Another day another email scam this time Dunnes Stores is at the helm. This is a sly one too with the header as Dunnes Stores voucher not only that its a subscription service which will just take money from your account and there has been issues with this in the past too when it comes to unsub from the. You can read up more about them here
Dunnes have got back to me on the matter but i do not like how they did it by sending me a direct message despite me tweeting them on Twitter,this is NOT proactive and they should have answered me in the public domain as that is where I brought the issue up. In short the face image then is not an actual Dunnes stores card but one that looks very similar but most importantly DO NOT give any details to these cowboys.
With themes ranging from MedTech to Product Design, the Distributed Workplace to Blockchain and the Media, this year’s Inspirefest 2019 is sure to engage the most inquisitive of minds. Over 50 global business leaders and thinkers will address these themes and much more at the two-day Inspirefest festival of technology, science, design and the arts, taking place in Dublin on May 16th and 17th.
As one of Europe’s leading sci-tech and arts event, this year’s festival will again feature a range of high-profile international speakers in a series of discussions and talks in the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre, where some 4,000 attendees will gather over two days.
Some of the names taking part this year include Anil Dash, CEO of Glitch and former advisor to the Obama Administration’s Office of Digital Strategy; Angela Saini, the award-winning BBC science journalist and author of Inferior which was named Physics World Book of the Year, and Erika Cheung, a champion of ethics in entrepreneurship, best known as the whistle blower in the Theranos scandal, featured in the recent HBO documentary, The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley.
You’ll also get to hear from Cat Oyler, Vice President, Global Public Health, Tuberculosis at Johnson & Johnson, who will speak about the company’s vision of a world without disease. Janssen, the pharmaceutical company of J&J, will also be facilitating a panel discussion at Inspirefest on Mental Health Literacy and what employers can do to create a workplace that understands and supports mental wellbeing. Reggie Selma, former CNN senior photojournalist who has filmed US presidents from Reagan to Obama will also feature on our exciting agenda.
Inspirefest founder Ann O’Dea said:“The calibre of speakers we’ve gathered for this year’s festival is truly special. It also reinforces how big a part Ireland plays on the global stage when it comes to hosting world-class sci-tech events.
We’re always looking to gain alternative perspectives and explore challenging issues with our line-up of speakers and we hope our attendees learn more about the impact of science and technology on work culture, global business and our personal lives.”
Britney NoMayo, Inspirefest founder, Ann O’Dea and activist and aspiring astronaut, Taylor Richardson, at the first day of Inspirefest 2018 in the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre. Picture Conor McCabe Photography.
Cat Oyler, Vice President, Global Public Health, Tuberculosis at Johnson & Johnson, said, “At Johnson & Johnson, our vision is a world without disease. This is an ambitious goal, to be sure, but we believe it is achievable with the right passion, determination and ingenuity.
Solving some of the world’s largest health challenges – from HIV and tuberculosis to mental illness and cancer – requires us to upend conventional medicine. Our scientists think differently about disease, striving to advance the most compelling science in prevention, disease interception and cure. But none of this can be achieved alone.
We need like-minded people from across sectors and in different industries, who are equally relentless at challenging the status quo, in order to transform the healthcare ecosystem. Events such as Inspirefest play a key role in helping to nurture new ideas and opportunities for collaboration – ultimately bringing us one step closer to a world without disease.”
The EOZ air true wireless earbuds are certainly a pair of true wireless buds that are worth every penny of the asking price with what you get.There is many types of these available now and they are the trend but what you get for your hard earned cash is another matter with prices of these at all levels some do not pass the test yet some do even at a lower cost.
I have said before the cost to performance ratio is now another trend and these fit nicely in here as a complete package with premium build quality and great sound all round and up to 90 Hrs battery life which is certainly one of the higher ones I have seen or tested of late and this is a win win for the consumer who has long commutes to work etc.
These also look stealthy which is nice and fit nicely in the ear,in fact they are one of the best fitting I have seen in a while and will not move,you can literally do somersaults in these and they will not budge. These also come with comply foam tips which are the best in the business sealing the outside world with a comfortable fit ensuring you capture the great sounds coming from the inside rather than hearing what’s on the outside.
Check out the unboxing and video review below and tell us what you think or do you already have a pair of these…
Today, all of us have become active users of various social media channels such as YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram. Social Media has become a significant medium for us to connect with our friends, family, and millions of other people. But do you know that Social Media is also a very potent tool for the promotion of business products and services? Yes, you heard it right.
