SpaceX, the commercial Space company founded by Elon Musk has created an account on Flickr and published over 100 pictures under a Creative Commons licence. In so doing they are apparently following NASA’s lead which has traditionally made photographs available in the public domain. Motherboard reports that SpaceX originally used an Attribution-NonCommercial licence but later […]
An Post, the Irish postal service, is celebrating Irish animation with its latest release. The four stamps celebrate four Irish successes: Roy produced by Jam Media, was awarded the coveted 2012 Children’s BAFTA Drama Award. Give Up Yer Aul Sins by Brown Bag Films, received an Oscar nomination in the Short film (Animated) category in […]
You can hear a pin drop in this latest video from TED, as an audience listens to Monica Lewinsky share her unique insight on global public humiliation. For almost 20 years, Monica Lewinsky has suffered the consequences of a mistake she made as a 22-year-old intern. But those consequences were amplified and made much worse, […]
Check out this video from AP showing ‘lifeguard drones’ being tested on the beaches of Algarrobo in Chile. The machines are fitted with a float, camera, microphone and speaker to allow lifeguards to communicate with bathers in difficulty. The system is developed by a local company called Green Solution. As the video shows, it’s not designed to replace a […]
Eclipse 2015 provided some tantalising glimpses through the clouds, but for most people in Ireland it was just a ‘slightly darker’ cloudy morning. Blacknight’s attempt to stream the event online was described as “a washout”: the skies only cleared as the event had passed and the equipment taken down. Similarly at Trinity College, which held a viewing event […]
Those boffins at Blacknight HQ are at it again! When not tweaking servers or flogging domain names they’ve been known to gaze in wonder at the stars and, with a spectacular astronomical event in the form of a partial solar eclipse scheduled for Friday morning, they’ve decided to stream live video of the event at blacknight.solar. […]
I’ve written about Mars One before. In principle it’s a reasonable idea. Sensationalist headlines have focused on the one-way, lifetime commitment required of the participants but, under the right circumstances, it doesn’t seem like an unreasonable sacrifice in order to make history. That’s probably what Dr Joseph Roche was thinking when he signed up. A serious scientist, Joseph was in it for […]
Hailo Ireland, the taxi app, has come up with a nice way to wish their customers a Happy St Patrick’s Day: a Hailo credit if your driver’s called Patrick, Paddy, Patricia, Pádraig or some variation thereof. The offer applies today and tomorrow – St Patrick’s Day – and if you get a suitably named driver, all […]
The Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Alex White TD, has appointed Mr. Jeremy Godfrey as Chairperson of the Commission for Communications Regulation (ComReg). Mr Godfrey has been one of the 3-member commission since 2013 and replaces Mr Kevin O’Brien as chairperson. Mr O’Brien will continue as one of the 3 Commissioners and as Vice-Chairperson of BEREC […]
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