By Jamie Dobson, author of âVisionaries, Rebels and Machines: The story of humanityâs extraordinary journey from electrification to cloudificationâ. In an age of disruption, sometimes the most revolutionary act is proceeding incrementally. Take Aldiâs store in Greenwich, London which has been trialling till-free shopping. Aldi wasnât first to use cameras and sensors to track baskets [âŠ] Read more âș
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By David Stephen who looks at GPT-5 in this article. AI benchmarks have created a false impression about how to evaluate AI models: test AI for complex questions that several humans canât answer; even if AI does well, conclude that AI has not matched vital human intelligence. If AI gets things right that several humans would [âŠ] Read more âș
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TOBi, Vodafone Irelandâs award-winning AI-powered self-service assistant, might still be getting to grips with Irish phrases like âacting the maggotâ or âsucking dieselâ, but it is already doing the hard work behind the scenes, helping customers 24/7 with top-ups, billing queries and much more. TOBi now resolves 60% of customer service queries without the need [âŠ] Read more âș
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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. [âŠ] Read more âș
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By David Stephen who considers Human Intelligence in this article. There is no AI company on earth, currently, that has a Human Intelligence Research Lab. This means a lab that exists just to study and show how human intelligence works. None, zero. This lab would not cost them as much as AI, and could become more important [âŠ] Read more âș
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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 [âŠ] Read more âș
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Granite Digital, Irelandâs 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 worldâs leading media groups. With the addition of Zesty, Granite forecasts its revenues to exceed âŹ20 million in 2025. This strategic acquisition reinforces Graniteâs [âŠ] Read more âș
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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 [âŠ] Read more âș
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Healthcare inequality in Africa and Asia is one of the most urgent challenges of our time. Millions still live too far from clinics, cannot afford treatment or face shortages of trained medical staff. But a quiet revolution is underway, one where technology is not just supporting healthcare systems but actively bridging the gap between urgent [âŠ] Read more âș
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Ukraineâs largest tech event, IT Arena, will return to Lviv for the twelfth time, gathering top tech experts, startup founders, investors, and entrepreneurs. From September 26 to 28, Lviv will once again become a hub where innovative ideas are born, impactful partnerships are forged, and the leaders shaping the future of technology, business, and Ukraineâs [âŠ] Read more âș
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SD Worx Ireland, a leading payroll and HR solutions provider, today announces new survey results which show that almost a quarter (24%) of employees in Ireland took leave for their mental health last year. This is higher than the European average of 18%. The survey found that some 29% of employees admit that working in [âŠ] Read more âș
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Dell Technologies today announced updates to the Dell AI Data Platform to help customers better support the full lifecycle of AI workloads from ingestion and transformation to agentic inferencing to AI-powered knowledge retrieval. Why it matters Enterprise data is massive, growing rapidly and increasingly unstructured, but only a fraction of it is usable for generative [âŠ] Read more âș
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Prommt, the premium pay-by-link platform for remote payments, has announced a partnership with Payitâą by NatWest. Payitâą is an award-winning Open Banking solution from NatWest enabling a way to send and receive payments instantly without the need for bank or card details. Together, the companies are revolutionising how businesses collect payments, making the process faster, more secure and more cost [âŠ] Read more âș
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OSSM, an Oracle NetSuite Solution Provider, has announced that IN2 Engineering, an Irish-headquartered building services and environmental engineering consultancy, is using NetSuite to support its mission to expand across Europe. With NetSuite and OSSM, IN2 Engineering has been able to increase efficiency, centralise operational data, and lay the groundwork for its ambitious five-year growth plan. [âŠ] Read more âș
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Strata, Irelandâs leading provider of construction time management and digital construction services, recently released the 2025 Strata Report: Digital Transformation in Construction. Ronan recently caught up with Enda Grimes, the Director and Founder of Strata to find out more about the 2025 Strata Report and digital transformation in the construction sector. Enda talks about his [âŠ] Read more âș
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By David Stephen How much does an individual know about something and how many problems about that thing can the individual solve? It is possible that the more someone knows about something the likelier it is to solve problems around that thing. This indicates that intelligence means how to use what is known. Or, if something [âŠ] Read more âș
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A groundbreaking new report, Femtech in Ireland: The Case for Prioritising Womenâs Health Research and Innovation, has identified significant opportunities for Ireland to become a global leader in FemTechâtechnology, research, and innovation focused on womenâs health. Produced by Health Innovation Hub Ireland (HIHI), and the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at University College Cork (UCC) [âŠ] Read more âș
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The Local Enterprise Offices have announced they will partner with Google as part of the Local Enterprise Village at this yearâs National Ploughing Championships, which takes place in Screggan, Tullamore, County Offaly from the 16th to 18th September. This will be the first time that Google has had a presence at the Ploughing Championships and [âŠ] Read more âș
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 Quantum computing doesnât feel urgent. Not until you picture what it actually breaks. Not just secrets. Not just banks or classified files. But the quiet, daily trust we place in everything digital. And I mean everything. My daughter Justice is five. She plays games on a old iPhone. We send her school forms through [âŠ] Read more âș
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SIRO, the 100% fibre broadband network operator, has announced that its network is now live in Claremorris. To date, 868 homes and businesses in the town have been passed by the SIRO network, with a further 630 premises expected to go live in 2025 â a total of 1,500 premises overall. Areas in Claremorris that [âŠ] Read more âș
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