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Immersive Stories at the Audi Dublin International Film Festival
This weekend the Mansion House hosts Immersive Stories, a conference and exhibition looking at virtual reality. Event curator Eoghan Cunneen sat down with TechCentral.ie editor Niall Kitson to talk...
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Enable’s Siobhan Clarke on smarter cities
This week Niall meets Enable director Siobhan Clarke to talk about how software, analytics and networks can be combined to make city living easier. To never miss an episode of TechRadio subscribe,...
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Dr Teresa Lynn on social media and machine learning as Gaeilge
What can social media tell us about the state of the Irish language? Is it possible to get machines to keep up with language trends? On this week’s show Niall Kitson sits down with Adapt research...
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Facebook’s Cambridge education with Eoin O’Dell
Facebook has admitted breaching users’ trust by letting political consultants Cambridge Analytica use its data to construct psychological profiles of US voters. So what does this mean for the rest of...
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Zalando’s Adam Bermingham on fashionable data science
E-commerce websites know more about us than ever and that makes them better at making recommendations for what we might like to buy. This week Niall meets Adam Bermingham, delivery lead at fashion...
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HP Ireland MD Gary Tierney on the future of the PC market
This week Niall Kitson sits down with HP Ireland managing director Gary Tierney to look at market trends in the consumer technology space, why the company considers itself a start-up and what big...
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The value of design thinking with Bank of Ireland’s Lesley Tully
In this extended interview originally released last year, Niall Kitson meets Bank of Ireland head of design thinking Lesley Tully to find out how business can benefit from a more creative approach to...
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D-Wave’s Bo Ewald and NASA’s Jordan P. Evans at the Dublin Tech Summit
This week we have two interviews from the floor of this year’s Dublin Tech Summit. First up we meet with quantum computing pioneer and D-Wave president Bo Ewald. Then we talk team building and a new...
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Nell Watson on the past, present and future of AI
We know AI is changing the world of work but how will it change the way we interact with each other? This week author, entrepreneur and lecturer Nell Watson lays out her vision of the future. To never...
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NUIG’s Prof Dympna Casey on robots in dementia care
Mario is a robot being used to help patients with dementia maintain a healthy standard of living while taking pressure off healthcare professionals and family. This week Niall Kitson talks to project...
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The best science fiction novels ever… discuss
Two men, five novels apiece. This week Niall and Dusty bring their favourite novels of all time to the table. Hard sci-fi, cyberpunk, speculative fiction, visions of dystopia – we’ve got them all. To...
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California calling for Eirloop
On 22 July teams from all over the world will descend on Hawthorne California for the third Hyperloop Challenge. This year the theme is speed and teams will try to break the speed record for sending a...
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Things we are done with
From gadgets that failed to meet their potential to hype machines that ran out of juice, there are plenty of examples of tech that has outstayed its welcome. This week Niall and Dusty bring five...
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DCU Alpha’s Mark McCarville on Ireland’s space economy
The space economy is here but if you’re a researcher with an idea or even a company with an existing product how do you get involved in it? This week Mark McCarville, programme manager of DCU Alpha’s...
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How enet became last telco standing for the National Broadband Plan
On this week’s show: the National Broadband Plan lies in tatters, Facebook goes on the defensive (again), and the rest of the week’s headlines. To never miss an episode of TechRadio subscribe, comment...
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Is it possible to defend Google?
The furore over Google’s location tracking practices continues. This week Niall and Dusty look at the argument from both sides and ask whether the EU has the will to stand up for consumers. To never...
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VivoKey’s Dr Patrick Kramer on the cyborgs among us
The Tech Summit took place in Cork earlier this week and on this episode we talk with keynote speaker Dr Patrick Kramer of VivoKey about his three goals: do away with your keys, your wallet, and a...
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Blockchain for beginners with Oracle’s Rajan Krishnan
Blockchain is the technology behind bitcoin but it has plenty of uses beyond cryptocurrency. This week, Oracle’s group VP of product development Rajan Krishnan takes us through the possibilities. To...
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Device addiction with Smart NI’s Naomh McElhatton
We all joke about being ‘addicted’ to our smartphones or tablets or PCs but are we getting to the stage where we can’t actually function without being connected to the Internet 24/7? TechConnect Live...
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Data science: a problem of definition
Academics are desperate to claim data science as their own territory, but is it a fight worth having? Are we looking at the evolution of a new field of science or merely dressing up things we know...
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