Here’s the first of many videos we will bring you from Web Summit 2015. We spoke to Sandeep Ramchandani from Radix, the company behind some of the most tech’ and business friendly new Top Level Domains, including .TECH, .PRESS, .HOST, .WEBSITE, .SITE, .ONLINE, .SPACE and .PW. Registries agree that part of their job involves educating a public still unfamiliar with the […]
Archive | November, 2015
007 Gadget Overload
One of the things people enjoy about the James Bond movies are the gadgets. They’re usually supplied by Q (currently played by Ben Whishaw) and have captured audiences’ imagination for more than 50 years. Here are all of the James Bond 007 gadgets in one 16 minutes supercut. Enjoy!
That Night in Dublin at ICANN 54 [Video]
ICANN might be somewhat less glamorous than Web Summit – and certainly smaller – but its work is no less important, and probably more fundamental to the workings of the Internet. Last month, over 2,000 delegates attended ICANN’s first meeting in Ireland, ICANN 54 at the Convention Centre Dublin. Feedback from the event has been hugely positive, […]
42,000 Attend Dublin’s Last Web Summit
We’re at Web Summit – and so, it seems, is everyone else! 42000 #WebSummit attendees. 134 countries. Our most international event. Read the top 20 most represented countries: https://t.co/SSMxRw1kKd — Web Summit (@WebSummit) November 2, 2015 42,000 people will attend the event in the RDS over the next three days, mixing, mingling, speaking, listening and […]
Boole Bicentenary Marked by Google Doodle
Today’s Google Doodle commemorates UCC’s first professor of Mathematics, George Boole, inventor of Boolean logic, “which inevitably enabled revolutionary thinking in not just logic and math, but also engineering and computer science”. For more on Boole and his legacy, check out UCC’s George Boole site. Meanwhile, I’ve gone and filled out the truth table, with a little help from […]