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For the last 18 years Tech Radio has featured guests ranging from the brains behind multinational brands to researchers working on emerging technologies to start-up entrepreneurs, to young people with big ideas. This week Niall, Dusty and some friends of the show look back on 1,000 episodes with some friends of the show. Sharing their opinions on travel, money, transport and tech's most influentia...

This week Niall and Dusty complete their 2023 retrospective.

What were the stories that made 2023 such a big year in tech? This week Niall and Dusty count down from 10-6 the big events of the year.

On this week's show Niall and Dusty welcome Threads to Europe, Europe gets agreement on AI and Google says goodbye to its podcast app. In our interview slot director of IBM research, Europe, Ireland and UK Dr Juan Bernabé Moreno on the AI Alliance, a body of 50 companies and researchers intent on making AI understandable to all.

This week Niall and Dusty give their final roundup of gift ideas.

This week Niall and Dusty serve up a feast of Christmas gift ideas.

This week we look at the ongoing mess that is the leadership of OpenAI. We also have tips for anyone in the EU looking to try Microsoft Copilot and Cora Barnes talks about how AI has changed her recruitment company for the better.

This week Peter Davitt from FIT talks about fostering the IT talent pipeline. We also look at the new Pixel 8 Pro, a new approach to wearable devices, and how to gauge whether a Black Friday deal is up to the hype.

This week Niall is joined by noted futurologist, entrepreneur and ethicist Nell Watson to look at the next level of AI and some of its most exciting and challenging innovations.

This week we give the short version of what's going on at Web Summit HQ, streaming services jack up their prices, and more attention-seeking from X. Later Beta Festival director Aisling Murray talks about Beta, a festival of art and technology happening around Dublin from 2-5 November.

This week Niall and Dusty ask why Windows 11 is lagging behind its predecessor, the latest stupid move from X and ‘social loafing’ explained. Also, Dr Esther Murphy from Trinity College Dublin chats about Digi-ID and a co-created digital skills programme designed with and for people with intellectual disabilities.

This week National Space Centre CEO Rory Fitzpatrick talks about the Big Dish, a giant piece of telecoms history rusting in a field in Cork that could have a role is sending messages to space.

This week, the new toys from Google, former FTX boss Sam Bankman-Fried faces the music and Prada gets an unlikely new product line. We also ask UCD’s Dr Taha Yasser if the wisdom of crowds can save us from misinformation on social media?

This week we look at Mark Zuckerberg's latest plans to make the metaverse worth visiting, a record-breaking astronaut makes a belated arrival to Earth and we continue the cosmic theme with a preview of Space Week running from 4-10 October.

Would you pay for X? Elon Musk hopes so. Can deep fake trailers change the way we remember entire films? UCC lecturer and Lero researcher Conor Lenihan evaluates the evidence.

This week we have all the headlines you expect from the iPhone 15 launch plus some you may have missed. Later, Robin Russell from IP Telecom talks about out how AI can help call centres and chatbots more helpful and accurate.

This week we look at the Digital Markets Act as Europe identifies six 'gatekeepers' to keep an eye on. Also in the news, TikTok opens an Irish data centre and Google celebrates 25 years. Later, Patricia Moore and John O'Donoghue of the Irish Space Association talk about Space 4.0 and what it means for domestic companies.

This week Niall and Dusty look at a dozen reasons we should be concerned about AI. We're also joined by Jeffrey Roe of TOG Hackerspace and Ted Burke of RoboSlam to talk about this weekend's Dublin Maker event.

Usually Niall and Dusty fawn over the tech that has become part of our daily lives. This week they flip the script and go through the things they are done with.

This week Rumia Basu from the Science Foundation Ireland research centre VistaMilk shares some of her discoveries on how we are using satellites in orbit to monitor Irish soil.

This week WeWork teeters on the brink, deep fakes get more convincing and Zoom orders its people back to the office.

This week's episode with thanks to MaREI looks at ways to ditch the car in favour of a more sustainable form of transport.

This week Twitter undergoes a dramatic rebrand, Apple threatens to pull its messaging services from the UK and Samsung unpacks the Galaxy Z Flip 5 and Fold 5 in record time.

In this episode courtesy of Adapt Radio, Prof Vincent Wade, who works with Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence at Trinity College Dublin and Prof John Kelleher, Professor of Computer Science at Maynooth University go through the state of the art in AI with Claire O'Connell.

It's Bastille Day, so Dusty and Niall take a look at how the police are using technology to keep order on the streets of France and how Dr Ankit Verma from Insight is using Ireland as a test bed for cosmic research.