FinTech

€400,000 Irish Project Aims To Develop Next-gen Chips For 5G

Two leading centres of data transmission hardware from Ireland are teaming up to create a new chip capable of handling ... Read more

Google Researchers Say Software Alone Cant Mitigate Spectre Chip Flaws

Google researchers say that software alone is not enough to prevent the exploitation of the Spectre flaws present in a ... Read more

What Can We Learn From French Labour Laws?

The French are known for a lot of things. The nation is lauded as an international centre of culture. It is famed for p... Read more

Amazon Aims To Make 50pc Of Its Shipments Carbon-neutral By 2030

Amazon yesterday (18 February) announced it aims to reach 50pc of all shipments with net zero carbon by 2030. The new i... Read more

Irish Team Helps Publish Cosmic Map Revealing Thousands Of Hidden Galaxies

Being able to chart our course through the known universe just got a whole lot easier thanks to the creation of a new s... Read more

10 AI Influencers You Should Be Following On Twitter

The world of artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics is evolving all the time, with job opportunities and new produc... Read more

Naples Now Home To Cryogenic, Superconducting Quantum Tech Labs

As we saw last month, researchers are bringing us ever closer to the so-called ‘holy grail’ of physics with the dev... Read more

French Journalists Suspended After Explosive Cyberbullying Allegations

A group of journalists in France is accused of cyberbullying mostly female colleagues on Twitter and Facebook, accordin... Read more

NDRC At PorterShed Calls For More Start-ups To Awaken In The West

NDRC at PorterShed in Galway is looking for some outstanding young start-ups to join its accelerator programme. Applic... Read more

Finch Capital Reveals €20m Fund For Irish Fintech And Deep Tech

A new €20m venture capital fund aimed at Irish fintech and deep-tech start-ups is being established in Dublin by Finc... Read more

Apple And Google Criticised For Hosting Saudi App That Tracks Women

Apple and Google have been accused aiding the enforcement of “gender apartheid” in Saudi Arabia by hosting a contro... Read more

How Can Open Data Mapping Help Deal With The Global Litter Crisis?

Cork-born entrepreneur Séan Lynch is passionate about citizen science, open data and tackling the unsightly and danger... Read more

Infographic Shows Which Bugs Will Likely Die Off First In Insect Apocalypse

A combination of rapid urbanisation, the onset of climate change and the intensive use of pesticides in mass agricultur... Read more

Feeling Frayed? Check Out These 6 Reads On Burnout

‘Burnout’ as a term was first coined in the 1970s by American psychologist Herbert Freudenberger, initially applied... Read more

Amazon Snaps Up Mesh Wi-Fi Router Start-up Eero

E-commerce giant Amazon announced yesterday (11 February) that it is acquiring Eero, a maker of mesh home routers. Amaz... Read more