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Girl Guides over the moon with app collaboration
Kilkenny-based tech entrepreneur Brendan Morrissey has created a new app for the Irish Girl Guides to encourage the interest of girls in technology-type careers.
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UK watchdog suspends Matchbook licence
Matchbook, a betting exchange operated by the Cork-based technology company Xanadu Consultancy, has had its operating licence temporarily suspended by the UK Gambling Commission.
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Get ready, tech giants: large fines may be coming from DPC
'The fines are there to be punitive and give rise to deterrence." This was the first time I had heard this from Ireland's Data Protection Commissioner, Helen Dixon.
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Daredevil inventor 'Mad' Mike Hughes killed in rocket crash
A daredevil inventor known as "Mad" Mike Hughes has died after launching himself in a homemade rocket which crashed in the California desert.
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Building fraud-detection firm into real deal
Martina King's role as chief executive of AI-powered fraudbuster Featurespace, which is reportedly valued at hundreds of millions of euro, partly came about thanks to two men who also have Irish roots. Born in England to parents who emigrated from Kildare, in 2011 King spent a year at an augmented reality startup, Aurasma, that was backed by Autonomy founder Mike Lynch, whose mother was from Tipperary.
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NASA says an asteroid the size of St Paul's Cathedral will skim past Earth today
The asteroid, dubbed 2020 BR10, is set to fly past Earth at around 14:55 GMT today, according to the space agency
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