It’s all about your followers on social media. Thirteen-year-old Californian food blogger Chase Bailey – who has autism – has just written his first cookbook after gaining more than 200,000 views for his YouTube page, Chase ‘N Yur Face. His weekly posts see him cooking new recipes, working with established chefs and teaching his thousands… Read more »
Monthly Archives: May 2016
How ‘robo recruiters’ could affect your job prospects
Next time you apply for a job, it could be a computer algorithm deciding whether or not you fit the bill. This is because clever, self-learning programs are getting better than human recruiters at analysing vast amounts of data gleaned from application forms, CVs (curricula vitae or resumes), and social media profiles. Source: BBC Technology Date: May… Read more »
Is there a place for old tech in the 21st Century?
It might have been the general consensus that the floppy disk, which was big in the 1980s, had had its day – but after the US government’s revelation that the technology remains in use at the Pentagon, enthusiasts wonder whether there is still a place for old tech in today’s hi-tech world? Source: BBC Technology Date: May… Read more »
The U.S. is still using floppy disks to run its nuclear program
A new report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), which found that the Pentagon was still using 1970s-era computing systems that require “eight-inch floppy disks.” Such disks were already becoming obsolete by the end of that decade, being edged out by smaller, non-floppy 3.5 to 5.25-inch disks, before being almost completely replaced by the CD… Read more »
IBM is hiring like crazy
IBM is laying off thousands of employees, but it’s also hiring like crazy. As IBM transitions from a software and services business to a cloud company, it is letting go workers whose skills carried IBM in the last decade but are no longer in vogue. IBM said last month that it would lay off an… Read more »
Who is watching you online?
Around 40 million UK adults – 78% of us – go online every day or almost every day. By posting on social media, booking tickets or buying a DVD, we add to the 2.3 billion gigabytes of internet data created daily. The data trail we leave on our online journey says much about our habits… Read more »
The secrets hiding in your selfie
The first known selfie is believed to have been taken by photographer Robert Cornelius in 1839, but the term itself didn’t appear until 2002 when an Australian took a snap of himself at a party. Selfies were born. But are they as harmless as they appear, and is there more to a selfie than first… Read more »
Can social media predict the future?
In a global population of over seven billion people, more than two billion of us use social media. It’s estimated that each day we send out over 300 million tweets and share 4.75 billion pieces of content on Facebook. By liking a new Hollywood blockbuster here or tweeting about a visit to a restaurant there,… Read more »
We need to defend mobility online
You probably have access to a mobile device. You can search for information, read the news, and communicate with people freely. And you likely learn something new every single day as a direct result of your time online. But for hundreds of millions of people, the internet isn’t so simple. Our lives are increasingly lived… Read more »
Music and YouTube – an uneasy marriage
During 2015 more music was consumed in all sorts of ways, from streaming video and audio to good old-fashioned vinyl. There was just one problem – money earned from sales and streaming actually fell. And the industry knows who it blames – YouTube. Source: BBC Technology Date: May 20th, 2016 Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-36340447 Discussion 1) How does this YouTube… Read more »
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