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Oct 8, 20216 min read
Social Media Censorship
“Covfefe” will forever remain as Donald Trump’s best contribution on social media — the memes that followed were the gift that kept on...
Aug 6, 20216 min read
Growing Old in the Digital Age
Life expectancy in the UK has more than doubled over the course of two and a half centuries, from below 39 years in 1765 to 81.1 years in...
Aug 3, 20215 min read
The Future of Beauty Tech
I’m no make-up aficionado. I can’t tell powder from primer. But I can appreciate the tech trends that are transforming the beauty...
Jul 30, 20217 min read
What We Can Learn from 'A Life on Our Planet'
You’ll often hear about “must-watch” television: the latest water-cooler thriller from HBO or the long-awaited finale of insert generic...
Jul 23, 20217 min read
Reducing Hospital Admissions with AI
Towards the end of October 2020, Forbes published an article detailing a trial in which an artificial intelligence-based diagnostic tool...
Jul 16, 20216 min read
The Science of Sad Songs
If you’ve ever felt a lump in your throat listening to a piece of music, you’re far from alone. It’s a strange phenomenon — that the soft...
Jul 9, 20216 min read
How Embracing Digital Could Save Charities
The past 16 months or so have been unlike any other in my lifetime. At times, it’s been all too easy to focus on how the pandemic and...
Jun 25, 20215 min read
Is VAR Ruining Football?
Fifty years ago, Joni Mitchell lamented “you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone” in her hit single Big Yellow Taxi. She wasn’t...
Jun 11, 20215 min read
Tech You Wouldn't Expect
Innovation breeds innovation. There’s no two ways about it. When the first iPhone was announced, we were blown away by the existence of a...
Jun 4, 20216 min read
Could Green Prescriptions Leave You Blue?
In November 2020, The Times published an article exposing the downsides of so-called “green prescriptions”, whereby patients are advised...
May 28, 20216 min read
The Science of Prediction
Can you believe it’s been more than six months since that nail-biting US presidential election? For many of us “outsiders”, the choice...
Apr 2, 20217 min read
Burnout: An Occupational Hazard
In October 2020, the Harvard Business Review published an article entitled “What Health Care Can Teach Other Industries About Preventing...
Mar 20, 20215 min read
Waving Goodbye to Old-School Gestures
In October 2020, The Guardian published a tongue-in-cheek “Pass Notes” article about how young people no longer understand traditional...
Mar 13, 20215 min read
Home-a-Drone
I recently wrote a blog about the new technology of 2020, determining if the latest offerings to the gadgetry market were genuinely...
Mar 6, 20215 min read
The World's First AI Flavour
When we think about Artificial Intelligence and the opportunities it could unlock, we tend to picture things we can see, hear and touch....
Jan 24, 20215 min read
The End of Forecourt Sales?
“Do you know what I love most about buying a car? The sales process.” Said no one, ever. Car buying can be as frustrating as it is...
Jan 17, 20214 min read
A Cluttered Space
When you read the terms “space”, “clutter” and “junk”, you’d be forgiven for thinking I’m about to launch into a Marie Kondo-esque...
Jan 9, 20214 min read
Life-Saving Artificial Intelligence
When you hear the term “artificial intelligence”, what springs to mind first? For some, it will be the threat of a robot takeover, in...
Dec 12, 20205 min read
Honing Health Alerts
Prior to the pandemic, you’d be forgiven for wondering what on earth “WHO” stood for. Now, not a day goes by without some reference to...
Nov 28, 20205 min read
Manipulating Memories with AI
Nowadays, taking photographs is so quick and easy, that the idea of “saving your film” for a few choice shots feels like a lifetime ago....
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