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Cloud Computing: Why it's everywhere and how it works
Over the last decade, cloud computing has quite quickly evolved from its niche corner of technology to becoming an essential keystone of both personal and busin...
The End of Modern Cryptography: the threat Quantum Computers Pose
According to the International Data Corporation, 64 zettabytes of data was floating around the global “datasphere” in 2022. That’s equal to one billion terabyte...
Quantum Computing: a very brief overview
What is a quantum computer? A quantum computer is a processor which relies on the principle of quantum mechanics to perform complex calculations at speeds u...
Fortran: why people still use it, 67 years later
In the rapidly changing world of computer programming, a cutting-edge product can become obsolete in a few years. As the first widespread high-level programming...
Exploring self-driving cars and their technology
The rise of self-driving cars represents a new stage in the automotive industry, using groundbreaking technologies such as artificial intelligence, advanced sen...
The Rise of AI in Music
As AI is progressively getting more and more popular, it is making its way to industries all over the globe, with over 65% of companies using it due to it’s...
AI’s Subjectivity
AI cannot currently be objective. From underrepresentation of women in healthcare data to facial recognition software being unable to detect darker skin tones, ...
Groq LPU
The Al world was recently stunned when Groq, a relatively unknown hardware startup, announced that their LPU could run 300 tokens per second on Llama 70B. To pu...
Travelling Salesman Problem 2: Using the Travelling Salesman Problem to explain P vs NP
The Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP) is one of the most famous unsolved problems in mathematics and computer science. First posed in 1930, the problem can be p...
In-Memory Antivirus Evasion in Windows
When you want to run a program, for example calc.exe, and the Antivirus (AV) doesn’t recognise it (for example with something you have just downloaded), it will...
A Guide to Reinforcement Learning: An AI Algorithm You Must Know About
In the ever-evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, one captivating field has been making significant waves — reinforcement learning. While it may sound ...
An Introduction to Blockchain in Bitcoin
Blockchain is like a digital record keeping system that stores information on things called blocks, linked together, it’s called the blockchain. It can keep tra...
Space and Time Complexity
Time and space are some of the most important things to understand in software or algorithm development. These two things are critical for improving algorithmic...
What is CRISPR?
What is CRISPR/Cas-9 Two scientists, Charpentier and Doudna, were researching how bacteria disarmed viruses. They found that their immune system, CRISPR/Cas-9,...
What is Distributed Computing?
We live in a world teeming with different websites and applications, that we use on a daily basis however the underlying technology that builds and delivers the...
Unreal Engine 5 and the limits of Computer Graphics
In recent years, technologies such as Artificial Intelligence have garnered significant attention due to their remarkable capabilities and exponential growth. H...
Volunteer Computing
Most CPU capacity is now redundant. The shrinking of computer chips as they become more powerful means that the average laptop can run programs that require pro...
Xenobots, Synthetic Biology, and AI
Synthetic biology is a relatively nascent scientific field concerned with redesigning organisms (i.e. meddling with their DNA) to enable them to perform chemica...
AI: An Unequal Future AI promises to further mould the world, but as it grows how can we prevent it causing damage?
In today’s world in the age of ‘big data,’ AI is a ubiquitous and quintessential technology. The AI market size is forecast to rapidly increase, as is its usage...
Paint, Pixels, and Plagiarism: The Rise of Generative AI and the Uncertain Future of Art
Pooping rainbows. This, according to Emad Mostaque—founder of Stable Diffusion and a leader in the AI art revolution—is the ultimate goal of artistic generative...
The Inner Workings of a Modern-Day Computer
In today’s world, we are surrounded by computers everywhere – they are in our cars, in our pockets, and even in our smart fridges. However, despite using these ...
Your Brain Could Be Hooked Up to The Internet in Your Lifetime. Yep, You Read That Right.
Welcome to a future where your brain could become an internet powerhouse, enhancing your abilities, reshaping your daily life, and potentially redefining the hu...
ChatGPT: What it is, the status quo and the future
‘Optimizing Language Models for Dialogue’ ChatGPT is and has been in the spotlight for the past few months, and the viral nature of this seemingly...
How ChatGPT could benefit the education system in the long term
To most beaks and boys, ChatGPT is known as ‘the essay-writing tool’; much to the dismay of teachers ChatGPT makes it laughably easy for boys to cheat on assign...
The Big 4: Where They Are and Their Futures (With and Without AI)
Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and Google: four of the biggest technology companies in the world. All of them have undoubtedly changed an aspect of our lives, but wi...