An Animated Video on Social Media is a highly effective way for business promotion and advertisement. It not only generates high web traffic but also increases the online engagement of the customers. 2D-3D Animated Videos combines audio-visuals in a highly attractive manner. Such videos are short & simple and therefore easy to retain by the human mind.
Also, these videos can be customized as per your business needs which make them even more interesting. You may share these videos across all social media platforms for a wider reach. And, the most amazing part is, animated videos are very budget-friendly. It is considerably cheaper to make an animated video as compared to a live video or a film shot. So, with so many benefits of Animated Videos, why not make one for yourself to entertain and yet deliver your message to the target audience?
Surprising as it may sound modern mobile apps can not only influence the actions but can even change human behavior. Now, without going into the debate on whether using mobile apps are good or bad, focus on the fact that it really does change human behaviour. If you are not convinced then spare ten minutes to notice your behavior yourself.
How many times did you pick up the phone in these ten minutes just to check whether or not you have received any mails or any alert notification? Be honest with yourself. A number of times!
Now, pick up your phone and look for the mobile apps that may have sent you a few notifications. Also try to recollect all those apps that you were expecting a notification from but did not receive in the end. Once again, there will be quite a lot of it!
Now, what were you looking for all these minutes? Well, there can be many things such as:
It may be that you were wondering whether or not someone texted you back to a message you sent to that person 11 minutes before (remember, ten minutes were your testing time)
It may be the meme that you shared or
It may be the comment you were expecting from anyone who viewed the latest photo you uploaded on Instagram.
Possibilities are galore according to Statista and with the number of smartphone users expected to reach 4.77 million all over the world pretty soon you will need a moment to let this fact, alarming as it is, to sink in you.
Such a vast proliferation of the smartphones being used in almost every niche of the world and by people from all walks of life, it is not surprising that you will continue to get messages and snaps through different mobile apps such as WhatsApp, SnapChat and thousand others.
Looking deeper into it
Well, it is a great feeling to remain connected with your family and all of your friends almost all the time. However, the thing that you do not notice is that you cannot literally live without all those apps.
All these apps acts just like digital sugar to your brain keeping you hooked to it everyday, every hour, every moment, except when you are asleep, if not in your dreams, that is.
You must admit that fact that everyone, even you, have some degree of affinity if not addiction towards these apps like Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, and others.
No matter how hard you try to quit this habit of using these addictive social media apps, you will hardly be able to stay away from it more than a week, that too pushing thing to the extreme limits, wen you will find that you are back on it.
None of this should be taken lightly as these are not accidental. For the sake of context, a look at the study reports on Instagram will help you to understand how additive these apps are before you know how this can change human behavior. Here is a breakdown of the active monthly users of this most popular app and the time it took to add each 100 million active users.
Since it was launched exclusively for iOS on 6th October 2010, it had 700 million monthly active users as on April 2017. It is no small a number considering that it is not even seven years. 78 months to be precise!
October 6, 2010: Instagram launched
February 26, 2013: First 100 million in 28 months
March 25, 2014: Took only 13 months for the next 100 million
December 10, 2014: Just 9 months for the next 300 hundred till June 21, 2016
December 15, 2016: As low as 6 months to reach 600 million and in
April 26, 2017: Just 4 months to reach 700 million!
Looking at the difference in time, you may think why it took 28 months initially and just 4 months in the end. This is because there were only 4.01 billion smartphone users all over the world in that year.
The fact that the number of smart phone users increased and the availability of more and more mobile apps, it took just 4 months in 2017 to get another 100 million active users.
The human behavior aspect
The mobile apps believe it or not, ensure an emotional connection and this result in the change in the human behaviour. The mobile app developers take cue from this fact and design the apps including much more than functional UX and pretty visuals to ensure that the users constantly come back for more whether it is for checking their mail or for reading the debt settlement reviewsusing different apps.
Persuasive Technology is what the designers follow while designing such addictive products with intent to change human behavior for the better. In order to make sure that it is not disorienting for the users or the techniques are over-hyped or are jumbled by unreasonable theories they follow a step by step process.
Behaviour change needs a behaviour model that will put the right triggers at the right place to allure even the highly motivated users. It is this motivation that forces the person to perform a particular action.
In order to make this work perfectly, the developers use three specific elements in their app designing process namely motivation, ability and trigger. This helps them to persuade the users to do something regularly that will eventually change their behavior.
All these triggers, just like sugar addiction, are tied to the internal as well as external triggers in the human brain. When the external trigger starts to work, the internal triggers manifest automatically in the minds of the users creating a brass ring of consumer technology.
In short, it can be said that the external triggers and the internal triggers working in unison eventually hijacks the rewarding system of the brain releasing more dopamine in the brainmaking it want for more of it. You have changed and are hooked, pal!
