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Project economy report: Contractors are happier and better paid 5 days ago457 Views The first ever report on Ireland’s project economy suggests contractors have better job satisfaction and higher salaries than long-term employees. High-skilled contractors in the project economy are better paid, less discriminated against and happier than their counterparts in long-term employment, according to a new report. Trinity Business School surveyed almost 1,500 contractors, contrac...

13 Irish people shaping science and technology on the world stage Ireland’s international influence is apparent in the number of Irish people taking leading positions in science and technology around the world. To mark St Patrick’s Day, we at Silicon Republic are shining a spotlight on Ireland’s influencers in science and technology around the world. These 13 innovators have vital roles in shaping the future of science, technology, business and society. Ireland has produced people who are...

Ireland’s new disability info service to make hiring more inclusive 11 Mar 2021663 Views Employers for Change aims to give companies information and advice to hire inclusively and employ, manage and retain staff with disabilities. The Government launched a new initiative today (11 March) to make workplaces more inclusive of people with disabilities. Employers for Change consists of a web-based employer disability information service and a dedicated helpline. It was develop...

Words of Warming is a new series from Future Human defining the language of climate change and environmental and climate justice. 1: a group of technologies aimed at removing carbon dioxide (CO2)…

Official Landing on Feb 18th (screenshot only) We are now 1 day away from NASA’s Perseverance Rover touching down on Mars, Perseverance’s journey started on July 30 at 4:50 a.m. PDT and has spent a long 7 months in space. The entry, descent, and landing, which is also known as the 7 minutes of terror are this rover’s first challenge before even setting its wheels on the most challenging terrain ever to be discovered.  10 minutes before Perseverance enters Mars’ at...

Government to invest €193m in five SFI research centres Five Science Foundation Ireland research centres spanning medical devices, AI technology, future networks and more will receive the funding over the next six years. Today (1 February), Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science Simon Harris, TD, announced an investment of €193m in five Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) research centres over the next six years. The centres – Adapt, Connect, Cúram, iCra...

Beyond sci-fi: The state of AI and what’s to come Image: © kras99/Stock.adobe.com Silicon Republic editor Elaine Burke discusses the future of AI and voice interaction with experts and industry partners from the Adapt research centre. Artificial intelligence, or AI, has been part of popular vernacular for some time now. For many in my generation and generations before, our first encounters of the AI kind likely came from the fantastical imaginations of filmmakers and fiction writers. The fut...

Tech mag asks: Should we really investigate cold cases involving murdered or abandoned infants? Print this article Medium’s science publication, Future Human, has an article out this week investigating the new technologies being used to solve cold cases involving murdered or abandoned infant children. The weird thing about the article is that it comes across as sympathetic toward the mothers who commit said crimes. In fact, it’s hard to read the article and not come away with the distin...

The project economy: How gig workers will evolve in the future Prof Andrew Burke. Image: © Chris Bellew/Fennell Photography After a year of stark changes to the working world, dean of Trinity Business School Andrew Burke believes it’s time the gig economy had its own transformation. The gig economy has been growing steadily for years, but as we move into a new era of what the future of work will be, an evolution could take place that will change how exactly the gig economy works. Speaking a...

Ireland’s Prof Barry O’Sullivan wins global computer science award Image: © sergign/Stock.adobe.com The director of the Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics is the first Irish recipient of the Nerode Prize. As part of the International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC) this week, Prof Barry O’Sullivan was announced as the winner of one of the top computer science prizes in the world. The Nerode Prize is awarded for outstanding research in the area of multivariate ...