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Screen industry calls for help as pandemic pause takes its toll
Irish production companies are struggling to survive despite huge demand for content
Troy Studios now largest production facility in Ireland after stage expansion
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Net Results: Sci-fi, spandex and the wonders of WorldCon
Science fiction convention in Dublin zapped visitors with lively and intense intelligence
It is rare to hear anybody arguing for the inherent inferiority of popular fiction
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The iPhone maker has grown more attached to practices that some argue are unfair
Apple ready to unveil big bet on television
The question is whether media companies will sign up to its TV platform
‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’: 40 years on
Douglas Adams’s novel is still a hilarious map to life’s terrain
Ethical as well as technological challenges to robotics and AI
What ‘rights’ have artificial intelligence objects, and can you embed a conscience?
We can’t terminate killer robots – it’s already too late
Telling international arms traders they can’t make killer robots is like telling soft-drinks makers that they can’t make orangeade
Is the importance of female role models in science overstated?
Study concluded that the concept of role models in the sciences is far more complex than we might think
Could robots go beyond taking our jobs to running our world?
Fear of superintelligent AI has prompted new guidelines that propose close regulation
The Geopolitics of Deep Oceans review: fathoming the new frontier
John Hannigan’s highly readable survey of mankind and the oceans tackles deep-sea mining, superpower rivalries, global warming and popular culture
Watch this space: Four Co Clare students win Nasa prize
St Flannan’s pupils beat more than 4,000 others in space settlement design contest
Sex robots should be banned, expert tells Web Summit
We’re losing our sense of humanity, warns robotics expert
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Innovation Talk: ‘Killer robot’ headlines mask workers’ anxiety about jobs
Perhaps more than any other technology, robotisation and automation threaten to reshape society, and we better have some ideas as to how we will adapt to that changed landscape
Culture Shock: Rage against the machine – why we don’t have to let the robots win
From iPhones to Daft Punk, technology has made us something more than human and less than people. But there is another vision of the world
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