search” since...

  • Tech Tip – Using Chrome As A Drag And Drop File Viewer

    13th December 2023

    If you’d like to save time and conveniently view various types of files like PDFs, images, and text documents directly in the browser, eliminating the need for multiple separate applications, here’s how to use Google...

  • Featured Article : Amazon Launching ‘Q’ Chatbot

    6th December 2023

    Following on from the launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Bard (and Duet), Microsoft’s Copilot, and X’s Grok, now Amazon has announced that it will soon be launching its own ‘Q’ generative AI chatbot (for business)....

  • Tech News : Google Files Fiasco

    6th December 2023

    An issue with Google’s cloud that locked some Google Drive for desktop users out of some of their files from the last six months has led to some angry comments being left on Google’s community...

  • Tech News : AI Job Risks – Finance & Insurance

    6th December 2023

    Analysis by the Department for Education’s Unit for Future Skills to try and quantify the impact of AI on the UK jobs market found the finance and insurance sector was more exposed than any other. The Analysis ...