VR firm lands major contract with British wind consortium
Dublin-based Vrai has raised €1.2 million to provide virtual reality training to staff who operate highly complex machinery
Facebook’s Clegg lobbied Varadkar over data rules
The former politician contacted the Tánaiste in September, days after Facebook launched a legal case against the Data Protection Commissioner
‘We’re not going home until Big Tech’s factory floor is clean’
Last week, 200 workers in Google’s parent company announced the establishment of the Alphabet Workers Union, after years of informal protests at the tech giant. It’s part of a global trend towards unionisation
Former Irish Times editor and son raise €600k for AI project
Conor Brady and his son Neil founded CaliberAI to find hate speech and potentially defamatory content in publications or websites
Many tech firms not planning to increase staff salaries in 2021
Despite a tough year for many companies, competition for staff is likely to remain strong as e-commerce booms
IDA hits back at Cloudflare founder’s anti-Ireland tweets
Matthew Prince said multinationals would not base themselves here due to ‘unwelcoming’ people and terrible food and weather
Escaping the social media vortex
It’s an addictive, gamified process, with a reward system that has been proven to chemically alter our brains and bring out the gambler in us, so how can we learn to live better with – or even without – social media?
