SciFest celebrates 20 years of inspiring young people through STEM

SciFest, Ireland’s largest second-level science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fair programme, has released a report charting its progress since its inception in 2006. The...

Hugging Face, the French start-up that became AI’s warehouse

Hugging Face, the artificial intelligence platform US chip giant Nvidia is buying for $12.9 billion, is a French success story - founded by three...

ERP HeadtoHead Dublin returns to help organisations find the right enterprise resource planning solution

In association with Lumenia Consulting The Lumenia Consulting ERP HeadtoHead event returns to Dublin on 13-14 October at the Crowne Plaza Dublin Airport. Now in its...

WhatsApp will stop working on select Android smartphones from tomorrow – is yours on the list?

WhatsApp is set to raise the bar for its minimum requirements and, for a small group of users, the app will simply cease to...

Anthropic postpones IPO until October and aims for a valuation of $2tn

According to insiders, Anthropic is now expected to start promoting its IPO in mid-October, with a view to completing the process before November's midterm...

Tesla’s Cybercab receives warm welcome in Austin

A taxi without a steering wheel, accelerator or brake pedals, and even without a driver. Those have been on the road since the end...

ChatGPT ads are still generating little revenue

Many media agencies are not seeing the results they expect from advertising campaigns on ChatGPT. This is happening despite the improvements OpenAI says it...

Palantir chief says France’s digital sovereignty push ‘backfiring’

Palantir chief executive Alex Karp said that French regulatory restrictions, including limiting government use of US-made software, were proving counterproductive. Karp's argument follows France's recent...

US judge rejects bid to break up Google’s ad business

A US federal judge has refused to force Google to sell a division of its digital advertising business, rejecting the government's push to break...

International effort shuts down long-running Sality botnet

Law-enforcement agencies in the US and Eastern Europe along with cyber security firm CrowdStrike have taken down a 23-year-old Russia-based botnet. Authorities from the US...

Sony, Universal and Warner invest in Stability AI

Music companies Sony Music Group, Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group are leading a $76 million investment round in the British company Stability...

Hamburg wants to ban smart glasses in swimming pools and public transport

The red-green coalition in Hamburg and Die Linke want to keep glasses with built-in cameras - so‑called smart glasses - out of certain parts...

Mr Ternus, I presume?

This week Niall and Dusty speculate about what Apple under new CEO John Ternus will look like. Later, author and academic Dr Catherine Mulligan...

Uber cuts 3,300 jobs, nearly 10% of staff

Uber is going to cut around 3,300 jobs worldwide. That amounts to roughly 10% of its total workforce. The restructuring is intended to reduce...

At least we’ll have Mars

Good news everyone. We’re all going to be richer. Each and everyone of us. And it’s all thanks to AI. Now there are some fuddy-duddies...

Setanta Space seeks €3m backing to accelerate autonomous satellite technology

Setanta Space Systems, the Irish space technology start-up, has recently announced that it is seeking to raise €3 million in funding to fast-track its...
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