3 Notable Ways Technology Has Transformed The Workplace And The Way We Work

  Over 6 million people in the UK are employed in occupations that are likely to radically change or disappear completely by 2030,  according to recent studies by Nesta. The work environment and the way we work continues to be transformed at an astonishing pace by trends including technological development and globalisation.   The debate about…

Lightwave adds two new Apple HomeKit compatible smart dimmers to ‘Smart Series’ lineup

Smart home automation company Lightwave has launched three and four-gang dimmer switches to grow its existing ‘Smart Series’ range of lighting products. As well as fitting rooms with multiple lighting circuits, customers can programme spare gangs as “magic buttons” to control additional lamps and light fittings in the same room or anywhere in the house. In fact, they…

Yahoo's computers link to pictures of "underage girls", humans intervene

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In a gaffe which Yahoo’s computers couldn’t care less about, but which has caused some embarrassment for humans in the company, an automated system linked a news article to Flickr pictures tagged with the keywords “underage girls”.

It’s understandable how an amoral computer could make the association — the article concerned Ashley Dupré — however it turned up some rather dubious images that most people would not have expected to see linked to from a serious news article…