Meet the talent: Máirín Murray, Impact Innovator
Place of residence – Máirín Murray: Based in Dublin and from County Down Position – Impact Innovator Please describe a day in your life. Each day is a hectic but…
Stop using WhatsApp, get Paris-made alternative, French PM tells ministers
By Elizabeth Pineau and Tassilo Hummel PARIS (Reuters) – France’s prime minister asked her cabinet to stop using widespread instant messaging apps like WhatsApp, Signal or Telegram and install widely…
Businesses, tech groups warn EU against over-regulating AI foundation models
By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Businesses and tech groups on Thursday warned the European Union against over-regulating artificial intelligence systems known as foundation models in upcoming AI rules…
Digital dog training by a female owner
Digital dog training has become the way of the future for many owners. It allows pet lovers to teach their furry friends to sit, lie down, roll over and give…
Aleksandra Marić: new technologies and innovations in textile
Tell us about your connection with the smart textile industry. Smart textiles and E-textiles first came to my attention through my scientific research. I teach university students about new technologies…
Can solar geoengineering stop global warming?
By David Stanway (Reuters) – As the world struggles to renounce its burning of fossil fuels, scientists are studying whether atmospheric geoengineering could help limit warming and avert climate catastrophe.…
As baby boomers retire, German businesses turn to robots
By Maria Martinez BERLIN (Reuters) – At machine parts producer S&D Blech, the head of the grinding unit is retiring. With Germany’s acute labour shortage leaving few candidates to take…
Minister Coveney opens new €4.8 million education, entrepreneurship and research facility at UCD Lyons Farm
Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Simon Coveney TD today officially opened a new €4.8 million state-of-the-art facility (ca. 1,010 sq.m.) incorporating the AgTechUCD Innovation Centre and the UCD Bimeda…
Amazon’s area delivery drones arrive in Europe
After the US and together with the UK, Italy will be the first EU country to test Amazon’s sky delivery drones. The official announcement came from the US company during Delivery the Future,…
Irish SME anounces world’s first commercial deployment of novel table-top soft X-ray microscope
SiriusXT Ltd, an Irish technology SME, announced today the world’s first commercial deployment of the SXT-100, the company’s unique table-top Soft X-ray Microscope with applications in disease research and the…