Do you remember the time when there was no such thing as apps then they slowly crept in, Well things have changed quite quickly along with technology and I have said it many times before there is now basically an app for everything, With Android and iOS being at the helm it did not work out well for Windows Phone but it is what it is and there is two dominant players in the market. Most of us would have plenty of apps on our phones today and the average would differ between 10 -20, with me it’s much more because of what I do, but how often do we use or even need them? This infographic below sheds some light on Apps and was sent to us by ERS IT SOLUTIONS
It has now been more than 10 years since the first apps were launched and, in that time, it has grown into an incredibly lucrative industry with an estimated worldwide value of $950 billion.
Guest Post by Paul Archer. – No matter if you haven’t yet even put your hands onto a drone controller, considering the safety of quadcopter technology these days, you can start faster than ever.
The amazing videos you have seen online with super smooth footage and pro-looking following and orbiting techniques may seem amazing, and probably were hard and expensive to do just a few years ago.
However, since technology evolved at an alarming rate, cheaper drones with more advanced features have appeared out of nowhere. Not long ago you had to spend thousands of dollars on big drone rigs that would carry big cameras that could barely shoot in 1080p. Even in more recent history, the Phantom series, although revolutionary was quite pricey and well over $1000 for a capable 4k drone with not many features to brag about.
Drones have become much more portable
Gone are the days where we were amazed by the fact that a 4k drone could fit in a car trunk. Nowadays I can carry my DJI Mavic Air in my pocket.
And we’re talking about a quadcopter that can record in 4k, with a stabilized 3 axis gimbal and lots of proximity sensors.
The revolution has started with the DJI Mavic Pro. The original foldable drone that sold like crazy and made DJI the giant that it is now.
Still a good drone to this day, it’s an absolutely great buy for people looking to make money with filming services even in 2019.
The big difference was that it came with a foldable design and that meant you could simply fit it in a very small backpack while at the same time have the same footprint when flying, which helped with the wind.
What $500 drones can deliver professional results?
This question would have remained unanswered just 2 or 3 years ago, but right now I could easily make a top 5 with my best drones under $500 and I can confidently say they can be used for shooting high quality grade footage and photos.
Let me quickly overview 2 of them and what they could mean for you, even as a beginner pilot.
Xiaomi Fimi X8
A drone released in 2019, comes with a similar foldable frame to the Mavic series, yet at a much lower price.
What are the main advantages?
4k camera
3 axis gimbal
Foldable design
Follow me functions
Other flight modes like Orbit, Waypoints and more
Automatic return to home
Precise GPS flying
30minute flight time
5km range
The Xiaomi Fimi x8 is one of my favorites because, even if it was more expensive in the past nowadays it only costs under $500 and that’s absolutely amazing for the results you’re being given.
Just check the video down below with how well this drone can actually record footage:
If you’re a photographer, the 12mp camera stills that can be shot in DNG RAW format will be more than sufficient for most uses.
DJI Spark
A drone that has been in the marketplace for a while now, it’s more than welcome on our list as a still very relevant and capable quadcopter.
It doesn’t have the foldable format, but instead it’s very small by itself. A less invasive drone, with very smart features and obstacle avoidance embedded in it.
What are the main advantages?
2 axis gimbal
1080p camera
Electronic image stabilization
Quick shots (that can easily make videos seem professional even without trying)
Automatic return to home
Precise GPS
15 minute flight time
3 km range
It’s more than a capable drone, it’s very easy to launch from your hand even and thanks to the obstacle avoidance sensors in front, you can take some more risky shots.
Why it’s easier to learn how to fly a done with GPS
More expensive drones are actually more suitable for beginners, as you can simply remove your hands from the joysticks and it will hover in place.This means you can try all the controls one by one without having to constantly adjust for wind direction or simply the drone drifting.
Besides that, there’s also the return to home technology that will return the drone back to you if for example it lost signal or the battery is getting low. I do recommend learning with a small $20 at first just to get the hang of it and carefully checking the instruction manuals, but overall, you can go straight flying with such a drone without much hassle.
Make sure you check flight regulations in your country
Depending on the weight of the drone, most countries have regulations to keep you from doing stupid stuff.It’s pretty obvious you shouldn’t fly near airports and military bases, but with bigger drones you actually might have to register them.Drones like the DJI Spark might be under the weight limit so it could provide an advantage when it comes to this.
As a conclusion, don’t be scared of trying to fly more expensive drones and start a business. You can expand your talent as a videographer and photographer to great heights, literally by simply investing $500 in what is going to be an extremely capable camera drone.
