To anyone who came of age during the 8-bit home computing boom of the 1980s, loading was something to be endured while a program was accessed on cassette or floppy disc.
To anyone whose first exposure to computing involved the internet, loa...
Thousands of years ago, the Roman Emperor Claudius declared that “To do nothing evil is good, but to wish nothing evil is better.”
Twenty years ago, Google adopted “don’t be evil” as its unofficial motto, and even wrote it int...
Technology often evolves at breakneck pace, so it tends to surprise us when progress is more leisurely.
In the last decade, cars evolved from passive vehicles to semi-autonomous machines, capable of braking when they detect a pedestrian and...
Later this year, the 1980s TV game show Family Fortunes will return to our screens.
Younger readers may wish to imagine Family Fortunes as a reverse Pointless, where the answer is to choose the most common responses, rather than the least c...
If you’ve ever received an unsolicited spam email claiming to be from a service provider or reputable business, you’ve experienced an attempted smishing campaign.
Historically, email was used to distribute bulk messages that attempt to ...
In recent years, there’s been a degree of stagnation in smartphone evolution.
Screens range from OLED to AMOLED, Full HD to Ultra HD, 4K to QHD. Yet they’re all equally adept at making app content and photos appear bright and sharp on-s...
Today, the word blackberry is most commonly associated with bowls of muesli, or berry farms where you can spend a few hours picking fresh fruit.
Yet things were very different a decade ago.
Back then, the concept of a mobile phone being abl...
It’s fair to say that the rollout of 5G hasn’t been a huge success.
Network operators have effectively been hobbled by Ofcom only auctioning off part of the 3.4GHz spectrum.
This has been caused by legal action from O2, which prevented ...
Many supposedly modern technologies can trace their origins back to a time before the internet, even though they require connectivity to function.
The barcode was developed in the early 1950s, based on Morse Code, but it took two decades to...
It might seem bizarre – even indulgent – to have a phobia dedicated to the fear of not having a smartphone to hand.
Yet nomophobia is understandable when you look past its groan-inducing name, and the inevitable sense of Millennial enti...
