Mark Lyndersay

Mark Lyndersay is a writer and photographer based in Trinidad and Tobago. He wrote 1,800 editorial leaders for Guardian Media Limited between 2001 and 2016 and now provides leaders for the T&T Newsday. He writes features and reviews for several publications. His column, BitDepth has examined personal technology issues continuously over the last 27 years. As a photographer, he divides his time between commercial assignments, editorial photography, annual reports and personal projects like Local Lives, which examines the backstory of life and culture in Trinidad and Tobago.

Broadband falling from the skies

Satellite delivery solves the problems of cost of infrastructure and the limited capacity to recoup it in sparsely populated regions.

Rise of the nerd browser

Arc rather boldly strikes out into new ground. Actually, it takes a wild voop to the boundary. It's definitely not like any browser you've used before.

The AI invasion: What’s left for creators?

"You can either rail and rant and say that the handheld drill is making people skilled at using manual crank drills obsolete or learn to use the new drill."

AI shows its creative potential…sometimes

The most powerful AI tools have been trained by scraping publicly available images across the Internet, assimilating them by the billions.

TT artists working with AI art

Once you figure out the learning curve you’re off like a sports car. However to truly get the results you want you have to know how to use the language and prompts.

The holiday romance scam

Above: Image by Peshkov/DepositPhotos BitDepth#1386 for December 26, 2022 The evolution of romance and relationship related con artistry online has been a long one. Indeed, the so-called...

After Twitter

Mastodon is the old man in the room, founded in 2016 by Eugen Rochko. Other Twitter alternatives are even more recent.

The 2022 Christmas tech gift advisory

The Thunderbolt 4 standard rolls everything that's gone before in both the USB and Thunderbolt standards into a single cable.

TT drops in Network Readiness Index

Trinidad and Tobago is first among populations covered by 3G mobile networks with a perfect score of 100.

The cyberkill chain and how to break it

Once malware is in the system, it establishes a connection to the infiltrator's computer and transmits information gathered from its initial beachhead.

A blitzkrieg of ransomware

"While the default position is to refuse paying to release data encrypted in a ransomware attack, globally, 38 per cent of organisations who suffered such attacks paid up."

One watch to rule them all?

The smartwatch is IP68 rated, which is resistance to a depth of 1.5 metres for 30 minutes. The Watch 5 is also rated as water resistant to a depth of five atmospheres.
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The Global Lense – The one about data and tech stack sovereignty

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