Tech Insight : A Dozen Ways Copilot Can Help Your Business
With Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant now embedded within the Microsoft 365 apps and services to help users save time and increase productivity, we look at a dozen things you can do with Copilot to help your business. Microsoft 365 Copilot Copilot fuses ChatGPT version 4 and Microsoft Graph. More specifically, Copilot is designed to integrate […]
Tech Insight : A Dozen Microsoft Products You May Not Know About
In this insight, we look at a dozen Microsoft products / apps that you may not know much about, but which could be helpful to your businesses. 1. MS Dynamics CRM. Microsoft’s Dynamics 365 a flexible, customisable pay as you use CRM which has 5 million+ users. The benefits include that it seamlessly integrates with other […]
Tech Insight : A Dozen Handy Google Maps Tricks
With Google Maps now one of the most popular mapping services globally, used by millions of people every day, plus having new features regularly being added, here we look at a dozen top Google Maps (Android) tricks to help you on your way. Driving Since Google Maps can be extremely useful in the car, the […]
Tech Insight : 70% Of Companies Using Generative AI
A new VentureBeat survey has revealed that 70 per cent of companies are experimenting with generative AI. Most Experimenting and Some Implementing The (ongoing) survey which was started ahead of the tech news and events company’s recently concluded VB Transform 2023 Conference in San Francisco, gathered the opinions of global executives in data, IT, AI, security, and […]
Tech Increasing Domestic Abuse
With domestic abuse on the rise, particularly since the pandemic lockdowns, we look at some of the chilling ways that smart devices and other technology are being used as a tool by abusers. Rise In Reports A BBC Panorama and Women’s Aid joint investigation obtained UK police figures showing that there was one domestic abuse […]
Tech Giants Requested To Cease Kids Ads
In an open letter to Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon and Microsoft, MPs, academics, and campaigners have asked the big tech companies to stop targeting children with personalised advertising. Global Action Plan The letter has been published online by Global Action Plan (GAP) which is a charity that campaigns on primarily environmental issues but also believes […]
Sustainability-in-Tech : World’s Largest Carbon Vacuuming Plant Opens
The world’s largest direct air capture (DAC) plant, dubbed ‘Mammoth’ (which can suck polluting carbon from the air to help tackle global warming) has started operating in Iceland. Mammoth Started on the 28th June 2022 and now completed and operating, Mammoth was designed to remove 36,000 tons of carbon from the air per year – […]
Sustainability-in-Tech : World’s First Wind-Powered DAC Carbon Capture Hub
Dutch climate technology startup Skytree is providing the technology for the world’s first 100 per cent wind-powered Direct Air Capture (DAC) hub in Texas. Project Concho Using Skytree Technology Dubbed ‘Project Concho’, this ambitious project seeks to redefine carbon removal from the air by using cutting-edge DAC systems with renewable energy on an unprecedented scale. […]
Sustainability-in-Tech : World’s First Bio-Circular Data Centre
French data centre company, Data4, says its new project will create a world-first way of reusing data centre heat and captured CO2 to grow algae which can then be used to power other data centres and create bioproducts. Why? The R&D project, involving Data4 working with the University of Paris-Saclay, is an attempt to tackle […]
Sustainability-in-Tech : Will Robots Solve The Housing Crisis?
As Europe faces a worsening housing shortage, a new generation of construction robots is being pitched as a solution, but how realistic is the idea, and what does it mean for sustainability, workers, and the industry as a whole? Rethinking the Way We Build Housing shortages aren’t new, but in parts of Europe (including the […]