On this week’s show, social network X loses a popularity contest, Apple is on the hook for billions from an unexpected source and Ireland still can’t get its head around passwords.

Later, CEO of The Futures Agency and futurist Gerd Leonhard talks about the challenges to teaching science, technology, engineering and maths when factual solutions (and hallucinations) are a few prompts away.

President-elect Trump has his own NFTs, his own social network and is deep into crypto. Is this all good for the tech sector as he prepares a return to the White House?

We discuss this and chat with former chief technology innovation officer with Accenture Paul Daugherty about how organisations can get a handle on AI.

This week, dive into a whirlwind of tech with Apple’s latest M4-powered Mac mini, MacBook Pro, and iMac. We question if smaller, faster, AI-boosted devices are really game-changers or just Apple’s spin? 

Also, brace yourself for Russia’s wild $110 trillion 'fine' for YouTube, AI’s impact on the music industry -artists from Black Pink to Kendrick Lamar plus legendary interviewer Michael Parkinson makes an uncanny return.

Finally, Niall Kitson sits down with guest Kevin Reid, CTO of SureSkills, to unpack deeper layers of cybersecurity from ensuring power continuity during outages to managing data backups and staying compliant with evolving European regulations.

This week Niall and Dusty look at the refurbed tech market, which is bigger than you think. Plus we have more AI agents to scare you with and artists say no to using their work as training data.

Also, in a brilliant preview of Beta Festival, our guests Susanne Treister and Patricia Dominguez share their experiences at CERN, and some thoughts on ChatGPT and the future of art.

This week, Apple drops an unexpected new iPad plus we have the new Kindle and Android OS. In other big stories, Big Tech plans to power AI with their own nuclear reactors, Spotify has a problem with fake albums, and we learn about the murky world of Dark Data with Phil Wilkinson of Iotics.

This week we find out just how far behind Ireland is in electric vehicle adoption, Google gets slammed for being like Apple, and a new wave of AI assistants is upon us. Also, Fidelity Investments’ Aaron Smith talks about an innovative approach to start-ups being worked on in association with Dogpatch Labs.

This week we ask if Irish people are online too much, bad news for EV drivers and Microsoft pushes out an essential Windows update while killing off the HoloLens 2.

Later, smart DCU project facilitator at Dublin City University Kieran Mahon spoke to Niall Kitson about how a virtual campus that can serve as a test bed for ways to make cities easier to manage.

On this week's show we look at price increases for YouTube and you’ll never guess who has just joined the Space Race.

We also hear from technology consulting partner at PwC Barry Whelan on what companies have and haven't learned about staying lean in the post-pandemic era.

It's a truly packed show on this week's podcast in association with Bord na Mona's Accelerate Green programme. First, we have good news for Apple with a slate of new devices. However, Cupertino is also on the losing side of a decision from the Court of Justice of the EU, meaning it has to pay €13 billion in back taxes to the State. It's a seismic decision, but will it mean anything to the Tech sector at large?

This week we look at how the practice or surge pricing goes all the way back to the 1950s, Trump tries crypto (maybe) and eBay's Siobhan Curtin talk about her career from customer service to site lead.