Posts by Mike Knight
Digital Dosh
With the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) launching India’s first pilot for a retail digital rupee (e₹-R/eINR/E-Rupee) this month, we look at what this means and what the benefits could be. Why? The pilot will help to decide whether India could intrpduce one of the world’s first nationwide digital currencies. It is thought that having…
Read MoreTwitter Roundup
Here, we look at more of the rapid changes at Twitter, what the reaction has been, how this has affected the platform, plus the wider implications. All Change The beginning of Twitter’s (current) saga was when the world’s richest man, Tesla and SpaceX founder, Elon Musk bought shares in the social media giant back in…
Read MoreStarlink Broadband Trial In Cumbria
As part of Project Gigabit, the UK government has announced a trial of Starlink satellite broadband in the Lake District as part of wider plans to connect highly remote areas. What Is Starlink? Starlink, operated by billionaire Elon Musk’s SpaceX company uses a constellation of low orbit satellites around the earth (launched by SpaceX rockets)…
Read MoreOnline Safety Bill Amendment Gets Mixed Reaction
The Government’s decision to amend the Online Safety Bill to allow ‘legal but harmful’ content has received a mixed reaction with criticism coming from The Samaritans. What Is The Online Safety Bill? The UK government’s Online Safety Bill, originally proposed by former PM Teresa May, is (draft) legislation that’s designed to place a ‘duty of care’…
Read MoreWhat Was FTX All About?
Following news of the collapse of FTX, we look at what it was plus the events leading up to its demise and the effects going forward. FTX FTX, until very recently, was a Bahamas-based cryptocurrency exchange, founded in 2019 which at its peak (July 2021) had more than one million users and was the third-largest cryptocurrency exchange…
Read More‘Quiet Quitting’ …?
In this insight, we look at what ‘quiet quitting’ is, what its causes are, together with what could be done to prevent it. Quiet Quitting? Quiet quitting is a term commonly associated with employment where it refers to how workers decide to only do the job they’re being paid to without taking on extra duties…
Read MoreRising Data Management Costs Affecting Businesses
A report from Seagate has highlighted how the rising costs of storing and managing data is hitting businesses hard. One-Third Of Company Budgets The report highlights how up to a third of company IT budgets are being eaten up by data management and storage costs at an average spend of £213,000 per year! Sleeping Giant …
Read MoreRobots Now Legally Lethal
The announcement by San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors to allow the city’s police to use robots that can deploy “deadly force” in the fight against crime has been met with concern. What Killer Robots? According to a San Francisco Police Department policy document, the city has essentially approved the use of 17 robots, 5 of…
Read MoreUltra-Accurate GPS (10 cm)
In this insight, we take a closer look at the new alternative positioning system to GPS that is accurate to within an incredible 10 centimetres. Issues With Current GPS System Society heavily relies on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) like GPS for positioning and navigation, as well as the distribution of time and frequency reference…
Read MoreAI Content Legal Challenges
Following a copyright lawsuit against an AI code generator and industry questions about who actually owns images made by AI text-to-image generators, we look at the legal issues (and others) surrounding generative AI. The Issue The recent lawsuit and questions from coders, artists, musicians, and other creatives show that the challenge is that there is…
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