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Sex robots are officially a thing. But what can they teach us about the future of AI?

American comedian Whitney Cummings did something interesting this summer. She embarked on a project exploring the impending robot revolution and to...

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The growth of facial recognition – how transparent should we be?

July saw our Facebook feeds suddenly full of aged versions of our friends, all grey and wrinkled. We were then able to upload our own pic to see it...

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Acing the PR agency briefing process

Over the years, several PR briefs have landed on my desk. Hundreds, in fact. As a document that plays an enormously important role in the agency...

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In-house vs agency… busting the PR career myths

I’ve been ensconced in the B2B tech world for a good while now. This didn’t start out as a career-by-design - far from it, in fact. After leaving a...

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(Yet) another job for tech PRs

Digital transformation (for want of a better, less hackneyed phrase) needs wide, non-IT, internal support. And while the senior tech person is well-...

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CIOs: the ultimate moving targets

It's only going to get harder, this B2B tech PR lark. Especially in enterprise tech. Many of our clients target that amorphous shape that is the...

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Ready, aim... no, start again... aim... hang on...

It all used to be so easy. B2B tech vendor wanted to sell services or kit and so targeted the CIO and/or IT manager. It was that cut and dried - it...

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From a CIO's lips...

...to a PR's ears.

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The ideal 2017 tech company

According to this article on 2017 tech trends (from admittedly a couple of weeks ago), it would appear that the tech company that will "win" 2017 is:

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Thinking outside the plastic box

Many of you know that I have a bee in my bonnet about market research and the gaping chasm in the PR toolbox (wow – how’s that for a mixed...

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