Following months of remote working, companies everywhere are starting to bring employees back to the office. While this is a positive step forward, it also poses a number of IT security concerns that will need to be tackled to prevent business systems being left vulnerable. Here, we’ll look at what those concerns are and provide …
One of the less visible but most significant impacts of the 2020 pandemic is how it has changed people’s attitudes and values. Temporary as it might be, the crisis has, to some degree, made people more caring and increased awareness of the value of others in society. For companies that make use of social media, …
Catch up on this week’s round-up of the latest hosting and tech news. Here’s what we’ve uncovered since our last edition. Vertical farms coming home The fear of food scarcity during the pandemic has led to an increase in the sales of advanced vertical farm units, many of which are being adapted for small, local …
When you hear of Google BERT, you could be forgiven of thinking it’s the company mascot. Unfortunately, it isn’t and nor is it a more humanoid name for Google Assistant. Instead, BERT is a major algorithm update and the letters in its name stand for Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers. If that makes no sense, …
Catch up on this week’s round-up of the latest hosting and tech news. Here’s what we’ve uncovered since our last edition. £14K robot housekeeper If you thought the robot vacuum cleaner was hi-tech, then the new Stretch RE1 robot will make you seriously reconsider. The first robot from US start-up, Hello Robot, a company founded …
Great content is essential if you want to sell goods and services online. It’s what informs, advises, and persuades your visitors that buying from you is the right decision. Google, meanwhile, hails high-quality content as its most important ranking factor, enabling content-rich sites to increase their traffic. Content, however, comes in different forms and here, …
Catch up on this week’s round-up of the latest hosting and tech news. Here’s what we’ve uncovered since our last edition. eCommerce boom benefits shippers While the economy as a whole is still reeling from the effects of the pandemic, the eCommerce boom which grew out of the lockdown has had knock-on benefits for businesses …
Getting visitors to your website can be challenging and expensive, so it is important that your site is optimised to convert as many of them as it can into customers. In this post, we’ll explain what conversions rates are, why they are important and how you can optimise your website to increase your rates and …
When it comes to cybersecurity, WordPress is a victim of its own success. Used on 35% of the world’s websites, its popularity makes it highly attractive to cybercriminals. While no less secure than other platforms, the sheer volume of WordPress websites means, statistically, there’s more chance of an attack. To help you to protect your …
Catch up on this week’s round-up of the latest hosting and tech news. Here’s what we’ve uncovered since our last edition. Robotic dolphin makes a splash San Francisco-based special effects company, Edge Innovations, has designed and built a robot dolphin that looks, moves and swims like the real thing. Weighing 270kg, the robot has a …
