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This week Niall goes to the Science Gallery for the first ConverCon and meets with organiser Paul Sweeney to talk about machines that talk back. Back in the studio we round up the headlines of the week, including the demise of the humble pager.

This week Niall meets Nikki Lannen, CEO of Dublin-based game studio Warducks. Back in the studio Dusty recaps the headlines for the week.

This week we talk with Mark Sage from the Augmented Reality for Enterprise Alliance (AREA) about mixed reality on the factory floor and beyond. We also have the latest on Now TV’s Irish launch and ask why students are shunning STEM subjects at Leaving Cert level.

This week we have two interviews to spoil you with: First we look at how the Internet of Things is changing the ad world with Aoife Hudson from Kenetic. Then we talk to Peter Madsen from the Vroom conference on how to get your start-up into a room of millionaires.

This week we have talk drones with Skytango co-founder Steven Flynn. Plus, a stunning admission from Apple about the Mac Pro and US Internet service providers delcare open season on their customers' browser histories.

On this week’s show we pick apart Samsung’s latest flagship smartphones, the Galaxy S8 and S8+. We also sit down with Dr Prince Anandarajah from DCU’s Optical Communications Group for an introduction on how to use light to build better networks.

This week we get some helpful tips for keeping yourself safe online from Vodafone Ireland Foundation manager Natalie Hodgess.

In other news from around the Web, Niall and Dusty talk aircraft device bans, and why Google and YouTube need to cop on.

This week we meet with game developer and Imirt board member Jen Carey to discuss the role of community and puns in gaming.

In other news, it's been a busy week in infosec with Russian and Turkish hackers accused of breaching Yahoo and Twitter respectively; and Microsoft calls time on Windows Vista.

This week Niall meets with Social Media Summit keynote speaker: 'Queen of Facebook' Mari Smith.

In other news, Dusty chimes in on what's been a good week for Nintendo and a bad one for the CIA.

On this week's show IBM Research VP and chief science officer for Cognitive Computing Dr Guruduth Banavar explains ethics in AI.

Back home we look at the unlikely highlights of this year's Mobile World Congress and explain the current 'scandal' of EU roaming charges.