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Tech Insight : Spotting Fake Reviews And Dubious Ratings On Amazon

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Following Amazon suing the admins of more than 10,000 Facebook groups over an alleged co-ordinated fake reviews campaign, we look at how to spot fake reviews and dubious ratings on Amazon.  Why Use Fake Reviews?  On the site of one of the world’s largest retailers and the top online marketplace, large numbers of positive reviews […]

Tech News : 1976 Apple Expected to Fetch $500,000

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A 1976 Apple-1 prototype, believed to have been owned by Steve Jobs and hand-soldered by Steve Wozniak is being auctioned and is expected to fetch around $500,000.  At $400,000+ Already!  The prototype is essentially a broken circuit board with a crack in it but at the time writing this, after 19 bids and with the […]

Featured Article : Playing Video Games For Long Periods Isn’t Bad For You

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A new Oxford University study involving 38,935 video-game players overs six weeks has concluded that there is little to no evidence for a causal connection between game play and well-being.  Why Do We Believe Spending Time Playing Video / Online Games Is Bad For Us?  A combination of previous research, social judgements, anecdotal evidence, online […]

Tech News : Chrome Cookie Removal – Delayed

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Google has announced that due to the need for more time to evaluate alternatives, it is delaying (by nine months) its plans to rid Chrome of third-party tracking cookies.  Third-Party Cookies  A cookie is a piece of code (used for tracking) that takes the form of a small text file that is stored on the […]