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It's exactly this that the regulators are trying to stop Google, Facebook et. al from doing (my earlier post). The argument goes that summarising for a search link is ok because that drives traffic to the original source, where they can benefit from page views = ad revenue. What Google does...

But that means doing some actual work. Researching, scripting and producing even a 15 minute programme, five days a week, is quite a task. Set the 'bots on it and it becomes "sit back and watch the ad revenue roll in"! Maybe I'm being too cynical :s

With trigger phrases such as "groundbreaking technology", "advanced text to speech" and "[heavy use of] artificial intelligence" and the (implied) use of the singular pronoun in the first post ("I am thinking about") I'd be much more concerned about the editorial control. It sounds almost as if...

Working in that area of Cardiff at the time, the impression I had was that the plan was to remove the embankment and bring the railway down to street level, not to get rid of it altogether. However the developers of the posh, expensive new flats on the eastern side rather liked the idea of a...

Out of curiosity, is that from 100% to near zero, or is it within the 20% - 80% band that some manufacturers are still pushing as the best way to prolong the life of the battery? And does the manufacturer state that ultra-super-dooper-fast charging is only to be used occasionally (for example on...

(Wading in late, sorry) My dad has an iPad and my sibling has a habit of loading it up with photographs of the grandchildren, days out etc. I take the pictures and print them out for my dad, who much prefers sliding them into a polypocket ringbinder which he can just lift off the table and leaf...

Watch out for this kind of thing. I was in a main dealer car showroom a few weeks ago and noticed they had a big pop-up banner listing several companies (plus NHS) which were eligible for "special discounts". It turns out that taking advantage of these discounts makes you ineligible for dealer...

Not always possible though. Some out of the way places have both poor mobile coverage and poor ADSL. I don't know how good it is these days (experience at home implies "patchy") but WiFi calling used to cause problems with reception of SMS text messages too. I mentioned WiFi calling to a friend...

Since there are several people in our house with mobile phones and our house is quite good at blocking mobile signals, we try to spread out the networks. We have phones on EE, O2 and 3 (all except one via MVNOs - see below), and I was about to swap one to Vodafone (as VOXI) when the lowest price...

Regarding your proposed alignment - that's quite an engineering feat. There would need to be a bridge across the valley near the blue "i" (and we'd all miss travelling across the Porthkerry viaduct), there's quite a lot of road-crossing to be done, and where the diversion rejoins the existing...

Without actually having watched the video, I think you'd be hard-pressed to describe the Penrhys of 2023 as a "ghost town" and it's far from the "completely depopulated" of this thread. Some awful planning decisions were made when it was built in the 1960s - shuffling "social housing" off to...

Since this question doesn't seem to have been answered; as I understand it, the road-running extension into Cardiff Bay is part of the Transport for Wales Metro scheme and currently the only "tram-like" proposal by TfW, but there is an additional scheme mainly championed by Cardiff City Council...

In what way is a 5G phone with an 8-core processor, 6.3" 409ppi display, 8GB RAM, 256GB flash, two 48Mpixel rear cameras (one with optical stabilisation) with 4k video capability, a 25Mpixel front camera, 20W charging, dual-band WiFi and five year warranty with a proven track record on previous...

I object to the way that Apple makes it nigh-on impossible to repair or repurpose their devices. A typical mid-range Windows laptop can have its screen replaced reasonably easily (I have a colleague at work who has done several) and even if it doesn't have an easy way to get inside (one of my...

Never used their headphones or earphones/buds, noise-cancelling or otherwise but the things that put me off Bose - and to be fair a couple of other brands - is that pretty much all their kit seems to me to be priced to its "fashion value" not its "engineering value" and that I really, really...

I used to work in local radio and the DT100s were the "workhorse" headphone for both the BBC and ILR. Not astounding sound quality (the later DT150s were better and I assume the 250s are better again), but the basic structure was rock solid and everything (and I mean everything) was repairable...

According to this report, while the average in Monmouthshire is £510 more than the Welsh average, this is across all properties and probably a result of the greater number of high-band properties in the area compared with the likes of Caerphilly (£350 less than the average) or Blaenau Gwent...

Reminds me of an episode of John Finnemore's wonderful Cabin Pressure, where the expensive whisky is stolen and replaced with cheap, "re-sealing" the bottle caps with a dab of nail polish so that they still go "crack"...

I have an old book, "The Handyman and Home Mechanic" which has, among chapters on how to build a rabbit hutch and repair a gas engine, a chapter devoted to "how to install the electric light". It's very interesting on many fronts, but relevant to the above is that it suggests a standard lamp...

You probably shouldn't, and I don't know if it actually works outside the UK, but there is a very handy utility called get_iplayer which I use when I wish to download a BBC (or S4C) programme (both TV and radio) at my leisure to watch or listen to later without having to worry about issues with...