Sunday, March 01, 2020

How humans and computers follow instructions

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Years ago, when I taught Information technology, I used two stories to explain the difference between how computers and people followed...
Wednesday, February 19, 2020

A viral post (and how to protect yourself)

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Do you understand how viruses spread? Knowing this can help safeguard your health. That's particularly important if you want to minim...
Wednesday, November 20, 2019

How Jeremy Corbyn should make his position on Brexit clear.

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Jeremy Corbyn refused nine times to be drawn on his position on Brexit and was much taunted by it in the election debate. This is how I thin...
Tuesday, November 19, 2019

There's no such thing as democracy when it comes to Brexit

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In 2016 the UK held a referendum on whether to leave the European Community. The Prime Minister at the time, David Cameron, committed the UK...
Monday, August 26, 2019

Solve these moral dilemmas

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I answer questions on Quora . One of the items I frequently see there is from theists who ask how an atheist can be moral without believing ...
Sunday, August 18, 2019

How to fix Microsoft's new blurred lockscreen 'feature'.

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Which background image do you prefer to see? Blurred or sharp? Microsoft has now added an 'acrylic blur' effect to the backgroun...
Tuesday, August 06, 2019

The Last of the Innocents - Life before computers and Internet

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People born in the mid-to-late 1970s are the last generation of humans on the planet to have grown up without the internet. Social scientist...
Saturday, October 27, 2018

The future of computers and AI - Conductive polymer matrix for AI (CPMAI)

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The problem with existing computers is that they constantly develop. For most users by the time they have saved up to buy the latest compu...
Tuesday, October 16, 2018

The Amazon Alphabet

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Have you ever done an incognito search at Amazon? Did you notice that as soon as you start typing in the search box, Amazon starts making ...
Wednesday, September 05, 2018

Paradoxical?

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88 mph? The classic time travel paradox is to wonder what would happen if you traveled back in time and killed your grandfather before y...
Monday, September 03, 2018

Will MS Outlook not let you change your Gmail password?

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If, for any reason, you've had to change your gmail password you'll find Outlook 2016 doesn't seem to want to let you update it ...
Saturday, August 18, 2018

Why we should get rid of amalgam or 'Silver' fillings

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Recently the use of amalgam fillings has been banned in Europe for children under 15 and pregnant women. Why? Because these so called ...
Monday, June 04, 2018

Don't Print This!

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When I was a teacher I was always complaining to students about the amount of paper they waste. By the time they'd printed work a few...
Thursday, May 17, 2018

Dealing with spam

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What is spam and why is it called that? 'spam' is any message you are sent from a person or business who you have not given permis...
Wednesday, May 09, 2018

Is social media ruining people's lives?

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Social media has both good and bad points. Good It allows people who are otherwise isolated to communicate. Examples of t...
Saturday, March 31, 2018

The best lie I ever told

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A while back I developed a skin cancer on the end of my nose. It was a small whitish patch which disappeared and reappeared and which I even...
Monday, August 28, 2017

You can't hide the truth (but you can obscure it)

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Greenpeace is upset about Donald Trump after he pulled the US out of the Paris Climate Accord and now says "Climate change is a hoax...
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Saturday, July 22, 2017

The Ultimate Minecraft Survival cheat

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How would you like to go into Minecraft in survival or even hard mode and be able to survive attacks, collect resources easily and never run...