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This week Niall and Dusty say goodbye to Windows 7 and we have a preview of the Dublin Smartphone Film Festival with its director, Robert Fitzhugh.

This week Niall Kitson gives us a whistlestop tour of the hundreds of projects on show at this year's BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition at the RDS in Dublin.

This week Niall discusses 5G with Vodafone's Debbie Power and the future of work with the man who gave us the term 'Industry 4.0', Henrik von Scheel.

This week Niall and Dusty take a look back at the year that was 2019 and the stories they think will define the coming year.

This week we meet Derick Mitchell, CEO of the Irish Platform for Patient Organisations, Science & Industry to talk about how data can be used to personalise our experience of the healthcare system. We also look through the stories that made caught the imagination in 2019 via the medium of Google search.

On this week's show Niall Kitson visits the National Analytics Conference to find out how data is powering the next steps of space exploration.

On this week's show Niall and Dusty have 10 Christmas gifts under €50 or for the techie in your life. Or at least they try to.

This week Niall talks to Brian Trench, DCU lecturer and president of the public communication of science & technology network about the short history of sci com in Ireland. In other news, the government finally seals the deal on the National Broadband Plan and Apple releases a new MacBook that it's sure no normal person will buy.

This week we hear how advances in natural language processing, cloud computing and artificial intelligence mean are driving innovation in analytics with Edward McDonnell, director of CeADAR, the centre for applied research into analytics and artificial intelligence.

How are smart speakers handling regional accents and languages to become more mainstream? Niall chats with Smartling co-founder Jack Welde at their Dublin office to discover how they are making content on the Web easier to access by mixing automation with human editors.

If you know open source software then you know all about GitHub. This week Niall Kitson talks to vice president of engineering Dana Lawson to talk about her personal journey in tech and what it means to manage a globally distributed workforce.

Is it possible to work faster smarter and happier? Wendy Van Tol from PwC so it certainly is. Hear all on the show. We also look at the continuing fall of Facebook with this weeks latest developments.

This week Niall and Dusty ask if this is the end for Facebook's Libra stablecoin and look at what's missing from Google's latest Pixel releases. Niall also takes a trip to the Learnovate conference to talk with Adaptas Training CEO Dr Celine Mullins about the psychology of learning.

This week Niall Kitson meets award-winning architect Dr Yvonne Farrell to discuss sustainability at street level. Back in the studio, conversation turns to Facebook's embattled digital currency Libra and why Twitter users could be in for a deluge of spam.

As Microsoft reveals its slate of products for the final quarter of 2019 Niall and Dusty ask which tech giants are likely to finish the year on a high.

This week we look at the fallout from Huawei's Mate 30 launch, and we talk with KeepAppy co-founder Aime-Louise Carton about how to track your wellness from the palm of your hand.

This week we have an extended interview with Park Place Technologies managing director Sean Sears.

This week Niall and Dusty go through everything Apple announced at its By Innovation Only event.

This week NIall and Dusty give a greatest of the tools and toys that changed them forever.

On this week's show we look back at LulzSec's effect on information security with former member Mustafa Al-Bassam. We also look at the latest twist in the tale of the National Broadband Plan and Swedens first GDPR penalty.

This week Niall meets Digital Hib technologist in residence Rodhan Hickey. We also look at Facebook's latest privacy measure and Apple's plans for a multimedia future.

This week Niall meets ViClarity founder and CEO Ogie Sheehy to talk about his company's compliance offering and the wider tech scene in Tralee.

This week Niall and Dusty give their first impressions of the new Galaxy Note 10 and 10+. In other news, the National Broadband Plan comes under more scrutiny, Facebook tries to tackles fake reviews and HBO ditches algorithms in the search for accurate recommendations.

We’ve had smart speakers for quite some time. How do we feel now the novelty has well and truly worn off? We also check the news this week on the new Windows 10 Start Menu, when the Galaxy Fold will be released and why Facebook’s $5bn fine is actually a bargain for them.

The future of innovation won't be based on solutionism, it will be based on the human qualities of intuition, empathy and communication. That's the belief underpinning Nokia Bell Lab's Experiments in Art & Technology (EAT)programme. In an extended interview TechCentral.ie editor Niall Kitson meets Domhnail Hernon, head of innovation incubation & EAT to discuss the failure of the 'fail fast' ideolo...