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How ranking may be polarising society

Facebook, Google, Amazon, and others now use AI to make choices for us. Are they changing our opinions too?

July 6, 2016 General, Life, Macs, Technology

More mapstakes

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When I drove down the drive I had seen on the satellite view, it opened out to a block of flats. The care home had vanished.

June 8, 2016 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Sweet talk and salutory reminders

The decision to shut down Revolv home hubs is inexcusable, but hardly surprising, and another good reason for caution when buying into IoT.

April 5, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

Six stand against the UK’s Investigatory Powers Bill

Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter, and Yahoo together have a lot of clout. More than the UK government?

March 25, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

The surrogate, virtual, and intangible, and their worth

Alphabet (formerly Google) now has the largest market capitalisation of any company in the world. That’s got to be news, hasn’t it?

February 2, 2016 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Internet-enabled toys, kids, and their safety

As a parent, threats to children now seem out of your control. Should you let them have that Internet-enabled Barbie doll, or remain a Luddite?

December 11, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Search me! Searching the Internet more effectively

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How do you get the best results from Internet searches? What about searching for images and specialist content?

December 7, 2015 General, Macs, Technology

It shouldn’t happen to an App Store

App stores are shop windows for their operating systems and host hardware. Getting them wrong is bad news for vendors.

October 31, 2015 General, Macs, Technology

No Safe Harbor: how one court ruling has blown data protection apart

Will Europe now force the US to swallow its data protection laws? Look to Dickens for his opinion.

October 7, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Q&A: Handing control to Google

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Google wants me to let its updater use accessibility features. Should I agree or not?

September 28, 2015 Macs, Technology

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