The word algorithm seems to fill some people with dread. It is most likely caused by Facebook using an algorithm to decide what you see on their site.
It used to be that you just saw each post from anything you ‘liked’ and anyone you were ‘friends’ with. With the …
I realise there are any number of people who do complex tasks that wouldn’t want to be or shouldn’t be interrupted. But as someone who is regularly interupted, this cartoon really sums up the situation. Click here
Basically the ‘problem’ you are looking at is enormous and takes …
I’ve just found and started listening to The Sound Guys Podcast_. I’m not sure I’ll listen to every episode, but several do stand out as very interesting. The episode I did listen to was about the history of the MP3 file. Don’t worry, it’s …
Oh, no! Now my laptop won’t work. For some reason it won’t boot. After booting a live Linux DVD I ran fsck on the hard disk to fix it, but there were a lot of problems. Now it still won’t boot. I’ve looked at quite a …
You give your details to various companies and organisations, when you buy something you give your address and email and more. All you can do is hope that they will look after them. But sometimes these organisations are hacked or carelessly lose your details. There is not much you can …