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The Republic lags other nations in terms of incentives for company employees
State lags in ranking of best ‘start-up friendly’ nations

The Republic has been ranked mid-table in a list of “start-up friendly” nations. The State comes in at 13th place out of 24 countries in the ranking,(...)

Gregory Tarr, who was announced as winner of the 57th BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition Gregory. Photograph: Chris Bellew /Fennell Photography
Young Scientist: Cork student wins with programme to detect ‘deepfakes’

A new software programme that could make the internet a safer place has culminated in its developer Greg Tarr winning the 2021 BT Young Scientist &(...)

Overall winner Gregory Tarr (17), a sixth year student from Bandon Grammar School Co Cork pictured with parents Nita and Richard Tarr. Photograph: Chris Bellew /Fennell Photography
Cork student who designed software to detect ‘deepfake’ videos wins 2021 BTYSTE contest

Greg Tarr, a Leaving Cert student at Bandon Grammar School in Co Cork, is the overall winner of the 2021 BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibitio(...)

Ryanair flew into the pandemic with a relatively strong balance sheet. Photograph: Eric Luke
Covidius horribilis: Business winners and losers of 2020

How do you weigh up the annus covidius horribilis of 2020 in words that don’t have to be asterisked? It was a year when a virus inflicted a brutal en(...)

Evervault founder Shane Curran: “If no one builds the data privacy infrastructure for the internet, data privacy will never exist.” Photograph: Conor McCabe Photography
Young Scientist winner Shane Curran (20) raises $16m for start up firm

Young Scientist winner Shane Curran has raised $16 million (€14.5 million) from some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley investment for his data pr(...)

Amazon said it only used ‘an extremely small sample’ of Alexa voice recordings to improve the customer experience. Photograph: Philippe Lopez/AFP via Getty Images
Are tech giants finally listening to customers’ privacy concerns?

How much do you trust big tech companies? If the answer is “very little”, there are few who could argue with that assessment. There’s an old saying t(...)

Evervault has its origins in a BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition project, Qcrypt, which involved research in cryptography and data privacy and won Shane Curran the overall top prize in the 2017 competition
Evervault locks in €3m in funding for secure data processing

Dublin-based start-up Evervault has raised $3.2 million (€2.9 million) in a seed investment round led by tech investor Sequoia. The round also s(...)