Which is more important: the number of steps you take or how fast you walk?

Research suggests a brisker stride can help you reduce risk of heart disease, cancer, dementia and death | Continue reading


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Why is there a Chinese police outpost on Dublin’s Capel Street?

Spread of Chinese ‘overseas police service stations’ around the world raises concerns among human rights campaigners | Continue reading


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Instagram Fined

Social media giant ruled to have breached the privacy of children | Continue reading


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Ireland's AIB reverses plan to make 70 banks cashless following ‘public unease’

Minister for Finance welcomes decision not to proceed with changes to customer services | Continue reading


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The patients who can make doctors wish they weren’t doctors

The consultation between GP and patient is like a dance in which one or other will occasionally come a cropper | Continue reading


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Germany frets as vital Nord Stream gas pipeline shuts down

Concern that Russia might turn maintenance check into longer-term shutdown as economic squeeze intensifies | Continue reading


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Freaky or fantastic? Amazon’s Alexa turns dead loved ones’ voices into digital

Technology promises ability to ‘make the memories last’ by mimicking the voice of anyone it hears | Continue reading


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Rowan Atkinson: ‘In a proper free society, you can make jokes about anything’

The actor on disparate creations Mr Bean and Blackadder, cancel culture and his first starring TV role in decades | Continue reading


@irishtimes.com | 1 year ago

Obi-Wan Kenobi uses the same template as the Mandalorian, without Baby Yoda

The thing about this Star Wars project I can relate to most is Disney corporation’s love of money | Continue reading


@irishtimes.com | 1 year ago

Meta faces large fine for breaching children’s privacy on Instagram service

Meta Platforms is facing a potentially large fine from DPC for breaches of children’s data rights | Continue reading


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Data centres now consuming more electricity than all rurual homes in Ireland

Electricity used by data centres rises by almost a third in one year, new statistics show | Continue reading


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NCAP safety ratings under fire following Dacia controversy

New Jogger family car gets one-star rating, but has it been tested properly? | Continue reading


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Net Results: Law must step up and protect against data power grabs by billionaires | Continue reading


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‘Disabled’ is not a bad word. Stop telling people with disabilities it is

I was asked to replace the word with ‘differently abled’ in a speech about my story | Continue reading


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Google to make changes to apps after TCD finds privacy issues

Concerns raised about its Dialer and Messages apps pre-installed on android phones | Continue reading


@irishtimes.com | 2 years ago

Cost of Ryanair flights from countries bordering Ukraine up to 13 times higher

Last-minute flights set to be more expensive than those for next week, price analysis shows | Continue reading


@irishtimes.com | 2 years ago

Irish aircraft firms face ‘mission impossible’ recovering planes from Russia

Multibillion dollar Irish industry severs leases with Russian airlines after sanctions | Continue reading


@irishtimes.com | 2 years ago

Facebook Meta facing order from Irish regulator to suspend data transfers to US

Wide-ranging privacy case has already led to threats from social media giant | Continue reading


@irishtimes.com | 2 years ago

Wayflyer becomes latest Irish tech unicorn after $150m fundraise

Dublin-headquartered tech company has achieved unicorn status in just 2.5 years | Continue reading


@irishtimes.com | 2 years ago

Ulysses and the international avant-garde of Trieste, Zurich, Paris

Published 100 years ago, Ulysses was heavily influenced by James Joyce's European travels | Continue reading


@irishtimes.com | 2 years ago

Two weeks later David Bennett is alive, his pig’s heart beating soundly

Dr Muiris Houston: We must weigh the shortage of human organs against animal rights | Continue reading


@irishtimes.com | 2 years ago

Google Ireland agrees €345m tax settlement with Revenue

Employees paid on average €120,000, parent gets €3bn dividend | Continue reading


@irishtimes.com | 2 years ago

The winter our health system will finally collapse (2017)

The ineffectiveness of this year’s flu vaccines means hospitals will not be able to cope | Continue reading


@irishtimes.com | 2 years ago

China and India will have to ‘justify’ watered down coal pledge–Cop26 president

Critics said aim of 1.5 degrees in ‘intensive care’ after row over wording | Continue reading


@irishtimes.com | 2 years ago

Covid pass for double-jabbed ‘Adolf Hitler’ subject of Dutch inquiry

Working CoronaCheck QR code in any name offered on online hacker forum for €300 | Continue reading


@irishtimes.com | 2 years ago

Climate Anxiety – reactions to unprecedented threats hardly surprising

Younger generations are struggling to cope with climate threats of unprecedented scale | Continue reading


