Friday Wrap: Volume Two

The second weekly round up of AI and other tech news stories from the past seven days.

Thank you for calling Web Dev. How may we complicate things for you?

How web development became a never-ending spiral into greater complexity and frustration.

Friday Wrap: Volume One

A round-up of AI-related news from the web.

When the AI bubble bursts

Sooner or later the current AI bubble is going to burst. What's going to happen when it does?

The "glamour" of 1980s computer magazines

Ah, the 1980s! The decade of decadence. Suits with shoulder pads. Dance music workouts with Jane Fonda in leg-warmers. Home computers with rudimentary graphics and sound. *record scratch* Wait. Home computers? How do you make those beige plastic boxes with cassette recorders and televisions for monitors look glamorous? That was

Why is AI so popular when nobody wants it?

Why is AI getting so much attention when it seems that there is limited actual demand for it?

Television of the retro-future

Welcome to the world of tomorrow's television as seen from 1978 in this children's book that predicted the future.

In the 1980s we also downloaded software from TV

Explore with me two fascinating techniques for encoding software in analogue TV signals

Yes, in the 1980s we downloaded games from the radio

So there I was, minding my own business, doom-scrolling my way through Facebook posts when I happened upon one that hit me straight in the nostalgia. A photo of a 1980s home computer, a cassette player and some tapes. The text underneath proclaimed "In the 1980s, people could download

Back From The Future: 1995's predictions of 2025 life

In 1995 three brave prognosticators set out to predict life in the 2020s. How did that work out for them?

P-AI-perback Writer

Artificial intelligence can write some plausible sounding stuff. But can it have an original idea?

Help. My AI scientist just plagiarised my research

A BBC News headline caught my eye a couple of days ago : "AI cracks superbug problem in two days that took scientists years". And by "caught my eye", I mean "made me doubt that this is true". The general gist of the story is