Notion, which has its EMEA offices in Dublin, has a loyal following among productivity nerds. Here is a guide to get you acquainted. Read more: Notion: How to get started with the ‘everything app’ https://bit.ly/3TBBLZJ
Screenshots suggest X is planning to let users create 'not suitable for work' communities, while recent data suggest its userbase has dropped significantly since the end of 2022. Read more: X is testing ‘adult content’ communities, screenshots suggest https://bit.ly/4af6QJQ
The company said its palm recognition service has been used in-store more than 8m times. Now, the new app is expected to make queues faster. Read more: Amazon palm recognition app to give people a hand with payments https://bit.ly/3xn5Cxw
The tech giant claims Andrew Aude repeatedly leaked confidential details about upcoming products so he could 'kill' off the ones he took issue with. Read more: Apple sues former staffer for allegedly leaking company secrets https://bit.ly/3ITxeNz
The joint venture aims to create multiple wind farms across Ireland's midlands, which would create hundreds of jobs and generate enough energy to power up to 450,000 homes. Read more: Bord na Móna and SSE to boost Irish wind in €1bn venture https://bit.ly/4cy8Aj0
The space-tech company will use the funding to create a manufacturing, assembly and testing facility in the next five years. Read more: Galway-based Mbryonics bags €17.5m from European accelerator https://bit.ly/3xfL8ac
Adobe is making a fresh push to boost its offerings with generative AI, but the company recently had a share price drop after a weak quarterly forecast. Read more: Adobe unveils new AI services and Microsoft partnership https://bit.ly/3VAKein
McCann has nearly three decades of experience in the telecoms sector and has been Eir's director of mobile networks since 2015. Read more: Eir appoints Fergal McCann as new CTO https://bit.ly/49fHt9E
The controversial start-up’s latest hurdle comes from Portugal’s data regulator, which has raised concerns about data protection. Read more: Sam Altman’s Worldcoin faces more scrutiny over data privacy https://bit.ly/49cJGTc
Neumann is making a $500m bid to take over bankrupt WeWork after his controversial exit in 2019, but there is uncertainty around the billionaire's financing and WeWork's willingness to negotiate. Read more: Can Adam Neumann buy his way back into WeWork? https://bit.ly/3IXqHkI
While the telco saw its revenue and customer base grow, its earnings dropped by 3pc to €591m. Read more: Eir’s revenue and customer growth marred by mounting costs https://bit.ly/3VfGeUD
Fox-Martin has been with Google for nearly three years and will soon take her decades of experience to the helm of Equinix. Read more: Google Ireland loses leader Adaire Fox-Martin to Equinix https://bit.ly/3v8ZHeV
The Quantexa AI-powered data intelligence platform is now immediately available on Microsoft Azure Marketplace. It is targeting financial institutions wishing to combat fraud. Read more: UK unicorn Quantexa makes big deal with Microsoft https://bit.ly/4cePXQX
Bristol Myers Squibb’s Padraig Landers discusses the company’s Cruiserath expansion, his career journey and his advice for anyone seeking a promotion. Read more: Setting up for success: The role of a pharma manufacturing lead https://bit.ly/3Tve5Yj
Micro-cred courses in key areas such as tech and engineering will carry an 80pc subsidy rate. Others will carry a 50pc subsidy rate. Read more: Government to subsidise fees for more than 13,000 micro-cred learners https://bit.ly/3wYwEuV
The investment comes from Enterprise Ireland and IDA Ireland and will be used to expand the centre’s research and innovation agenda. Read more: Learnovate secures €9.6m funding to reduce skills gaps https://bit.ly/3Th5pmO
Vodafone Ireland plans to hire 70 people by the end of 2024, with roles in its digital operations, digital sales, customer success, product management and network teams. Read more: Vodafone Ireland to create 120 jobs as part of €35m investment https://bit.ly/4a9CQ1D
In life and on fridge magnets, patience is often touted as a virtue, but in the workplace, it is a skill. Here’s why and some tips to improve. Read more: Patience is a professional skill – here’s how to improve it https://bit.ly/43gd1e6
80pc of young men believe they have the digital skills necessary to succeed in the workplace compared to 59pc of young women. Read more: Accenture highlights digital skills ‘confidence gap’ between genders https://bit.ly/3TsWXT1
Keohane will lead the professional association for science teachers in Ireland and said he has seen 'first-hand' the work it does to boost science education. Read more: Thermo Fisher’s Ken Keohane appointed as ISTA president https://bit.ly/3IuCwPp
Palantir said the Titan project aims to create ground stations that can access space, high altitude, aerial and terrestrial data to give soldiers a full view of their surroundings. Read more: Palantir contracted to build US army’s ‘first AI-defined vehicle’ https://bit.ly/48O9moP
Nvidia has joined the list of companies facing lawsuits over claims that copyrighted material is being used to train their AI models. Read more: Nvidia sued for allegedly using copyrighted books to train AI https://bit.ly/3PhWd0p
Founded in middle of the pandemic by Conor McGarry, the Kildare-based proptech start-up wants to establish a ‘new, fairer industry standard’ for renters in Ireland. Read more: RentDodo: Making renting in Ireland as simple as online shopping https://bit.ly/43dB65p
There will (soon) be an app for that ... Lecturer and author Dr Katriona O'Sullivan is co-lead on a team making an app aimed at supporting women in research. Read more: Irish academics are making an app to support women researchers https://bit.ly/3V7XgUo
Funding into women-founded start-ups fell to €93m last year, down from a record €234m in 2022 and the lowest figure since 2019. Read more: Women-founded start-up funding plummets in Ireland https://bit.ly/3v4nGMi
