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| Jun 22, 2026 | UK Mandates Teen Social Media Ban: Tech Giants Push Back | The UK government charts a bold course. A new policy mandates a social media ban for all users under sixteen. Major tech companies immediately resist. They cite profound concerns. This includes privacy risks, surveillance fears, and the pot... |
| Jun 16, 2026 | The UK’s Teen Social Media Ban Is Political Theater, Not Child Safety Policy | UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is not having a particularly good time of being the UK’s leader. Basically everyone thinks he’s doing a terrible job and it seems unlikely that he’ll be in the role much longer. Apparently desperate to turn th... |
| Dec 4, 2025 | Неизвестные БПЛА совершили "гибридную атаку" на самолёт Зеленского | Согласно информации, опубликованной ирландским изданием The Journal, при вылете Владимира Зеленского из Ирландии были зафиксированы четыре неопознанных беспилотника, двигавшихся в направлении его самолета.
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| Apr 8, 2025 | Milk Aisle Consensus: Democrats & Republicans Unite in Push for Non-Dairy Options in Schools | 7 Mins Read A bipartisan bill is calling on Congress to provide non-dairy milk options in the national school meal programme to cater to lactose-intolerant and diet-restricted students.
It’s becoming rarer and rarer to see US Democrats and ... |
| Sep 16, 2024 | Apple Pro Weekly News (09.09 – 15.09.24) | Прошла презентация Apple, но о чём компания не рассказала на ней? Вышли в релиз iOS 18, iPadOS 18, watchOS 11, macOS 15 Sequoia, visionOS 2, tvOS 18, а также новое ПО для AirPods Pro 2 – рассказываем и показываем, что там нового. А также не... |
| Jul 10, 2024 | Will Botswana place visa restrictions on Ireland? | Ireland’s visa restrictions botswana
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It remains to be seen whether Botswana will impose visa restrictions on Irish nationals visiting that country.
The Irish Times says the decision was made due to what the Irish Departmen... |
| May 7, 2024 | A comprehensive list of 2024 tech layoffs | The tech layoff wave is still going strong in 2024. Following significant workforce reductions in 2022 and 2023, this year has already seen 60,000 job cuts across 254 companies, according to independent layoffs tracker Layoffs.fyi. Companie... |
| May 3, 2024 | A comprehensive list of 2024 tech layoffs | The tech layoff wave is still going strong in 2024. Following significant workforce reductions in 2022 and 2023, this year has already seen 60,000 job cuts across 254 companies, according to independent layoffs tracker Layoffs.fyi. Companie... |
| May 1, 2024 | A comprehensive list of 2023 & 2024 tech layoffs | The tech-wide reckoning that began in 2022 and ran throughout into 2023 has continued into this year. And while 2024’s losses are not at that scale, they’re still significant, driven by big names like Pixar, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and T... |
| Apr 15, 2024 | A comprehensive list of 2023 & 2024 tech layoffs | The tech-wide reckoning that began in 2022 and ran throughout into 2023 has continued into this year. And while 2024’s losses are not at that scale, they’re still significant, driven by big names like Pixar, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and T... |
| Feb 21, 2024 | I moved from the US to Ireland. Here are 11 things that surprised me most. | Real Estate I moved from the US to Ireland. Here are 11 things that surprised me most.
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| Dec 11, 2023 | ‘Free Speech Absolutist’ Elon Musk Is Also ‘Libel Tourist, Vexatious SLAPPer’ Elon Musk | We’ve already talked a bit about Elon Musk’s obvious censorial bullshit lawsuit against Media Matters. It’s quite obvious from the lawsuit that his intent is to intimidate critics and suppress speech about hateful content on ExTwitter. So f... |
| Aug 16, 2023 | Tech glitch let people with empty bank accounts withdraw hundreds in cash | Enlarge / Lines longer than this reportedly formed at ATMs across Ireland.
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People were flocking to ATMs in Ireland last night as the machines seemed to be in a giving mood. Thanks to a technical glitch in Bank ... |
| Aug 12, 2023 | Security alert prompts Eiffel Tower evacuation | Image by Piero Di Maria from Pixabay
A security alert Saturday prompted the evacuation of three floors of the Eiffel Tower in central Paris, France’s most emblematic symbol which drew 6.2 million visitors last year.
