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8 months ago
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Synch Payments appoints former HSBC exec as chair

Synch Payments, the Revolut rival from Irish banks, is hoping Tim Fitzpatrick's experience will steer it through its ...

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AppLovin offers to buy mobile gaming company Unity for $17.5bn

Unity has received an offer from AppLovin, but it would come at the cost of its own acquisition of IronSource.

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Meet the scientist with an eye for problematic research papers

Dr Elisabeth Bik makes it her job to keep an eye on the scientific community, watching out for plagiarism and miscond...

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Should the Government let pension funds invest in Irish tech start-ups?

Leo Hamill, chair of the IVCA, said Irish pension funds ‘seriously lag the rest of world’ when it comes to VC investm...

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Meta’s new AI chatbot thinks Trump is still US president

BlenderBot 3, which learns from conversations on the internet, also thinks Mark Zuckerberg is ‘creepy and manipulative’.

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Google expands its open-source chip initiative with new partnership

Google has partnered with GlobalFoundries to release an open-source design kit and said it is a 'milestone' for the c...

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Ekco acquires Irish IT company Unity to enhance cloud services

The acquisition of Unity pushes annual revenue at Ekco to more than €105m and its employee count to 500 across Europe.

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Slack resets user logins as bug leaked hashed passwords for years

The bug was active since 2017, but Slack said only 0.5pc of its users were affected and plaintext passwords were not ...

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8 months ago
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The Earth is spinning faster, causing the shortest day in recent history

Scientists said the Earth is spinning faster than usual, with a recent date being the shortest day recorded since acc...

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The WhatsApp update we’ve been waiting for: You can now quietly leave groups

Privacy updates coming this month will let WhatsApp users choose who can see them online and prevent screenshots of ‘...

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TikTok owner ByteDance acquires Chinese hospital chain for $1.5bn

The acquisition of Amcare by ByteDance comes just weeks after Amazon acquired US healthcare provider One Medical for ...

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What’s going on with the Twilio data breach?

Twilio said hackers managed to access the data of a number of customers after stealing employee login details in a ph...

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8 months ago
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Industry group urges transition to hydrogen-fuelled transport in Ireland

A report from Hydrogen Mobility Ireland estimates a 2.6pc drop in carbon emissions could be achieved by deploying hyd...

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€450m Ennis data centre campus gets approval

The first data centre approved under a new Government policy will create between 400 and 450 permanent jobs when it i...

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8 months ago
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Ireland joins EU network for emissions monitoring

The EPA will lead Ireland’s engagement with the Integrated Carbon Observation System, which standardises emissions mo...

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Deepfakes on the rise as tools for cyberattacks, report finds

VMware has found that deepfakes, employee burnout and ransomware cyberattacks are threatening organisations’ security...

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8 months ago
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Cambridge spin-out raises £813,000 to improve 5G with graphene

With fresh funding, CamGraphic will soon start consumer testing for its graphene-based tech tech that could boost 5G ...

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8 months ago
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Irish photographers reaching for the stars win DIAS competition

Images of the Milky Way, Rosette Nebula and zodiacal light emerged victorious in the Reach for the Stars astrophotogr...

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8 months ago
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NHS services disrupted in the UK following cyberattack

Camellia Chan of cybersecurity firm X-Phy said that while ‘relatively little’ damage was done, it could have been ‘an...

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8 months ago
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Queen’s spin-out VascVersa secures £500,000 to shake up cell therapy

Belfast-based VascVersa is developing a novel cell therapy to promote the creation of new blood vessels in patients w...

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8 months ago
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The James Webb telescope did not take this picture of a slice of chorizo

French scientist Étienne Klein shared an image of chorizo and joked that it was a star as seen through the James Webb...

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Baidu’s fully driverless taxis get green light in two Chinese cities

The permits in Chongqing and Wuhan mark the first time fully driverless taxis will be in commercial service in China,...

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8 months ago
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New €65m challenge fund to drive digital and green innovation in Ireland

SFI is administering a total of eight challenges for projects in green transition and digital transformation, two of ...

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8 months ago
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Outmin: Human-in-the-loop accounting software for small businesses

Outmin is hiring the finance and accounting talent to back up its AI-driven software so that its clients don’t have to.

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8 months ago
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Amazon hoovers up Roomba maker iRobot for $1.7bn

In a major move for the home robotics sector, Amazon will acquire the company best known for its robotic vacuum clean...

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100,000 robot lawnmowers to sing Happy Birthday to Mars rover

Robot lawnmowers around the world have been given an update to celebrate the Curiosity rover's 10th year on Mars.

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8 months ago
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New exhibition to marry art with science through storytelling

Backed by SFI and UCD, STEP Through the Looking Glass will give the public ‘a unique glimpse’ into the lives of the p...

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8 months ago
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VictoriaMetrics: An open-source data platform helping satellites get to orbit

VictoriaMetrics’ data monitoring platform will be used by UK space-tech firm Open Cosmos as it looks to launch low-Ea...

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8 months ago
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Amazon opens first Irish fulfilment centre for faster deliveries

Faster deliveries are now on the table for customers in Ireland as Amazon opens a fulfilment centre in Baldonnell Bus...

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8 months ago
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How cybercriminals sell credit card and VPN data on the dark web

A team of cybersecurity researchers found VPN credentials to companies were the most expensive category of financial ...

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8 months ago
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LiveEO lands €19m to fuel space data insights for enterprises

LiveEO uses AI to analyse earth observation data, providing real time insights for enterprise companies such as infra...

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8 months ago
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YouTube is checking out a way to let users zoom in on videos

A pinch-to-zoom feature on videos is being trialled with YouTube Premium subscribers this month to gather feedback.

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8 months ago
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Meta raises $10bn in its bond offering debut

Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has made its first-ever bond market offering to raise more cash f...

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8 months ago
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Infowars’ Alex Jones to pay $4.1m over Sandy Hook conspiracy claims

American conspiracy theorist Alex Jones was banned from several social media sites in 2018 for spreading hate speech.

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Microsoft pilots its Xbox Game Pass family plan in Ireland

Testers in Ireland can now add up to four people to their Xbox Game Pass family plan, as long as they're all in the s...

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8 months ago
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Gaming sector cyberattacks rise by 167pc in one year, Akamai says

Akamai said the growing value in gaming has attracted more criminals seeking to disrupt online games and steal valuab...

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8 months ago
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6 start-ups chosen to accelerate in latest NDRC programme

Dogpatch Labs has revealed the latest cohort to scale with the NDRC accelerator: Examfly, Chopcast, Tipple, MoveAhead...

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Scientists using ‘dairy drones’ to milk more value from Irish farms

Scientists are testing AI models based on photos captured by 'dairy drones' to make pasture management easier and che...

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8 months ago
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1oT claims its eSIM tech will modernise global connectivity

Estonian start-up 1oT plans to shake up the connectivity industry with the creation of its telecom-independent eSIM i...

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