Leigh McGowran Journalist
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Leigh Mc Gowran is a journalist with Silicon Republic since November 2021. He has previously worked as an environmental and breaking news journalist, and a local radio presenter.

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641 Articles
almost 2 years ago
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Irish teams to work on global search portal for ocean data

Researchers at Adapt and Derilinx have received a UNESCO award to build a search engine and web portal for ocean data.

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almost 2 years ago
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Belfast sports-tech start-up Pitchbooking scores £550,000 funding

Pitchbooking aims to become the 'Airbnb of sports facility booking' and will use the funding to grow its team and dev...

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almost 2 years ago
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Dublin initiative to help drone use take off in Irish public services

Dublin City Council wants to show how local government can use drones in emergency response, public safety and enviro...

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almost 2 years ago
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Gaia detects strange ‘starquakes’ in most detailed survey of our galaxy yet

Starquakes, stellar DNA and other unique insights have been detected in the latest data release from the ESA's Gaia m...

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almost 2 years ago
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Adobe launches open-source tools to tackle visual misinformation

The new Adobe tools let developers build custom apps and displays for verifying the history and credentials of digita...

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almost 2 years ago
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What’s DALL-E Mini, the AI image generator taking the internet by storm?

The publicly available DALL-E Mini was created to reproduce the results of OpenAI's text-to-image model with a much s...

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almost 2 years ago
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Google sidelines engineer who claims AI chatbot is sentient

AI experts have been quick to dispute the engineer's claim, while Google said there is no evidence that the AI is sen...

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almost 2 years ago
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MIT research discovers flaw in Apple M1 chips that can’t be patched

MIT researchers found an unpatchable vulnerability in the M1 processor but Apple said the issue ‘does not pose an imm...

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almost 2 years ago
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UK overtakes China with $15.6bn in tech start-up investment

London ranked as the top European city for start-up investment, while the fintech sector took the lead in the UK.

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almost 2 years ago
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Dublin tech firm Triangle hiring for more than 10 new roles

Triangle is growing its team in response to growth in its managed service, cyber recovery and mobility businesses.

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almost 2 years ago
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Apple and Google face UK probe over mobile browser market 'duopoly'

The CMA said the tech giants can exercise a 'stranglehold' in the mobile ecosystem, impacting the British tech sector...

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almost 2 years ago
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TUS event aims to boost the digitisation of Ireland's manufacturing sector

IDEAM's Digitalisation of Manufacturing conference will also share information on how companies from Ireland can acce...

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