Google accused of secretly feeding personal data to advertisers

Evidence submitted to the Data Protection Commission accused the US tech giant of “exploiting personal data without sufficient control or concern over data protection” | Continue reading


@irishtimes.com | 4 years ago

Climate change: Ireland plans to plant 440m trees by 2040

Farm land to be used for some of the 8,000 hectares of new forestry every year | Continue reading


@irishtimes.com | 4 years ago

Irish state told to delete “unlawful” data on 3.2M citizens

Data Protection Commission’s stance a serious blow to PSC project | Continue reading


@irishtimes.com | 4 years ago

Who First Invented Cheese and Onion Crisps? Tayto

Tayto wasn’t the first Irish crisp maker, but its great innovation – flavour – made it a success | Continue reading


@irishtimes.com | 4 years ago

Ireland can stop a no-deal Brexit. Here’s how

A bold move by Sinn Féin can transform the dynamics of power at Westminster | Continue reading


@irishtimes.com | 4 years ago

The life and tragic death of Trinity graduate and writer Sophie Hingst

The 31-year-old German blogger had denied claims that she invented 22 Holocaust victims in her family | Continue reading


@irishtimes.com | 4 years ago

Irish teenager wins Google science award for microplastics project

Fionn Ferreira from Ballydehob earns €45,000 bursary at event in California | Continue reading


@irishtimes.com | 4 years ago

It's now beam me a loan, Scotty(1999)

With a flourish, the waiter in the chic little bistro presents the bill for the pricey lunch you've just had with your lawyer… | Continue reading


@irishtimes.com | 4 years ago

Hundreds of Boeing aircraft could be unsafe

US aviation authority warns operators they could face crash threat from mobile phones | Continue reading


@irishtimes.com | 4 years ago

Irish battery breakthrough could help save the planet

Academics find way to make batteries with 250 per cent more energy density | Continue reading


@irishtimes.com | 4 years ago

Oscar Wilde’s talk inspired his rise and led to his downfall

Writer was a compelling conversationalist but it sometimes got him in trouble | Continue reading


@irishtimes.com | 4 years ago

Stripe warns small firms most at risk from ‘€57bn’ EU security rule

Transaction regulation will ‘tilt playing field in favour of big companies’, Stripe says | Continue reading


@irishtimes.com | 4 years ago

Words made flesh: author events are the new hot tickets

The growth of spoken-word festivals reflects our hunger for real-life experiences | Continue reading


@irishtimes.com | 4 years ago

Facebook Loses [Irish] Supreme Court Appeal in Max Schrems Data Case

Data protection commissioner raised concerns about revamped data privacy agreement | Continue reading


@irishtimes.com | 4 years ago

‘A one-person newsdesk’: Predictions from an early computer age

Lost Leads: Computer news in the 1980s speculated about 'automated post' and cashless banking | Continue reading


@irishtimes.com | 4 years ago

CEO of Intercom to address staff over harassment allegations

‘In the early years of the company I demonstrated some poor judgment’ | Continue reading


@irishtimes.com | 4 years ago

Microsoft users’ emails exposed in data breach

‘Limited’ number of accounts affected, technology giant says | Continue reading


@irishtimes.com | 4 years ago

A Nation of Storytellers/Tír na Scéalta: the Irish at Bologna Children's Book Fair

13 writers and illustrators reflect on Ireland’s place in the world market and pick a favourite title | Continue reading


@irishtimes.com | 4 years ago

Brexit Borderlands

An Irish Times investigation into the Irish Border, explore all the crossings and read about the issues. Why was the Border front and centre of the Brexit negotiations and how Britain leaving the EU threatens 20 years of peace in Northern Ireland. | Continue reading


@irishtimes.com | 5 years ago

Teresa May Returning to EU Erroneous in a Fleet of WW2 Planes, BBC NEWS

BBC News suggests May may carry out (very) full-on attack on Brussels | Continue reading


@irishtimes.com | 5 years ago

‘Ancient’ stone circle in Scotland was built in 1990s

Archaeologists had been researching site until former farm owner revealed truth | Continue reading


@irishtimes.com | 5 years ago

Facebook to create 1,000 jobs at new Dublin campus

Tech giant also announces €1m euro investment in the National Anti-Bullying Centre | Continue reading


@irishtimes.com | 5 years ago

Google hit with €50m fine for data privacy breach

Levy is first use of GDPR introduced last year | Continue reading


@irishtimes.com | 5 years ago

Share It is not technology that will steal your job

Other 'megatrends' will be as influential | Continue reading


@irishtimes.com | 5 years ago

Google gets go-ahead from Central Bank for payments (Ireland)

Regulator grants authorisation for tech giant as a payment institution in the Republic | Continue reading


@irishtimes.com | 5 years ago

Apps sending users’ data to Facebook without their consent

Some apps pass on data the second they’re opened on a smartphone | Continue reading


@irishtimes.com | 5 years ago

Electronic spies torture German firms

Mannheim physicists Steffen Noehte and Matthias Gerspach have access to some of the most sophisticated information technology… | Continue reading


@irishtimes.com | 5 years ago

Quora latest entry in ever-growing data breach list

Website adds 100m customers to a growing tally of those impacted by data breaches | Continue reading


@irishtimes.com | 5 years ago

European tech entrepreneurs call for reform of employee share option

Open letter calls for policymakers to fix ‘patchy, inconsistent and punitive’ rules | Continue reading


@irishtimes.com | 5 years ago

LinkedIn processed 18M email addresses of non-users for targeted ads

Data Protection Commissioner audit says US company acted outside its remit | Continue reading


@irishtimes.com | 5 years ago

Northern Ireland was always treated differently to rest of UK

‘Ulster says no’ stance betrays ignorance of British and Irish history | Continue reading


@irishtimes.com | 5 years ago

LinkedIn processed 18M email addresses of non-users for targeted advertising

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@irishtimes.com | 5 years ago

Logical Clocks Raises €1.25m for Hopsworks- Big Data AI Open-Source Platform

Investors include Dublin and London-based Frontline Ventures, Inventure and AI Seed | Continue reading


@irishtimes.com | 5 years ago

New book suggests Arthur Conan Doyle based Moriarty on George Boole

That’s Maths: New book suggests Arthur Conan Doyle based Moriarty on George Boole | Continue reading


@irishtimes.com | 5 years ago

Activists call for ‘total ban’ on Airbnb (activists occupied Dublin offices)

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@irishtimes.com | 5 years ago

Dogs are no smarter than goats

Pigs, pigeons and chimpanzees can remember the what, where and when of an event | Continue reading


@irishtimes.com | 5 years ago

How do we create the right ‘environment’ for public debate?

Unthinkable: Knowledge is an ‘epistemic good’ to which everyone should have access | Continue reading


@irishtimes.com | 5 years ago

Alan Rusbridger: guardian of the worthy news galaxy

Former Guardian editor shares his vast experience and speculates on the future of news | Continue reading


@irishtimes.com | 5 years ago

Bitcoin sinks sharply amid concerns about slow take-up of cryptocurrencies

Bitcoin’s value fell by 10% amid reports Goldman Sachs shelves plans for a desk trading cryptocurrencies | Continue reading


@irishtimes.com | 5 years ago

How liberalism is enslaving Ireland as a colony of Silicon Valley

Irish late catch-up with western modernity has only illusionary links with social equality | Continue reading


@irishtimes.com | 5 years ago

AI retinal scanning offers vision of the future for care of diabetics

Technology is poised to revolutionise eye screening and role of ophthalmologists | Continue reading


@irishtimes.com | 5 years ago

Kay McNulty, the Irish ‘mother of computer programming’

While raising seven children, she continued, uncredited, to programme computers her husband developed | Continue reading


@irishtimes.com | 5 years ago

Pastafarianism is not a religion, Dutch court decides

Dutch judge issues ruling in case over the right to wear a collander in a passport photo | Continue reading


@irishtimes.com | 5 years ago

Trial runs for fascism are in full flow

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@irishtimes.com | 5 years ago

Net Results: Data centres need to power down their energy requirements

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@irishtimes.com | 5 years ago

The night a river of whiskey ran through the streets of Dublin

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@irishtimes.com | 5 years ago

‘Social microbes’ critical to brain development

Absence linked to reduced sociability in people with autism spectrum disorders | Continue reading


@irishtimes.com | 5 years ago

Babies in cages were no ‘mistake’ by Trump but test-marketing for barbarism | Continue reading


@irishtimes.com | 5 years ago