Anyone that has played 5-a-side on 3G pitch will know only too well how it feels to get home and tip up their trainer, only to see countless small bits of plastic fall out onto the floor. Now scientists believe that as much as 0.5% of our brain may be made up of microplastics, with
Nowadays, you are going to be hard-pressed to find someone that doesn’t have a smartphone. Whether you’re a massively lover of the Apple ecosystem or you’re a fan of the myriad of Android-based phones on the market, it’s extremely likely that you’ve got your phone in your pocket wherever you are. The only problem with
In football, data analytics is not exactly a groundbreaking, new piece of technology, however, the use of it has significantly increased over the last decade, with many more clubs seeing the benefits of it first hand. As a result, it has almost created a new role in football, with clubs now adding data scientists, performance
Apple have been brilliant at ensuring there is a buzz about the release of their latest and greatest technology. As soon as a device goes into pre-production, there are also sorts of rumours hitting the internet to tell people what to expect. Some of them will be genuine, whilst others will be false things that
I am not all that easily pleased when it comes to Virtual Reality headsets. As someone with multiple sclerosis, I have problems with my vision in general and find that such headsets usually give me a headache. When I used the Meta Quest 3 demo device in a shop a few months ago, I had
For many people, the thought of a drone will bring about ideas of young people getting a small flying device for Christmas, using it to film their house from above or to fly around the living room terrorising grandma. Those that have watched recent films from the likes of Michael Bay will soon have realised
In the film The Terminator, a cybernetic assassin, played by Arnold Schwarzenegger, is sent back from 2029 to 1984 in order to kill Sarah Connor because her as yet unborn son will save humanity from an extinction brought about by an Artificial Intelligence called Skynet. When people discuss AI in the modern world, it is
When conversations about Artificial Intelligence come up, it doesn’t take long before someone starts to talk about Terminator and the rise of Skynet. Whilst that is obviously a gross exaggeration of the position that we find ourselves in, it is a slight insight into how many people feel about the technology. The problems that we’re
Is Elon Musk the world’s stupidest billionaire? There is certainly an argument to make on that front, with the Tesla owner having taken over one of the most recognisable brands in the world only to remove from it the things that made it so recognisable. What he chose to do to Twitter is akin to
For some generations, the presence of a landline phone in their home was entirely normal. Those that grew up in the 1980s and 1990s or earlier will have been used to the phone ringing all around the house as someone called in order to speak to one of the inhabitants of the home. Since the