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This week we talk to Expleo managing director Phil Codd about his company's role in producing Ireland's Covid-19 tracing app, which has been downloaded more than 1 million times. Back in the Covid Kitchen Niall and Dusty talk staycation scams, Amazon jobs and what your face is worth to Facebook.

This week Niall and Dusty talk about Uber's latest collision course with the legal system and look at some promising results in the fight against Covid-19. We also sit down with Chatspace co-founder and CEO John Clancy to talk about where AI fits in the new world of home working.

In March this year Grafton Architects were awarded architecture's top honour, the Pritzker prize, for a body of work stretching as far back as the 1970s. This edition we revisit an interview Niall Kitson had with co-founder Dr Yvonne Farrell.

Have you downloaded the official Covid-19 tracking app? Niall has an he gives his impressions this week. We also chat with Fidelity Investments vice president of technology at Fidelity Ireland about how to stay creative during a crisis.

All the news on the great Facebook Boycott of 2020, Google Photo changes and Microsoft throws in the towel on retail. Plus we chat with Dr Ann Devitt, academic director of Trinity College Dublin’s Learnovate Centre to see how Post-Covid classrooms will look in September.

Three big departures from the norm at Apple WWDC this week including a major announcement on processors which changes everything, a new way of presenting their keynote and goodbye to Mac OS X. We fill you in. We also find out how you can take an idea in a lab or workshop and make it into a viable business with Conor McNally, Startup and Business Development Manager, at Adapt.

This week Niall and Dusty dust off some memories of technology that influenced their lives but the current generation of digital natives have no clue about.

Why do ordinary people believe extraordinary things? This week we meet with NUI Galway's Dr Eoin Whelan to discuss online conspiracies and cyberchondria in the age of Covid-19.

Robots are being used to do jobs humans can't but what happens when the pandemic comes to an end? We get some input from LogoGrab CTO Allesdandro Prest. Also catch up on the news including Trump v social media, Zoom's booming quarter and, of course, SpaceX.

This week we meet three experts from Logicalis to discuss the new normal of remote working.

Are you tired of Zoom? There could be valid psychological reasons for why video conferencing is making you tired. In other news we give the highlights of Microsoft's Build 2020 conference and Facebook comes up with a novel idea for regulation - leaving it to themselves to figure out.

Twitter has decided to let its remote workers stay at home indefinitely but will it pay off in the long term?

Apple is back with a new 13" MacBook Pro. Is this finally the laptop we've been waiting for?

From climate studies to frontline care management, this week Niall and Dusty try to keep up with more developments in science and technology coming from Ireland to battle Covid-19.

This week Niall and Dusty plough through some of the strides being made by scientists, researchers, and general innovators in tackling the Covid-19 pandemic.

This week Niall and Dusty share their strategies for staying productive and entertained while maintaining social distance and your sanity.

On this week's largely pandemic-free show Niall and Dusty look at another big fine for Apple and what it means for Big Tech. We also dismantle the myth of the founder with commentatorJames Stranko.

As Ireland goes into lockdown over Covid-19, niall and Dusty give their tips for working from home

This week Niall and Dusty take a step back from the news to talk about their favourite science fiction films of the past 10 years.

This week Niall talks to Prof Laoise McNamara ahead of Ireland's Edge to talk about new direction in the treatment of bone diseases like osteoperosis. In the studio we ask how much would the average person pay to share their bank balance, and an example of what can go wrong with self-driving cars.

This week Niall and Dusty look at why eir wants to shutter its eircom.net webmail service. In other news Jeff Bezos takes on the climate crisi and NIall meets with UX Design Institute CEo Colman Walsh to talk about why design matters.

This week Niall and Dusty go through the big announcements at this year's Samsung Unpacked. We also sit down with the head of AI engineering at EY, Hesham Shokry, to talk about machine learning life sciences, fintech and more.

You might have noticed something different about the kinds of information you’re getting about this years Six Nations matches. It’s all part of how machine learning is being applied to make sense of the thousands of data points created every moment of a game. Steve Bryen senior technical evangelist with Amazon Web Services and Pierre Visser, technical consultant at Stats Perform, talk us through i...

In honour of this week's Data Protection Day Niall and Dusty go through the top privacy-related stories of the week.

This week we welcome the arrival of Disney+ and Niall meets Arvoia chief data scientist Dr Susie Harding to talk about a project trying to make sense of traffic in rural areas.