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| Apr 19, 2023 | A controversial feral-cat-killing competition for children in New Zealand was canceled after charities warned domestic pets could be killed | News A controversial feral-cat-killing competition for children in New Zealand was canceled after charities warned domestic pets could be killed
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| Apr 14, 2023 | French constitutional court to rule on pensions reform | A protestor holding a red flare faces off with CRS riot police during a demonstration on the 12th day of action after the government pushed a pensions reform through parliament without a vote, using the article 49.3 of the constitution, in ... |
| Apr 4, 2023 | Trump due in court to face historic criminal charges | A supporter of former US President Donald Trump holds a sign near Trump Tower in New York on April 3, 2023. – Donald Trump arrived at his New York skyscraper on the eve of his surrender to face unprecedented criminal charges that threaten t... |
| Jan 26, 2023 | Top tech startup news for Thursday, January 26, 2023: Elaborate, Inscribe, Renaissance Fusion, SAP, and ZOLA | Good evening! Below are some of the top tech startup news stories for Thursday, January 26, 2023. Surgeons in Galway have successfully carried out the first robot-guided coronary intervention in Ireland and the UK
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| Jan 3, 2023 | A French Perspective on Elon Musk’s Twitter | A lot has happened since Elon Musk made a sensational entrance in Twitter headquarters by carrying a sink. As soon as Musk took control of Twitter on Oct. 28, he fired a large part of the company’s workforce and launched a $7.99 pay-for-pla... |
| Sep 8, 2022 | Queen Elizabeth was known for her sense of humor — here are 10 of her funniest moments | Entertainment Queen Elizabeth was known for her sense of humor — here are 10 of her funniest moments
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| May 5, 2022 | Ireland's data centres now consume more power than its entire rural population | According to data from Ireland's Central Statistics Office (CSO), datacentres in the country now use more energy than all rural dwellings (12%), and are closing in on urban dwellings (21%).
The National Planning Framework, which the Irish g... |
| Mar 18, 2022 | This Week in European Tech: Getir gets $768 million, Doctolib becomes France's most valuable startup, Intel plans to invest up to €80 billion in the EU, and more
What happened this week in European Tech? | This week, the Tech.eu research team tracked more than 75 tech funding deals worth over €2.2 billion, and over 15 exits, M&A transactions, and rumours, and related news stories across Europe.
As always, we are putting all of them togeth... |
| Mar 14, 2022 | Ireland Watchdog Sued for Years of 'Inaction' Over Complaints Regarding Google's Largest Data Breach Ever | Urian B., Tech Times 14 March 2022, 11:03 pm
The Data Protection Commission of Ireland, working as the government's watchdog, is now being sued for alleged years of inaction over complaints regarding "largest data breach ever."
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| Mar 14, 2022 | Ireland’s privacy watchdog sued for inaction over ‘massive Google data breach’ | Ireland’s evasive response to a major security complaint filed against Google’s adtech the year the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into application is the target of a new lawsuit — which accuses the Data Pro... |
| Feb 6, 2022 | I moved from the US to Ireland. Here are 11 things that surprised me most. | I’ve been blown away by the beauty of the Irish countryside. Alexis McSparren
After growing up in the US, I made the spontaneous decision to move to Dublin, Ireland.
I’ve experienced affordable healthcare, better work-life balance, and a gr... |
| Jan 21, 2022 | The problem with homelessness ‘innovation’ | Wherever people experience homelessness, others are working to address it with innovation.
Recently, I catalogued some of the more notable homeless services innovations from the past two decades. Taken individually, many of these interventi... |
| Jan 6, 2022 | Djokovic being held in quarantine hotel where guests have complained of moldy, maggot-ridden food | Novak Djokovic is currently stuck in Australia.
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Novak Djokovic is being held in a Melbourne quarantine hotel alongside a number of asylum-seekers.
