Facebook owner Meta is to make approximately 490 full-time employees redundant across its Irish operations. The roles are being cut from a number of teams including finance, sales, marketing, analytics, operations and engineering. Employees at Meta Ireland were notified on Wednesday they were potentially impacted by a global restructuring which was announced by CEO Mark […]
Microsoft’s 68.7 billion dollar (£55 billion) takeover of gaming firm Activision Blizzard has been blocked by the UK competition watchdog, in a potentially fatal blow to one of the technology industry’s biggest ever deals. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said it has prevented the mammoth buyout over concerns in the cloud gaming sector. Xbox […]
Bob Lee, a technology executive who created Cash App and was currently chief product officer of MobileCoin, was fatally stabbed in San Francisco early on Tuesday, police have said. The San Francisco Police Department said in a press release that officers responded to a report of a stabbing on Main Street at 2.35am and found […]
Gordon Moore, the co-founder of Intel who set the breakneck pace of progress in the digital age with a simple 1965 prediction of how quickly engineers would boost the capacity of computer chips, has died aged 94. Mr Moore died on Friday at his home in Hawaii, according to Intel and the Gordon and Betty […]
Google has begun rolling out its rival to ChatGPT. The tech giant said it is giving some over 18s in the UK and US access to its Bard chatbot from Tuesday. The company hopes the artificial intelligence tool will be available in more countries and different languages over time. Unlike its rival, which was developed […]
Google scientists believe they are now a step closer to building a fully functioning quantum computer after making progress towards correcting the errors that affect the system. Researchers at Google Quantum AI said they have found a way to lower error rates as the size of the system increases, which they describe as being at […]
After a turbulent year in 2022, the global tech sector will be hoping for calmer times in 2023 – but that might be wishful thinking. Elon Musk’s controversial ownership of Twitter remains unpredictable and uncertain, with a new chief executive supposedly to be parachuted in; the Online Safety Bill is still to complete its passage […]
The collapse of cryptocurrency platform FTX has revealed the need for tighter regulations for crypto before it gets too big, warned the deputy governor of the Bank of England. Sir Jon Cunliffe said that a regulatory framework is needed for a stable crypto system. However, he added that FTX’s demise has not weakened appetite at […]
The sex lives of constipated scorpions, cute ducklings with an innate sense of physics, and a life-size rubber moose may not appear to have much in common, but they all inspired the winners of this year’s Ig Nobels, the prize for comical scientific achievement. Held less than a month before the actual Nobel prizes are […]
Liam Neeson, Ciarán Hinds and Colm Meaney star in upcoming Netflix film “In the Land of Saints and Sinners”. The film is currently shooting in Donegal and Netflix has released a couple of “first look” images: Liam Neeson in The Land of Saints and Sinners, Image courtesy of Netflix Ciarán Hinds and Liam Neeson in […]
