Gene Therapy Cures Blindness
Picture: Ahmed Sinan, CC-BY Gene therapy has been found to restore eyesight in patients with Choroideremia, a previously incurable inherited disease which progresses throughout an individual's life, resulting in blindness. New Scientist reports that
Netflix Announce New Series Based on Marco Polo
Netflix have announced that a new series based on the epic adventures of Marco Polo, a kinetic tale of high politics, masterful manipulation and deadly warfare among clashing empires, will premiere exclusively for its members in
Down with This Sort of Thing: TD Calls for Crackdown on “Open Source Browsers”
Fine Gael TD Patrick O'Donovan has discovered that our way of life is under threat from anonymous internet users and their nasty "open source" browsers. But never fear, gentle citizens, he's on the case. Fine
Video: Lego History Explained
We all know Lego, but do we know its history? Lego's celebrating their 80th birthday this year and released a video explaining their story: [youtube]http://youtu.be/NdDU_BBJW9Y[/youtube] Enjoy!
Changes are coming to the Twitter API
As per the title it seems like there are some pretty big changes coming to how you can use the Twitter API. A post over on the dev blog https://dev.twitter.com/blog/changes-coming-to-twitter-api discusses them in more detail. You
Realex Payments Running Free Application Security Workshop
Realex Payments have announced a free workshop on application security next week in their offices in Dublin. The course is designed to give developers a basic understanding of common vulnerabilities, insights on penetration testing and code
More on the Web Awards
English: Rick O'Shea, as taken in January 2009 during an Irish blogger's get-together in Dublin. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) We posted some details of this year's web awards the other evening, but this was before