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Tech Summit Attendees Get a Lesson in Cyber Hacking and Witness Just How Unsecure Our Personal Data Is
‘Stunning’, ‘Scary’, ‘Sensational’ – these are just some of the words attendees at the sold-out it@Cork Tech Summit used to describe what they witnessed at today’s event. With some standing on their tippy toes, some seated and others crouched around the edges of the room, 400 attendees crammed into the City Hall’s Millennium Hall yesterday to witness Cybercrime experts, from global Cyber Security company Trend Micro, hack into a personal phone and computer using the public Wi-Fi system.
The “live hack” demo gave attendees a taste of the real, pervasive and very threatening world of cybercrime that is growing and developing throughout the world – and brought it home to each and every spectator just how vulnerable they are.
Robert McArdle, Director for Cybercrime Research in Trend Micro’s “Forward Looking Threat” research team & speaker at this year’s eventaddressed stunned onlookers,
“Data breaches are one of the biggest risks to consumers today –and it is also completely out of their control. While already insidious, data breaches are going to get much worse in the very near future.”
Robert McArdle Director FTR Cybercrime Research Trend Micro, Gillian Bergin Vice Chair it@cork and Anthony O’Callaghan Chairperson it@cork pictured at it@cork Tech Summit 2019, City Hall Cork. Photography by Gerard McCarthy
Cybercrime in Numbers
Mr. McArdle gave the audience the lowdown on cybercrime all over the world,
– 1.1 Billion
“The world’s biggest breach to date was the hacking of Aadhar – the Unique Government ID system for India. Last year the government database that holds that information was breached and the records of 1.1 billion people were stolen. This meant that the private details of almost 1/7 of the world’s population were in the hands of attackers. In Western news, breaches such as the Marriott hotels, MyFitnessPal, MyHeritage and Cambridge Analytica got a lot more press – but all those combined don’t even come close to this.”
– $2.7 billion
“This is the financial number of reported losses to the FBI for Cybercrime in 2018. But the reality is much worse than that – firstly this is only for the US, not the whole world. Secondly – this only accounts for known cases of Cybercrime.”
– 8.4 billion
“This is the number of internet connected devices by the end of 2018. So as of last year, there are more internet connected devices in the world, than there are humans. And this figure is expected to hit 125million by 2020. Everything in our world is getting more connected – and if it is connected, it can be hacked.”
– 90%
“90% of all the data in the world was generated in the last 2 years. And what is the inbuilt human reaction when bombarded with so much information, uncertainty or threats? Fear. Fear is a major social problem as a response to the security threats and trends on the Internet today, leading to increased anger, hate and suffering among humanity.
The brain has had millions of years to evolve fight of flights response, but only thirty to evolve to the new deluge of information being thrown at it from the internet every day. And this overload is only going to increase.”
What Can We Do?
Trend Micro experts say education is key for a few reasons, and cite the city’s courses in Cyber Security and Cloud Computing in CIT and UCC as important assets in this regard.
Mr. McArdle went on,
“Education removes the uncertainty of the tech side of today’s problems – and that in turn leads to reduced fear and more acceptance. There are so many really top quality, free, online courses around today, that there really is no excuse for people to not dive into security in their teens. Even more so than in the past, those interested in careers in security absolutely do not need to wait until college to start. In fact, if they do, they will be about 5 years behind the best of their peers.
I think that 3rd level institutions will need to think about how to re-architect their courses in the near future to cater for the amount of knowledge that students will already be bringing with them into third level programmes.”
In summing up his presentation, the Trend Micro security expert outlined that the internet has created whole new classes of threats that have never existing for the majority of human history, and posited that humans will have to group together across a much wider spectrum of diversity in order to figure out how to stop them,
“Cybercrime is not a technology problem – it’s a human one. Cybercrime is simply crime on the internet, and the internet lets us carry it faster and at larger scales than ever before. So remember, you are not defending against computers – you are defending against smart humans. And there is no better way to do that than to embrace differences and assemble an agile team with all sorts of world views, that can handle absolutely anything an attacker can throw at them.
While this includes men, women and people from a diversity of backgrounds, it also means expanding beyond that, and embracing those who are not ‘neuro-typical’, for example the Autistic community, and other more neuro-diverse individuals. I’m generalising, but some of the most innovative people in security I know, have combined a passion for security with an amazingly unique autistic or neuro-diverse brain, to solve problems in a way you will never get from 98% of this room. The internet has created whole new classes of threats that have never existing for the majority of human history, so why should we assume that majority of humans are the ones with the best minds to figure out how to stop them?
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