Author: Christine Betterton-Jones
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Hacienda is cracking down on Digital Platforms!
Our discussion on Thursday, 2 October, had been initiated by this article from EuroWeekly: ” Spain’s tax agency targets digital banks and cards: Over a million cards under the microscope ” https://euroweeklynews.com/2025/09/24/spains-tax-agency-targets-digital-banks-and-cards-over-a-million-cards-under-the-microscope/ (Chris noted that this was a translation … Read more
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Spain’s tax authority is cracking down on digital banks and pre-paid cards – Could this affect me?
Perhaps you had to ditch your UK bank account after Brexit and opened an account with Wise or ING. Or maybe you signed up with Revolut or N22 because you are non-resident and want to move money about without … Read more
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Hearing Aids, Yesterday and Today
On Thursday, September 25, a representative of the hearing aid company “Asustik” in Jávea will give a presentation describing the history of hearing aid technology from ear trumpets to the first analogue hearing aids. Then moving on to modern hearing … Read more
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TV and Cinema in the streaming age – it’s all change!
On Thursday, 18 September, we discussed what the future might hold for broadcast TV and cinema in the age of media streamed over the Internet. TV – The Past We recalled how in the early days of TV, there were … Read more
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What is the future for broadcast TV and cinema in the age of streaming?
Does anybody watch live, broadcast TV apart from old age Pensioners who have the box on all day for company? Schedules are full of game shows, cooking shows and endless repeats. When did you last go to the cinema – … Read more
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Is the Internet herding you? (.. not me, of course ; ) )
On Thursday, September 11, we discussed the question: Is the Internet herding people around like sheep? Why does everyone seem to be going to Japan these days? What makes massive live performances so popular? Why is everything labelled Gluten Free?… Read more
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Is the Internet herding people around like sheep?
Everybody seems to know somebody who has just been to Japan or is about to go. Why is it the destination of the summer? What makes 14 million people ask for tickets to see Oasis perform in the UK leg … Read more
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The World Wide Web is dying – and AI has a lot to do with it.
On Thursday, August 28, we discussed how much of the content on the Internet was AI, fake or generated automatically, and whether this was important to our daily lives. We started by watching this YouTube video presented by software engineer … Read more
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How much Internet content is AI, fake or generated automatically by “bots” – should we care?
Remember the Good Old Days of the 1990s, when Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, hailed it as a digital space where people could freely share information? It was a great tool for discovering new ideas, learning about … Read more
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AI in managing photos and documents
On Thursday, August 21 we discussed whether AI could be used to manage photographs and documents on a PC. Locally installed AI tools (not in the Cloud) The problem with AI tools such as Microsoft’s CoPilot, Google’s Gemini, ChatGPT, and … Read more