The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) says that it has fined Instagram €405m for breaching the privacy rights of children. | Continue reading
“Human beings have an extraordinary ability to go through the most remarkable experiences and learn absolutely nothing,” says poet David Whyte with a warm laugh. | Continue reading
Google plans to make changes to its Messages and Dialer apps after Trinity College Dublin researchers pointed to privacy concerns on Android phones. | Continue reading
You can add a touch of Star Wars to your Spotify experience. Here's how you can turn the progress bar into a lightsaber. | Continue reading
People could soon be snacking on dried grasshoppers after the EU approved them for human consumption. | Continue reading
A recession made up Berni Moore’s mind to leave her hometown after finishing school and more than three decades later, after a lot of travelling in the meantime, the Covid pandemic halted plans to return to foreign parts. | Continue reading
Cash payments over €10,000 for transactions such as car purchases, home improvements or funeral bills will be banned under EU rules expected to come into force within three years. | Continue reading
Facebook says it will cut off Irish users from using WhatsApp in the coming weeks if they don’t sign a controversial new privacy policy that opens the door to interaction with Facebook and local businesses. | Continue reading
UK supermarket chain the Co-op is to price match its own-brand plant-based food range against equivalent meat products to help shoppers adopt “flexitarian” diets, it has announced. | Continue reading
A stereotype exists of developers in Silicon Valley. Like all cliches, it unfairly generalises while simultaneously containing some truth. | Continue reading
The young girl who first spotted the walrus thought to have drifted to Ireland from the Arctic has come up with names for the creature – depending on whether it turns out to be male or female. | Continue reading
An Immersive Software Engineering (ISE) course at the University of Limerick will see students spend 45pc of their time on paid work placements in companies including the Collison brothers’ Stripe, Facebook and drone delivery pioneer Manna Aero. | Continue reading
Priests have said they are upset by the "very hurtful criticism" of "mass-hoppers" who go from one online mass to another passing comments over their "performances". | Continue reading
Funds for native American tribes who have been badly hit by coronavirus are flooding in from Ireland as they repay a debt dating back to the 19th-century famine. | Continue reading
An Irish company is preparing to release rapid Covid-19 testing kits, which can provide results in 15 minutes and potentially act as a "clinical weapon" against coronavirus. | Continue reading
THOUSANDS of staff at tech giant Google’s Dublin headquarters have been told to work from home tomorrow as a staff member – who presented with flu-like symptoms – is being tested for the new coronavirus. | Continue reading
Facebook has been forced into an embarrassing postponement of its new dating service all across Europe 36 hours before Valentine’s Day after Ireland’s Data Protection Commission stepped in. | Continue reading
THE number of people willing to move here to work is not going to hit levels seen during the last boom and will not keep wages down, economists at the Central Bank are forecasting. | Continue reading
A card reader for small businesses made from recycled ocean plastic has been unveiled by financial technology firm iZettle. | Continue reading
Google is willing to subsidise general housing in Dublin to ease the accommodation crisis, its CEO says. | Continue reading
Around 300 contractors working for Apple who had frequently heard confidential recordings via Siri have lost their jobs. | Continue reading
The move by Guinness to offer new fathers six months’ paid paternity leave has been described as a potential game changer for workplace equality. | Continue reading
When 74-year-old Bridget Byrne gets up every morning, one of the first things she does is say 'hello' to Mylo, and Mylo, in turn, greets her. | Continue reading
'I don't think I could have written this even 15 years ago, | Continue reading
'I know this is happening. No one can tell me otherwise. I've experienced it and so have friends. | Continue reading
Supermac’s has won a long running battle against McDonald’s to have the use of the iconic Big Mac trademark cancelled across Europe. | Continue reading
Tim O'Reilly, an Irishman who has been described as the 'oracle' of Silicon Valley,' may float or sell his US-based publishing, conferences and online learning company. His business, O' | Continue reading
Pubs, hotels and nightclubs face having have no water at night at the height of the busy tourist season. | Continue reading
Dublin startup News Over Audio (NOA) is set to take a few more steps towards its goal of becoming the | Continue reading