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Wasim Saman Soaring electricity prices have made 15% of Aussies think about installing solar panels, a recent survey found. Another 6% were already weighing up the move, on top of the 28% who had panels. With costs falling, the average system size is growing rapidly. Households now typically install 8-10kW solar systems, often with a battery – roof...Continue reading→

David Stonier-Gibson Does ChatGPT have any use in computer programming? I took it for a spin. I saw something online about a fellow who used ChatGPT to write a WordPress plugin for his wife. Well, I barely know what WordPress is, let alone a plugin for it. But I am currently deeply engaged with programming...Continue reading→

Neil Muller After welcoming members to the November meeting of East SIG, host Frank Maher outlined the night’s agenda below: Presentation 1: Q&A with Georg Skarbek Presentation 2: Reducing Vulnerability to Scams by John Swale Presentation 3: Man-in-the-Middle Scams by Dave Botherway Main presentation: Consumer Printer Evolution by Dave Botherway Q&A by George Skarbek. Question: As an...Continue reading→

Zerina Kapetanovic7-8 minutes This experimental setup shows an ultra-low-power wireless communications device that could one day be used in tiny remote sensors. Zerina Kapetanovic, CC BY-ND Published: January 25, 2023 12.23am AEDT Authors  Joshua R. Smith Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington  Zerina Kapetanovic Acting Assistant Professor of...Continue reading→

Sam Illingworth Associate Professor, Edinburgh Napier University ChatGPT is a powerful language model developed by OpenAI that has the ability to generate human-like text, making it capable of engaging in natural language conversations. This technology has the potential to revolutionise the way we interact with computers, and it has already begun to be integrated into various industries. However,...Continue reading→

I quite often see posts on social media that suggest the poster is blissfully unaware of their rights under Australian consumer law. Don’t get fobbed off by a retailer who may well be ignorant of the law and your rights, and will frequently try to wriggle out from under if you do come back with...Continue reading→

Hugh Macdonald I’ve never really given much consideration to dictation software before. I’m the kind of person who likes to think as I type and I feel like if I’m dictating something then I’m breaking the concentration I like to have when I’m writing. However recently, I had some clients who I was helping to...Continue reading→

Steve Costello While going through more than 300 RSS feeds, I often encounter things I think might interest other user group members. The following are some items I found interesting.   What To Do If You Forget Your Android Phone’s PIN, Pattern, Or Password https://www.howtogeek.com/226942/what-to-do-if-you-forget-your-android-phone%e2%80%99s-pin-pattern-or-password/ It used to be easy to reset things if you...Continue reading→

George Siemens, University of South Australia In August 1955, a group of scientists made a funding request for US$13,500 to host a summer workshop at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire. The field they proposed to explore was artificial intelligence (AI). While the funding request was humble, the conjecture of the researchers was not: “every aspect of...Continue reading→