While 20% of Brits wash their cash there is more clamour for a digital US$ . In the UK 20% of people have been washing the cash in disinfectant over concerns due to Covid-19 and on average Britain’s have gone without using cash for 44 days as they relied on contact digital paym...

Maynooth University research reveals key vulnerabilities in viral trigger for COVID-19 . High-performance computing research at Maynooth University and the University of California San Diego has provided, for the first time, detailed insight into the weaknesses and strengths of the SARS-Co...

AWS and Formula 1 Announce New Racing Performance Stats for 2020 Season . Amazon Web Services, Inc., an Amazon.com company, and Formula 1 are introducing six new, real-time racing statistics that will roll out through the 2020 season, beginning with the launch of “Car Perfor...

Breakthrough Listen releases list of “Exotica” - one of almost every kind of observable object or phenomenon in the Universe . Breakthrough Listen, the initiative to find signs of intelligent life in the Universe, today released an innovative catalogue of “Exotica” – a diverse list of objects of potential interest to astronome...

New study by N26 reveals 67% of Irish consumers have experienced unexpected banking fees . A new study by digital bank, N26 has uncovered that almost half of Irish consumers (47%) are either irritated or annoyed by their current bank. The research asked Irish consumers whether they had ever ...

GDPR 2 Years On: Keeping up with compliance . GDPR guest post by Marc O’Regan, CTO, Dell Technologies Ireland

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into play just over two years ago – and today, the compliance challenge remains for ma...

Ireland's islanders connect with 10,000 global islanders, Virtual Island Summit, 7-13th September . Island communities in Ireland can connect up with an estimated 10,000 other islanders across the world in the second ever global Virtual Island Summit (VIS) taking place online from 7-13th September th...

Crypto city gets $6 billion funding, is this type of ecosystem a foretaste of what is to come? . The singer and song writer Akon has finally received thumbs up for his 2,000 acre Crypto city in Senegal in Africa. Ako has been given the land by the Senegalese President, which is close to the sea an...

Why all employees need leadership skills as they work from home . By Dr Penny Pullan

Looking back in history, leaders were the ones who directed everyone else. In the past, they were the ones with the ideas. Team members followed their lead, implementing what they h...

How to Lose the Information War Russia, Fake News, and the Future of Conflict, reviewed . By Simon Cocking, review of How to Lose the Information War Russia, Fake News, and the Future of Conflict, by Nina Jankowicz. Available from Bloomsbury here. Published: 07-09-2020, Hardback

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