We have all the headlines you expect from the iPhone 15 launch plus some you may have missed. We’ll be chatting with Robin Russell from IP Telecom about out how AI could work with call centres or improve those chatbots they have on websites.
We talk to the people at Ireland’s brand new Irish Space Association and discover loads about the Irish in orbit. Also, we hear why Ireland is central to TikTok’s future, we have a huge tech birthday to acknowledge and AI is going for a Grammy!
This week, we find out more about Ireland’s best inventors with Jeffrey Roe & Ted Burke from Dublin Maker which is happening this weekend. Plus we’ll discover more about Google newly released AI and some really interesting concerns the UK government have about future tech.
Usually we fawn over tech we love which has become part of our daily lives. Today, we flip that, and look at tech in our daily lives which drives us mad. Some of them, most surprising!
This week, we investigate Ireland from outer space. Rumia Basu shares some of her discoveries on how we are using satellites in orbit to monitor Irish soil. Her chat originally appeared on the VistaMilk podcast from the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre.
For the middle of summer, there is lots of tech news to take in! On the podcast we wonder are WeWork on the way out, we share some more brilliant internet deep fakes, and Zoom give us the most ironic story of the week!
We’re talking about the humble bicycle, which might have a key role to play in Ireland’s transport system in the future. But what are the challenges to implementing new transport systems? And what can be done to get more people on their bikes? We find out all with Evan Boyle a researcher with MaREI, the Science Foundation Ireland research centre for Energy, Climate and the Marine, who explores what it will take to make people embrace pedal power over petrol. This story originally appeared on the...
Loads for your this week from the self-destruction of Twitter, to the crazy prices we pay tech companies and the latest toys from Samsung.
Since ChatGPT burst into the mainstream late last year, we’ve been constantly covering how AI will shape our futures. Recently, one of our sister science podcasts Adapt Radio had an amazing chat with two world experts in the area, who brilliantly explained AI and large language models from the ground up. They are Professor Vincent Wade , who works with Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at Trinity College Dublin and Professor John Kelleher , who is Professor of Computer Science at Mayn...
France celebrates Bastille Day with sweeping new powers letting police enable your smartphone mic and camera without your knowledge. We also share which tech bargains we got for Prime Day and how AI is being sued! 00:45 In our feature interview from the SFI Insight podcast, Dr Ankit Verma shares why Ireland is a great place to do research about conditions in outer space. 19:57
We’re all over the big story of the week which is Mark Zuckerbergs rival app to Twitter and why we won't see it soon. 00:40 We’ve also been to London to cover the Salesforce world tour, where they announced plans for a raft of AI products to add to the SalesForce CRM. Niall Kitson caught up with Ireland’s country leader Carolan Lennon to talk about its plans. 18:05
Could it be that GDPR applies to everyone except the Irish Government? We look into some worrying stories about your privacy this week. We also hear how Canada is unwittingingly becoming the worlds biggest tech petree dish. In our feature interview, we’re looking at the reality of remote working in 2023 with Sinead Pillion or Ericsson who has established a new ICT group in the midlands.
So much news for you this week including an attack on Microsoft services, game prices going up, why Megan Markle & Spotify are getting divorced and Twitter Trouble in Australia. 00:50 In our featured interview, as the world continues to talk about AI, we’re asking do people understand it enough to get the most out of it. Press play for a great chat with Mark James, “Senior Lecturer in AI” at UCD. 38:00
On the show today we look at the EU’s new AI Act which will bring some order to AI’s ‘wild west’. There is also news on a mobile phone super-merger, a brilliant use for AI in games and Apple have announced Foundation II 00:50 In our feature interview we catch up with the CTO of ‘eofis’ about their computer automated summarisation and learning tool. See more at eofis.ie 19:41
We share what impressed us with new toys announced by Apple this week. We look ahead to Samsungs next UnPacked event and chat about a neat new use for smartphones. 01:00 In our feature interview with Susan Leavy (Assistant Professor in the School of Information and Communication at UCD), we look at the challenges of trusting so much of our lives to AI technology that we really don't understand yet. 27:30
Leaders in AI have made a unique but dramatic warning on the new tech. We look at that plus a preview of new Apple tech to be announced on Monday. 01:00 Our feature interview looks at knowing your worth at work and how to get ahead in your career at a time when being seen at work is becoming a thing of the past. We chat with an expert in the area, Jennifer Cox, Security Engineering Manager with Tenable. 18:05
It’s been a record week for Facebook and Apple but NOT in a good way. We also hear about huge new announcements from this weeks Microsoft Build and find out what happens to the gear and rockets from the defunct Virgin Orbit. 01:00 Our feature interview look at ways of using tech to learn a language through conversation, in a way that will save your blushes if you’re struggling with accents. 26:20 https://nualang.com/ Our show this week is in association with NTT Data who will be asking the quest...
