Ensono’s Gordon McKenna: ‘5G will transform nearly every aspect of our society’
Gordon McKenna is CTO of public cloud at Ensono, a managed IT services provider that focuses on digital transformation. McKenna has more than 20 years’...
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Looking into the Oracle – The Future of a Technologically Advanced Society
Since the dawn of mankind, human beings have been trying to redefine what had previously been perceived to be possible by their ancestors, challenge the...
Why Amazon’s Ring and facial recognition technology are a clear and present danger to society
“The deployment of connected home security cameras that allow footage to be queried centrally are simply not compatible with a free society.” Amazon engineer Max...
Internet Society says opportunity to sell .org to private equity biz for $1.14bn came out of the blue. Wow, really?
Anger rises over ten-figure sale of registry Analysis The price tag for one of the internet’s largest and most important domain-name registries has finally been...
Universities need funding, but they also need a rethink of their role in society
“Academics all over the world should weep for the destruction of the concept of the university that has occurred in so many places, which has...
How does society create an ethics guide for AI?
SPONSORED: Presented by Trustpilot Coined the fourth industrial revolution, the advancement of artificial intelligence and machine learning brings interesting discussion to the table. Because AI...
Get Creative with the Law Society of Ireland
The Law Society of Ireland is inviting creative professionals across Ireland and all over the world to take part in a Massive Open Online Course...
Law Society of Ireland launches free Massive Open Online Course in arts, entertainment and media law
The Law Society of Ireland is inviting creative professionals across Ireland and all over the world to take part in a Massive Open Online Course...
EU lawyer: Airbnb is an ‘information society service’, not real estate agent
Airbnb in Ireland has secured a major advantage in its legal battle against a French hotelier association that had claimed the short-term rental platform was...
Royalties from digital services to UK copyright society PRS for Music rose 17% to £145.7M in 2018, the first year of its licensing deal with Facebook (Stuart Dredge/Music Ally)
Stuart Dredge / Music Ally: Royalties from digital services to UK copyright society PRS for Music rose 17% to £145.7M in 2018, the first year...
Yuval Noah Harari and Fei-Fei Li discuss the challenges AI poses to society as the merger of biological knowledge and tech may enable hacking of humans at scale (Nicholas Thompson/Wired)
Nicholas Thompson / Wired: Yuval Noah Harari and Fei-Fei Li discuss the challenges AI poses to society as the merger of biological knowledge and tech...
The Positive Impact of Social Networking Sites on Society
Social networking is such a massive part of all our lives that it can no longer be ignored. The question is whether social media sites...
Drink up! Steady supply of beer may be the secret to a stable society
Archaeologists who travelled to Peru believe one of the region’s great historical powers – the Wari empire – was fuelled by a steady supply of...