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This week Niall and Dusty go through the big announcements of this year's WWDC. Will the new iMac and iMac Pro rejuvinate Cupertino's desktop market share? Is iOS a worthy upgrade? Should you bother with macOS High Sierra? The 'experts' give their opinions.

One of the benefits of digital advertising the is ability to reach millions of people but how do you know the responses you're getting are genuine? Chrysal.is founder Jamie McCormick took time to discuss the threat posed by bots, unscrupulous affiliates and more.

Will your job still be done by a human in 20, 10 or even five year's time? Prof Barry O'Sullivan from the Insight Centre for Data Analytics takes a look. Back in the studio Niall and Dusty give their first impressions of the new Surface Pro.

How will tech change our shopping experience in years to come? Retail futurist Howard Saunders has some amazing insights. We also find out the real meaning behind this week's Google I/O.

This week Niall goes to the Science Gallery for the first ConverCon and meets with organiser Paul Sweeney to talk about machines that talk back. Back in the studio we round up the headlines of the week, including the demise of the humble pager.

This week Niall meets Nikki Lannen, CEO of Dublin-based game studio Warducks. Back in the studio Dusty recaps the headlines for the week.

This week we talk with Mark Sage from the Augmented Reality for Enterprise Alliance (AREA) about mixed reality on the factory floor and beyond. We also have the latest on Now TV’s Irish launch and ask why students are shunning STEM subjects at Leaving Cert level.

This week we have two interviews to spoil you with: First we look at how the Internet of Things is changing the ad world with Aoife Hudson from Kenetic. Then we talk to Peter Madsen from the Vroom conference on how to get your start-up into a room of millionaires.

This week we have talk drones with Skytango co-founder Steven Flynn. Plus, a stunning admission from Apple about the Mac Pro and US Internet service providers delcare open season on their customers' browser histories.

On this week’s show we pick apart Samsung’s latest flagship smartphones, the Galaxy S8 and S8+. We also sit down with Dr Prince Anandarajah from DCU’s Optical Communications Group for an introduction on how to use light to build better networks.

This week we get some helpful tips for keeping yourself safe online from Vodafone Ireland Foundation manager Natalie Hodgess. In other news from around the Web, Niall and Dusty talk aircraft device bans, and why Google and YouTube need to cop on.

This week we meet with game developer and Imirt board member Jen Carey to discuss the role of community and puns in gaming. In other news, it's been a busy week in infosec with Russian and Turkish hackers accused of breaching Yahoo and Twitter respectively; and Microsoft calls time on Windows Vista.

This week Niall meets with Social Media Summit keynote speaker: 'Queen of Facebook' Mari Smith. In other news, Dusty chimes in on what's been a good week for Nintendo and a bad one for the CIA.

On this week's show IBM Research VP and chief science officer for Cognitive Computing Dr Guruduth Banavar explains ethics in AI. Back home we look at the unlikely highlights of this year's Mobile World Congress and explain the current 'scandal' of EU roaming charges.

This week we finish our coverage of the first Dublin Tech Summit with a look at therapeutic uses for virtual environments with Jaccquelin Morie, pionering researcher and founder/chief scientist of All These Worlds. Back in the studio we have a new report on what Irish businesses have to say about the impact of all things digital on their bottom lines.

This week Niall reports from the Dublin Tech Summit, which took place at the Convention Centre on 15-16 February. Has Dublin reached 'peak tech'? What do Big Data and AI have to offer the fashion world? How does an established magazine survive digital transformation? How can apps change the way we look at recruitment? We get answers from event CEO Noelle O'Reilly; Fashion One Group CEO Iva Mirbach...

Eat. Sleep, STEM. Repeat. is a new documentary about the all-girl Outbox accelerator. Niall Kitson met with Outbox co-founder Mary Carty to talk about the film and girls in tech. In other news, we look at HP Inc's closure in Leixlip, a front in the war on online piracy, Twitter trying to clean up its act, and a whole lot more.

This week Niall meets Accenture Digital managing director Paul Pierotti to talk about how analytics and machine learning are bringing a new slant to this year's 6 Nations Championship. Back in the studio we cover Donald Trump's migrant ban and how it could be good news for tech companies in Ireland.

On a packed show this week we look at why George Orwell's classic dystopian novel 1984 is racing up the bestseller list again; Microsoft scores a significant win in the US courts over e-mail stored in Dublin; and a study has found some nasty business lurking underneath the hood of your favourite VPN app.

This week Niall meets Slack director of customer experience Ali Rayl at the opening of the company's new Dublin office. Back in the studio we discuss freedom for Chelsea Manning, why the EU is going Asimov on robot personhood, and a first impression of Nintendo's Switch console.

This week the 53rd BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition is taking place at the RDS in Dublin, so Niall Kitson went along seek out the best tech projects. Find out whether coffee grounds are a better fuel source than wood chips, why the house always wins at roulette, and how a device for diagnosing on-pitch head injuries could change sports medicine forever.

This week we pick some highlights form the floor of CES 2017 in Las Vegas. Also, Niall takes a trip to UCD for a sit down with Digital Chair of Computer Science and Director of the Insight Centre for Data Analytics Barry Smith.

Niall and Dusty bid farewell to 2016 with two young entrepreneurs using the Web and apps to change the world. Hear from Iseult Ward how FoodCloud is feeding the poor in Ireland and from Mark Kirwan how you can buy a car from the comfort of your couch and have it delivered to your house with Trawlur.ie.

This week Dusty gets sold on a new career in tech after talking with Gavin Fogarty from recruitment website Mustard.ie. We also look at Ireland's top trends on Google and YouTube in 2016.

While new Android Pay lets you buy things in shops, Circle Pay does the same thing but with your mates. Find out about the tech behind it with Circle's managing director for Europe, Marieke Flament.