Posts by Paul Stradling

Waymo has confirmed plans to bring its fully autonomous, driverless ride-hailing service to London in 2026, beginning supervised testing on public roads in the coming weeks. Waymo, And What It Has Announced Waymo, Alphabet’s (Google’s) autonomous driving company that began as Google’s self-driving car project in 2009, has announced its first major European expansion (to…

Google has introduced Recovery Contacts, a new way for users to regain access to a locked Google Account by asking trusted friends or family members to confirm their identity. What Google Has Announced Google says Recovery Contacts is “a new option that lets users choose trusted friends or family members to help if they ever get…

Researchers have discovered a new Android attack called “Pixnapping” that can secretly steal sensitive on-screen data, including two-factor authentication (2FA) codes, private messages, and financial information. Developed by a team at Carnegie Mellon University, the attack exploits Android APIs and a GPU hardware side channel known as GPU.zip to capture pixels from other apps. In…

Texas is becoming America’s top destination for technology companies, but the same policies attracting them are driving an energy boom that threatens to undo key environmental gains. What Is Driving The Move? Over the past five years, Texas has led the United States in corporate relocations. For example, as research from CBRE shows, since 2018,…

Have you used CoPilot within an Excel file yet? If not, here’s a quick video about how to get to grips with CoPilot directly within an Excel file, so the possibilities are endless… [Note – To Watch This Video without glitches/interruptions, It may be best to download it first]

A new British Standards Institution report says managers are increasingly substituting AI for junior roles, reshaping early careers and raising concerns for the UK labour market. The Study and Report The analysis comes from the British Standards Institution’s new insight report, ‘Evolving Together: AI, Automation and Building the Skilled Workforce of the Future’. It surveyed…

Hundreds of millions of computers are still running Windows 10 as Microsoft ends support on 14 October 2025, raising major concerns about cost, security, and the scale of the global upgrade still to come. The Countdown to End of Support Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 10 will reach the end of support on 14 October…

A 20-year-old founder from Mumbai has attracted backing from senior Google figures for a new AI startup designed to help large language models remember what users tell them. Supermemory Supermemory, founded by developer Dhravya Shah, is building what he calls a “universal memory layer” for artificial intelligence, which is a tool that allows AI apps to retain…

Scientists are building experimental computers from tiny lab-grown clusters of human neurons with the aim of creating ultra-efficient “wetware” that can learn, adapt and run AI-type tasks using a fraction of today’s energy. What Are These “Mini Brains”? In this case, “mini brains” are brain organoids, which are small three-dimensional clusters of living human neurons and support…

Google is widening access to Opal, its no-code AI mini-app builder, to 15 additional countries. However, new research warns that AI-accelerated development is outpacing software security. What Is Opal? Opal is a Google Labs experiment that turns a plain-English prompt into a working mini web app. Users describe what they want, then Opal assembles a…