How big is a satellite? Well it doesn’t need to be any bigger than a drink can, according to the organisers of a competition for Irish schools, launched today by former NASA astronaut Greg Johnson. Colonel Johnson is President and Executive Director for the Centre for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS), which manages the US National Laboratory […]
Stripe, the online payments company founded by Limerick brothers Patrick and John Collison has announced additional $90 million dollars in Series D funding, doubling its valuation from the last round to $3.5bn (€2.83bn). In January Stripe raised $80m at a $1.75bn valuation. They have also partnered in new payment initiatives Apple Pay and Twitter Buy. […]
UTV Ireland will launch on January 1st 2015 and will be carried on SAORVIEW, Sky, eView and UPC. In common with most companies in 2014 UTV Ireland is also present on social media, including Twitter. Unfortunately they may have made a wee faux pas earlier today: https://twitter.com/UTVIreland/status/539796410217291777 While the tweet may not have been retweeted […]
MIDAS Ireland, the industry led organisation responsible for promoting the microelectronics industry, today announced the launch of their annual engineering competition for third level students aimed at driving innovation and excellence in electronic and microelectronic design and development. The annual competition, organised by MIDAS Ireland is made possible through the support of Analog Devices. Open […]
Mathletes is back, the competition for Irish schools using the online teaching resource Khan Academy. Last year, 3,862 students spent 955,210 minutes on mathematics exercises and videos: here’s a breakdown on participation by county. This year there is a new 2-league format to encourage previous participants while attracting newcomers. Khan Academy builds maths mastery over […]
I’d never heard of Rob Cantor until today, but it’s truly humbling to think that the Internet had to evolve to its current state, in order to bring about the precise conditions for this three and a half minutes of … well I don’t know how to describe it. Just watch. Presenting: Actual Cannibal Shia LaBeouf – […]
More than 2,000 entrepreneurs, industry representatives and researchers from around the country are attending the first national Innovation Showcase in the National Convention Centre Dublin today as part of a Government drive to open up the innovation, research and development infrastructure to business. The event is being streamed live by AerTV. Organised by Enterprise Ireland on behalf of the […]
The Minister for Communications, Alex White, TD, yesterday signed the order designating the new UTV Ireland television service for carriage on SAORVIEW, the national free-to-air digital terrestrial television platform. The decision means that Irish television viewers who rely on the SAORVIEW platform will be able to view the new service when it launches on New […]
You remember Stephanie Roche’s spectacular goal in the Women’s National League, that got her nominated for the FIFA Puskás Goal of the year award? Of course you do! If you voted for Stephanie against the nine other nominees, you’ll now want to do so again, because she’s through to the final round of three, against James Rodriguez […]
Today is World Aids Day, and one way to show solidarity and offer practical support for Aids victims is with a dot HIV domain name. Blacknight is currently offering a discount on dotHIV domain names. Some months ago we did a podcast with Carolin Silbernagl of dot HIV who explained that, since effective treatments have been developed for HIV, Aids has […]
