FinTech

OECDs Sharon Masterson: We Cant Pretend Driverless Vehicles Arent Coming

Sharon Masterson heads the corporate partnership board of the International Transport Forum (ITF), an intergovernmenta... Read more

Internal Debate At Facebook As It Considers A Paid Ad-free Version

Facebook’s business model – like many other online platforms that are free to use – depends largely on advertiser... Read more

Chinas Latest Brainwave Will Use Sensors To Tap Into Workers Minds

This week in the internet of things (IoT) sphere saw Nokia attempt to cut costs with the sale of its digital health har... Read more

Irish Start-ups Urged To Compete For Share Of $5m VentureClash Pool

Irish start-ups in areas including digital health, fintech, insuretech and internet of things (IoT) are being urged to ... Read more

More Than 500 Jobs Came To Irish Shores This Week

We in Careers always like to celebrate a particularly fruitful week on the jobs creation front, and with more than 500 ... Read more

AWS Technology Evangelist Ian Massingham: Dont Fear The Cloud

Cloud adoption is accelerating globally, as enterprises and organisations become more aware of the benefits including s... Read more

The Mystery Of The Male-killing Bacteria Has Finally Been Solved

If it were about humans it would be considered the plot of some dystopian fiction. But, for the fruit fly species Droso... Read more

YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki Stresses Importance Of Safety And Moderation

YouTube’s annual Brandcast was a slick affair, designed to convince its advertisers that it’s a good place in which... Read more

The Only Philosophical UX Thought Experiment That Matters

Many late-night discussions over a glass of red have been buoyed along by philosophical thought experiments. Arguably t... Read more

Weekend Takeaway: We Must Save The Bees And The Seas

This EU vote could make a huge difference to bees’ survival Image: ch_ch/Shutterstock Member states of the EU are s... Read more

Snapchat To Change Data Retention Policy For Under-16s Ahead Of GDPR

While GDPR is theoretically good news for the data privacy and agency of individuals in the EU, those who invest in maj... Read more

Latest Alexa Hack Shows Echo Could Be Turned Into Scary Spying Device

Earlier this year, Amazon’s Echo smart assistant creeped a lot of people out with its Alexa software’s spontaneous ... Read more

Slacks Michael Lopp: We Are Reimagining Work

Michael Lopp is vice-president of engineering at Slack, the communications platform that is transforming the enterprise... Read more

Facebook And TheJournal.ie Team Up On Fact-checking Project

A contentious referendum is less than a month away in Ireland and, coupled with a general public wariness about social ... Read more