Facial recognition technology can help the platform be 'faster, more accurate and more effective' against imposters, the software giant said.

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BearingPoint’s Karl Byrne explains how organisations can enhance developer productivity and increase development success.

Read more: The benefits of DevEx and platform engineering

VC activity is likely to remain 'soft' until after the US presidential elections in November, KPMG predicts.

Read more: Irish VC deals down 59pc in Q3 amid global slowdown

The network of more than 70 investors represent more than €90bn in assets.

Read more: EU partners with venture capital to scale European deep tech

The funds will also enable the development of next generation compounds, according to the company.

Read more: Axonis Therapeutics bags $115m for neuromedicine development

xWave, which is headquartered at NovaUCD, has also announced the launch of a crowdfunding campaign.

Read more: Health-tech firm xWave Technologies secures NHS tender

The deep-tech wave is overtaking organisations, leaving a transformed workplace in its wake.

Read more: How can employees and organisations prepare for the deep-tech wave?

CTO of Equal1 Brendan Barry discusses Ireland’s deep-tech industry, the challenges impacting the sector and the future for professionals.

Read more: Navigating Ireland’s complex deep-tech landscape

BioBuzz CEO and founder Chris Frew discusses the complex biotech sector and the hopeful signs that it is getting ready to blossom once again.

Read more: Are new hiring models helping thaw the biotech winter?

C-suite roles have changed significantly in the last decade, so how can a modern CEO upskill and stay ahead of the crowd?

Read more: Modern leadership and those crucial CEO skills

Workhuman’s Susana Rojero on how she ended up in product design and why communication skills are just as important as technical skills.

Read more: Why empathy is key to this product designer’s work

The medical device manufacturer employs more than a 1,000 people at its site in Galway and Leitrim.

Read more: Freudenberg Medical announces 250 jobs for Leitrim

Committing to company DEI measures takes time and effort, so why should modern employees get involved?

Read more: Putting the I in DEI: Why you should get involved with workplace diversity

The Trinity spin-out is looking to raise €3.6m to conduct its first clinical trials.

Read more: Plio Surgical wins big at the InterTradeIreland start-up competition

From the silent generation and boomers, to Gen X and millennials, every generation has experienced the workplace differently, but Gen Z are perhaps the most unique group yet.

Read more: Inspiring a generation that doesn’t aspire to climb the career ladder

The annual event will see a number of familiar Irish start-ups make an appearance, including Manna, Lua Health and Binarii Labs.

Read more: Enterprise Ireland announces a 24-company delegation to Slush

As part of the partnership, students will be invited to Work IQ for interactive events, mentoring sessions and more.

Read more: Work IQ partners with TU Dublin to aid student entrepreneurs

Open to students, parents and teachers, the STEM South West exhibition aims to inform school students about opportunities in STEM.

Read more: Can Ireland sustain its leadership in tech, pharma and engineering?

The Facebook-owned photo-sharing app introduced face filters in a previous update, but now users can have a little fun in their live videos.

Read more: Instagram adds face filters to live video

Will Explore Feed help burst our respective Facebook bubbles?

Read more: Facebook officially rolls out Explore Feed to desktop and mobile

Wireless pairing is about to become a lot less frustrating for Android device users.

Read more: Android makes it easier to pair Bluetooth devices with new technology

Well now, this certainly rocks the Apple cart.

Read more: Apple’s iOS 11 pips past 10.3 in just under a month

Instagram is making a big change to its Stories feature.

Read more: Instagram now allows users to add any video or image to Stories

The preview of Messenger Kids is launching in the US first.

Read more: Facebook launches Messenger Kids app for under-13s

Irish tech player iKydz has revealed its own child-safe smartphone at Mobile World Congress 2018.

Read more: An Irish tech firm has developed a child-safe smartphone

The new quantised models are 56pc smaller and use 41pc less memory when compared to the full-size models released last month.

Read more: Meta releases compact versions of Llama 3.2 AI models

Iona Drones hopes to be up and running in Ireland by late 2025, according to founder and CEO Etienne Louvet.

Read more: Rural Ireland might get drone deliveries by next year

The Microsoft-owned platform is going multimodel for its Copilot code completion and programming tool.

Read more: GitHub Copilot brings in AI models from OpenAI rivals

People have long dreamed of self-driving cars and humanoid robots, but the revolution has been slow. Why is that? Founder of robotic therapy equipment start-up RoboSculptor, Dennis Ledenkof talks about factors that hinder the development of robotics.

Read more: 5 challenges for robotic development

The energy company said that the project has the potential to power 115,000 Irish homes for up to two hours at a time.

Read more: SSE Renewables to develop battery storage site in Offaly

According to the start-up, the moderation API can be tailored to specific applications and safety standards.

Read more: Mistral AI launches new API for content moderation

The piece draws 'heavily' from Pablo Picasso, George Orwell and Aldous Huxley, according to art broker Sotheby's.

