Amazon races to transplant Alexa’s ‘brain’ with generative AI
Rollout of upgraded voice assistant hit by delays as Big Tech group struggles to overcome technical hurdles
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Good-looking and practical: the best activity trackers on the market from €100 to almost €1,000
Options range from smartwatch-type devices to ones worn with a strap or even as jewellery
Meghan Markle’s lifestyle tips, plus other TV for your glazed-but-happy eyes in 2025: ‘One must be firm with one’s butler’
Including Severance, White Lotus, The Studio, Poker Face, Stranger Things and Black Mirror
EU to review investigations into Apple, Google and Meta as US pressure mounts
Tech groups urging president-elect Donald Trump to intervene against 'overzealous' European regulation
Moves by Meta and Amazon to drop diversity programmes in US unlikely to affect Ireland
Apple, which employs 6,000 here, has asked shareholders to vote against move seen as courting favour with Trump administration
Broadcom becomes the latest tech stock trillionaire
Eight tech giants now hold combined market capitalisation of almost $19trn
Apple’s China troubles mount as foreign phone sales in the country sink for fourth month
Dominant foreign smartphone maker faces slowing economy and competition from domestic rivals
Apple lobbied Micheál Martin and other Fianna Fáil politicians on transport infrastructure issues
Tánaiste visited Apple HQ in Cork day before tech giant told another Minister that ‘slow progress’ on infrastructure in city was ‘hindering’ its growth plans
Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Apple TV+: 10 of the best new shows to watch in January
Including American Primeval, The Rig, Severance, Jerry Springer: Fights, Camera, Action and Goosebumps: The Vanishing
Wonderwallets: the cost of everything in 2024, from Oasis tickets to Leinster House bike shelter
Planet Business: The year in numbers, from Boris Johnson’s book advance to fines for dirty toilets at Dublin Airport
TV in 2025: 25 of the best new and returning shows to watch out for in the 12 months ahead
Including The Traitors, The White Lotus, Zero Day, Your Friends & Neighbors, The Walsh Sisters and The Bear
From Apple’s record valuation to Zara’s share surge: An A-Z of financial markets in 2024
It was a challenging year for some listed companies and a record year for CEO departures
Musk leads race to be world’s first trillionaire
Lesson of the 20th century was that when a critical mass of citizens feel the system is rigged against them, we encourage radical politics
Corkman leading €11bn development of Battersea Power Station in London: ‘We’ve created a place to live, work and play’
Donagh O’Sullivan is in charge of the redevelopment of one of the British capital’s most iconic structures
Bosses struggle to police workers’ use of AI
Staff are adopting large language models faster than companies can issue guidelines on how to do so
Culchiecore, bonkbusters, murder, more murder and Nationwide: What I’ve seen on TV in 2024
Patrick Freyne on the 2 Johnnies, Rivals, Say Nothing, Baby Reindeer and television trends of the past 12 months
Last-minute gift guide: Fitness tech for under the tree, including €160 option
From smartwatches to rings, here are some present ideas for fitness lovers
Up to €15bn of corporate tax could be temporary, Central Bank warns
Regulator also claims Government should be diverting more of these receipts into State’s two long-term savings funds
Ireland’s tax wealth now in crosshairs of incoming Trump administration
The Government has never had it so good but that hasn’t gone unnoticed in Washington
Irish WWE star Lyra Valkyria: ‘At its core, we’re storytellers. Everything comes down to good versus evil’
With its mix of larger-than-life faux rage in the ring and genuine connection with fans, it’s not hard to understand the huge popularity of WWE – and it means big business, too, for Netflix
Lost your luggage? - Aer Lingus to use Apple network to track down bags
Passengers can now share location of devices used to track luggage with airline’s customer service
From Baby Reindeer and The Traitors to Bodkin and The 2 Johnnies Late Night Lock In: The best and worst television of 2024
The glory days of streaming are over, but TV has never been more unpredictable
The $4 trillion chase is on for Apple and Nvidia
Tech giant was first to $1tn, $2tn and $3tn landmarks but faces strong competition from AI chipmaker on next market cap milestone
IDA boss told Apple ruling ‘not reputationally damaging’ to Ireland
Talking points for Michael Lohan show investment agency’s strategy after tax judgment
Political parties try to reconcile policy with promises
Incoming administration is lacking in neither cash nor advice if exchequer returns, the OECD and Ifac are to be believed
Gadgets for the techie in your life this Christmas
From a Playstation 5 to the Dyson Airstrait, there is something out there at every price point
Central Bank governor more cautious on large ECB rate cuts
Gabriel Makhlouf raises prospect of ‘sharp’ fall in stocks prices amid heightened technology sector valuations
Builder knows best? The Apple gamble that paid off big
NFL star Rob Gronkowski has seen the value of his accidental investment multiply over the last decade
Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Apple TV+: 10 of the best new shows to watch in December
Including Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, Squid Game season two, Beast Games, Harry Potter: Wizards of Baking and One Hundred Years of Solitude
Margrethe Vestager, the world’s pioneering tech cop, is making her exit
EU’s antitrust enforcer leaves Brussels proud of her tenure but conscious that it had been only ‘partly successful’
‘Ireland is on a winning streak’: The outsider’s view of our economy
Inside Business podcast with Ciarán Hancock
Ireland may soon be expelled naked from the fiscal Garden of Eden
State’s short-term future is shaped simultaneously by wild optimism and existential anxiety
Apple alleges watchdog acted unlawfully in handling data claim
Company secures High Court approval to proceed with its judicial review challenge to DPC decision
AI bubble: fact or fiction?
JP Morgan sanguine as rising share prices are accompanied by increased earnings among dominant ‘magnificent seven’
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