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Third-class children from Barryroe National School, Barryroe, County Cork, have won the 2025 Engineers Ireland STEPS Young Engineers Award for their invention, the Water Safety Wristband. The Barryroe team faced strong competition, with almost 4,000 primary school children from all over the country taking part and over 550 projects submitted to the STEPS Young Engineers […]
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With August already two-thirds out the door, it means we're getting closer to the Apple iPhone event, which typically takes place in September. During that event, we'll finally get to put our eyes on the iPhone 17 lineup. The latest iOS 26 features will come preinstalled on the new models, as well as any additional features Apple reveals at the launch event. But since we still have to wait a... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge's Victoria Song: The original Pixel Watch was late to the game. For years, there had been rumors of a Google smartwatch that never materialized. Then, when it finally arrived, it was a quintessential first-gen device, with thicc bezels, dismal battery life, and a host of quirks that needed ironing out. My DMs were full of people wondering when the watch would... Read more ›
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A former Trump Justice Department appointee blasted some of his ex-colleagues in a speech Monday, saying they “perverted justice and acted inconsistent with the rule of law” — and he named names. Roger Alford was a top appointee in the DOJ’s antitrust division in both President Donald Trump’s first and second terms. He and his […] Read more ›
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What better way to celebrate America's workers than with a fake picture of one? Read more ›
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Ahead of the end of a US customs exemption, some major postal service in Europe are suspending shipments to the US, or charging a large fee for it. Read more ›
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The last time I wrote a full review of a Dawn of War game I started throwing around terms like "a prima facie truth". Admittedly I was trying to be ironic - it was about how fun it is to smash big mechs into each other! - but also admittedly, there is something about this series that just makes me get a bit over-excited. The original Dawn of War, which... Read more ›
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Nanoleaf this week announced the launch of the 4D V2, a product that's designed to provide ambient lighting that matches the colors on your TV set. The second version of the Screen Mirror and Lightstrip Kit offers more accurate screen mirroring for a more engaging viewing experience. The Nanoleaf 4D V2 has a redesigned zigzag lightstrip that makes it easier to install on a TV set that's up to 65... Read more ›
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Kennedy accused the American Academy of Pediatrics of working for Big Pharma, even as he himself has profited from attacking vaccines. Read more ›
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We've heard a lot this year about AI enabling new scams, from celebrity deepfakes on Facebook to hackers impersonating government officials. However, a new report suggests that AI also poses a fraud risk from the other direction — easily falling for scams that human users are much more likely to catch. The report, titled "Scamlexity," comes from a cybersecurity startup called Guardio, which produces a browser extension designed to catch... Read more ›
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Last week, two young liberals asked for help finding a job in the ideas industry. And I didn’t have a great answer. It made sense that they were asking: We were at a conference for liberals, dedicated to building a version of the doctrine that works in the 21st century. They were interested in studying […] Read more ›
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Because the Pixel 10 launch and release of Android 16 QPR2 Beta 1 clearly weren't enough. Read more ›
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Path of Exile 2 developer Grinding Gear Games had previously and optimistically said a 1.0 full release might happen this year. GGG gave it a 65 percent chance of happening when I spoke with the studio in March. But those ambitions have now been ruled out. Read more Read more ›
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One of the defining features is its native long-context capability, with a maximum length of 512,000 tokens, 2X OpenAI's GPT-5 family. Read more ›
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Customs and Border Protection agents searched nearly 15,000 devices from April through June of this year, a nearly 17 percent spike over the previous three-month high in 2022. Read more ›
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At Google's 2025 announcement event, the company made several digs at apple, from "walled gardens" to the "tired" text bubble color debate. Read more ›
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Lana Del Rey's recent feud with Ethel Cain is the latest in a string of controversies, including conflicts with other famous women. Read more ›
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PlayStation, owned by Sony, announced it will raise the price of PS5 consoles for US consumers starting August 21. Read more ›
