Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software, is to invest €2.9 million, creating 16 postdoctoral fellowships. The programme will develop world-class software expertise to facilitate responsible innovation focusing on privacy, trust, inclusion and fairness. Lero director Professor Brian Fitzgerald of University of Limerick is coordinating the SyMeCo (Systems, Methods, Context) research training programme. […] Read more ›
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The AgTechUCD Innovation Centre today announced MyGug and OptaHaul as the winners of University College Dublin’s (UCD) second annual accelerator programme dedicated to early-stage AgTech and Agri-food start-ups with global potential. The focus of the 12-week intensive AgTechUCD Agccelerator Programme is on fast-tracking the business development and leadership skills of participants and to provide them […] Read more ›
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Ireland’s new company start-up levels reached their lowest point in six years in 2022 due to economic uncertainty brought by rising inflation and a cost-of-living crisis, according to the latest figures from credit analyst CRIFVision-net. The annual figures released today reveal that a total of 21,637 new start-ups were registered in 2022, the lowest figure […] Read more ›
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Two teenagers from Mount Saint Michael Secondary School were recognised for their innovative creation, an app and beehive monitoring system, which aims to help people start beekeeping and monitor the health of their beehive at the recent Teen Turn SciFest. Elizabeth Byrne and Aoibheann Mangan students in Mount St Michael secondary school in Claremorris were […] Read more ›
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Dee Coakley is the co-founder and CEO of Boundless, the operating system for your international team, which she co-founded with Emily Castles in Ireland in 2019. Boundless is ‘global employment made simple, with benefits, share options and payroll in one neat platform’. In this episode, Dee riffs with Eoin Fitzgerald and Pete Townsend on the snowball […] Read more ›
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Guest Post by David Stephen who argues that machines may have already passed the point where the Turing test is a meaningful hurdle for assessing AI. There is a recent article in the NYTimes ‘Consciousness’ in Robots Was Once Taboo. Now It’s the Last Word exploring a functional theory of consciousness as a possible measure to build something with […] Read more ›
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With the introduction of OpenAI’s question-answering long-form AI, known popularly as ChatGPT, the internet is abuzz with its possibilities and capabilities. The AI’s ability to conversationally answer complex questions means that it is a revolutionary technology, since it has been trained to learn exactly what a human means when they are asking it a question. […] Read more ›
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52% of students who responded to a survey carried out at the BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition 2023 are worried or sad about climate change, while 8% say it makes them angry. More than 500 students took part in the survey by BT Ireland and Global Action Plan, which found that concern for the […] Read more ›
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Storm Technology, the business technology consultancy, have announced the findings of a new survey which reveals that the biggest obstacle to productivity in Irish workplaces is people’s inability to disconnect/switch off. In fact, more than half (51%) of IT decision-makers identified it as one of the main barriers. The other biggest obstacles cited by respondents […] Read more ›
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DCU School of Computing, in association with the Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics, is to launch a first-of-its-kind programme in Machine Learning to undergraduate computing students at DCU. The new module, ‘Introduction to Machine Learning (in the real world)’, will engage students in the latest applications of Machine Learning in fields such as […] Read more ›
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The Marine Institute continues to invest in the next generation of ocean professionals, through the 2023 Summer Bursary Scholarship Programme, which provides third-level students with work experience across a number of marine areas. The Bursary Scholarship Programme has been running for more than 30 years, providing valuable career development and support, and inspiring the next […] Read more ›
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A new study from Dell Technologies unveiled today has ranked Dublin as 23rd out of 55 cities globally for its ability to attract and foster women entrepreneurs. The 2023 Women Entrepreneur Cities (WE Cities) Index ranks cities across the world based on their ability to attract high-potential women entrepreneurs (HPWE) who want to do more, […] Read more ›
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A magnifying glass just won’t cut it for the high-tech “detectives” at the University of Arizona Kuiper Materials Imaging and Characterization Facility. The scientists, who can be found in the basement of the university’s Kuiper Space Sciences Building, are working to decode the stories archived in rocks and dust left over from the earliest days of […] Read more ›
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We catch up with John Kamara, who will be speaking at the World AI Cannes event on February 9 to 11 February 2023. See more about the event here. John is by heart is a Tech Entrepreneur with over 20 successful years of experience working in new market acquisitions across various technology verticals in Europe, America, Asia and […] Read more ›
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Inscribe, the award-winning fraud detection and document automation platform, has announced that it has raised $25M in Series B funding to help companies build digital trust by pioneering Risk Intelligence. The round was led by Threshold Ventures and joined by existing investors Crosslink Capital, Foundry, and Uncork Capital, as well as angel investors including Box […] Read more ›
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Another day, another marketer extolling the virtues of “being visible”. However, this time I’m sharing the message with added heft courtesy of Jason Lemkin, SaaStr founder and VC, and TechCrunch. TechCrunch’s article, published on 18th January 2023, stated how Sequoia Capital has set up a $195 million fund (its fifth) to service an “ever-eager seed […] Read more ›
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For the sixth year in a row, it was time for Circular Electronics Day on January 24. The goal is to create awareness about the need for a longer life for electronic products and greater recirculation of all materials while minimizing waste. Here are three ways to manage your IT products in a circular way. Three ways to manage IT products in a […] Read more ›
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Space exploration has increased rapidly in the last decade, and the space race is on. With commercial entities such as SpaceX launching satellites, developing a reusable launch vehicle, and even planning to send people to the Moon, the competition between various entities worldwide is intensifying. The US Space Program, led by NASA, has pushed forward […] Read more ›
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Rewilding charity Heal, which launched at the start of the pandemic, has just acquired its first landholding of 460 acres near Bruton in Somerset, where it will create a new nature reserve – the first in a series it plans to establish in every English county. The £5.25m site, to be called Heal Somerset, aims […] Read more ›
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Researchers from the University of Birmingham, U.K., have designed a novel adaptation for existing iron and steel furnaces that could reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from the steelmaking industry by nearly 90%. This radical reduction is achieved through a ‘closed loop’ carbon recycling system, which could replace 90% of the coke typically used in current […] Read more ›
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