My current printer is approximately 10 years old. It’s an HP and has been a great little printer. It’s wireless (which I love), prints A4 in colour and B&W and has a scanner. At the time when I bought it, I’m sure it was fast, but compared to most printers now it is very slow.…
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Tech torture
Last week my computer began playing up. It seemed to randomly shut down and restart, it didn’t type the first letter when I started typing, it would cycle through tabs, open and close things and a whole series of other randoms. Basically drove me crazy. I tried everything I could think of… virus scans, shut…
Fake out
I’m sure everyone has seen the footage this week of what appeared to be an American reporter hurriedly closing Porn Hub when going live to report on the election. Nor surprisingly, this turned out to be fake. “Fake news” has become something of a common occurrence in this modern world of social media unfortunately. A…
Missing file
Technology is great. Until it isn’t. I’ve spent a few hours today hunting for a file which I know was there a few weeks ago and now is not. I’m assuming (hoping) I’ve somehow accidentally shifted it inside another folder. But no matter how hard I look I can’t find it. It’s not the end…
Meatworks of the future
Cost savings and efficiency are two of the biggest reasons factories have slowly become more automated over the last few years, leaving hundreds of workers without jobs. However, covid seems to have accelerated this change, with more companies switching to automation to enable production to continue during lockdowns. This is especially the case for meatworks,…