Comment: ‘Follow the motives’ to learn how AI will change how we live and work In an efficient and equitable economy, technology would be used to eliminate monopoly and oligarchy while enhancing human agency
‘Without what we do, the Irish economy would suffer’Interxion boss Séamus Dunne says growth in cloud services will increase the need for data centres in major urban areas, amid an evolution in how businesses operate
Making It Work: Start-up uses AI to help speech and language therapists reach kidsAs sessions move online, Kids Speech Labs has developed a platform to support therapists and families
Opinion: Social media firms must make users identify themselves when they sign upFacebook and Twitter hide behind a wall of protecting anonymity, they have to follow the lead of companies like Revolut who require a passport from those who want to use its service
Facing down Facebook: DPC takes on the social media behemothClaims and counterclaims flew in the High Court last week about the Data Protection Commission’s recommendation in August that the online giant’s data transfers to the US should be suspended
Twitter to remove misleading vaccine tweets from next weekTech giant follows similar moves by Facebook and YouTube in face of growing public health challenge
Analysis: Facebook ready to fight Apple over privacy restrictionsThe social network’s claim that it is defending small businesses rather than its bottom line by challenging Apple’s transparency tracker is hard to buy
Making It Work: One-stop shop for data privacyDataships relaunched its product after getting feedback in Silicon Valley and has signed up 40 new clients in six months
One in eight of Irish electorate would vote for Trump if they couldMillennials most likely to favour US President, according to poll
Facebook’s Clegg: ‘Another Cambridge Analytica is impossible’The US election in November will not feature a repeat of the massive 2016 data breach, the social media giant’s head of global policy has claimed
1,800 new data centre jobs over the next year, industry report claims Majority of roles expected to be created during construction of facilities as well as in operation of centres
Making It Work: AI data compliance start-up lands €1.3m funding boostAltada uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to help clients to manage due diligence and regulatory compliance
How AI can lead the way in battle against Covid-19Artificial Intelligence can be used to predict which Coronavirus infected patient may develop severe respiratory disease
Remote-work option ‘could persuade GPs to postpone retirement’ The Irish College of GPs has called for the widescale use of telemedicine to allow older doctors to continue to work through the Covid-19 crisis
How the world’s poorest could reap the benefits of AIArtificial intelligence has, to date, mainly been associated with developed economies. But it offers huge potential in emerging markets as well
The life-changing magic of throwing away data The amount of data being generated is at an all-time high, and it all needs to be stored. Or does it?
Irish AI project ‘proves’ Alcatraz brothers survived prison breakMany assumed escapees died in dangerous waters in 1962, but firm claims algorithm identifies photo taken of pair in Brazil in 1975 as authentic
Ex-Irish Times editor and son developing AI for mediaConor Brady and his son Neil have co-founded Caliber, a service which aims to spot defamatory text and save millions in legal fees
Seeing red helps us dig deeper into the mysteries of MarsNasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory will be making unprecedented use of AI as part of the Mars 2020 project, which aims to find out more than ever before about the planet as well as pushing robotics to new limits in space
Children’s Hospital buys potentially illegal face-recognition technologyThe software, purchased from a Chinese company, was acquired at huge cost and may be impossible to use under GDPR law
