By now, most of us will have heard that the concept of the metaverse was created by sci-fi writer Neal Stephenson in 1992, for his novel “Snow Crash”. It’s meant to invoke a virtual world that mirrors and in some ways improves on the physical world. Although virtual reality and augmented reality have been around […]
MWC Barcelona (formerly known as Mobile World Congress) is the world’s biggest and most influential mobile event. This year it ran from 28 February to 3 March, again in hybrid form. According to the GSMA, “More than 60,000 attendees convened in-person from around the world to discuss the convergence of mobile, the potential of the metaverse […]
When WiTT last hosted a discussion of cybersecurity trends, in 2017, the UK saw 60 serious cyber-attacks each month, according to the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC, part of intelligence agency GCHQ). A report released in January 2022 by the NCSC said almost four in ten businesses (39%) and a quarter of charities (26%) had […]
WiTT’s June meeting featured a screening of selected presentations from TED, TED Global, TEDx and other events that looked at how women use, influence, and create technology and technology-based solutions. We were back in the Cinema in the Courthouse Hotel Soho. We watched and discussed these talks: Nina McNeely Once There Was III Nina McNeely […]
