Last year Meta introduced a new WhatsApp feature called Chat Lock, allowing threads to be moved from the Inbox to a separate folder, requiring the device’s passcode or biometric to access it. You can find out more at https://faq.whatsapp.com/764072925284841/. Meta have now added a feature called Secret Code, where you can protect the chat with […]
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Google Gemini hopes to rival ChatGPT
Google has taken a while to get started in the generative AI market, but perhaps ChatGPT will soon have a rival. Google Gemini claims to outperform GPT-4 and can recognise images and speak in real-time, and it can explain its reasoning. It will evidently become a part of Google products starting straight away, and work […]
2024 free webinars
We plan to restart our free monthly webinar programme in January 2024, but we need your help to understand the topics that you would like covered. For example, we feel that it might be helpful to cover the practical steps you need to take, to begin using AI in an ethical and UK GDPR compliant […]
Cash at 14% and falling
Based on a report from JustGiving, cash is used for just 14% of payments. With contactless payments taking such a large share, we hope that everyone is now offering contactless as a payment method? In a recent blog, JustGiving offered some case studies of creative ways in which charities are using contactless, and you can […]
ICO warns UK’s top websites to make cookie changes
The ICO is turning its attention to the major UK websites which do not comply with data protection law. Basically, it should be as easy to ‘Reject All’ as to ‘Accept All’, but with so many websites that is not the case, and you have to delve deep to turn off all but non-essential cookies. […]