This week Dusty and Niall kick back and go through the news of the week.

On this week's show we meet Enable director Siobhan Clarke to find out how research on networks, software and analytics are being used to make cities smarter

This weekend the Mansion House hosts Immersive Stories, a conference and exhibition looking at virtual reality. Event curator Eoghan Cunneen sat down with TechCentral.ie editor Niall Kitson to talk about his virtual journey from Dublin to Pandora and back again.

From May this year the relationship between businesses, the public sector and the data we produce for them changes forever with the introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This week Niall Kitson meets Laura Fannin, a partner with Hayes Solicitors, to talk about the legal, commercial and political implications.

This week Dusty and Niall talk Falcon Heavy and Brendan Woods talks about Autoentry - an app that uses AI to keep your accounts in order.

This week we meet with Rapid7 Internet of Things research lead Derryl Heiland to dicsuss the downside of nannycams, fitness trackers and more.

This week Niall Kitson visit IMMA to meet Julie Martin, former periodical editor of Experiments in Art and Technology (EAT).

Want a career in IT? This week Stephen Daly from Eolas Recruitment talks about the how the tech sector avoided the crash and what skills to focus on for the future.

Using robots as teaching aides for autistic children, managing the energy lost to bitcoin mining, a sensor to detect concussion in hurlers, and a treatment for teethgrinding - it can only be the BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition.

On this week's show Niall and Dusty bid farewell to 2017 by looking at a selection of big stories from the year that was.