Revolutionizing Education: How Computer-Assisted Learning is Shaping the Future
Thanks to technology, the educational landscape has seen considerable upheaval in recent years. Learning has improved accessibility, engagement, and personalisa...
Digital Steganography
We have all undoubtedly come across methods of steganography in our childhoods. The infamous writing of secret messages to friends in invisible ink may have see...
The History of AI
Artificial Intelligence has recently become an integral part of the modern world, with its use in day to day life growing exponentially. Previously outlandish d...
The Rise of Cloud Computing
Between 2005 and 2010, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Alibaba and Tencent Cloud all launched a cloud computing service. This was followed swiftly by IBM, Oracle, De...
You’ve Been Brainwashed: ChatGPT Is Stupider Than You Think!
The incredible advancements in artificial intelligence, with some help from the media, may have you convinced that we're closer to achieving artificial general ...
Web3, and the Evolution of the World Wide Web
The year is 2022. We are amidst a new revolution of the World Wide Web and the Internet, which brings countless new opportunities to innovate and countless new ...
The Future of AI
“The world will know what you want before you want it, and have it ready for you when you want it.” Sounds like science fiction, but AI is bringing...
Is Quantum Computing the Future?
Since the first modern computer in the 1960s, the power of computers has grown exponentially, allowing them to get smaller and more powerful simultaneously. But...
Social Media Algorithms
Instead of doing the English EW due yesterday, many of us have spent countless afternoons browsing through Youtube, Instagram, or TikTok. We don't notice until ...
Smart City: The Solution to Air Pollution?
## Introduction Modern society is undergoing the rapid process of urbanisation. Currently, about 4.4 billion people live in cities, and over 80% of GDP is g...
DALL·E 2, Generating Images From Text
The use of Artificial Intelligence in daily life is now at a point of normalisation. We use it all the time almost without thinking twice about it. Many of us c...
How do IP Addresses work?
If you have even remotely engaged with the internet at any point in your lives, which I hope everyone reading this has, you have implicitly encountered what is ...
Use of Technology in Sports
Throughout the past decade we have seen the gradual - but fast - integration of more technologically advanced systems into sports. Some have been used in tennis...
Is The Future of Aviation Autonomous?
Top Gun: Maverick would not be much of a film if the planes hadn’t had pilots, but many believe that designing a next-generation aircraft that requires a pilot ...
The New Era of MAD
Mutually Assured Destruction refers to the notion that two or more opposing sides have the power to completely annihilate each other. This idea was first realis...
How Do Computers Add Numbers?
Addition is the most fundamental operation for any computer. From crunching numbers (their original purpose) to rendering advanced graphics, everything a comput...
Moravec's Paradox
If you were to ask a computer what the square root of 1346086 is, it would probably give to you the correct answer (1160.2094…) in about a fraction of a second....
What Actually Is an NFT?
NFTs: we've all heard of them but don't really know what they mean. To many, an NFT is simply an image, but in reality this is not the case. Roughly 5 years ago...
Is AI the Fall of Man?
Most of us have seen the film the Terminator. It is a classic in the action genre, and despite some debatable logic in time travel, it is still one of the most ...
Metaverse, the next Internet?
You may have seen the movies *Avatar* or *Ready Player One*, which describe worlds dictated by virtual reality, augmented reality, and artificial intelligence. ...
Why is Python so popular?
Python is a language that most programmers these days have at least a basic understanding of. First developed in the late 1980’s and released in 1991 by Dutch C...
The Technology Behind Cryptocurrency
We have all heard of - and perhaps invested in - Bitcoin, Ethereum, or other cryptocurrencies. These cryptocurrencies have created a lot of excitement througho...
Flutter, the Future of App Development
Imagine you have to submit an article for the 3 Editors-in-Chief of the Axiom, the Scientific Etonian and *Etonet*. One of whom only speaks English, the other ...
Data and Democracy
Since the advent of the 21<sup>st</sup> Century, there has been an unprecedented increase in the usage of the internet. It is the consumer data, captured throug...
Technology and the Environment
Modern technology has had a monumental impact on humans, the civilisations that we build and the lives that we lead. However, it has also had a huge effect on t...
Quantum Key Distribution
In this age of information, where our data is precious, encryption is a crucial tool in the fight for our privacy. An encryption key converts plaintext which an...
Zero-Knowledge Proof
The digital age has certainly brought about numerous advancements and has had a momentous impact on our lives and the way we go about them. We are more connecte...
Elon Musk and Twitter
What would happen if the richest man in the world succeeds in a hostile takeover of one of the largest social media platforms, which serves as a public town squ...