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The news of the recent inflation is spreading like wildfire. Gas, electricity, food, fuel, and more… just about everything a business requires. Some of these costs are unavoidable, but there are a few things you can do to save some pennies this winter. Look at your variable and invariable costs With so many costs increasing, […]

The most popular altcoin and second-largest cryptocurrency by volume, Ethereum, has switched to a new operating model which uses 99.95 per cent less energy! The Merge  ‘The Merge,’ which the change is being called, and which finally happened on September 15, refers to the original Ethereum Mainnet merging with a separate proof-of-stake blockchain called the […]

Aviation tracker website Flightradar24 has reported that the RAF plane flight carrying Queen Elizabeth II’s coffin from Edinburgh to London on September 13 was the most-tracked flight ever. Tracked By 5 Million It was reported that 5 million people tracked the RAF flight, which beats the previous record of 2.9 million people who tracked the […]

Google has been given the largest ever anti-trust fine of 4.125 billion euros from the EU, following an unsuccessful appeal. What Was The Anti-Trust Issue?  The European Commission (EC) originally fined Google in 2018 for breaching its anti-trust laws by forcing Android phone-makers to install the Google search and web browser apps in order to […]

Your IT should make the remote and hybrid work easier for you and your employees, not make it more of a challenge! There are plenty of security blankets in the office including security and easy access to your colleagues for project updates. It’s easy to feel like these luxuries are taken away when switching to […]

Cruise company Royal Caribbean Group has announced that it will be using Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Starlink satellite Internet for broadband connections aboard its ships. What Is Starlink?  Starlink, operated by billionaire Elon Musk’s SpaceX company uses a constellation of low orbit satellites around the earth (launched by SpaceX rockets) to provide broadband internet. Starlink […]

In this insight, we look at what Softaculous is, what features it offers, and how it can be used to help businesses. What Is It?  Softaculous is a time and hassle-saving, open-source app, auto-script installer that enables the user to install any app in a couple of clicks, and to install and configure many different […]

In this article, we compare the TikTok and YouTube platforms and take a look at some of the pros and cons of each. Similarities  There are several important similarities between YouTube and TikTok. For example: – Both are popular video-sharing social media platforms that encourage user-generated content. – Both platforms also cater for content from […]

Keeping your business’s IT infrastructure and network healthy can be challenging. With evolving technology, it can be difficult to know exactly which elements of your network are letting you down. Let’s take a look at what areas are most likely to affect your business and how they can be fixed. Your systems are all slow […]

Researchers from US Carnegie Mellon University have concluded that quadcopter drones produce much less greenhouse gas emissions than traditional alternatives for last-mile delivery. The Problem  The point of the research was to shine a light on the energy productivity of freight transportation, which has traditionally been a real challenge in an overwhelmingly petroleum-powered transport sector […]

A Google data centre going offline in July due to a cooling related failure is just one of a slew of challenges posed by climate change that the big tech companies are facing. Heatwave Knocks London Data Centre Offline  The heatwave in July caused outages due to cooling problems at a London data centre used […]

Microsoft Excel’s new @mentions feature allows users to create, assign, and track tasks in a workbook, thereby making collaboration in Excel easier. Added To Roadmap 2020  The @mentions feature, which was added to Excel for the web in 2020 and added to the Microsoft 365 roadmap in January 2021, has been made popular through its […]