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I was recently asked, how can I evangelise NetZero & sustainability yet be happy to use AI (mostly Copilot) many times per day given that data centres use above 2% -3% of the world’s electricity? While asked in jest, it’s a valid question, so Copilot and I did the maths… Energy use per query A […]
The UC30 conference headphones deals admirably with background voices, not just ambient noise.
Are AIs sufficiently ethical? Definitely not, but not for the reasons you might think. The question is, what to do about it.
Should we halt AI research. Apparently, Geoffrey Hinton thinks so and resigned from Google. But is that what he really did, said and believes? There’s always more under the headlines.
Part 1 covered the basics of solar PV. This second article drills into adding a second system, what all those do to household energy bills and the investment case.
As early adopters of solar energy, we are insulated (sic) from the current (sic) energy crisis. This is what we have, what it is and why it’s a great investment then and now
Short thoughts on what Digitialisation means at a personal and business level
Tesla have almost nailed the EV market. Sadly they don’t much understand regionalisation. UK failings are awkward or possibly dangerous.
When business sacrifice resilience for profit they go out of business. If countries do that the consequences are much worse.
There is a lot going on in the digital work place, driven by new technologies, by evolving work patterns, by external challenges (notably climate change and COVID-19) and a realisation that what seemed to work before may not work for us future (if it ever really did).
Modern headphones are called upon to fulfil many distinct roles across personal and business needs and in multiple environments: high quality music and podcast playback, audio chat/calls, conference calls, shared workspace distraction reduction and more. This could be on a train, on a sofa, at the gym. in a personal office or a noisy shared […]
The very nice folks at Microsoft lent me one of the few Microsoft Bands in the UK and with the announcement of a 15th April UK launch I thought I should publish my observations from living with one for 2 weeks. As ever Microsoft have done a less than spectacular job of marketing this innovative […]
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