Adrian Weckler

6 days ago | independent.ie | Adrian Weckler

With hair-raising tales of overzealous border control officers scrolling through visitors’ accounts, here are some tips to help you skip through securityTourists to the US are being interrogated, locked up and deported. Tales of border control officers demanding passwords or fingerprint access to phones and scrolling through personal accounts have rung alarm bells among Europeans, with more and more of us putting off travel to the US.

6 days ago | independent.ie | Adrian Weckler

Under the EU’s Digital Services Act, online tech platforms like Facebook, Instagram and YouTube are obliged to give priority to notifications from officially appointed ‘trusted flaggers’ and must also act quickly to ensure that the flagged content is not illegal. The Central Bank is the sole ‘trusted flagger’ appointed by the regulator, despite the scheme being open to applicants since early 2024.

6 days ago | independent.ie | Adrian Weckler

I have a basic HP printer I bought some years ago and I only change the ink about once every two years. Recently, the generic ink I was buying stopped working properly and the printouts are now faded. But the official ink seems extortionate. Is there any other option?

1 week ago | independent.ie | Adrian Weckler

The poll, by Scale Ireland, found that 80pc say attracting private capital is “difficult” or “very difficult”, echoing previous surveys conducted by the organisation. The poll also reported that nearly two-thirds of start-up leaders say Ireland is “not doing enough” to help indigenous tech firms attract and retain talent. The survey suggests that tech employment remains tipped in favour of workers, with more than half of founders saying that staff retention was as difficult as the previous year.

1 week ago | independent.ie | Adrian Weckler

‘Trillion-dollar firms can emerge from quantum computing – there’s a chance we’re one of them’Dr Joe Fitzsimons’ Horizon Quantum Computing is on the verge of a $500m deal that aims to keep them one step ahead of the futureEach weekend, Dr Joe Fitzsimons settles in to do battle online against his father and sister in Malahide, in the game Settlers Of Catan.