Today Ireland went to the polls to vote in the general election. There is less than an 10 minutes of voting left at time of writing. As could be expected the tech giants have “done their bit”. Twitter has turned on a special emoji for the day: While Twitter users have been using the hashtag #GE16 […]
This video is basically bad news for anyone who hopes for a future for humanity, free of robot domination. We’ve covered Boston Dynamics before. They’re the company developing extraordinary robots that can walk and even run. Google acquired them two years ago. This latest video shows an impressive bipedal robot that simply pushes open the door […]
Online Marketing in Galway (OMiG) has announced the full agenda for the second annual OMiG Digital Summit, on January 21 in the Radisson Blu in Galway. Tickets are available for a few more hours at the Early Bird rate of €45. The price goes up to €55 tomorrow, though there is a 3 for 2 rate […]
“It’s all been good” says Teresa Mannion about her experience going from reporting the news to being the subject of viral online memes over the past two weeks. Teresa is an experienced television reporter, but last week she became an internet star, as her dramatic report from a storm-tossed Salthill Prom in Galway drew international attention. Last night […]
Bank of Ireland’s Innovation Team was out in force at Web Summit last week, promoting their new StartLab incubation programme. We spoke to their Entrepreneur-in-Residence Gene Murphy. [youtube]https://youtu.be/DiJrxQiBAvA[/youtube] StartLab is an intensive six-month boot camp; the first one starts in Galway in January, and applications close on 27 November. Before that, however, there are a number […]
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 […]
We believe in the power of good clever, descriptive domain names here at Technology.ie. That’s why I’m not sure about Google’s latest acquisition. The company recently reorganised under the name Alphabet. While the Google online services brand continues as a division within Alphabet, the new name is apparently designed to reflect the diversity of interests in the […]
Google’s logo has changed. As the company morphs so does its image: And of course every single news outlet on the planet is talking about the change! The company explains the update in a blog post which is accompanied by a video illustrating how Google has evolved since its foundation in 1998. […]
Google has announced that it is to transition into a new holding company named Alphabet, while its slimmed-down search and ads business continues as Google, as a subsidiary of Alphabet under new CEO Sundar Pichai. View image | gettyimages.com Larry Page becomes CEO of Alphabet Inc, with his co-founder Sergey Brin as President. Essentially, the old Google Inc is renamed; […]
YouTube announced earlier today that they’re finally going to fix video view counts. If you watch videos that are being shared widely across social networks up until today the counter always seemed to be stuck. YouTube would default to displaying “301+” on videos which were getting a lot of traffic. Why? Because a lot of […]
