Back to school, gadgets for teachers
Gadgets for teachers: Holidays are winding down, and the countdown is already on for the back to school. It’s the time when millions of students are eyeing their favourite backpacks,…
Accelerator programme for student entrepreneurs kicks-off at University College Dublin
The 2024 NovaUCD Student Enterprise Competition, an intensive 4-week accelerator programme for student entrepreneurs, which is now in its 10th year, has commenced at University College Dublin (UCD) with 14…
How virtual idol PLAVE became a famous band in Korea
It was a warm day in September 2023. Sipping coffee at my office desk, I was scrolling through the recommended videos on YouTube to find a video I could watch…
Tokyo, Tokyo, make me a match! Metropolis hopes AI app will spur marriages
By Mariko Katsumura TOKYO (Reuters) – On an overcast day in Tokyo this week, three dozen men and women strolled through a botanical garden in groups of four, making awkward…
New house, new tech: innovations to make moving home a whole lot easier
New house: Today, there’s an app for almost anything, including making the leap from one property to another. Although one of the most stressful experiences in our lives, moving house…
Jeff Bezos sells roughly $2 billion of Amazon shares
By Baranjot Kaur (Reuters) – Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos sold around 12 million shares of the online retail and cloud services firm for roughly $2 billion, according to a company…
Waist trimming tech: innovations to help keep those pounds at bay
Waist trimming tech: With many of us adopting healthier diets in the months that follow Christmas, it can often prove difficult to maintain our newly learned eating and exercise behaviours.…
Smartwatches? Real computers at wrist
Smartwatches: On one side are the romantics of the traditional Watch, and on the other are the hi-tech enthusiasts, convinced that putting an internet-connected watch face on their wrist is…
Why NFT is the flop of the year
Trading volume dropped from $17 billion to $466 million in nine months, from January to September 2022. Total auction turnover dropped from $232 million to $13 million, with turnover plummeting…
ChatGPT users can now browse internet, OpenAI says
By Samrhitha Arunasalam (Reuters) – ChatGPT users will now be able to surf the web, Microsoft-backed OpenAI said on Wednesday, expanding the data the viral chatbot can access beyond its…