It’s been a busy week with Spotify’s spat with singer Neil Young and former royals Harry & Megan, Facebooks fail with cyrpto and news on an S22 from Samsung. We also have a completely fascinating chat about computers ability to dream with artist Robin Price. Press play now for all this weeks tech talk !
902: Money Money
What kind of tech goes into the bank app on your smartphone? We hear from the CTO at Wellington IT about how they deliver ‘big bank services’ for credit unions and other smaller institutions.
We also look at the real reasons why the American rollout of 5G has rattled airlines, why Microsofts huge games company purchase this week is not such good news and discover how many views and Irish YouTuber needs to make the average wage.
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901: Show Time
We look at the two biggest shows kicking off 2022. Ireland’s own Young Scientists Expo and CES in the States which threw up some big tech surprises!
We also chat with Ian Nolan from Brightflag about the use of AI in the legal world.
900: Older Than Twitter
We start the new year with a landmark show number 900! We look back at the incredible amount of change in tech since 2005, some of our most notable guests over the years and what we might be talking about on show number 1,000 in two years time!
899: What A Year!
We look back on the stories and trends which made the biggest impression on us and wonder what lies ahead in 2022.
898: Red Hat
There is a little controversy between Niall and Dusty over the tech titan just named as Time magazines Person of the Year!
We also find out more about Red Hat’s Irish operation and how their open source ethos goes way beyond software.
897: Storms Outages and WFH
We look at Irelands biggest Google searches for 2021, how quantum computing tracked Storm Barra, what lesson the AWS outage taught us and chat with Sam Mayne from Vipre about Working From Home and the effect its had on their company.
Resources Mentioned
EU Met Sat Tracker – view.eumetsat.int
Vipre – www.vipre.com
896: Toy Show 2021
This is our favourite show of the year. The ‘real’ toy show where we go through the best tech toys for Christmas.
28 minutes packed with something for everyone from €10 to €10,000. Get tucked in right now!
895: Black Friday Scam
Are the Black Friday deals a scam? You’ll be surprised at what we have uncovered with scams and real deals.
We also get an overview of quantum computing from one of the best, Venkatesh Kannan at the Irish Centre for High-End Computing.
894: We Know Your Password
The Top 200 Worst Passwords in Ireland list is out. You probably know #1 and have used #86 but would never admit it! We also chat with Karl Heery at Aon and discover how a tech project from here in Ireland went global.