Pat Rabbitte

Pat is a writer from the West of Ireland - currently living and working in Medellín, Colombia. He has always had an inquiring mind when it comes to new technology. His discovery of Bitcoin back in 2013 slowly led to a realisation of the implications of the underlying tech. As a consequence, Pat’s passion for blockchain technology has led him to focus his writing on the subject.

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Mobile Technology Web

Smart bandwidth key to upcoming surge in wireless device connectivity

Pat Rabbitte2 years ago

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Wireless communication has been a key facilitator of most recent and pending technologies. Smart bandwidth usage is a prerequisite if society...

Crypto Column Technology Web

Decentralized cloud storage makes more efficient use of company resources

Pat Rabbitte2 years ago

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Decentralized cloud storage systems are making more efficient use of company resources while providing secure ecosystems for businesses. Amazon Web...

Crypto Column Technology

Blockchain-based voting to become an election frontrunner?

Pat Rabbitte2 years ago

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Earlier this month, Utah County, UT, demonstrated its use of a blockchain-based voting system. What efforts are being made at implementing...

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Crypto Column Technology

The battle to effect real world crypto adoption intensifies

Pat Rabbitte2 years ago

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For the most part, cryptocurrency has failed to achieve tangible real world adoption but more organized efforts are now coming...

Technology

Objections to electric Cars diminishing with tech Progress

Pat Rabbitte2 years ago

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A British startup has developed technology that it claims will result in the ability to charge electric vehicles (EV) in...

Technology

New Flight Paths carved towards sustainable Aviation

Pat Rabbitte2 years ago

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A new approach is being taken through innovative design to reduce the environmental burden commercial flight is having on the...

Science

Personalized Vitamin Startups Forge New Paradigm in Preventative Health?

Pat Rabbitte2 years ago

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Personalized vitamin startups have been springing up recently. What does it involve and what could the implications be for the...

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Web

Centralized web browsing is a threat to your privacy and security

Pat Rabbitte2 years ago

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Centralized web browsing is a threat to your privacy and online security as it makes it more likely that secondary...

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Technology

Fed, big banking still responsible for leaving US behind real time payments curve

Pat Rabbitte2 years ago

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It's patently obvious that the Fed and big banking hasn't had the needs of ordinary Americans at heart in their...

Technology

Radiative cooling technology on path to reduce energy consumption

Pat Rabbitte2 years ago

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Radiative cooling technology stands to improve cooling and refrigeration efficiency by 20%, taking a large bite out of the energy...

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Technology Web

Decentralizing the web amidst debate on censorship, 8chan ban

Pat Rabbitte2 years ago

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8chan is banned in a knee-jerk reaction to two mass shootings in the US over the weekend, launching another round...

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Crypto Column Technology

IOTA set to become the protocol upon which the IoT economy runs

Pat Rabbitte2 years ago

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IOTA is set to become the standard protocol upon which the IoT economy runs, according to an IOTA Foundation supervisory...

Crypto Column Technology

Fintechs may become ‘biggest banking institutions’: ex-Lehman Bros banker

Pat Rabbitte2 years ago

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A former Lehman Brothers banker turned fintech entrepreneur tells The Sociable why fintechs may become some of the biggest banking...

Technology

DARPA explores blockchain to develop ‘unhackable code’ for military

Pat Rabbitte2 years ago

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DARPA is looking to blockchain technology for secure military communications, including developing what the DoD refers to as an "unhackable...

Crypto Column Technology

Capitol Hill is getting to grips with cryptocurrency

Pat Rabbitte3 years ago

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The past 10 days has seen a presidential tweet regarding Bitcoin, the treasury secretary holding a news conference on cryptocurrency,...

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Technology

57% of Amazon retail, distribution employees want to unionize: report

Pat Rabbitte3 years ago

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Some 57% of Amazon retail and distribution employees want to unionize while 39% of Amazon's tech workers wish the same....

Technology

Alexa will hear you now: voice assistants will ’empower nurses, physicians, clinicians’

Pat Rabbitte3 years ago

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The UK’s National Health Service (NHS) aims to reduce demand on the British health service via health advice provided by...

Technology

Scent-ient machines are making sense of smell and taste

Pat Rabbitte3 years ago

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Machines that smell and taste are making their way into the commercial realm after government research and are set to...

Technology

AI will help submarine crews better understand what adversaries are doing underwater

Pat Rabbitte3 years ago

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Artificial Intelligence will help submarine crews to better understand what their adversaries are doing underwater by combining and analyzing multiple...

Technology

AI technology starts to eat into society’s food waste

Pat Rabbitte3 years ago

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With 1.3 billion tons of food wasted in our society each year, we look at a number of emerging approaches that...

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Brains Byte Back

We explore how our brains, psychology, and society are impacted by the ever-evolving technology that surrounds us. If you want to be better prepared for the new information age, have a healthier relationship with technology, and get more out of life using top technology and psychology hacks, this is the podcast for you! Every other Friday we bring you interviews with leading experts in the fields of technology and psychology combined, with past guest speakers such as New York Times journalists, MIT Professors, and C-suite executives of top tech companies.

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It is the start of 2022, and with every new year comes the loft ambitions of new year’s resolutions.

If one of your resolutions is to spend less time on your phone, or looking at screens, then you are in the right place, because in this episode we will look at digital detoxes and how you can implement them.

To do this, we are speaking with Andrew Selepak, a Social Media Professor at the University of Florida.

In this episode we discuss what a digital detox is and what technology it usually involves, how a digital detox can be realistically implemented without it negatively impacting our work, or even social connections, and the parallels between digital detoxes and food diets.

Selepak shares why going cold turkey with a digital detox is unlikely to be successful, why vacations are a good setting to implement a partial digital detox, and why turning off notifications and removing social media apps is the best way to start a detox.

He also explains why our use of technology shouldn’t be seen necessarily as an addiction, like a drug, but a tool that needs to be the correct way.

Additionally Selepak shares how a non-self imposed detox from his phone during a trip in Ireland taught him the importance of disconnecting, and how many of us fall into the trap of taking numerous pictures on holiday, with the ambition of posting on social media, instead of experiencing the trip in the present moment.

And finally, we discuss the role meditation can play to help limit our time with technology.