Nigel Powell is an author, columnist, and consultant with over 30 years of experience in the technology industry. He produced the weekly Don't Panic technology column in the Sunday Times newspaper for 16 years and is the author of the Sunday Times book of Computer Answers, published by Harper Collins. He has been a technology pundit on Sky Television's Global Village program and a regular contributor to BBC Radio Five's Men's Hour.
He has an Honours degree in law (LLB) and a Master's Degree in Business Administration (MBA), and his work has made him an expert in all things software, AI, security, privacy, mobile, and other tech innovations. Nigel currently lives in West London and enjoys spending time meditating and listening to music.
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AI is making it so anyone can code

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New AI tools are starting to highlight Google search failings in a big way.

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You can now enjoy a great chatbot experience on your Android smartphone, not just your computer.

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Top 5 tips from Anthropic to get the best out of Claude 4 for coding

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Creating art with AI and a computer is not as straightforward as you might think. Here's how it's made and how to detect it.

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Installing AI on your local computer can save you time, money and offer total privacy.

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A new form of AI malware threatens global software users.

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NotebookLM is still one of the best research tools on the planet. Only now it's better.

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Bored with Alexa? Here's how to add ChatGPT AI to your Alexa devices and enjoy a better experience.

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A new Ideogram AI image generation model comes to town, and delivers some surprising results.

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This Leonardo vs FreePik face-off pits two top image generators against one another to see which one provides the best experience and output.

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Creating software apps at home has now become super easy for anyone who can write an AI prompt.

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A new free open source AI music generation project has just launched, and it offers surprisingly good quality. But you'll need a powerful computer to run it.

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We take a look at a few of the small specialist AI models which can be run on home and personal computers.

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This open source project is a great way to turn documents or ebooks into audiobooks at no cost, although there are some caveats.

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Bolt.new has released a new feature allowing anyone to create an iOS or Android app from just a text prompt.

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OmniHuman-1 and Goku from Bytedance show just how fast China is running away with AI video.

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OpenAI's o3-mini model claims similar performance to o1 but at a fraction of the cost, so I put it to the test to find out

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An open source project has already matched the benchmark performance of the OpenAI product.

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DeepSeek has upended the AI industry over the last week, but its Janus Pro image model won't have Midjourney or others worried just yet.

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Browser Use is an open source alternative from Switzerland that's challenging the might of OpenAI's Operator system.

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DeepSeek R1 is the Chinese-built open source AI model that's giving OpenAI a run for its money.

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Forget the big names in AI and see what happens when you use a free, locally-run chatbot on your device.
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