Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
When I wrote the 1000th post for Smart Thinking, it was because of a suggestion from marketing, so I used binary for counting the top 10 posts, of course. I then got a note from a friend pointing out this post from xkcd.com: xkcd: Roman Numerals Now I could appreciate …
There is plenty of news around about deep fakes – we have all seen the fake videos of various politicians and celebrities saying things they never would. But when was the first deep fake carried out: xkcd: Deepfakes Here is a deepfake from the past that made the news: Piltdown …
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I just missed these announcements for last week’s “Because It’s Friday”. NASA has released the first scientific infrared images produced by the James Webb Space Telescope: First Images from the James Webb Space Telescope | NASA Senior Project Scientist John Mather Reflects on Journey to Webb’s First Images – James …
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Who remembers Tandy, the electronics store? There was one in the Grays shopping centre, when I was kid, as there were in many other towns around the country, and I bought stuff from them. Although the free battery card never really did work out. Radio Shack was the US parent …
Depending on the popularity of today’s quiz, this may become a thing! Today’s fun quiz is inspired by this xkcd cartoon: xkcd: Roman Numerals The BBC2 quiz, Only Connect, hosted by the one and only Victoria Coren Mitchell, is a firm favourite of Diana, our son Jeremy and myself. Jeremy …
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