Inflection claims its latest large language model competes with OpenAI's GPT-4 'on all benchmarks' and that it has led to various improvements for its Pi chatbot. Read more: Life of Pi: Inflection reveals new LLM to challenge OpenAI https://bit.ly/3v2puFs
Regtech AssuranceLab is on the lookout for workers to join its growing team in Ireland, the company’s EMEA VP Patrick Hegarty told SiliconRepublic.com. Read more: Australian AssuranceLab is hiring Irish cybersecurity talent https://bit.ly/3wCzqWD
Deloitte’s Shanmathy Palanisamy tells us what she likes most about working in cloud engineering and the steep learning curve that comes with a role in this area. Read more: Why a creative mindset is valued in cloud engineering https://bit.ly/3V3uqEM
Linwei Ding secretly worked for companies based in China – and founded one of his own – while handling sensitive information at Google, court documents show. Read more: Former Google engineer charged with stealing AI trade secrets https://bit.ly/3wKdnNQ
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney has previously accused Apple of ‘malicious compliance’ with the DMA after calling it out for anti-competitive measures. Read more: Tim v Tim: Apple cancels Epic account, thwarting its iOS app store plans https://bit.ly/4a2p1C5
The second episode of The Leaders’ Room features HPE’s managing director of Ireland, Ray McGann. The series has been created in partnership with IDA Ireland. Read more: Episode two of The Leaders’ Room drops with HPE’s Ray McGann https://bit.ly/4c7WBs8
Nostra has bought its fifth company in the space of just over a year with its deal with Cork audiovisual specialist Spectrum AV. Read more: Prolific purchaser Nostra springs into acquisition mode again in 2024 https://bit.ly/3TsCQEB
Centripetal’s David Silke tells Vish Gain how challenges faced by cybersecurity companies in Galway are offset by the strength – and variety – of its tech ecosystem. Read more: Why setting up in Galway is setting up for success in cybersecurity https://bit.ly/3V4zmco
As companies race to bring AI technology into their businesses, some experts discuss issues around integrating it properly and getting employees on board. Read more: Generative AI is surging in telco, but can it be trusted? https://bit.ly/3IqeaWJ
OpenAI claims Musk supported a for-profit model in 2017, tried to take full control of the company and suggested attaching the business to Tesla 'as its cash cow'. Read more: OpenAI claims Elon Musk tried to merge it with Tesla https://bit.ly/3v59J0s
How Gillian O'Sullivan went from introverted Java developer happy to take a backseat at work to country lead for BearingPoint Ireland. Read more: ‘Don’t stand in your own way’ and other career tips for introverts https://bit.ly/4ceeTrY
This comes a day after four astronauts began their journey to the International Space Station aboard the Falcon 9 as part of the NASA Crew-8 mission yesterday. Read more: SpaceX launches another 23 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 https://bit.ly/436BL8n
A massive survey of 86 stars in the galaxy has revealed a wealth of data and unique insights on the formation of planets. Read more: Stunning new images shed light on how planets form https://bit.ly/435JsMn
The Dublin-headquartered company said its CogniSAT-6 mission will provide real-time data to support various activities, such as monitoring crop health or tracking illegal fishing. Read more: Ubotica launches new satellite to create ‘live Earth intelligence’ https://bit.ly/3uWIBRi
The news industry has undergone massive upheaval with the evolution of the digital world. Jenny Darmody spoke with Poynter’s Alex Mahadevan about what this upheaval means for the future of journalism. Read more: How will technology shape the future of media and journalism? https://bit.ly/3T0VCRS
BearingPoint is hiring cloud solution architects, senior solution architects, data and analytics managers and DevOps container engineers. Read more: BearingPoint to create 50 tech jobs and appoint four Irish directors https://bit.ly/3uVVJGp
Jonathan Boakes, MD of Infinum UK, says governments and educators need to work together to ensure workers have sufficient green and technical skills. Read more: IoT could help achieve sustainability targets, but workforce lacks skills https://bit.ly/4350Alq
The research centre has released a dataset and an AI chat model tailored to the financial services sector and claims the model has gained 'huge traction' in the developer community. Read more: CeADAR shares open-source AI tools for financial services https://bit.ly/49Xoe5j
Having potentially saved 250 patients in Ireland from severe complications related to urinary catheterisation, the UL spin-out has its eyes on the UK and US markets. Read more: Class Medical: A safety device to prevent catheterisation injuries https://bit.ly/3TkZezy
The recent IT breakdown at Capital Credit Union serves as a cautionary tale for businesses planning a tech migration, says Target Integration’s CEO Rohit Thakral. Read more: What a credit union IT outage can teach you about tech migration https://bit.ly/48E1fLN
Founder and CEO Bobby Healy said that Manna has already delivered to around 400 homes within the first week of operations the Dublin neighbourhood. Read more: Manna kicks off Dublin trial with a bang, and Boojum https://bit.ly/3P5kWoF
The Rate project will conduct a survey of car purchasing preferences, to help policy makers in reducing transport emissions. Read more: New research aims to predict future car types in Ireland https://bit.ly/3UUrfiF
Microsoft said its latest Copilot offering will help finance teams focus more on strategic work and quickly get insights from data sets. Read more: Microsoft unveils new Copilot AI for finance teams https://bit.ly/42XCQzw
Facebook will also stop paying publishers for news as it continues to invest in products and services that ‘drive user engagement’ on its platform. Read more: Meta to stop showing Facebook News tab in US and Australia https://bit.ly/4bY1Jip