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The team working on the next BioShock game is losing a third of its staff. According to Bloomberg, Take-Two is laying off more than 80 people at Cloud Chamber, which has been working on a new BioShock title, and the game has been delayed from a planned launch in late 2026 or early 2027. The […] Read more ›
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Huge news this afternoon, on top of the Pixel 10 announcement and Android 16 QPR2 Beta 1 release, Google has confirmed that Gemini is coming to replace Google Assistant on the company’s lineup of smart speakers and displays. Slated for early access release in October, “Gemini for Home uses the advanced reasoning, inference and search capabilities … Continued Read the original post: Gemini Coming to Replace Google Assistant on Google... Read more ›
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The Douglas VC-54C Skymaster, nicknamed the Sacred Cow, entered service in 1944 as the first aircraft built for the president of the United States. Read more ›
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Dr Sally Anne Hinfey, VP Legal at SurveyMonkey has over 20 years experience in Irish law firms. Dr Hinfey was SurveyMonkey’s first legal hire outside the US, and played a vital role in building the EMEA business at its Dublin-based HQ. I recently caught up with Dr Hinfey and had an interesting chat with her. […] Read more ›
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The University of Limerick-based software research centre, Lero, is to collaborate on a new multi-year research project, which will involve the testing of 2,000 top video gamers in partnership with gaming computer peripherals giant Logitech G, to better understand how computer gamers train and compete. Logitech gaming innovation engineer Niall White said: “This €2.5 million […] Read more ›
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Esri Ireland, the market leader in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), has announced a new partnership with surveying and data acquisition specialist, Murphy Geospatial (a Woolpert Company). This strategic collaboration will combine advanced location intelligence and geospatial data capabilities to accelerate the delivery of large-scale infrastructure, urban planning, and environmental projects across the island of Ireland. […] Read more ›
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An aurora over golden fields, a comet trailing in the night sky, and a deep sky nebula are among the winning images in this years’ Reach for the Stars competition, Ireland’s biggest astrophotography competition, organised by the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS). The 2025 competition saw more than 170 entries from photographers across Ireland […] Read more ›
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Guest post By Emma Clark, CEO and Co-founder of Orivium, with an interesting look at leasing metals From smartphones to servers, electric vehicles and AI chips, the engines of modern innovation rely on a relentless flow of rare earths and critical minerals. However, shockingly, these precious resources and most geopolitically fraught materials are still being […] Read more ›
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Granite Digital, Ireland’s leading full-service digital transformation partner, has announced it has acquired Zesty, the award-winning web design and engineering agency, from News UK & Ireland, part of one of the world’s leading media groups. With the addition of Zesty, Granite forecasts its revenues to exceed €20 million in 2025. This strategic acquisition reinforces Granite’s […] Read more ›
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Business activity in the Irish SME sector has edged into negative territory for the first time since 2020, according to a new business confidence survey by lender Linked Finance. Post-pandemic trade was strongest for SMEs in 2022, and over the last three years, that has remained in positive territory, until now. While that sentiment reflects […] Read more ›
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By Jamie Dobson, author of ‘Visionaries, Rebels and Machines: The story of humanity’s extraordinary journey from electrification to cloudification’. In an age of disruption, sometimes the most revolutionary act is proceeding incrementally. Take Aldi’s store in Greenwich, London which has been trialling till-free shopping. Aldi wasn’t first to use cameras and sensors to track baskets […] Read more ›
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“If you had told me a few weeks ago that I’d be seriously considering a future in tech, I probably would have laughed, flipped my short hair, and gone back to minding my own creative business. But here we are,” says Fortunate, one of five teenage girls who recently completed a two-week placement at Hostelworld […] Read more ›
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By David Stephen The Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) is hosting the All-California Labor Economics Conference in September, 2025. It does not appear that there is anything [or much] on AI or automation, on the agenda. The event is also proceeding after the recent situation of job numbers and the BLS. It is possible that […] Read more ›
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