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Spotify silently launches in its 16th territory, Ireland, as it looks to South America & Eastern Europe

The years’ long wait for Irish Spotify fans is over. After accessing the service through...

November 13, 2012 Piers Dillon Scott

Web

Megaupload will be reborn next January as Mega

Megaupload, a file sharing website that was famously shut-down at the start of this year, will be...

November 1, 2012 Darren McCarra

World Wide Web Foundation Web Index infographic

Web

Which country’s citizens benefit the most from the web? #infographic

Last month we had a look at World Wide Web Foundation's latest Web Index report, which analysed...

October 2, 2012 Piers Dillon Scott

Web

Report: The West benefits most from the web but more data is needed

The web is having the greatest impact on the development of European and North American countries,...

September 5, 2012 Piers Dillon Scott

iTunes Match rolling out internationally

Web

iTunes Match now available in Ireland, Germany, United Kingdom and others

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December 16, 2011 Darren McCarra

NASA brochure cover for the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite

Science

An “extremely small” safety risk to the public from plummeting NASA satellite

NASA has warned that one of its defunct satellites will crash into the Earth's atmosphere sometime...

September 7, 2011 Piers Dillon Scott

Gaming

Around the world in 80MB with The Great Global Treasure Hunt on Google Earth

Somewhere in the world, in a plot of ground less than two meters squared, there hides €50,000...

August 27, 2011 Piers Dillon Scott

ESA's artist impression of the Kelper ATV re-entry

Science

How to destroy a spaceship: The ESA live tweets the destruction of its Kepler craft

The European Space Agency live tweeted the dramatic re-entry sequence which saw its ATV-2 Space...

June 22, 2011 Piers Dillon Scott

Science

NASA satellite imagery captures Chilean volcanic ash plume over Australia and New Zealand

As a huge ash plume from the Puyehue volcano in southern Chile continues to cause travel chaos in...

June 14, 2011 Darren McCarra

Technology

NASA shows location & intensity of Japanese earthquakes, aftershocks and foreshocks

NASA's Earth Observatory has issued a map documenting the number of earthquakes, foreshocks and...

March 11, 2011 Piers Dillon Scott

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Brains Byte Back

Brains Byte Back interviews startups, entrepreneurs, and industry leaders that tap into how our brains work. We explore how knowledge & technology intersect to build a better, more sustainable future for humanity. If you’re interested in ideas that push the needle, and future-proofing yourself for the new information age, join us every other Friday. Brains Byte Back guests include founders, CEOs, and other influential individuals making a big difference in society, with past guest speakers such as New York Times journalists, MIT Professors, and C-suite executives of Fortune 500 companies.

In our modern world of fake news and misinformation, it can be hard to know whether the news story you are reading is real or propaganda designed to influence your opinion. However, thanks to AI we are now close to identifying how trustworthy the news in front of us really is.

To discuss this, we are joined by Garry Paxinos, CTO at NetTalk, an easy-to-setup and use, lowest cost voice over IP (VoIP) home phone service.

In addition to the work NetTALK is doing, Garry also discusses an app he has helped build called NOOZ.AI, an AI-driven news aggregator that analyzes the news using natural language processing and machine learning to empower readers to uncover bias.

In this episode, we cover: