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Tech news & views since 2001. Voted Ireland's best science & tech site 7 times. Sad to leave, but here we are. Check out https://nitter.cf/t.co/Ns2SOoeoyC

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Hard to leave with some 70,000 followers here, but with the direction this site has taken, we can no longer justify giving it our content. We stayed in the hope it might one day be saved, but not tenable. Thank you to our loyal followers. Find us at @siliconrepublic.bsky.social
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Just Eat Takeaway sells Grubhub to Wonder Group for $650m ow.ly/n59N50U5Zzi
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Apple’s geo-blocking practices ‘unlawful’, finds EU consumer authority ow.ly/Qx6y50U5ZlA
Apple's geo-blocking practices 'unlawful', finds EU consumer authority

Apple's geo-blocking practices 'unlawful', finds EU consumer authority

The EU consumer protection watchdog has found that Apple employs "unlawful" practices by geo-blocking services in the region.

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Have you listened to the latest episode of The Leaders' Room yet? @SAP’s Liam Ryan talks about why AI is a game-changer for businesses. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts and watch here ow.ly/UGHQ50U5YOr @IDAIRELAND #SiliconRepublic #TheLeadersRoom #AI #Leadership
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Trump appoints Elon Musk to new US government role ow.ly/ztZB50U5Xhe
Trump appoints Elon Musk to new US government role

Trump appoints Elon Musk to new US government role

US president-elect Donald Trump has appointed the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, to the newly created position.

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Why identity security is having an identity crisis ow.ly/evcI50U5X2j
Why identity security is having an identity crisis

Why identity security is having an identity crisis

Illumio’s Raghu Nandakumara argues that non-user entities represent ‘the next frontier of risk’ in cybersecurity, with zero trust as the best defence.

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Irish innovator makes history at James Dyson Awards ow.ly/oP7h50U5UaN
Irish innovator makes history at James Dyson Awards

Irish innovator makes history at James Dyson Awards

For her scalp-cooling device designed for chemotherapy patients, Humphreys becomes the first Irish global winner of the James Dyson Award.

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Check out today’s Daily Brief for the latest sci-tech news, including: 👔 Trump has given Elon Musk a new job 🏆 Irish innovator makes history at @JamesDysonAward 📱 EU says Apple’s geo-blocking practices ‘unlawful’ ...and more! ow.ly/uxNV50U5TA5
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More than learners: How the public adds value to science ow.ly/Ql1G50U5uq7
More than learners: How the public adds value to science

More than learners: How the public adds value to science

As part of Science Week, we heard from sociologist Áine Macken-Walsh about her research around what values drive human behaviour.

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What this validation engineer loves most about her life science career ow.ly/wzfe50U5tKj
What this validation engineer loves most about her life science career

What this validation engineer loves most about her life science career

Merck’s Alison Shanahan discusses why her personality makes her suited to her role and what she’d change in the STEM sector.

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Meta will roll back its ‘pay or consent’ ad model in the EU ow.ly/95Nw50U5qmY

Meta will roll back its ‘pay or consent’ ad model in the EU

Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, has announced its intention to change its contentious ad model in the European Union.

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Amazon employee data stolen by hacker, company confirms ow.ly/TAiS50U5pOk
Amazon employee data stolen by hacker, company confirms

Amazon employee data stolen by hacker, company confirms

Multinational giant Amazon has confirmed that data relating to some of its employees has been stolen following a breach incident.

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Irish businesses to spend nearly €8bn on company culture plans ow.ly/ABsh50U5pL2
Irish businesses to spend nearly €8bn on company culture plans

Irish businesses to spend nearly €8bn on company culture plans

Irish businesses have to invest in technology and company culture to stay ahead of the transforming world of enterprise.

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We need to decarbonise 20 times faster to stay on target, PwC says ow.ly/unFS50U5nzM
We need to decarbonise 20 times faster to stay on target, PwC says

We need to decarbonise 20 times faster to stay on target, PwC says

PwC data shows that last year, the world acheived a decarbonisation rate of 1.02pc. However, the required rate was 17.2pc.

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Canadian fintech Neo Financial secures multimillion funding round ow.ly/I4Ov50U5jOq
Canadian fintech Neo Financial secures multimillion funding round

Canadian fintech Neo Financial secures multimillion funding round

The financing round resulted in Neo Financial securing the funding. The round also saw participation from the company’s existing investors.

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Can Ireland sustain its leadership in tech, pharma and engineering? ow.ly/EBS750U5iao
Can Ireland sustain its leadership in tech, pharma and engineering?

Can Ireland sustain its leadership in tech, pharma and engineering?

STEM South-West is hosting an exhibition for school students to explore careers in STEM while EY launches a STEM app dedicated to girls.

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Trinity researchers will use AI to tackle utilities sector challenges ow.ly/cqbx50U53RO
Trinity researchers will use AI to tackle utilities sector challenges

Trinity researchers will use AI to tackle utilities sector challenges

Trinity College Dublin, alongside CKDelta, will be taking an AI-driven approach to tackle challenges in the utilities sector.

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PepsiCo invests €2.4m in rooftop solar panels at Cork facility ow.ly/WLHB50U53xS
PepsiCo invests €2.4m in rooftop solar panels at Cork facility

PepsiCo invests €2.4m in rooftop solar panels at Cork facility

More than 3,400 individual solar panels make up the installation, which was recently installed at Little Island, Co Cork by PepsiCo.

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Oxla: Reducing the big costs of big data processing ow.ly/32Nh50U527K
Oxla: Reducing the big costs of big data processing

Oxla: Reducing the big costs of big data processing

This Warsaw-based start-up was founded in 2020, and aims to address the ‘performance bottleneck’ of high-volume data processing.

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‘AI can only solve real-world problems with the right data’ ow.ly/ucq450U5103
‘AI can only solve real-world problems with the right data’

‘AI can only solve real-world problems with the right data’

SETU’s Dr Indrakshi Dey talks about her research which uses data analysis and AI to uncover links between environmental factors and disease development.

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