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With its mix of larger-than-life faux rage in the ring and genuine connection with fans, it’s not hard to understand the huge popularity of WWE – and it means big business, too, for Netflix

Passengers can now share location of devices used to track luggage with airline’s customer service

The glory days of streaming are over, but TV has never been more unpredictable

Tech giant was first to $1tn, $2tn and $3tn landmarks but faces strong competition from AI chipmaker on next market cap milestone

Talking points for Michael Lohan show investment agency’s strategy after tax judgment

Incoming administration is lacking in neither cash nor advice if exchequer returns, the OECD and Ifac are to be believed

From a Playstation 5 to the Dyson Airstrait, there is something out there at every price point

Gabriel Makhlouf raises prospect of ‘sharp’ fall in stocks prices amid heightened technology sector valuations

NFL star Rob Gronkowski has seen the value of his accidental investment multiply over the last decade

Including Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, Squid Game season two, Beast Games, Harry Potter: Wizards of Baking and One Hundred Years of Solitude

EU’s antitrust enforcer leaves Brussels proud of her tenure but conscious that it had been only ‘partly successful’

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State’s short-term future is shaped simultaneously by wild optimism and existential anxiety

Company secures High Court approval to proceed with its judicial review challenge to DPC decision

JP Morgan sanguine as rising share prices are accompanied by increased earnings among dominant ‘magnificent seven’

Tech giants can manipulate consumer choices to make Safari and Chrome ‘clearest, easiest option’, UK regulator says

Clear difference between outgoing Coalition and the parties on the left over how to use the money to address the housing crisis

Facebook is undermining rivals by ‘tying’ its free Marketplace services with the social network, Brussels says

AI large language models can give an illusion of intelligence but in fact it is inherently limited in high-level reasoning

For the average user, it might be wiser to wait for the M4-powered version of the MacBook Air, which is likely to arrive in the coming months

Television: Beautiful Dublin shines again in series two of Apple’s comic thriller

Party says it will ensure about 50,000 homes are built each year under €40bn plan

UK consumer protection advocates Which? found that certain air fryers gather personal data that has little or no relevance to the functioning of the product

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Analysts say artificial intelligence and virtual reality headsets might have lower margins than smartphones and App Store

Plus: Love/Hate duo making a fact-based Dublin crime film; secrecy around Micheál Martin’s meeting with Apple; and Robert Troy’s support for Michael O’Leary’s slurry

Infusing new people into the workforce is ‘not just desirable’ but ‘economically necessary’, says chief executive

Central Bank statistics show card payments overall declined in September compared to August, but contactless and NFC transactions have surged over past year

Shares fall 1.8% in after-hours trading as one-time payment reduced quarterly profit by 36% to $14.7bn

Including Bad Sisters season two, Say Nothing, Senna, Countdown: Paul vs Tyson and more

Retail banking is not only harder than it looks but also heavily regulated by watchdogs who take their duties very seriously

This solid update to the iPad Mini supports Apple AI features that have not yet launched in Ireland

Dominated by handful of megacap tech stocks, index has enjoyed annual returns of 13% over the last decade

A Trump victory in the US presidential election would constitute a seismic shift in our overall international strategy

Patrick Freyne: If I was in Disney+’s Jilly Cooper adaptation, someone would surely compliment my ‘magnificent column’

The popularity of ‘Diddy’ has been steady or even increased on Spotify and Apple Music

Mixed day for banks and building firms on Irish market

Television: Blanchett’s intense acting style and Cuarón’s auteur touch prove wildly unsuited to the demands of the binge-watch era

Increasingly confident investors looking beyond tech giants, suggesting reign may be over — for now at least

They didn’t even mention the €14 billion figure, perhaps not wanting to rile the tech giant