Marie Boran
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Surveillance: How to have a life online, but under the radar
- Technology
- June 25, 2020, 04:45
It turns out that Incognito mode on Google’s web browser is anything but. As a recent $5 billion (€4.5 billion) lawsuit against Google shows, the ave(...)

The true carbon cost of feeding the data centre monster
- Technology
- April 30, 2020, 04:45
If someone told me a month ago that the name on everybody’s lips is going to be Joe Exotic, I would have been understandably confused. But it’s true: (...)

Technology to make working from home work for you
- Innovation
- March 19, 2020, 04:47
More than 15,000 cases or more of Covid-19 by the end of the month and a further rise in cases in the weeks thereafter. This is the stark warning deli(...)

Life as a Facebook moderator: ‘People are awful. This is what my job has taught me’
- Technology
- February 27, 2020, 03:23
Chris Gray was a community operations analyst for Facebook. His job was content moderation – reviewing user-reported content that ranged from puppies (...)

How social media platforms battle misinformation while profiting from it
- Technology
- February 6, 2020, 04:45
It was Jonathan Swift who said in 1710 that “falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it”. Fittingly, a version of this quote is almost always (...)

Are you a Monica, Joey or Chandler when it comes to your data privacy?
- Technology
- January 23, 2020, 06:00
Despite the introduction of GDPR, the majority of websites have dark designs on your personal data. Whether it is outright failure to recognise your e(...)

Make reclaiming your online privacy a priority in 2020
- Technology
- January 16, 2020, 04:45
Let 2020 be the year you reclaim your online privacy. Stop third party advertisers dead in their tracks as they attempt to follow your every move onli(...)

‘Short window’ to stop AI taking control of society, warns ex-Google employee
- Technology
- December 5, 2019, 03:45
The big news in tech this week is the announcement that Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin are stepping down as executives of parent compan(...)

Be afraid: The era of easy deepfake videos is upon us
- Innovation
- November 14, 2019
In a computer science lab in Dublin City University (DCU) students are busy at work. Take a closer look and you will realise they are creating deepfak(...)

Privacy issues pervade Digital Summit Dublin
- Innovation
- September 24, 2019, 15:47
The Digital Summit Dublin, now in its third year, is probably one of the more interesting Irish technology gatherings you’ve never heard of. With high(...)