Driverless cars. It’s the stuff of fiction made real. And, all going to plan, they’ll be on the roads of the UK within the next 2 years – thanks to plans for a comprehensive trial of autonomous driving on the British road network. The success of which could result in their full launch to market…
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been the stuff of sci-fi geekdom for decades. Of course, for those of us of a certain age, our notion of super-intelligent, sentient machinery has been shaped somewhat by C3-PO and R2-D2 in Star Wars, HAL from 2001, or Marvin the Manically Depressed Robot of Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide to the…
As anyone who’s watched the TV show ‘Silicon Valley’ will attest, the explosion of technology innovation of the past decade has seen every programmer, entrepreneur, and app developer from Palto Alto to Plymouth seeking out the new digital breakthrough that will transform the way we live, or revolutionise the way a particular industry operates. The…
Has the move towards digital communication made us impersonal and rude? Never in the course of human history has there been so many different ways to communicate. Phone, email, IM, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp, Kik, and countless other platforms provide us with opportunities to chat, enter dialogue, and form relationships with our friends, families, colleagues,…
We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again: online security is a big deal. In this digital world, our IT systems and networks are the integral engine room of our businesses. The platform from which we communicate, transact, and carry out our daily operations. And, most importantly of all, it is where we collect,…
Dipping our toes back into the seemingly unending glossary of techno-terms, we thought we might take a look into the growing market of telematics. I know, it’s a term that’s been around for ages; and many of you will no doubt have heard and / or come across it in one form or another already….
“The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it”. Mark Weiser, The Computer for the 21st Century It’s reasonably likely that you’ve heard of the phrase, Internet of Things (IoT). It’s a concept that’s been steadily growing into mainstream consciousness over…
Cyber-attacks, in all manner of variants, rose to unprecedented levels in 2016 and the world seemed to truly start waking up to their considerable risk, damage, and costs. And well we might, because the predictions for 2017 and beyond are that, this is a risk that is only going to grow. Make no mistake, there’s…
