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AI can now learn to manipulate human behaviour
Jon Whittle, Data61 Artificial intelligence (AI) is learning more about how to work with (and on) humans. A recent study has shown how AI can learn to identify vulnerabilities in human habits and behaviours and use them to influence human decision-making. It may seem cliched to say AI is transforming every aspect of the way...Continue reading→
Club News February 2021
Hugh Macdonald Upgrades to the AV system at Moorabbin Our Moorabbin headquarters hosted its first in-person monthly meeting since February 2020 on Wednesday 2 February, when the combined February monthly meeting and AGM was held. Given the success of the online monthly meetings over the previous six months, where attendances have been averaging about 100,...Continue reading→
Use keyboard commands to create screenshots in Win10
John Stampfel, President, Brookdale Computer Users Group I learn something new every day. To someone’s question “In Windows 7 (or 8 or 10), is there a simple way to press “print screen,” and then press just one more key (on the keyboard) to have the image automatically stored in a .jpg, file with an auto-generated...Continue reading→
UEFI Configuration for Booting Live Media
Dick Maybach, Brookdale Computer User Group In modern PCs the boot process is controlled by a Unified Extended Firmware Interface (UEFI), that has replaced the old Basic Input-Output System (BIOS), see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface. Most users, who purchase a machine with Windows installed, can ignore the change, but if you wish to change its configuration you will...Continue reading→
Book Review
Tim McQueen Uncanny Valley – A memoir Anna Wiener Farrar Strauss & Giroux 284 pages Wiener is a contributing writer to The New Yorker. After college she tried for a career in publishing in New York. As this wasn’t progressing she tried her luck in Silicon Valley with a tech startup (which was probably Audible)....Continue reading→
Yammer Highlights January 2021
Dennis Parsons Computer Help In these days of COVID online meetings are ubiquitous and if you wish to fully participate a functioning camera and microphone are a necessity. Unfortunately for Arthur he’s had a problem using the webcam he has attached to an older desktop for Zoom meetings – the camera works well but...Continue reading→
Your Committee For 2021
Leading up to this month’s Annual General Meeting, the committee for 2021 was installed. There were quite a number of familiar faces returning, but also a couple of new faces joining the committee for the first time. In order for you to get to know your committee members a little better, they were all asked...Continue reading→
How To Install WordPress On Your Portable Web Server
Fleur Stephens Now that you’ve created your portable web server, you might like to install WordPress. An offline WordPress installation is great for practising WordPress, testing themes and plugins, and offsite website development. Follow the tutorial below to create a WordPress installation of your own. First, we need to enable our webserver. Locate your USB...Continue reading→
From Hobart, to London, to Dhaka: using cameras and AI to build an automatic litter detection system
Arianna Olivelli, CSIRO and Uwe Rosebrock, CSIRO It’s estimated about two million tonnes of plastics enter the oceans from rivers each year. But our waterways aren’t just conveyor belts transporting land waste to the oceans: they also capture and retain litter. Currently, the most common method for monitoring litter relies on humans conducting on-ground visual...Continue reading→