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Tech Brief 23 November 2025: An 8-bit pixel art image showcasing a robot teaching in a classroom, a LinkedIn profile on a computer, and a police badge, representing themes of education automation, professional networks, and cybercrime policing.

Tech Brief 23 November 2025: AI Education, Gender Bias, Cybersecurity

23 November 2025 Sophie Calder 0

Tech Brief 23 November 2025 examines technology’s impact on education, gender bias in professional platforms, and enhanced cybercrime policing, highlighting crucial debates on automation vs. human teaching and digital fairness.

Tech Brief 22 November 2025 portrayed as an 8-bit pixel art image, featuring a digital classroom scene with AI and online safety symbols, and students holding protest signs

Tech Brief 22 November 2025: AI Education, Digital Trust, Supersonic Flight

22 November 2025 Sophie Calder 0

The Tech Brief 22 November 2025 discusses emerging tech conflicts like AI in education and online safety, pondering the future impacts on society and infrastructure.

Tech Brief 21 November 2025 features an 8-bit pixel art image of an AI robot teaching perplexed students in a digitally enhanced classroom, with the event date displayed in pixel art text.

Tech Brief 21 November 2025: AI Teaching, Public Contracts, Cybercrime

21 November 2025 Sophie Calder 0

Tech Brief 21 November 2025 explores the increasing reliance on AI in education, highlighting the case at University of Staffordshire where AI tutors left students wanting more from their learning experience.

Tech Brief 20 November 2025 showing a pixel art landscape with a satellite equipped with microchips on one side and crashing network servers on the other.

Tech Brief 20 November 2025: Semiconductors, Cloud Outages, Consumer Rights

20 November 2025 Sophie Calder 0

Tech Brief 20 November 2025 dives into Britain’s semiconductor initiatives, internet reliability woes, and burgeoning debates on consumer rights, emphasising a persistent dialogue about technology’s role and resilience in modern challenges.

AI depression detection depicted through an illustration of a smartphone glowing in the dark, displaying a wellness app notification alongside biometric data like sleep graphs and heart rates in deep blues and teals.

AI depression detection – When Your AI Assistant Knows You’re Depressed Before You Do

9 November 2025 Talia Wainwright 0

Explore how AI can infer mental states through ‘digital phenotyping’ by analysing behaviour from smartphones and wearables, a powerful yet controversial capability.

ELIZA effect visualised through a retro-futuristic split-screen illustration comparing a 1966 MIT office with a woman at a vintage computer and a 2025 person using a modern smartphone chatbot, connected by a stream of evolving data.

The ELIZA Effect: Why We’re Still Falling for Chatbots 60 Years Later

8 November 2025 Talia Wainwright 0

Examining why we continue to be enchanted by chatbots like ELIZA, attributing them with emotional capacities they don’t possess, despite knowing their mechanical nature.

AI safety lessons: Visual timeline connecting Therac-25 radiation therapy disaster, Post Office Horizon scandal, and Intel FDIV bug to modern AI neural networks, illustrating repeating patterns of technological failure

Learning From Our Mistakes: What Early Computing Teaches Us About AI Risk

5 November 2025 Talia Wainwright 0

From deadly radiation therapy machines to wrongful prosecutions, computing history reveals repeating patterns of failure. The AI industry is making the same mistakes: vendor lock-in, inadequate testing, and opacity in decision-making. AI safety lessons from the past could prevent tomorrows disasters.

CRT gaming performance visualised with a side-by-side setup of a Sony Trinitron CRT and a modern OLED monitor in a technical lab, featuring latency measurement tools and gaming hardware.

Frame-Time Forensics: Testing CRT Gaming Performance Claims

5 November 2025 Tom Davies 0

This investigative piece unravels the real impacts of CRT displays on gaming performance, blending scientific method with competitive gaming experiences to determine whether these vintage monitors genuinely offer a competitive edge.

Sound Blaster PC audio wars emphasised by a 1990s PC setup with a visible Sound Blaster card, alongside a CRT monitor showing a game, surrounded by vintage game boxes and manuals.

Sound Blaster PC audio wars – Sound Blaster vs. the World: How Creative Labs Won the PC Audio Wars

31 October 2025 Tom Davies 0

Discover the intriguing story of how Creative Labs’ Sound Blaster won the PC audio wars, not through superior technology, but by mastering compatibility and market strategy.

Planned obsolescence depicted through a vintage ZX Spectrum on a workshop table, easily repairable, opposite a modern iPhone, complex and hard to repair, with tools scattered around.

The Spectre of Planned Obsolescence: Why Your ZX Spectrum Still Works But Your iPhone Doesn’t

31 October 2025 Nathan Clarke 0

The spectre of planned obsolescence affects technology ownership, contrasting dated yet repairable devices like the ZX Spectrum against modern, unrepairable phones.

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