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 Rabbitte1 year 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 Rabbitte1 year ago

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 Rabbitte1 year 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 Rabbitte1 year 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 Rabbitte1 year 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 Rabbitte1 year 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 Rabbitte1 year 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 Rabbitte1 year 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 Rabbitte1 year 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 Rabbitte1 year 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 Rabbitte1 year 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 Rabbitte1 year 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 Rabbitte1 year 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 Rabbitte1 year 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 Rabbitte2 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 Rabbitte2 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 Rabbitte2 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 Rabbitte2 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 Rabbitte2 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 Rabbitte2 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

The weekly podcast looking at how our brains, psychology, and society are impacted by the ever-evolving technology that surrounds us. Every Monday we bring you the best stories and guests from around the world relating to technology, psychology, and society.

As Elon Musk’s Neuralink and other implantable brain-machine interfaces continue to advance, it seems like we will soon be living in a world where our mind can control everything.

But before we reach this future, it is important for us to first understand our own minds, how they work, and how to control them. In this episode, we will explore the power and importance of our inner voice.

To better understand the chatter in our heads, we are joined by Ethan Kross, an award-winning professor at the Psychology department of the University of Michigan. He is also the author of the new book CHATTER: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It, which comes out today.

In this episode, we discuss the TED talk “Mind Control: How to win the war in your head” and why our inner voice can often be very negative. We also look at how we can change this, shaping our inner dialogue to become more positive, thus creating the basis of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT).

In addition to this, you will learn how meditation influences our inner voice, his work relating to social media and well-being, why using our name when talking with ourselves can help us overcome difficult situations. Kross also explains how he uses mental time travel to put problems into perspective.