Guests have previously complained of being served moldy food and food teeming... |
| Dec 14, 2021 | Alternative approaches to high-stakes examinations during COVID-19: Lessons from Ireland | Among the many changes wrought by COVID-19, one that has been especially disruptive for millions of students worldwide is the cancellations or modifications of high-stakes examinations. In many countries, examination results determine wheth... |
| Oct 5, 2021 | 216,000 Children Were Sexually Abused in French Catholic Church, Report Finds | PARIS — An estimated 216,000 victims suffered sexual abuse from paedophile priests and other members of the clergy over the last 70 years in France, a number that was described as “devastating”, “shameful” and “horrifying” at the release of... |
| Aug 5, 2021 | Mowi Ireland gets go-ahead for Irish farming license, over NGO objections | Ireland has approved its first new marine salmon farm in 17 years – an 18-cage salmon farm being to be built by Mowi in Bantry Bay, in the country’s south.
The decision, announced at the beginning of July, came more than a decade after Mowi... |
| Aug 1, 2021 | Trapped tourists are being evacuated from holiday beaches by private boats and yachts as Turkey’s wildfires rage | A helicopter responds to the forest fire that broke out in Marmaris district in Mugla, Turkey on July 31, 2021. Mahmut Serdar Alakus/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
Turkey is battling raging wildfires that are destroying homes and forcing p... |
| Jul 1, 2021 | Irish aquaculture ambitions quashed by bureaucracy, financing quagmires | Growth in Ireland’s aquaculture sector has stagnated, and it’s a situation that’s emblematic of much that has malfunctioned in the European Union’s underachieving aquaculture sector, according to some of the country’s top aquaculture expert... |
| Apr 18, 2021 | Belfast Tinderbox: Why Loyalists Are in the Streets This Spring | Editor’s Note: The violence that broke out in Northern Ireland earlier this month raised fears that sectarian conflict would return after decades of uneasy peace. American University’s Carolyn Gallaher and Kimberly Cowell-Meyers explain how... |
| Feb 2, 2021 | Facing Regulations, Amazon and Facebook Make Nice with the New Administration | February 2, 2021 6 min read This story originally appeared on StockNews
Amazon.com (AMZN) and Facebook (FB) are two highly successful technology companies that have experienced incredible growth over the past few years. Their market caps an... |
| Jan 11, 2021 | Mauritius In Crisis As Militarized Police Deployed Against Peaceful Protestors | 7 Jan 2021: Protests in capital city of Mauritius, Port Louis, at a court hearing against Mauritius ... [+] Cabinet Minister ahead of a case that could eventually overturn the outcome of the country's general electionAufait Media Mauritius |
| Dec 14, 2020 | Paddy Power Rolls out Spotlight Sports Tipping Insight Content | Paddy Power is the first sportsbook across the UK and Ireland, to roll-out Spotlight Sports’ pre-match statistical insight tipping content in retail shops. Spotlight Sports’ Pre-match Tipping for over Twenty Sports
Paddy Power, a leading Br... |
| Jun 25, 2020 | Ireland’s Authorities Confiscated $73M Worth of Illicit Crypto Gains in 2019 | As regulators continue to clamp down on criminal activities involving several assets, including cryptocurrencies, Ireland’s Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) has revealed that crypto assets worth €65 million ($72,935,200) were confiscated last y... |
| Jun 20, 2020 | Irish Betting Shops Open and Close Amid Industry Confusion | Bookmakers in Ireland were surprised to understand they were not included in the list of non-essential businesses to re-open during phase two of the government’s Coronavirus national plan. On Monday June 15, around 800 betting shops in the ... |
| May 29, 2020 | How digital transformation will lead to the rebirth of the fax | By Mike Mulvey
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| Dec 2, 2019 | Two of Silicon Valley’s most crucial hubs outside the US are about to get connected | Ireland and Israel are easily two of the most important non-US cities for the tech giants in Silicon Valley. Google, Facebook and Apple all have a significant presence in both countries, and they’re about to be properly connected for the fi... |
| Aug 19, 2019 | INVESTING: Why CEOs Are All About Long-Termism & Cathedral Thinking | 7 Mins Read
Long story short? Business leaders and investors are now pricing in climate change because they’re all out of choices.
Ever since BlackRock’s Chairman and CEO Larry Fink published his iconic letter in 2018 calling for greater en... |
| Oct 24, 2018 | Can You Get a DUI in a Self-Driving Car?
