We look back on the stories and trends which made the biggest impression on us and wonder what lies ahead in 2022.

There is a little controversy between Niall and Dusty over the tech titan just named as Time magazines Person of the Year!

We also find out more about Red Hat’s Irish operation and how their open source ethos goes way beyond software.

We look at Irelands biggest Google searches for 2021, how quantum computing tracked Storm Barra, what lesson the AWS outage taught us and chat with Sam Mayne from Vipre about Working From Home and the effect its had on their company.

Resources Mentioned

EU Met Sat Tracker – view.eumetsat.int

This is our favourite show of the year. The ‘real’ toy show where we go through the best tech toys for Christmas.

28 minutes packed with something for everyone from €10 to €10,000. Get tucked in right now!

Are the Black Friday deals a scam? You’ll be surprised at what we have uncovered with scams and real deals.

We also get an overview of quantum computing from one of the best, Venkatesh Kannan at the Irish Centre for High-End Computing.

The Top 200 Worst Passwords in Ireland list is out. You probably know #1 and have used #86 but would never admit it!  We also chat with Karl Heery at Aon and discover how a tech project from here in Ireland went global.

Just how bad is the world of communication overload that we live in? How many friends or contacts can your brain officially have? We have the answers!

We also chat with Winston Heery at Logicalis about resilience in cyber-security and how you can use lessons learned this year to protect yourself in 2022.

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We chat briefly about the Facebook name change to Meta, find out exactly what a metaverse is and discover Microsoft are looking to create one also.

We also have a fascinating chat with Redmond O’Leary from Intersystems about mass data and changes in the Irish tech industry over the last few years.

Find out more about Redmond and Intersystems at intersystems.com

Forget Zoom – Star Trek-like holograms have arrived! We also chat about super secure VPN and how to protect your Office 365 and cloud storage accounts with Gareth Lockwood from CyberHive.com

Niall and Dusty have given Apple’s newly announced MacBook Pro their highest rating ever. Get the lowdown on why this machine impressed them so much.

Also, after a record year for cyber-attacks, Niall Kitson chats with Pat O’Callaghan, Managing Director of Kontex, and went through some of the more high-profile incidents of the past 12 months.