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GCHQ targets teenage girls to find cyber spies of the future

Teenage girls are being invited to put their technology skills to the test in a competition that could unearth the cyber spies of the future. The contest has been set up by GCHQ’s new National Cyber Security Centre as part of efforts to inspire more women to

Visual Communication: The Next Step in Marketing [Infographic]

If you haven’t already heard, visuals can play a big part in boosting the performance of your marketing messages. We’ve seen this most notably with the rise of video, with Cisco predicting that up to 82% of all consumer Internet traffic will be video by 2020. Facebook predicts

How to fix a stuck Windows 10 update

Has your PC frozen during an update? Here’s how to get it running again Keeping your Windows 10 installation up to date is incredibly important; it patches security holes, adds new features and generally keeps your machine running smoothly. It can often be something of an irritation,

Rick Perry didn’t understand the role of the Department of Energy

Rick Perry, former Governor of Texas, could become the United States’ next energy secretary. However, according to a New York Times report, Perry believed the role would help him champion the country’s oil and gas industry — which he has experience with during his time as governor.

World-first demonstration of virtualized 5G architecture

niversity of Surrey’s 5GIC (part of the Institute for Communications Systems) has — for the first time worldwide — produced a full demonstration of its FDC, which points to a significant reduction in deployment, optimisation and upgrade costs for network operators. The FDC was demonstrated over LTE-A

Siri vs Google Assistant: The Battle of the Smartphone Assistants [Infographic]

Virtual assistants are set to become a much bigger part of our every day process in 2017 and beyond. Already, Amazon’s Echo and Google Home are changing the way we interact around the home, and newer tools like Google Assistant and Facebook’s Messenger Bots are looking to

New Siri to work with only a select set of third party apps!

Apple announced a ton of great stuff during their Worldwide Developers Conference in June 2016, such as macOS Sierra , iOS 10 , and updates to watchOS and tvOS . In an unprecedented, yet widely welcomed move, Apple opened Siri up to developers, enabling Siri to work

Giveaway: Win 1 of 3 Template Monster themes

Themes are a great way to speed up a website launch. They make for a fantastic minimum viable product when you need to get going, and fast. Put a little work into them, and you might never need a custom design. Great themes can get expensive, though.

Robotic tutors for primary school children

The use of robotic tutors in primary school classrooms is one step closer according to research recently published in the open access journal Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience. Dr Imbernòn Cuadrado and his co-workers at the Department of Artificial Intelligence in Madrid have developed an integrated computational architecture

The Power of Geofencing and How to Add it to Your Marketing [Infographic]

Thanks to the ubiquitous smartphone, there’s now an entirely new level of marketing available: Geofencing. Geofencing is a location-based marketing tool that enables more active consumer focus. There are three ways to track a customer’s location: GPS, Bluetooth, and beacons, and each method finds and targets customers in different