This raises the question of how it will affect DUI laws. | Cars that drive itself — it’s no longer fictitious. General Motors, Waymo, and Tesla are just some companies that already have prototypes of self-driving vehicles. It’s just a matter of time before they’re brought to market. This raises the... |
| Sep 18, 2018 | Palestinians Are Using Bitcoin to Transact Across Borders Amid Conflict | For a small but growing community of users in the Palestinian territories of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, bitcoin has become a lifeline.
Ahmed Ismail, a financial analyst in Gaza, estimated there are at least 20 unofficial "exchan... |
| Aug 24, 2018 | The most Catholic country on the planet isn't so sure about the pope anymore | CORK, Ireland — On September 30, 1979, Pope John Paul II declared: “Young people of Ireland, I love you.”
It was the most memorable quote from an historic, three-day visit during which an estimated 2.7 million people — almost 80 percent of ... |
| May 10, 2018 | Apple pulls the plug on its €850M data center project in Ireland over planning delays | Dark clouds have gathered and broken over Apple’s plans to build a data center in Ireland. Three years ago, Apple announced that it would invest $2 billion into building a pair of new, green data centers in Ireland and Denmark. But today, t... |
| May 8, 2018 | Facebook stops accepting foreign-funded ads about Ireland’s abortion vote | Facebook has announced it has stopped accepting ads paid for by foreign entities that are related to a referendum vote in Ireland later this month, saying it’s acting to try to prevent outsiders from attempting to skew the vote. The referen... |
| Sep 25, 2017 | IdentiGEN’s DNA Analysis Tech Wins €17m Contract to Ensure Provenance of Switzerland’s Meat | In an unassuming business park in Dublin, Ireland is a room packed full of refrigerators and in those refrigerators is the DNA that can tell any Irish pub-goer the exact cow that they are eating for dinner. The business is called IdentiGEN,... |
| Aug 23, 2017 | We Need to Talk About Our Generation's Xanax Problem | The effect of benzodiazepines is quite profound. They work, according to a 2012 New York Magazine article, by "suppress[ing] the output of neurotransmitters that interpret fear." In other words, they eliminate our ability to feel ... |
| Mar 29, 2017 | Iran and Turkey Pose Problems for Trump in Syria | While the worst violence of Syria’s six-year-long war may be over, a credible settlement is still far off. The Trump administration has boosted the U.S. military presence in Syria. While this enhances Washington’s leverage, it will not alon... |
| Dec 2, 2016 | Pharmalot, Pharmalittle: Allergan CEO predicts Trump will be ‘vicious’ on drug pricing | And so, another working week will soon draw to a close. Not a moment too soon, yes? This is, as you know, our treasured signal to daydream about weekend plans. And our agenda is rather modest. We expect to spend hours raking millions of lea... |
| May 9, 2016 | European Parliament Orders MEP To Take Down A Video About His Attempt To Visit The 'Reading Room' For Trade Documents | We’ve written many times about the insane levels of secrecy around various trade agreements, including the TTIP agreement that is being worked on between the EU and the US. Basically, everything gets negotiated behind closed doors — though ... |
| Dec 11, 2015 | Ireland Is Boosting the Price of Alcohol to Fight Binge Drinking | The annual spectacle of St. Patrick's Day does little to help Ireland's reputation as a country which is equal measures Catholicism and debauchery.
But regardless of what the outside world thinks, there is a larger problem looming, and that... |
| Nov 17, 2015 | Corrupt Insiders, Lax Laws, and How High-Tech Passport Security Is Backfiring | Outside the Stade de France in Paris Friday night, amid the chaos of a series of attacks that claimed the lives of 129 people, police found a Syrian passport. The identity on the document was that of 25-year-old Ahmad Almohammad, and it was... |
| Aug 7, 2015 | Irish Businessman Denis O'Brien Sues Parliament, Sends Legal Threat To Satirical Newspaper | Remember Denis O’Brien? He’s apparently an Irish media bigwig that we’d never heard of until earlier this year when he received a ridiculous injunction barring the media from reporting on a speech given in the Irish Parliament by a member, ... |
| Jul 30, 2015 | Classifieds Merger Sets Up Online Dominance | When Norwegian media group Schibsted had its IPO in 1992, Brian Fallon, one of the founders of property website Daft.ie, was ten-years-old. His brother Eamonn Fallon was aged 15 at the time and it would be nine more years before the pair ha... |
| Jan 30, 2015 | Irish Protesters Are Fighting Private Security Goons in the Streets | Water charges protesters call the Irish President a "midget arsehole"
In Ireland, mini-street battles have been taking place as people try and physically stop the government's plans to install meters to charge them for their tap-w... |
| Jan 9, 2015 | Irish Priest Tells Congregation He's Gay, Receives Standing Ovation | A Catholic priest received a standing ovation from his congregation after he ended a sermon by announcing he's gay.
