We look back on the seven biggest stories of the week including the eclipse, Web Summit's surprising new CEO and can AI teach you Irish?

Plus, with lots in the news of city planning with housing and tram lines (particularly in Dublin), we ask if AI is going to dictate how and where we live with Dr Federico Cugurullo from Trinity College Dublin’s School of Natural Sciences.

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We look back on the seven biggest stories of the week including AI being used in Gaza, a new digital driving licence for Ireland plus how private is incognito mode on your Google browser.

Also, our guest interview gets into the challenges facing the new 6G phone network with Professor Marco Ruffini from the Connect Centre.

For the weekend that’s in it, we’re looking at some of the best tech Easter Eggs and April Fools pranks over the years.  We also have the latest news including China Tech vs the rest of the world, new AI guidelines and martyrs at Facebook. Join Dusty with guest reviewer, journalist Jason Walsh, for the best of this weeks tech.

This week we have a super-star guest interview with Jack McCauley, the co-founder of the Oculus VR Headset. We talk about his role in getting the company off the ground and where it could be going next.

Also, the latest stories this week include a mad scientist putting chips in people’s brains, why Apple are not making many friends and the Oscars of the Irish IT Industry. 

For an alternative Bank Holiday treat, Niall sits down to talk sci-fi and horror movies with expert and fan Ygraine Bright. They serve up some sublime suggestions outside of your standard AI/Hal900/StarWars fare. 

Pop out the popcorn and pop up the volume, as we suggest ten brilliant movies you are going to scramble to watch!

Remember, if you would like to hear more from Ygraine, check out her own podcast. Just search your podcast app for ‘What A Scream’.

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/whatascreampodcast

This week, Apple and Google have been falling over themselves making changes to avoid EU fines … but Apple may be too late! We’re also talking about International Womens Day and women in tech. Plus, our guest will be talking about passport queues and the pros and cons of using AI to make them move faster!

We explore the shattered dreams of the Apple Car project, share breaking news on cybersecurity breaches at the Department of Foreign Affairs, and dig into a new survey of how 50% of Irish businesses are using AI.

We also cover the fallout of the Odysseus moon landing, why we’re surprised at TikTok pulling Universal music from its platform and even get a glimpse of some Star Trek type tech from MWC. 

Afterwards, we chat about e-sports and how similar they are to real sports with Prof Mark Campbell, a senior lecturer and Director of the Esport Science Research Lab in Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Centre for Software Research at the University of Limerick. 

We’re talking about OpenAI's groundbreaking text-to-video image generator which may not be as great as they say. In fact, AI has been doing some very strange things lately, with some people calling for a ‘kill switch’ to be baked in. 

We chat about that, plus a look at what’s just landed on the moon and TikToks restructuring in Ireland.

Our guest this week is Ann-Marie Clyne from Mastercard who shares the surprising amount of tech they have based in Ireland. She also tells us how they are using the Fasttrack to IT apprenticeship programme to recruit new tech staff here.

For more information about Fasttrack to IT, see fit.ie

This week Bitcoin is going to the moon, Dr Who’s Tardis is going to the moon and even ride-share firm Lyft are going to the moon, albeit by accident!  We give you all the news.

Plus we’re chatting with Gillian Whelan from Emagine about when bank apps go bad!

Find out more at https://www.emagine.org/

This week we’re talking about the Apple Vision Pro, some crazy AI stories with the American election and an incredible deep fake scam that netted a quarter of a billion!!

Plus our guest, distinguished engineer with Fujitsu Caragh O’Carroll will be filling us in on tech that just can’t seem to get going!