Author: Christine Betterton-Jones
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JCC – 2025 Xmas celebrations. Links to our YouTube entertainment
On our final Thursday session of the year, 18 December, Chris showed a variety of YouTube clips to entertain Club members while they waited for the Xmas celebratory drinks and nibbles to be served. Here are links to the videos … Read more
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JCC Christmas celebrations – Thursday at 10.30
Club members are invited to enjoy a morning of entertainment, drinks, nibbles and Christmas cheer. This Thursday, December 18. We’ll kick off at the earler start time of 10.30 with some of the best viral videos hitting the Internet this … Read more
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Google’s AI powered tools – Christmas 2025
Google is adding AI to a range of its tools. On Thursday, 11 December, we tried to look at some of these …with only partial success! Google AI Studio Chris introduced Google AI studio, which is a tool for … Read more
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Getting familiar with Google’s new AI tools
Soon we will be able to do all kinds of wonderful things with Google’s expanding suite of AI tools, including image and video generation and photo editing just by giving the AI verbal instructions. New apps include NotebookLM, which is … Read more
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The perils of shopping for tech online these days!
On Thursday, 4 December, we tried to help a club member who wanted to buy a Windows 11 laptop for €300. All he could find online were “no-name” Chinese brands of which he was suspicious. We discussed whether it would … Read more
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Is that a bargain…or? Tips for buying tech online this Christmas
Christmas is fast approaching, and “Black Friday” (or week these days) is upon us with on-line vendors offering all kinds of discounts to grab our attention and money. How can we be sure we are getting a real bargain or … Read more
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Detecting AI content – an evolving landscape
Many online tools for detecting AI content are hosted on sites designed to assist people who want to create things using AI to make them appear more “human”. Detecting Mixed Media is a problem: e.g. is a real photo modified … Read more
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Tools to Trap AI content
With AI-generated text, images, videos and music flooding the web, it’s important that we recognise it. Tools are therefore being rolled out to help us do just that. What’s the best way of trapping an AI? Set a thief to … Read more
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The scammers are getting more sophisticated
On Thursday, 20 November, we discussed new developments in the scammers’ playbooks. On November 6, Google had issued a fraud and Scams advisory which we looked at in detail. Fraud and Scams 2025 – key takeaways The 2025 Global Anti-Scam … Read more
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‘Tis the Season for the Scammers… Fa la la la.. 🎶
The festive shopping season is revving up, and scammers and fraudsters are finding new ways to filch our money. This Thursday, November 20, we’ll discuss the scams hitting the news this year and how to avoid getting caught. … Read more