Father Martin Dolan — who has been the priest and administrator at Church of St Nicholas of Myra in Dublin, Ireland for the ... |
| Mar 5, 2014 | Ireland’s First Bitcoin ATM Will Launch in a Dublin Cafe This Week | UPDATE: The venue for the ATM has now been moved to GSM Solutions, is fully installed and will launch at 10am on 13/03/2014.
A Lamassu bitcoin ATM machine, from Irish provider BitVendo, is to be launched at Hippety’s Cafe in the Temple Bar ... |
| Aug 12, 2013 | In Wake Of Teen Suicides, Ask.fm Faces A “Myspace” Problem | The teenage brain is not fully developed, say scientists. Specifically, the part of the brain called the frontal lobe, which houses judgment, insight, dampening of emotions, and impulse control. This is relevant in a discussion about buildi... |
| Jan 9, 2013 | Irish Newspapers Budge Slightly: Now Say Links Don't Require Payment, But Snippets… | Last year, we wrote about the insane position from the group Newspaper Licensing Ireland (NLI), which represents the major newspapers in Ireland, in demanding that a charity pay them for linking to newspaper stories. In the last few weeks t... |
| Sep 20, 2012 | Welcome To Apple’s iOS6 Map — Where Berlin Is Now Called “Schoeneiche” | We’ve seen that the new Apple -created iO6 map which replaces the Google Maps app has had – how can we put it – a little bit of a backlash.
But this morning, as Europeans woke up to a little screen encouraging them to download the new iOS, ... |
| Mar 27, 2012 | Barack Obama Joins Pinterest, Posts Family Recipes and Photos of Dogs | (pinterest.com)
Joining the ranks of Mormons and craft-obsessed ladies on image sharing social network Pinterest is none other than Barack Obama, our very own President. Apparently the commander-in-chief has more to worry about than potenti... |
| Feb 29, 2012 | Ireland Signs Controversial 'Irish SOPA' Into Law; Kicks Off New Censorship Regime | Remember how EMI sued the Irish government for failing to pass a SOPA-like law that will force ISPs to act as copyright cops and censor and block access to websites that the entertainment industry doesn’t like? Well, apparently, the end res... |
| Big bank exits and fintech upstarts: Ireland’s banking landscape is undergoing drastic change | NatWest-owned Ulster Bank announced it was shutting down operations.
While KBC Ireland entered talks to sell off its loan book and make for the exit.
Revolut boasts around 1.3 million users in Ireland, while N26 has around 200,000 users. |
| ‘There’s no going back’: Ireland’s tourism trade prepares to re-open for good | Save for brief re-openings last summer and Christmas, bars, restaurants and hotels have been largely shut since March 2020.
Now, as the vaccination campaign gathers pace, Coffey and others are preparing for June 2 when they can begin allowi... |
| This Week in European Tech: Getir gets $768 million, Doctolib becomes France's most valuable startup, Intel plans to invest up to €80 billion in the EU, and more
What happened this week in European Tech? | This week, the Tech.eu research team tracked more than 75 tech funding deals worth over €2.2 billion, and over 15 exits, M&A transactions, and rumours, and related news stories across Europe.
As always, we are putting all of them togeth... |
| Electric Vehicles This Week: India Gets Ather 340 And E-Motion’s New EBike Surge On Road, And More | There are currently three million electric vehicles on streets around the globe, and the growth rate continues to be massive. Market research and business intelligence portal Statista said, “It is only a matter of time until combustion engi... |
| E-scooter sharing. Зачем нам электросамокаты и что ждет рынок | E-scooter sharing. Зачем нам электросамокаты и что ждет рынок
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Инвестиционный директор венчурного фонда GR Capital Денис Дмитренко подготовил для AIN.UA колонку о быстром росте рынка e-scooter shari... |
