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Ex-Founder IONA PLC. Inaugural chair @SciGalleryDub & @ScienceGallery. Now @AtlanticBridgeV and @IrishTimesBiz columnist. Also @[email protected]
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Joined March 2009
My piece in today’s @IrishTimes on soul tokens - Vitalik Buterin’s (the creator of Ethereum) proposal for changing the internet away from how much wealth you have, instead to what you’ve achieved — and how this might address privacy and digital advertising
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Founder of cryptocurrency ethereum looks to harness blockchain for a greater good
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RT @volograms: Virtual production x Volograms? We are making it possible to create a #3D model using one single image through our technolog….
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"It appears we experienced an anomaly. " Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin suffers failure near maximum dynamic pressure, 1 min after takeoff, crew capsule emergency separates from booster -- flight was unmanned. Stunned silence from commentator.
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"now is not the time to publicly carp about higher energy costs to wealthy multinationals when tens of thousands of Irish households will be wondering how to cover home heating bills this winter." @klillington in @IrishTimes (behind paywall)
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Regulator's proposal to charge big firms for using electricity at peak times is fraction of government supports given over the years
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Just received my copy of "Percy Ludgate", who published the world's second design of a programmable computer in 1909 (after Babbage's 1843 design) with a highly novel digital ideas, died in Dublin 1922 (100 yrs ago) -- deserves international recognition
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Percy Ludgate (1883-1922): Ireland's First Computer Designer
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". the EU would never really do something so preposterously inconvenient as to actually mean what it said in its data-protection laws" -- Meta, trans-atlantic data flows, and data protection @klillington in todays @IrishTimes
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Meta's threat to halt services in the EU if data transfers to the US are halted should not be taken seriously
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Lovely thank you from @klillington to @IrishTimes editor Paul O'Neill who is stepping down, and how he shaped her career as a technology journalist (behind paywall. ) .
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Departing Irish Times editor decided to run this column and that proved to be a pivotal moment
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The Alex Jones defamation case -- what does it mean for disinformation on the internet? @klillington in todays @IrishTimes (behind paywall. )
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Disinformation ruins lives and that needs to change
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My piece this morning in the @IrishTimes on the innovative use of seaweed to reduce methane emissions in cattle and sheep. Irish agriculture needs to reduce emissions by 25% -- potentially impacting livelihoods and the face of Irish farming
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Teagasc working on project that may help farmers meet targets for methane reductions from herds
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. from the very large to the very small. The insane amazing 'Scrappy' bush plane, discussed at OshKosh by and
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A new big jumbo to upgrade from the A380? @emirates (with 118 A380s in its fleet) very interested.
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With the A380 out of production, the two biggest planes on the market are the Airbus A350-1000 and the upcoming Boeing 777-9, and deliveries for both are delayed. Emirates boss Tim Clark thinks...
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The US Chips act and state welfare support for semiconductor corporations by @klillington in @IrishTimes (behind firewall. )
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Ireland must win cutting-edge projects not to become irrelevant and at risk of closures
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My column today in @IrishTimes on wildfire fighting technology
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Wildfire fighting is dangerous, often low paid and historically has been woefully underfunded by governments. Tech innovations are helping to tackle this worsening issue
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Lobbying and transparency- @klillington on the issues raised by Uber's lobbying . .
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Whistleblowing is not a regulatory strategy and influencing needs tighter controls
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My @IrishTimes column today on the industry scramble to build EV battery recycling capacity, and the EU #FitFor55 climate change initiative.
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Moves to renewables and electric vehicles are facing shortages of necessities for manufacturing electronics and especially storage batteries
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Me on the new EU Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulations in today's @IrishTimes #CryptoMarket #cryptocurrencies #MiCA #Crypto.
irishtimes.com
Facebook’s now-abandoned plans for ‘libra’ cryptocurrency the catalyst for new rules
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Wow: SAM U-turn.
This is reportedly footage of a failed Russian air defense system missile launch from Alchevsk, Luhansk Oblast.
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Me, in today’s @IrishTimes, on the innovations towards autonomous flight for commercial and cargo aircraft: would you fly without a pilot in the cockpit?
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Autonomous commercial aircraft are coming and will be commercially attractive, reduce flight crew costs, and address pilot shortages
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