This week, the new toys from Google come with quite amazing AI features … we check out the phones and all the new things they can do. 

We also look at the positive side of Social Media and ask UCD’s Taha Yasseri if wisdom of crowds is a good thing?
 

This week, Facebook has gone all ‘back to the future’ as it tries to make the metaverse happen … again. We also chat about them buying a bank in Dublin! In other news, we welcome back the longest-serving astronaut to Earth, Spotify says it’s ok with AI and X gets into more trouble.

Plus, Space Week Ireland takes place next week from Oct 4 - 10. We find out all about it from Rob O’Sullivan, Space Week National Outreach Coordinator, to find out more.

www.spaceweek.ie

We find out more about Amazons huge new centre in Dublin, say congrats to some young Irish scientists taking over Europe and ask would you pay for X ?  

Also, as deep fakes are getting more common, our guest Conor Lenihan delves into a study from software research centre Lero which asks can deep fakes be strong enough to make us question our own memories? 

We have all the headlines you expect from the iPhone 15 launch plus some you may have missed. We’ll be chatting with Robin Russell from IP Telecom about out how AI could work with call centres or improve those chatbots they have on websites.

We talk to the people at Ireland’s brand new Irish Space Association and discover loads about the Irish in orbit.

Also, we hear why Ireland is central to TikTok’s future, we have a huge tech birthday to acknowledge and AI is going for a Grammy! 

This week, we find out more about Ireland’s best inventors with Jeffrey Roe & Ted Burke from Dublin Maker which is happening this weekend. Plus we’ll discover more about Google newly released AI and some really interesting concerns the UK government have about future tech.

Usually we fawn over tech we love which has become part of our daily lives.  Today, we flip that, and look at tech in our daily lives which drives us mad.  Some of them, most surprising!

This week, we investigate Ireland from outer space. Rumia Basu shares some of her discoveries on how we are using satellites in orbit to monitor Irish soil. Her chat originally appeared on the VistaMilk podcast from the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre.

For the middle of summer, there is lots of tech news to take in!  On the podcast  we wonder are WeWork on the way  out, we share some more brilliant internet deep fakes, and Zoom give us the most ironic story of the week!

We’re talking about the humble bicycle, which might have a key role to play in Ireland’s transport system in the future. But what are the challenges to implementing new transport systems? And what can be done to get more people on their bikes? 

We find out all with Evan Boyle a researcher with MaREI, the Science Foundation Ireland research centre for Energy, Climate and the Marine, who explores what it will take to make people embrace pedal power over petrol.

This story originally appeared on the MaREI podcast which you can find here.

https://www.marei.ie/marei-podcast-a-four-letter-word/