[youtube]https://youtu.be/oK0lkrtYvVs[/youtube] Amazon has announced the launch date of the new Amazon Original series The Grand Tour with Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May. New episodes will be released weekly on Amazon Prime Video, every Friday beginning November 18. However, Irish viewers will be unable to tune in as Amazon Prime Video Streaming is […]
Thirteen years after it began broadcasting, the BBC’s youth oriented TV channel BBC Three stopped broadcasting yesterday. Instead, it is to continue as an online service, offering about 4 hours a week of new content, available on-demand via the BBC iPlayer, and YouTube. It’s a significant milestone in the move away from ‘linear’ TV, meaning programmes streamed sequentially in a ‘channel’ […]
View image | gettyimages.com French DJ and producer David Guetta recently claimed in a BBC interview that music piracy has helped him gain a following for his music, and sell more tickets for his shows. Now a survey by World Intellectual Property Review reveals a 50-50 split among respondents asked if they agree with his views. […]
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The BBC has announced a major project, developed in pioneering partnership with over 25 organisations, which aims to give a million “personal coding devices” free to every child in year 7 across the UK (corresponding to first year of secondary school in Ireland). Still in development, the device has been nicknamed the ‘Micro Bit’, though the name may […]
In 25 years working in radio, there’s one piece of advice I heard early and often: if you see a microphone, you should always assume it is ‘live’. The same should probably go for webcams. The news today that a Russian website has been discovered which aggregates the feeds from over 4500 cameras worldwide has […]
One of the most suprising things we learn in Physics class is that the acceleration due to Earth’s gravity is constant for any mass (9.81 m/s/s). Gallileo demonstrated it in 1589 by dropping objects of different mass from the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Sure, a heavier mass will do more damage, but they all reach the ground at the same time. One explanation […]
The BBC has launched a new computer game featuring The Doctor and a friendly Dalek, and aimed at teaching kids how to code. Unfortunately, it’s only available in the UK, where it can be downloaded from cbeebies.com/cbbc/ from tomorrow. It’s a great idea though, and a welcome continuation of the BBC tradition of promoting computing, dating back to […]
Many of the farmers I know are born engineers: witness the enthusiasm for machinery, both vintage and cutting-edge, at summer agriculture shows around the country. But as this BBC report suggests, the most successful agricultural entrepreneurs are sympathetic to nature as well as technology. Based in Causeway, Co Kerry, and run by former Entrepreneur of the Year Dr Edmond Harty, […]
There are two kinds of people in Ireland: those who grew up with British TV and those who didn’t. For the second group, there will always be references that go right over our heads and for me, until recently, Doctor Who was among them. I missed the reboot of Doctor Who in 2005 because, by then, […]
