Each new year brings with it excitement for the new products or solutions on the horizon, and 2022 is no exception. There are some huge tech developments on their way over the coming 12 months, so here are five of the most exciting or disruptive.
Apple devices designed to locate lost keys or personal items could let hackers track your every move – with cases having already been reported in the USA.
AirTags are small, electronic fobs created by Apple that affix to items such as keys or luggage so they can be tracked down if ever they get lost. Their geo-location is purposefully very precise, with the devices able to be located to within 0.1ft.
It’s long been said that a messy desk is the sign of a creative mind, but what about a messy desktop? Clutter on your computer screen is a sure-fire productivity drain and an easy way to lose focus. So if you’re looking for ways to clean up your desktop, here are five top tips.
Vodafone and EE have confirmed they will reintroduce roaming charges for customers in the EU, but not quite yet.
With Britain now out of the European Union, network providers are free to scrap the ‘roam like at home’ policy, which allowed customers to continue using their devices across the bloc as they would in the UK – with data, calls and messages coming out of their regular balance or monthly allowance.
Do you get nostalgic for the old days of Windows 3.0, or feel like the latest mobile-style design flourishes leave you cold? If so, Microsoft has just the thing – a remake of its classic File Manager.
Back in the 1990s, File Manager was the only way to add, delete and manage the files and folders on your PC. The death knell for File Manager was sounded with the introduction of Windows Explorer, a new graphical user interface from the revolutionary Windows 95. Surely enough, File Manager was officially retired before the turn of the new millennium.
Google has brought legal action against 17 suspected cyber criminals, in the search giant’s first ever case launched against a botnet.
The case names Russians Dmitry Starovikov and Alexander Filippov, alongside 15 of their associates, as being behind Glupteba – a malicious botnet thought to have been in action for over a decade. During that time, Glupteba is thought to have infected over a million Windows devices, stealing personal information that could be used to commit fraud. At its peak, the botnet was thought to be reaching thousands of new devices every day.
A ‘horrifying’ vulnerability in Apache logging library Log4j has been patched, but the threat to business is far from over.
The so-called Log4Shell vulnerability emerged at the beginning of December, when Cisco and Cloudflare identified a huge security flaw in the open source software, built to allow users to keep track of what happens within their apps.
Hologram technology, the like seen in countless science fiction films and TV shows, could soon become more than a reality – but positively commonplace.
A video went viral in recent weeks showing David Nussbaum, boss of US holograms firm Portl, showcasing the technology that makes people appear in hologram form in such a way that it becomes difficult to determine which one is real and which one the avatar. In the video, Nussbaum simply walks in front of a camera, then his exact likeness in hologram is displayed, life-size, in a box to his side. Everything Nussbaum says or does is reflected in his holographic double.
The coronavirus pandemic may have seemed like the topic on everyone’s lips in 2021, but it wasn’t top of the pile when it came to Google searches. In fact, it appeared just once in the top 10. Instead, football ruled the roost, taking four of the ten entries – and every single one of the top three.
Hybrid working has gone from becoming a ‘nice-to-have’ to essential for the majority of Brits, who are now set on keeping this more flexible approach to their working patterns.
Despite calls from some politicians and business leaders for a return to the ‘old normal’ once restrictions allow, the majority of British workers want remote working to become a permanent fixture of the workplace.
