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  • 31st January 2016

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    “Shen Xiang lives in a shipping crate on a construction site in Shanghai which he shares with at least seven other young workers. He sleeps in a bunk and uses a bucket to wash in. “It’s uncomfortable,” he says. Still,… Read More ›

  • 30th January 2016

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    The above graph (from statista) shows iPad sales from Q3 2010 to Q1 2016 and as you can see it is developing into a hump. Sales have worsened every single quarter and the decline is growing, but we should ask ourselves… Read More ›

  • 27th January 2016

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    “Our dependence arises as a growing pattern of behavior that ultimately takes on a life of its own, he believes. We begin down a slippery slope as we start using our phones to “feed that anticipation and desire for information,… Read More ›

  • 26th January 2016

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    Mindfulness has become very popular in recent times and a great many people are making a living from it. However, it turns out that there could be some unwanted side-effects which have been noted by The Guardian. “For days afterwards, I feel… Read More ›

  • 25th January 2016

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    A 14 minute short film called The Boy with a Camera for a Face is now available to view on Vimeo and it should prove to be worthy of your time. It is quite simply a brilliant idea which has been very… Read More ›

  • 23rd January 2016

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    “The human brain may be able to store one petabyte of data, which is 1 quadrillion bytes or 1 million megabytes. That’s enough memory to store 13.3 years of high-definition video.” That is a huge number and it makes me wonder… Read More ›

  • 22nd January 2016

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    This week I commented on the death of Leslie Nielsen with a tweet, and so did thousands of other people. The fact that he died 5 years ago did not stop so many of us airing our feelings because it was… Read More ›

  • 21st January 2016

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    It’s a well-known fact that most of us have become accustomed to lesser quality audio for music than we used to enjoy. The advent of digital music and the closeness of headphones has meant that pure audio quality no longer… Read More ›

  • 20th January 2016

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    The issue of digital property after a person dies has grown in the collective conscious as we collect more and more data through our lives, and a recent example highlights the problem very well. Peggy Bush tried to get a password… Read More ›

  • 19th January 2016

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    The world’s richest 67 people now have as much wealth as the bottom 50%.That is a remarkably sad statistic and one which makes no sense no matter how it is spun. There will always be rich and poor, and some… Read More ›