Is Bitcoin dead? Despite huge falls in value, cryptocurrencies are still tipped to be the ‘next Apple’. We find out more about what has been happening and what is coming next with crypto expert Rachel Pether. As host of ‘Salt Talks’ her conversations with the world’s foremost investors, creators and thinkers deliver some surprising insights.

Visit Rachel online at: RachelPether.com

Making news this week is roaming data while you’re on holiday, how Instagram plan to use AI to verify your age and how you can try an electric car for cheap.

We also delve into how the Irish Covid app was developed at speed, and the hurdles overcome by Gary Drennan at Avanade, who was involved in the development and rollout of the app millions of us needed and fast last summer.

For more on Avanade, see their website at avanade.com 

Our special guest is Danese Cooper, a keynote speaker at this year's Code for Ethics event on July 1st. Win your way into this sold-out event at Trinity College by emailing [email protected] with the subject line 'Code for Ethics'. Simple!

As well as chatting with Danese about inner-sourcing, her role in the Irish Covid app and how she became known as the open-source ‘diva’, we mourn the demise of MS IE, hear of Elon Musks' latest exploits and ponder who the next person on the moon will be.

Related links: CodeforEthics.org

Could Googles AI be so advanced it is as human as future computers we see in sci-fi movies? Interesting comments from an Google insider who is blowing the whistle.  

We also hear how companies are using the cloud now and in the future with Robert Byrne fro PwC.

Apple announced so many things at WWDC this week, we look at the biggest and best which made an impression and some surprising things that didn’t!

We also chat with Rozenn Dahyot from the Adapt Centre about digital versions of the towns we live in now.  For more on their work in this area see www.adaptcentre.ie

In the news this week, Sheryl Sandberg resigns after destroying democracy with Facebook, Elon Musk is in trouble after telling employees to get in the house or get up the yard and we ask are virtual kids such a bad idea?

We also focus on Irish data-centres, their huge power requirements and what do to about it with Marc Garner, VP Secure Power Division at Schneider Electric.

Schneider Electric www.se.com/ie

Three shocking stories this week on how authorities and companies use data on you without your knowledge or consent.

For instance, ever give Twitter or a similar company your phone number? You might regret it when you hear who they have shared your data with. Also, the Gardai are trying some new tech which even the Americans are trying to stamp out.

Finally, we enjoy a fascinating chat about how neuro-science makes you notice ads even when you don’t want to. Get the inside track from Future Proof Media MD Sean Higgins

More Info: futureproofmedia.ie

Find out about brilliant simple ways to give old hardware a brand new 2022 lease of life. 
We also hear about two Irish brothers behind one of the world’s most popular OS which replicates Windows/Mac OS and we catch a glimpse of what’s coming for Zoom direct from the advisor to their CIO Magnus Falk

Links Mentioned: 

https://zorin.com/os/

https://zoom.us

Some brilliant innovations announced by Google at I/O this week include a huge improvement to Google Pay, new smartphones and a way to drop the OK Google wake word which you will either love or hate.

Plus a serious look into the future where your photo ID could be replaced with your DNA. We chat with DNAverse about mixing ID with blockchain and the art of medical imaging.

Find out more at: https://dnaverse.io

We chat about how an exodus from Twitter could affect Musk, Apple faces a $36bn fine and a warning that your boss could be monitoring your work laptop. 

Also, in healthcare, there are oceans of data but only puddles of clinical meaning. John Kelly from Intersystems talks through the problem and solution.