Author Archives
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Your contact list is spilling over to the Internet
When apps ask for access to your address book and you consent, the data-sharing doesn’t always stop there. The names and contact information that used to stay safe in analog address books now float around the data economy, bouncing from… Read More ›
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The Cosmo Communicator
Cosmo Communicator is the ultimate mobile device that fits in your pocket. It’s a great little computer with an excellent keyboard, a world-wide dual-SIM mobile phone and a fantastic camera – all in one! Great for emails, messaging, editing documents,… Read More ›
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Fall Asleep In Minutes
Relax your entire face, including all the muscles and your tongue, from your jaw to inside your mouth. It can be easier to tense them all up first and then let go.Drop your shoulders to release any tension and allow… Read More ›
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Queen’s Greatest Hits (40 years later)
On 26th October 1981 Queen’s Greatest Hits was released. To many it was just another greatest hits compilation, a thing that usually exists to keep the money coming in when the popularity is waning, but this one was different. Nearly… Read More ›
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How I escaped Japan in a box
In an exclusive interview with the BBC, Mr Ghosn tells how he disguised himself to slip unnoticed through the streets of Tokyo, why a large music equipment box was chosen to smuggle him out of Japan and the elation he… Read More ›
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Inside Big Tech’s war for your privacy
Under the banner of a group called Marketers for an Open Web, Rosewell filed a complaint with the U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority last year, charging Google with trying to shut out its smaller competitors, while Google itself continued to… Read More ›
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Top 50 cover versions of Leonard Cohen’s ‘Hallelujah’
When you have gotten over the fact that there are many more than 50 cover versions of Hallelujah you can then go and see them ranked by Forward. Amazingly Leonard Cohen came 4th? I would personally slip the version below… Read More ›
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The TAG Heuer Mario Connected Watch
The Connected watch gamifies your everyday life and rewards you with thematic animations when you hit certain targets. For instance, when you reach 25 percent of your intended step count for the day, Mario will eat the super mushroom that… Read More ›
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The English football team vs the British government
It all started when the English football fans started booing the England football team when they took the knee before their matches. Some fans felt that doing this was not right, but I suspect if you asked them why it… Read More ›
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McGST Podcast Episode 67 (the nocebo effect)
The ‘nocebo effect’ is new to me, but it may answer a lot of the questions I have had over the past year about the differing ways people have handles the pandemic. The ‘luxury effect’ details a recent experience in… Read More ›
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