This weeks story include Tik Tok getting its first official outright ban, the Irish Data Commissioner is about to levy a record fine on Facebook/Meta and some really nice tips for tech toy bargains! 01:00 In our featured interview, we hear how the EU will try to control the ‘wild west’ that is AI, with it’s new AI Act which is due to be published over the coming weeks. 12:10
On the show this week, we go over the main announcements from Google I/O this week, from brand new AI features on Google apps to hot new phones and tablets. 17:52 FEATURE INTERVIEW We find out about an industry movement advocating greater awareness of sustainability. From humble beginnings here in Ireland, the group now has more than 300 member organisations from all over the world. We discover more with Michael O'Hara from Techies Go Green about its success. https://techiesgogreen.com @TechiesG...
We bring you up-to-speed on how Musk is killing Twitter, a key resignation at Google and a new feature at Linkedin which could actually mess up your job application. 16:45 FEATURE INTERVIEW Joining us this week is Geoff White is an investigative journalist who has covered everything from billion-dollar cyber heists to global money laundering rings and crypto-gangsters. When he was in Dublin recently, he spoke with Niall Kitson about online identity.
We bring you up-to-speed on the Irish connection with this weeks moon landing. There is weird stuff from the future which could be happening next week and somebody has said ‘no’ to Microsoft! 20:20 FEATURE INTERVIEW The Innovation Value Institute at Maynooth University is leading two new programmes worth a combined €7 million focussed on sustainable digital transformation and data. Prof Markus Helfert is a Director of the Institute and explained it all to Niall Kitson.
This year’s darling ‘AI’ has been causing nothing but trouble this week. We fill you in. Also, we have new tech toys from Apple & Google and some new Trekkie TV. FEATURE INTERVIEW If you’re a researcher with a great idea but no idea of who is going to pay for it, help is at hand, as we chat with Dr Yvonne Halpin from the Irish Marie Skłodowska-Curie Office
A quiet Easter week and a quite holiday gives us a chance to take a breather on AI and see how we stand with this breaking tech. We find unlikely users and unlikely uses! 00:30 Our feature interview looks at turning innovative ideas and great research into businesses that work with Victoria Gascon Perez from UL in Limerick. 07:45 MORE INFORMATION https://www.ul.ie/research/enterprise-and-innovation/technology-transfer-office
News stories catching our attention this week include a rough landing for Virgin Orbit, our new favourite e-reader and the New York Times stands up to Twitter. 18:25 FEATURE INTERVIEW We look at the future of networks with Juniper’s Jan van de Laer.
News stories catching our attention this week include a cashless Ireland, Microsoft’s acropolypse and how bad TikTok really is for your phone. 11:30 FEATURE INTERVIEW We also get deep into drones with Dr Stephanie Keogh from Science Foundation Ireland’s research centre Lero, who chats about her work with unmanned aerial vehicles and the agencies making use of it.
In the news this week, Microsoft are chasing Google Workspace, more job news on the tech sector and how AI is having some fun with Donald Trump? 12:10 FEATURE INTERVIEW We’re chatting with a true technology visionary, Caragh O'Carroll. As a Fujitsu Distinguished Engineer Caragh has been at the forefront of driving change in the tech industry, and today she is about to share her insights on Chat GPT and Bard, from their inception to the near future and how much Microsoft stands to make from their...
00:55 NEWS We’re looking at the financial meltdown in Silicon Valley, the hot new Chat GPT-4 and some bad news from Meta Ireland. 16:15 FEATURE INTERVIEW We’re constantly amazed at the involvement the Irish tech industry has with actual real space exploration. Today we find out a little more about ‘regular people’, who are literally watching it all from their back garden with our guest Ronan Newman, founder of this weeks first ever Irish Astronomy Week https://www.irishastronomyweek.ie...
00:40 NEWS The latest on a new look for Google Workspace, free Microsoft for Mac and Bing gets something Chat GPT doesn’t have .. personality! 12:25 FEATURE INTERVIEW Diversity is a strength in the modern workplace but too often companies get it wrong either through bias or bad management. Sharing some great advice and experience, we chat with Sandra Healy, co-founder of Inclusio.io, about how her company is using AI to create more representative places to work. Find out more with Inclusio onlin...
00:50 NEWS We’re looking at this weeks Mobile World Conference in Barcelona, new updates coming to your Windows computer and turn up the radio for DJ AI 27:00 FEATURE INTERVIEW Maryrose Lyons from Brightspark has always been at the forefront of the digital transformation and is now finding new ways to integrate AI in marketing including all the prompts you need for ChatGPT. She reveals some of her AI secrets to Niall Kitson. If you want to jon Maryrose for the Marketing ChatGPT course on March 1...
00:46 NEWS Why Facebook is ticking us off, Windows is finally running on Mac chips, and two very subtle & devious email hacks you probably don’t know - but should! 15:00 FEATURE INTERVIEW Are we deluding ourselves thinking there will be things that can’t be replicated by artificial intelligence? Chatting with us about the possibilities of generative AI is Neil Sahota, an IBM Master Inventor & United Nations Artificial Intelligence Advisor. His book Own the AI Revolution is available in h...