Read more: AI artwork made by robot Ai-Da sells for more than $1m

Anton Shilov reports via Tom's Hardware: FFmpeg is an open-source video decoding project developed by volunteers who contribute to its codebase, fix bugs, and add new features. The project is led by a small group of core developers and maintainers who oversee its direction and ensure that contributions meet certain standards. They coordinate the project's development and release cycles, merging contributions from other developers. This group of developers tried to implement a handwritten AVX512 assembly code path, something that has rarely been done before, at least not in the video industry. The developers have created an optimized code path using the AVX-512 instruction set to accelerate specific functions within the FFmpeg multimedia processing library. By leveraging AVX-512, they were able to achieve significant performance improvements -- from three to 94 times faster -- compared to standard implementations. AVX-512 enables processing large chunks of data in parallel using 512-bit registers, which can handle up to 16 single-precision FLOPS or 8 double-precision FLOPS in one operation. This optimization is ideal for compute-heavy tasks in general, but in the case of video and image processing in particular. The benchmarking results show that the new handwritten AVX-512 code path performs considerably faster than other implementations, including baseline C code and lower SIMD instruction sets like AVX2 and SSSE3. In some cases, the revamped AVX-512 codepath achieves a speedup of nearly 94 times over the baseline, highlighting the efficiency of hand-optimized assembly code for AVX-512.

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Apple released the first beta of visionOS 2.2, introducing new "Wide" and "Ultrawide" modes for the Mac Virtual Display feature on the Vision Pro headset. MacRumors reports: Apple has previously said the ultra-wide version of Mac Virtual Display is equivalent to having two physical 4K displays sitting side by side on a desk. Mac Virtual Display is now available in three sizes: Normal, Wide, and Ultrawide. visionOS 2.2 will likely be released to the public in December alongside iOS 18.2, iPadOS 18.2, macOS Sequoia 15.2, watchOS 11.2, tvOS 18.2, and other updates. Further reading: Apple Delays Cut-price Vision Headset Until 2027, Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo Says

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Sweden has vetoed plans for 13 offshore windfarms in the Baltic Sea, citing unacceptable security risks. The country's defence minister, Pal Jonson, said on Monday that the government had rejected plans for all but one of 14 windfarms planned along the east coast. The decision comes after the Swedish armed forces concluded last week that the projects would make it more difficult to defend Nato's newest member. The proposed windfarms would have been located between Aland, the autonomous Finnish region between Sweden and Finland, and the Sound, the strait between southern Sweden and Denmark. The Russian exclave of Kaliningrad is only about 310 miles (500km) from Stockholm. Wind power could affect Sweden's defence capabilities across sensors and radars and make it harder to detect submarines and possible attacks from the air if war broke out, Jonson said. The only project to receive the green light to was Poseidon, which will include as many as 81 wind turbines to produce 5.5 terawatt hours a year off Stenungsund on Sweden's west coast. "Both ballistic robots and also cruise robots are a big problem if you have offshore wind power," Jonson said. "If you have a strong signal detection capability and a radar system that is important, we use the Patriot system for example, there would be negative consequences if there were offshore wind power in the way of the sensors."

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According to a partial teardown video of Apple's new Mac mini, the new machine features modular storage that can be removed. "As we saw with the Mac Studio, however, replacing the modular storage is complicated," notes MacRumors. The teardown also reveals two 128GB storage chips in the 256GB model, enabling faster SSD speeds comparable to higher-capacity versions. From the report: The criticism surrounding Apple's decision to use a single 256GB chip in some base-model Macs a few years ago primarily came from a vocal contingent of tech enthusiasts, and the average customer is unlikely to even notice the slower speeds in common day-to-day tasks. Nevertheless, it appears that customers who do want the fastest SSD speeds do not need to worry about which storage capacity they choose when ordering the new Mac mini.

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The pilot programme funding marks the largest single investment in lung cancer in Ireland’s history.

Read more: Lung cancer research gets €4.9m boost for early detection

Projects funded include a study to reduce seizures in epilepsy, the development of antimicrobial food packaging and the use of AI in speech and language therapy.

Read more: 290 ‘exceptional’ early-career researchers awarded €27.5m

‘For young people to thrive, they need strong ties to their community and easy access to mental health services,’ says NCI’s Dr April Hargreaves.

Read more: How this neuropsychologist is tackling the loneliness epidemic

UCD's Prof Kate Robson Brown leads the development of analytical models that predict the lifetime of composites in low-Earth orbit.

Read more: UCD professor part of team developing new space materials

PwC highlights that the growing demand for energy continues to outpace the adoption of renewables.

Read more: We need to decarbonise 20 times faster to stay on target, PwC says

The funding approved by Enterprise Ireland has been used by more than 400 companies to help reduce carbon emissions.

Read more: More than €55m granted to Irish companies for decarbonisation

Episode four of The Leaders’ Room’s season two features outgoing SAP Ireland managing director, Liam Ryan. This series is created in partnership with IDA Ireland.

Read more: A life of tech leadership with SAP’s Liam Ryan

Last year, many regions including Canada, the EU and the UK banned the app from government devices citing security concerns.

Read more: Canada orders TikTok to close business, allows app to function

The proposed ban includes those already on the platforms and those with parental consent.

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The game will also restrict under-13s from being able to play, search or discover games with unrated experiences.

Read more: Roblox bans social hangouts, free-form creation for under-13s

In the ambitious pursuit to tackle the harms from false content on social media and news websites, data scientists are getting creative. While still in their training wheels, the large language models (LLMs) used to create chatbots like ChatGPT are being recruited to spot fake news. With better detection, AI fake news checking systems may be able to warn of, and ultimately counteract, serious harms from deepfakes, propaganda, conspiracy theories and misinformation. The next level AI tools will personalise detection of false content as well as protecting us against it. For this ultimate leap into user-centered AI, data science needs…

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