Latest Technology Stories
FESTA Strategic Career Manager: supporting women’s progression in academiaSeptember 20, 2016
A new software application is helping to shatter the glass ceiling in STEM academia. The app was developed by Lero, the Irish Software Research Centre, as part of an EU-funded gender equality project. Prof Ita Richardson, Dr Clare O'Hagan and Dr John Noll report
No network is an island – integrating legacy systems with modern industrial networksSeptember 6, 2016
Robin Whitehead on the challenges plant managers face when integrating legacy systems into new industrial networks. With the convergence of IT and operational technology, how can managers satisfy two departments with different priorities?
Data mining the web: using Big Data analytics in Irish-owned global search engineSeptember 6, 2016
Noel Lysaght outlines the technology behind Irish-owned eCommerce company SalesOptimize. The new service generates sales leads for business-to-business companies selling their products or services to eCommerce merchants
The science of statistics: its application in sports performance analyticsAugust 9, 2016
Game Changer is founded on appropriate statistical analysis tools for sports-performance statistics and offers user-friendly and quick performance analysis
Raising start-up finance is full of risks and challengesAugust 9, 2016
Chris Horn discusses the challenges of raising start-up finance - from the potential of damage to personal relationships to the consequences of an unpaid loan
The ESE Academy and ECubers – educating equipment-systems engineers of the futureJuly 26, 2016
Under the Equipment Systems Engineering Academy and ECubers programme, SL Controls is educating students to the level required for Industry 4.0 and encouraging young people to study and pursue careers in engineering. Shane Loughlin reports
On your marks: NUI Galway spin-out Qpercom electronically marks practical exams in medicineJuly 12, 2016
Technology developed by NUI Galway software engineers is responsible for the retrieval, storage and real-time analysis of medical students’ practical examinations in 25 top universities worldwide
Did your smart watch and fitness tracker just give away your PIN?July 12, 2016
New research reveals that wearable devices may ‘leak’ information as you use them: the motions of your hands as you use PIN pads, which is automatically recorded by your device, can be hacked to guess your PIN with more than 90% accuracy
Hybrid Agile – a smarter approach to software development or a muddled solution?June 28, 2016
One of the most-used frameworks in software development is Agile. However, many companies dismiss this methodology too quickly when they have actually been using ‘Hybrid Agile’ instead, writes Shilabhadra P. Parida
Predictions using big data a hot theme for the tech sectorJune 14, 2016
While also looking at the origins, history and development of big data, Chris Horn argues that big data, data science and prediction have yet to be successfully applied to today's tech industry
Heart-racing 3D films can make children ‘smarter’ in the short termJune 14, 2016
Improvement in cognitive processing is almost three times greater as a result of watching 3D rather than a 2D film. 3D gets the heart-racing, producing 80 per cent of the excitement of a rollercoaster ride
Novel controller allows video gamer who lacks hands to compete with his feetJune 2, 2016
Engineering graduate students, one of whom lost his hands to meningitis, design and build a foot-activated video game controller
Step into a reimagined Dublin of 1916 using innovative technologiesMay 31, 2016
A new multimedia website offers a graphic insight into how Dublin’s buildings and streets played a pivotal role in the 1916 Rising. Caoimhe Gallagher and Frank Lynam report
New technique keeps driverless vehicles under control at the edge of their handling limitsMay 31, 2016
Engineers have created racing, sliding and jumping one-fifth-scale, fully autonomous auto-rally cars that run at the equivalent of 90 mph, using advanced algorithms to keep the cars under control
A password of another kind: user identification through the skullMay 17, 2016
Computer scientists are introducing a new biometric identifier that could unlock phones - the new method uses the skull to provide a digital access code
Video game designers need to do more for young disabled playersMay 17, 2016
Computer games controlled through wheelchair movements have the potential to improve quality of life for young people with severe mobility impairments
Solving scientific problems – are humans the new supercomputer?May 3, 2016
A Danish research group has extended the limits of quantum physics calculations and simultaneously blurred the boundaries between man and Mac
Machines, choice and the illusion of customer serviceMay 3, 2016
Whichever company dominates the provision of an automated concierge may well be the next Google
Case study: using automation to refine processes and reduce costsApril 19, 2016
Gilroy Control Systems worked with one of Ireland’s largest food processors on a measurement and reporting system that could grow with the business without disrupting systems and work processes
Breakthrough Starshot: the search for other life forms in our universeApril 19, 2016
Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner's €89 million engineering programme seeks proof of concept for using light beam to propel gram-scale ‘nanocraft’ to 20 per cent of light speed