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In this week's show Niall goes to the Salesforce World Tour in London where he meets country leader for Ireland Carolan Lennon. There's also good news for Meta with the arrival of Instagram threads and Twitter continues its downward spiral. Lastly, the Data Protection Commission loses more friends in Europe.

This week Niall and Dusty look at proposed measures to retain user data - any user's data - for one year in the name of national security. We also meet Industry chair of the Midlands ICT Cluster Steering Committee Sinead Pillion about innovation outside the traditional tech hives of Dublin, Cork and Galway.

On this week's packed show Niall and Dusty fly through the stories of the week, including a new threat from fake hacktivists, Australia takes on Twitter's hate speech problem, and Spotify's podcasting woes continue. We are also joined by senior Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence at UCD Professional Academy Mark James to talk about 'AI literacy'.

As the EU hurtles towards approving the AI act Niall and Dusty go through what's in store. Later, Eofis CTO Tiarnach Ó Riada talks about a new way to learn.

This week Niall and Dusty go through the big announcements at this year's WWDC. Has the Vision Pro done enough to reignite interest in mixed reality or will it be another virtual reality dud? We are also joined by Dr Susan Leavy from UCD to talk ethical AI.

This week we preview WWDC and get worried about AI. Later, Jennifer Cox joins us with some sage advice about how to manage your career.

On this week's episode we talk about Meta's billion-euro fine, why Apple owes us billions we don't want, Ron DeSantis' failed social media experiment and the end of Virgin Orbit. We also talk with Stephen Kelly of Nualang about his plan to make accents easier to practice.

A quiet Easter week and a quite holiday gives us a chance to take a breather on AI and see how we stand with this breaking tech. We find unlikely users and unlikely uses!. Later, Victoria Gascon Perez, consortium officer at University of Limerick's Technology Transfer Office talks about her career path from the lab to the board room.

This weeks stories include Tik Tok getting its first official outright ban, the Data Protection Commissioner is about to levy a record fine on Meta and some really nice tips for tech toy bargains. Speaking with Niall Kitson about the Artificial Intelligence Act is Brian McElligott, partner and head of the AI law team at Mason Hayes & Curran.

On the show this week, we go over the main announcements from Google I/O this week, from brand new AI features on Google apps to hot new phones and tablets. We also find out about an industry movement advocating greater awareness of sustainability with Michael O'Hara of Techies Go Green about its success.

This week investigative journalist and author Geoff White talks about digital identities. There's also a big resignation at Google, drama at Twitter and ChatGPT does some heavy lifting for job seekers.

In this week's show Niall and Dusty talk about the ups and down of the space economy, Microsoft and Activision are told to give it a rest and Prof Markus Helfert of the Innovation Value Institute introduces two new research programmes looking at data and sustainability.

This week Niall and Dusty look at what's next for Star Trek, AI ruins art (again), and Google toys with a phone no one will buy. Later, Yvonne Halpin from The Irish Marie Skłodowska-Curie Office talks about some of financial supports available to researchers.

In this edition we have a rough landing for Virgin Orbit, our new favourite e-reader and the New York Times stands up to Twitter. We also go out and about to meet Jan van de Laer, senior director systems engineer with Juniper Networks.

News stories catching our attention this week include a cashless Ireland, Microsoft’s ‘acropolypse’ and how bad TikTok really is for your phone. We also get deep into drones with Dr Stephanie Keogh from Science Foundation Ireland’s research centre Lero, who chats about her work with unmanned aerial vehicles and the agencies making use of it.

In the news this week, Microsoft are chasing Google Workspace, more bad job news and how AI is having some fun with Donald Trump. Later we have Fujitsu distinguished engineer Caragh O'Carroll giving a crash course on ChatGPT.

This week we look at the next generation of large langauge models from OpenAI, Facebook has another bad week, and we meet Ronan Newman to talk about the first Irish Astronomy Week.

This week Sandra Healy, founder and CEO of Inclusio, talks about her company's groundbreaking mission to make workplaces more diverse.

This week we’re looking at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, new updates for Windows 11 and we turn up the radio for DJ AI. In our featured interview we talk to digital marketing expert Maryrose Lyons of Brightspark about what ChatGPT is doing for marketing.

Why Facebook is ticking us off, Windows is finally running on Mac chips, and two very subtle & devious e-mail hacks you probably don’t know - but should. Later, we have master inventor, author and AI advisor to the UN Neil Sahota.

This week we say goodbye to Internet Explorer for good, hello to a 15" MacBook air and Mate Academy co-founder Roman Apostol talks about the challenges of reskilling and running a business from Ukraine.

This week Niall and Dusty preview the coming browser war between Microsoft and Google... with added AI. Later, Prof Martin Hayes from the UL@Work Human Capital Initiative talks about the value of upskilling during a turbulent period for the tech sector.

Pratuesh Raj, digital director, PwC Advisory on AI by Tech Radio Ireland

On this week's packed show we look at the Samsung's Galaxy S23 series, a new round of job cuts in Big Tech and Pratuesh Raj, digital director, PwC Advisory, talks about the evolution of AI as we know it.

On this week's show Donald Trump gets back on Meta, the limits of AI and Nuritas' Robert Radford talks about his work on ageing and what it will mean for you.