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Not having watched any live TV for... well, not since the last millennium, probably... we are often a bit slow to catch up on the really good TV series. But this has the advantage that we can binge-watch things that have stood the test of time!And so it w

I appreciate that the proportion of my readership who possess an ePropulsion electric outboard motor maybe rather small, and that my latest YouTube video may therefore have rather, shall we say, niche appeal.But the rest of you could, if you wanted, watch

Spotted at our local Waitrose.

Having entered the frothing, bubbling water of AI very gingerly in the early days, I'm now plunging in on a rather frequent basis! I do, however, take plenty of precautions:I never use Google's 'AI Overview'. In fact, I have a browser plugin that carefull

There are many of you, gentle readers, who are kind enough to allow Status-Q posts to be sent directly to your email inboxes. (There's a link at the top right of the web page, for anyone else interested!)In the past, this has been done using Mailchimp, bu

Well, I didn't get to see the eclipse this evening because dinner was on the table and there was a big tree in the way, but I gather it was much like previous eclipses, of which I've seen a few.I did do a quick search on my blog in case I'd written about

We've probably all seen the recent news about one AI company accidentally hacking into another AI company, but this is a lovely new, rather more down-to-earth, story from ABC News:"Andrew asked his personal assistant to book him a spot in one of his gym's

When Andrew asked his AI personal assistant to book him a spot in a gym class, he had no idea he would accidentally initiate an autonomous cyber attack.

This is a lovely site from the National Library of Scotland. It lets you view two maps side by side, and you get synchronised scrolling, zooming; even your cursor is tracked on both images. You can pick from a range of maps, on either side.I've spent a lo

"Democracy", Winston Churchill famously said, "is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." He didn't claim to have originated it, though, and actually, to give more context, he was speaking in