Royal Engagement Swamps Brexit Tech Investment. The Bane of Windows Updates.

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Today, the government announced a major set of investments in technology to promote growth in the high tech sectors of robotics and biomedical technology. These, and future announcements are part of a comeback from the gloom of Brexit, aiming to improve Britain's poor productivity. Commentators were quick to point out that these industries already had a higher than average productivity and that it would not be so easy to achieve an effect in more conventional businesses.

The news was however overshadowed by a more rapid and effective boost to the UK economy, the engagement of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. Britain brings a ray of positivity to the world and will hold the public's attention with increasing expectation to a crescendo at the Royal Wedding. Meghan brings with her a tradition as an ambassador for equal rites, whether for women, against discrimination and the under-privileged. With Harry fifth in line to the throne, hopefully this can continue. Otherwise, total news domination likely for the next few days, I'm already tired of it! Let them be happy and get on with their lives.

Whilst the government might have been disappointed at being eclipsed by the royal revelation, it did also push some more critical Brexit news into the background. Close to the deadline, the brexit impact assessment papers have finally been handed over to the Exiting the EU Committee. However, they are likely to ignite a new row as Brexit Secretary David Davis has admitted that they were redacted of any commercially sensitive information that could impact on the brexit negotiations if made public, thereby rendering the papers less than useful.

I'm pretty annoyed that I had to head off to World of Computers to see if they could resolve my recently occurring laptop problem. After a recent update, the laptop functioned OK for a while and then the display stretched the screen images and displays. Unable to solve the issue myself over the weekend, despite googling, trying to find possible drivers and reverting to previous restore points, it was time for the experts to have a go. I am currently writing this blog on an older laptop running Linux, without any problems after updating.The built in redundancy and pressure to buy ever newer digital components is not environmentally sustainable in the long run.