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Waterford native is taking the helm of the search engine giant’s Irish arm at what is likely to be a pivotal moment for the company

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

Investors are notoriously fickle – will they give big firms the space to utilise artificial intelligence?

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

Coimisiún na Meán’s online safety code for video-sharing platforms contains echoes of the 2008 banking crisis

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

Microsoft, Google and Amazon are all eyeing nuclear power to supply their data centres with low-carbon energy

Upgrade offers relatively inexpensive way to get all your streaming content in one place

Artificial intelligence initiatives will be delivered through Kinia and Adapt

The last big tech antitrust case, against Microsoft in 2001, did not result in a break-up of the company

Planet Business: Rooney lawyer’s Nobu deal, a homebuilder gets its sums wrong and the US department of justice outlines how it could take on Google

Ireland’s Data Protection Commission is examining whether Google’s account creation process is compliant

Justice department could seek ‘structural remedies’ such as forced product sales after judge’s ruling of illegal monopoly in search

Justice Department tells judge he could also force Google to provide underlying data used for search results, AI products

Tech firm tightening rules in effort to improve fraud prevention

Strategic partnership is a 10-year deal to bring Google’s AI devices to customers

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

Gavin Newsom agreed with leading AI companies that the legislation would have stifled innovation

With humans outperforming the technology in a recent exploratory trial, equipping such systems with the autonomy to carry out their own actions raises questions of practicality, ethics and philosophy

Rethink,a not-for-profit that backs other charities, has proved remarkably successful since its launch in 2016

Tech firm says it secured grid connection from EirGrid in 2021 despite South Dublin County Council’s concern over insufficient network capacity and onsite renewable energy

The system must be changed so victims don’t have to campaign for decades to get justice and redress and so those liable can be held to account

You’d be hard pressed to tell latest AI voices from the real thing. It’s bad news for actual human beings who fear being left on scrapheap

EU General Court’s decision unlikely to be end of the matter

California’s Gavin Newsom has until September 30th to decide whether to sign legislation that will reach far beyond the state

Big tech companies have differing requirements when it comes to attending work in person

Revenue, under its own rules, did not have jurisdiction to tax the bulk of Apple’s offshore profits

As artificial intelligence becomes more widespread in the workplace, here’s how the technology can give businesses an edge

iPhone maker Apple recorded revenue of just under €200bn; while Google, Microsoft and Meta are all ranked in the top five

Data Protection Commission to examine if tech giant assessed whether processing of EU citizens’ personal data complied with privacy laws

Global reporting on ruling ranged from praising EU and Vestager to questioning what it means for Europe, and Ireland, as destination for business in the future

Not for the first time Apple has sent Ireland’s tax figures stratospheric and the Department of Finance running for cover

Competition and Markets Authority’s findings are another blow to the tech giant and come days before a parallel lawsuit starts in the US

This is a solid entry into the, well, fold but it is far from cheap

Plus: Pizza man Brian MacGoey buys an upper-crust pad, Google eyes Boland’s Mills merch, and Young Fine Gael in a flap about proposed social media ban

We need to find a win-win solution based on engineering which is far more ingenious than a simple black and white, yes or no to data centres

Investment would by first by big US tech company in nation

South Dublin County Council cites insufficient national grid capacity and lack of renewable energy among its reasons for refusal

Many critics saw Google as a hyped-up, expensive stock when it went public in 2004