Weekend Takeaway: Have a cracking Easter

R&D spending by Irish businesses surges 24pc to €2.8bn

Tech IPOs to balloon as Pinterest pops 25pc on first day’s trading

Foldgate: Samsung hit with claims its new Galaxy Fold screen breaks

AIB and First Data buy fintech payments player Payzone

Spurred on by SCA, Stripe buys Irish payments company Touchtech

Viridian’s Catherine Gardiner: ‘Smart meters will be introduced in Ireland next year’

Facebook reveals millions of Instagram passwords were stored in plain text

Facebook confirms ‘unintentionally’ uploading 1.5m users’ email contacts

Porn will be age-checked in UK from 15 July

Major Indian IT firm Wipro has been breached by ‘state-sponsored’ hacker

Bad news for Google and Facebook as EU greenlights copyright directive

National Broadband Plan: €3bn is more palatable spread over 25 years

Three makes Arranmore Europe’s most westerly offshore digital hub

National Broadband Plan hits another Government speed bump

Knock Airport network boosts mobile coverage in Mayo

Wi-Fi-connected cars hit a roadblock as lawmakers accelerate to 5G

Balbriggan town centre gets 100Mbps free Wi-Fi

AI, AR and adtech battle it out for Bolton Trust final

Meetings Booker wins Enterprise Ireland’s Pioneer Travel Tech Award

9 brilliant start-ups from Buenos Aires to watch

Fintech player Big Red Cloud raises €2.5m

CroíValve is at the heart of the future of medtech

Weekend Takeaway: Looking for a venture?

Why Attenborough and the BBC must share climate change facts and hard solutions

Drink up! Steady supply of beer may be the secret to a stable society

Groundbreaking experiment brings dead pig brains partly back to life

The story of how one science communicator turned our brains into beautiful art

Meet 8 finalists set to dazzle the audience at Researchfest 2019

Astronomers discover superflare as powerful as 80bn megatonne bomb

New ultrathin display could soon beam 3D holograms from phones

Huge AI breakthrough could bring us much closer to nuclear fusion energy

New algorithm could save thousands of animals from toxic testing

Wearables battery breakthrough could allow us to ditch bulky devices

‘I had a slightly optimistic view of what working as a scientist truly means’

10 companies finding interesting uses for machine vision technology

How many people could live on Earth?

Forget a climate shift in centuries, more like decades, climatologists claim

WeForest doubles crowdfunding target to empower Indian village

World awaits birth of ‘baby dragons’ in Slovenia

Gold and platinum discovered in south-east Irish streams

The bees are still in trouble, so we are too

Here’s how you can be more productive at work

How to land your dream job as a software engineer

Does your CV answer these 3 important questions?

10 things every graduate needs to know

What to do if an interviewer says you’re overqualified

How to stay calm throughout a work conflict

‘Our vision, I suppose, is that every autistic person can be accepted as they are’

‘There’s a huge amount of buzz and anticipation around autonomous vehicles’

‘Regardless of how my day unfolds, it always involves a lot of collaboration’

The importance of STEM graduate programmes cannot be overstated

What kind of health projects is Johnson & Johnson EDC working on?

These are the skills you need to succeed in finance

6 top international companies hiring in data right now

How do companies ensure diversity in their workforce?

6 companies hiring in fintech right now

7 US companies hiring in Ireland right now

7 of the coolest science jobs in the world

Thinking about a career in marketing? An analytical mind is helpful

LogMeIn to create 200 new jobs in Dublin

Looking for a job in biopharma? Find out who’s hiring here

Waterford-based VR Education to create up to 10 new jobs

Fintech player AFEX to expand in Dublin with 10 new jobs

PwC to hire 40 in Galway amid city centre office relocation

Johnson & Johnson Vision Care announces 100 jobs at its Limerick facility

Inclusive new emojis offer representation for people with disabilities

Google’s new Wi-Fi router promises to end reception ‘blackspots’

Google Song Maker is the perfect time waster to while away the storm

An Irish tech firm has developed a child-safe smartphone

Hands-on with the top smartphones of Mobile World Congress 2018

8 things you need to know about the Samsung Galaxy S9

Which countries get the most value for money out of Netflix?

League of Ireland teams establish major national e-sports tournament

Just what Pinterest users were pining for: boards within boards

It feels cinematic: YouTube rolls out a major redesign across mobile and desktop

S-Town and My Dad Wrote a Porno on way to Dublin for podcast fest

Google adds SOS alert capabilities to Search and Maps

57-hour Donkey Kong 64 stream raises more than $340,000 for trans charity

What were Ireland’s most popular Google searches in 2018?

Trump meets Ophelia: Ireland’s year in Google searches

Conor McGregor and a rogue bat: Ireland’s top YouTube videos of the year

Manchester tragedy and McGregor fight topped talk on Facebook in 2017

#RepealThe8th storms past #Ophelia in top Irish Twitter trends of 2017