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Some of the Irish TikTokers who took part in a Dublin Rape Crisis Centre campaign to raise awareness around sexual consent

How TikTok became the world's favourite new social media app

Do you know who's listening? Photo: Stephen Brashear/Getty Images

Alexa, play Daniel O'Donnell: the rise of the all-hearing Alexa

technology / 20 Mar

Suits you sir: Tony Stark consults his wardrobe

How to build an Iron Man suit

Science and Technology / 02 Mar

"Our attempts to our professional network are most effective when we supplement online activities with face-to-face interactions"

How to use LinkedIn more effectively

Brainstorm / 23 Mar

"A hacker could gain access to your smartphone through your smart salt dispenser because they are connected" Photo: Getty Images

Do you know what your fridge is doing?

technology / 22 Jan

"Contrary to how things were 30 years ago, open source software is today as user-friendly and good-looking as any other proprietary and close-source counterpart"

Is open source culture the answer to our technology woes?

technology / 14 Jan

Sure look, the boot works. Photo: Getty Images

The utter hell of working for a visionary

Work & careers / 25 Nov 19

"Music has the ability to move us and to transform our mood, depending on the individual and the context in which it is listened." Photo: Matt Cardy/Getty Images

Music still sounds better with you

Music / 08 Nov 19

"Communicating and connecting with others through face-to-face discussion is valuable because it is not something that can be edited, paused or replayed."

Has technology killed our ability to talk face-to-face?

VAR says no

How technology like VAR is changing sport

All of the lights: "it seems that people aren't asking whether or not social network use actually makes us any happier - and that is the point of socialising, isn't it?"

Why social media is depressing the rich

Social Media / 17 Oct 19

Facing the cameras: Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg in Dublin in 2019

Can we trust Facebook to behave responsibly with our privacy?

Privacy / 12 Sep 19

Players at the 2019 Fortnite World Cup in New York. Photo: Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images

More than a game: the unstoppable growth of esports

Esports / 11 Sep 19

TV show the Big Bang Theory devoted an episode to Bitcoin in November 2017

Can anyone predict if Bitcoin mania is going to happen again?

Finance / 05 Sep 19

A self-driving car can deliver you in your pyjamas to your desk and then roll onto some other job

Here's one way a blockchain could deliver a smarter city

Cities / 02 Sep 19

"To what extent are influencers signalling the existence and nature of sponsored content in social media posts?"

Social media influencers and the issue of full disclosure

Social Media / 23 Aug 19

'Today's state-of-the-art is simply not powerful and effective enough"

How AI could unlock super-fast broadband speeds

Artificial Intelligence / 22 Aug 19

The robots are coming - and that may not necessarily be a bad thing. Photo: Getty Images

Why AI is an opportunity rather than a danger

Artificial Intelligence / 01 Aug 19

Do you have a reservation? The robot check-in at the Henn-na Hotel in Japan

Are you being served? The rise of robots in the services sector

Business / 25 Jul 19

Can you get 4G on the moon? Apollo 15 commander David R. Scott on the moon in 1971. Photo: NASA

Is your mobile phone powerful enough to get you to the moon?

Moon landing / 18 Jul 19

"New forms of spirituality might appear to be untethered to established religious traditions, but these beliefs never go away, but simply change form"

The surprising ways spirituality informs how we think about work

Work & careers / 11 Jul 19

"The same computer model can not only mimic brain activity observed in humans and some animals, but also replicate change-of-mind and error correction behaviour"

Could machines become self-aware?

Artificial Intelligence / 04 Jul 19

AI research has been mostly focused on imitating human behaviour and playing games like Go

How AI can now do more than just copy what humans do

Artificial Intelligence / 27 Jun 19

"Cyborgs are perhaps the clearest example of how technology can challenge traditional ideas of what it means to be human"

'Where exactly does the human begin and the machine end?'

Science Fiction / 31 May 19

Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg

How can Facebook fix its live-streaming problem? Spend more money

Facebook / 02 Apr 19

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