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Artificial intelligence may be more humane than people
- Innovation
- April 26, 2018, 06:55
Artificial Intelligence (AI) appears to be suffering from an image crisis. Many of the most vocal commentators seem to believe it will ultimately caus(...)

Woman with terminal cancer gets €2.5m High Court settlement
- High Court
- April 25, 2018, 12:51
A woman who is dying of cervical cancer and who sued over a smear test carried out seven years ago has settled her High Court action for €2.5 million.(...)

US students mount gun control protest on Columbine anniversary
- US
- April 20, 2018, 21:11
Students across the US have streamed out of their schools in the latest round of gun control protests following the February shooting at a high school(...)

Security video of red truck and pink gloves led to Texas bomber
- US
- March 22, 2018, 10:58
It was not much – surveillance footage in and near an Austin-area FedEx store showing a man in a disguise dropping off packages. But for the cadre of (...)

Texas bombing suspect blows himself up, police say
- US
- March 21, 2018, 11:54
A man suspected of being the bomber behind a series of explosions across central Texas blew himself up as a swat team approached, police have confirme(...)

FBI investigating fifth package bomb explosion in Texas
- US
- March 20, 2018, 13:27
A package bomb blew up at a FedEx Corp distribution centre near San Antonio on Tuesday, officials said, and the FBI was investigating whether it was (...)

Varadkar: Devine offence comparable with McElduff Kingsmill insult
- Politics
- March 20, 2018, 10:42
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said that Senator Máire Devine’s offensive retweet referring to the late Brian Stack is as insulting as former MP for West (...)

Repeal of Eighth would desensitise Ireland’s culture of care
- Opinion
- March 20, 2018, 05:00
As the Beast from the East met Storm Emma with the resulting extreme weather for many across our country, we all witnessed an unprecedented outpouring(...)

Cork-based Wisetek creates 25 jobs in US with new Texas facility
- Technology
- March 15, 2018, 10:02
IT asset disposal firm Wisetek has opened a new operations centre in the United States, creating 25 jobs. The Cork-based company has added the Austin(...)

Irish tech firms make their mark at the ever-growing SXSW event
- Innovation
- March 15, 2018, 06:43
Critics of the SXSW event usually point to the fact that it has grown too big for any one start-up, organisation or even country to make its presence (...)