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An agritech based in NovaUCD, Proveye emerged as best start-up at the Enterprise Ireland event during the National Ploughing Championships.

Based in NovaUCD, ProvEye hopes to use the latest funding to further grow its customer base and advance its technology.

The UCD spin-out ProvEye is using a combination of drones, satellites and AI to help map grass yield and quality in near real-time.

A more sombre and quieter Anzac Day today with planned ceremonies being pared back in this post Covid world.

Dr Matt Boyd & Prof Nick Wilson* (Syndicated from the Adapt Research Blog) Efforts to prevent nuclear war should be greatly intensified – but we must also consider what happens if prevention fails. NZ is often cited as somewhere most likely to preserve a thriving society through a nuclear aftermath. However, our society is a complex adaptive system heavily dependent on trade. Major perturbations triggered by nuclear war could shift the state of NZ society from one of flourishing to one of...

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Dr Matt Boyd & Prof Nick Wilson* (Syndicated from the Adapt Research Blog) In this blog we briefly review the literature on the probability of nuclear war and what various models estimate to be the potential global climate impacts (eg, of nuclear winter). Although New Zealand is relatively well placed as a major food producer – a range of mitigation strategies could increase the probability of sustaining food security during a recovery period. To get the ball rolling the Government needs t...

Cotter Agritech, ProvEye and Izario have emerged victorious at the first AgTechUCD accelerator programme for start-ups across the island.

As machine-learning music specialist Prof Nick Bryan-Kinns explains, new neural networks are capable of writing original music – but may never compose meaningful lyrics.