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This week we finish our coverage of the first Dublin Tech Summit with a look at therapeutic uses for virtual environments with Jaccquelin Morie, pionering researcher and founder/chief scientist of All These Worlds.

Back in the studio we have a new report on what Irish businesses have to say about the impact of all things digital on their bottom lines.

This week Niall reports from the Dublin Tech Summit, which took place at the Convention Centre on 15-16 February.

Has Dublin reached 'peak tech'? What do Big Data and AI have to offer the fashion world? How does an established magazine survive digital transformation? How can apps change the way we look at recruitment?

We get answers from event CEO Noelle O'Reilly; Fashion One Group CEO Iva Mirbach; SVP and publisher of The Atlantic Hayley Romer; and Indeed president Chris Hyams.

Eat. Sleep, STEM. Repeat. is a new documentary about the all-girl Outbox accelerator. Niall Kitson met with Outbox co-founder Mary Carty to talk about the film and girls in tech.

In other news, we look at HP Inc's closure in Leixlip, a front in the war on online piracy, Twitter trying to clean up its act, and a whole lot more.

This week Niall meets Accenture Digital managing director Paul Pierotti to talk about how analytics and machine learning are bringing a new slant to this year's 6 Nations Championship.

Back in the studio we cover Donald Trump's migrant ban and how it could be good news for tech companies in Ireland.

On a packed show this week we look at why George Orwell's classic dystopian novel 1984 is racing up the bestseller list again; Microsoft scores a significant win in the US courts over e-mail stored in Dublin; and a study has found some nasty business lurking underneath the hood of your favourite VPN app.

This week Niall meets Slack director of customer experience Ali Rayl at the opening of the company's new Dublin office.

Back in the studio we discuss freedom for Chelsea Manning, why the EU is going Asimov on robot personhood, and a first impression of Nintendo's Switch console.

This week the 53rd BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition is taking place at the RDS in Dublin, so Niall Kitson went along seek out the best tech projects.

Find out whether coffee grounds are a better fuel source than wood chips, why the house always wins at roulette, and how a device for diagnosing on-pitch head injuries could change sports medicine forever.

This week we pick some highlights form the floor of CES 2017 in Las Vegas. Also, Niall takes a trip to UCD for a sit down with Digital Chair of Computer Science and Director of the Insight Centre for Data Analytics Barry Smith.

Niall and Dusty bid farewell to 2016 with two young entrepreneurs using the Web and apps to change the world.

Hear from Iseult Ward how FoodCloud is feeding the poor in Ireland and from Mark Kirwan how you can buy a car from the comfort of your couch and have it delivered to your house with Trawlur.ie.

This week Dusty gets sold on a new career in tech after talking with Gavin Fogarty from recruitment website Mustard.ie. We also look at Ireland's top trends on Google and YouTube in 2016.