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Private renting, technology and anticipatory governance

By admin on February 7, 2020 • ( 3 Comments )

[This post first appeared on the CaCHE blog on 28/01/20] This blog by Professor Alex Marsh is based upon an extract from the presentation ‘Spotlight on the private rented sector’, given to the Wales Housing Research Conference, 9 January 2020. This post follows the recent CaCHE blog series on […]

Will your autotweeting twin be a turbo-troll?

By admin on March 6, 2013

Today’s Independent carries a piece on LivesOn, a piece of software currently under development. LivesOn aims to analyse your tweets and then tweet on your behalf in your style on the topics you tweet about. So you can live on online, even after your demise IRL. The idea […]

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