@irishtimes.com | 2 years ago

$900 and a battery life of one hour: the first ever smartphone (2014)

20-years ago, the clunky IBM Simon was a commercial flop but it broke the mould | Continue reading


@irishtimes.com | 2 years ago

Teen’s swine flu jab sleep disorder case settled for €1.2m

Girl, now 16, also suffers loss of muscle control since receiving vaccine 12 years ago | Continue reading


@irishtimes.com | 2 years ago

Noam Chomsky: Ireland robbed poor working people of tens of trillions of dollars

The 92-year-old author on US foreign policy and Ireland’s immoral tax regime | Continue reading


@irishtimes.com | 2 years ago

I Invented Baileys (2017)

We got £3,000 all-in for the creation of the world’s most successful cream liqueur | Continue reading


@irishtimes.com | 2 years ago

WhatsApp appeals €225M fine, claims Irish DPC violates human rights

Case initiated in the High Court over ‘disproportionate’ penalties on company | Continue reading


@irishtimes.com | 2 years ago

Six common conspiracy theories and why it’s pointless to argue with them

Mocking conspiracy theories is tempting but it doesn’t work. To change minds you must challenge | Continue reading


@irishtimes.com | 2 years ago

EU to ban cryptocurrency anonymity in anti-money laundering plan

New agency would enforce requirement for crypto providers to verify users’ identities | Continue reading


@irishtimes.com | 2 years ago

Irish co-founded data for AI company Logical Clocks raises €5m

Company provides support for Hopsworks, a platform for data science and AI | Continue reading


@irishtimes.com | 2 years ago

We must raise a generation of readers

Reading is a pleasure but it is also a unique form of mental exercise for children | Continue reading


@irishtimes.com | 2 years ago

Covid-19 originated naturally and not in lab, virologists conclude

Multiple opportunities existed in Wuhan animal markets for ‘spillover into humans’ | Continue reading


@irishtimes.com | 2 years ago

Stripe cofounder John Collison buys Abbey Leix estate for €20m

Billionaire acquires Co Laois mansion on 1,120 acres from businessman Sir David Davies | Continue reading


@irishtimes.com | 2 years ago

Ireland one of 9 countries to hold out on signing OECD global tax deal

Some 130 states have accepted the outline agreement – Ireland will remain in the talks | Continue reading


@irishtimes.com | 2 years ago

Stalin’s War: Distorted history of a complex second World War

Book review: Sean McMeekin dubiously contends war was more Stalin’s than Hitler’s | Continue reading


@irishtimes.com | 2 years ago

Cyber Gang Provides Decryption Tool to Unlock HSE (Irish Health Service) Systems

Russian-speaking gang is still threatening to publish patient files unless ransom is paid | Continue reading


@irishtimes.com | 2 years ago

HSE shuts down IT systems amid significant cyber attack

Covid vaccination system not affected while Rotunda says most appointments cancelled | Continue reading


@irishtimes.com | 2 years ago

Early Irish people were dark skinned with blue eyes

Hunter gatherer population inhabited Ireland before being replaced by early farmers | Continue reading


@irishtimes.com | 3 years ago

Brainwaves and other strange sounds from Alvin Lucier’s lab (2014)

The composer long ago came to view the institution of the orchestra as alien to an American sensibility. Now he is bringing his experimental sounds to Dundalk Gaol | Continue reading


@irishtimes.com | 3 years ago

Google used ‘double-Irish’ to shift $75.4bn in profits out of Ireland

Company moved money in 2019, prior to it overhauling its global tax structure | Continue reading


@irishtimes.com | 3 years ago

Riots stopped because Prince Andrew or Philip or something – he’s dead

Community workers say riots sparked by unionism’s loss of control and the manipulation of working-class youths not politics | Continue reading


@irishtimes.com | 3 years ago

‘The crate escape’: Irishmen who helped mail friend home from Australia sought

Welsh man who airmailed himself in crate in 1960s seeks two Irish friends who helped nail it shut | Continue reading


@irishtimes.com | 3 years ago

Boy who said he developed narcolepsy after swine flu vaccine settles court case

Settlement could pave the way for resolution of 80 cases over Pandemrix vaccine | Continue reading


@irishtimes.com | 3 years ago

Apple and Google access our smartphone data every four and a half minutes

Research claims there is little difference between Apple and Google when it comes to collecting certain data | Continue reading


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