AI isn’t something that’s just emerged in the last couple of years. Blinky, Pinky, Inky and Clyde had distinct personalities and if these names sound familiar it’s because they were the four ghosts that chased Pac-Man around his maze, each with different styles of trying to catch him, a kind of ‘AI’.

In days gone by, a Scottish person with a broken appendage might well have said their arm or leg was held in a ‘stooky’ (or ‘stookie’) which meant a plaster-cast.

But what on earth has that got to do with tech?

You probably know that Google was incorporated 25 years ago, in September 1998. But do you know some of the notable acquisitions that they’ve made since then? You may be surprised!

It’s hard to believe that this tech trivia article can start with the recent Canadian wildfires and move onto Julius Caesar fancying Cleopatra, but
the author has managed it.

Why was the Microsoft & Apple cooperation announcement met with a mixture of boos and applause from the audience?

Did know Marie Curie’s notebooks are still too contaminated to be considered safe to handle even now?