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Microsoft Is Founded
Bill Gates originally wanted to become a lawyer, like his father, when he was a young child. However, as he grew up he discovered computers and on this week in history (4th April back in 1975) he, along with his school-friend Paul Allen founded “Micro-Soft” as it was called back then. Whilst they coding in…
ChatGPT Gets User’s Parking Ticket Revoked
Following the news that a student made a successful appeal against a parking ticket by using a letter written by the ChatGPT chatbot, we look at how it happened, how to get the best results from ChatGPT, and we look at some of the recent concerns about the advances in AI technology. £60 Parking Ticket …
What’s All the Fuss About A National Alarm?
With the UK government’s new ‘Emergency Alerts’ system now live, we take a look at what it is and how it will work. What Are ‘Emergency Alerts’? The UK government’s Emergency Alerts service, managed by the government’s Cabinet Office, enables the government to send important public safety messages directly to people’s mobile phones in specific geographic…
TikTok Fined £12.7m By UK Data Watchdog
Embattled Chinese owned short-video-sharing platform TikTok has received a £12.7m fine from the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for breaching UK data protection law by failing to protect children’s privacy when using the TikTok platform. Notice Of Intent Issued Last Year The ICO issued TikTok Inc and TikTok Information Technologies UK Limited (‘TikTok’) with the ‘notice of…
Beware Increasing Deepfake Voice Scams
There have been reports of scammers are using the latest AI deepfake voice clones to sound like family members in distress to swindle relatives out of money. AI Voice Technology The kinds of artificially generated voice technology tools that bad actors could be using for ‘imposter scams’ may include ElevenLabs, Murf, Play.ht, Respeecher, Resemble, Overdub,…
People Buy From People
You may have heard it said that people buy from people and what is especially true is that people will usuaslly only buy from someone that they like, know and trust. “usually” rather than “always” is because there are always exceptions and perhaps someone has to make a grudge purchase for something they’re desperate for…
The Biggest Marketing ‘Secret’
The most effective thing that an MSP business owner (or indeed any business owner) can do that dramatically multiply their success is to set assign time to “working on the business”. Yes, it’s a cliche but it really is the most important part of marketing. Even just a couple of hours a week, every week,…
Working Trends And The Effects Of AI
In this article, we look at how generative AI could change work and jobs going forwards, plus how it could help businesses adopt new work trends such as a 4-day week. The Rise Of Artificial Intelligence (AI) – A Timeline AI has been many decades in the making. For example, the field of AI was…
The Eighth Wonder of Moore’s Law
Further to the news that Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel, died last week, it’s a reminder that also last-week-in-history (22 March 1993), Intel announced it would be shipping its Pentium microprocessor. This was the successor to the Intel 486, and it was a massive undertaking that involved thousands of engineers and scientists, and it took…
ChatGPT Freed To Access The Web Via Plugins
Conversational chatbot ChatGPT’s creators OpenAI have announced that ChatGPT will now be able to use plugins to improve its capabilities and outputs. Plugins Coming To ChatGPT It’s been announced that OpenAI will be “gradually” enabling ChatGPT to use plugins for certain groups of ChatGPT users to begin with, starting with ChatGPT Plus subscribers. It’s also beginning to roll…
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