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• Apple doesn’t always know what we want

  By Shaun on June 12, 2021 • ( 1 )

  

  Apple is famous for not using focus groups of following the trend for what users want and this has paid dividends. The ability to impress consumers can only come from offering something people either believed was not possible or that… Read More ›

• When the workers fight back

  By Shaun on June 10, 2021 • ( 0 )

  Former staff at Brewdog have alleged a “culture of fear” at the beer firm with a “toxic attitude” to junior employees. In an open letter, signatories said a “significant number” of former staff had “suffered mental illness as a result… Read More ›

• What your resting heart rate says about you

  By Shaun on June 9, 2021 • ( 1 )

  The advent of fitness trackers, pulse oximeters and home blood pressure machines means you can easily monitor your heart rate while doing everything from training for a marathon to sleeping at night. However, it is the resting rate during the… Read More ›

• Dear England

  By Shaun on June 8, 2021 • ( 0 )

  I am confident that young kids of today will grow up baffled by old attitudes and ways of thinking. For many of that younger generation, your notion of Englishness is quite different from my own. I understand that, too. I… Read More ›

• You Do Not Live in Apple’s World

  By Shaun on June 7, 2021 • ( 1 )

  All it takes is some bedtime reading of Epic’s 365-page findings document to see just how aggressive Apple executives have gotten in carrying out Steve Jobs ’ 2010 vision to, as the finding document quotes him, “tie all our products… Read More ›

• If Naomi Osaka had a stutter it would all be fine…

  By Shaun on June 5, 2021 • ( 4 )

  Imagine if Naomi Osaka had an extreme stutter and could not do press conferences, or asked not to because of the stutter, it is highly unlikely that she would have been fined and threatened with disqualification from the French Open…. Read More ›

• McGST Podcast Episode 64 (Are we living in the Hunger Games?)

  By Shaun on June 4, 2021 • ( 0 )

  Joanne and I discussed three questions that has been sent in and then we tried to cover near impossible topics including how long we will have to live with Covid for and if we are in fact all living in… Read More ›

• Opt out, if you can

  By Shaun on June 2, 2021 • ( 0 )

  You have until June 23, 2021 to opt-out of your NHS data being shared with researchers and companies outside of the national health service. Privacy campaigners have raised serious concerns about plans from NHS Digital, which will see the medical… Read More ›

• Podcasts you should be listening to

  By Shaun on May 28, 2021 • ( 0 )

  Here is a simple list of the podcasts I have been listening to recently. Some of them will make the hours disappear. The Lazarus Heist “Almost a perfect crime.” The hacking ring and an attempt to steal a billion dollars…. Read More ›

• Watching Eurovision feels like being on another planet

  By Shaun on May 23, 2021 • ( 4 )

  My daughter made the mistake of putting Eurovision 2021 on the TV last night and I was immediately transfixed in the worst of ways. The Icelandic entry popped up (above) and my first words were “What the f*ck is that?”… Read More ›

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