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Power grab: the hidden costs of Ireland’s datacentre boom

theguardian.com Datacentres are part of Ireland’s vision of itself as a tech hub. There are now more than 80, using vast amounts of electricity. Have we entrusted our memories to a system…

Orkney shop owner raises £3,000 for charity after Easter egg error

theguardian.com For a small shop owner on a small island as far as mistakes go, Dan Dafydd’s was a pretty big one leaving him with quite a dilemma: how do you get rid of 80 cases of Easter…

Big Time Rush’s Carlos PenaVega Says It Was “Really Hard” Having One Direction Open Their Tour

hollywoodreporter.com Carlos PenaVega is looking back at his first time touring nationally with Big Time Rush and admitted that it was actually “really hard” having fellow boy band One Direction…

Stage play will be based on verbatim accounts of Hamas attack on Israel

newsweek.com "They are bombing us. We are trying to escape." That was the text message Michael Zilberman received at 6:51 a.m. October 7 from his daughter, Rachel, who was attending the…

Eurovision 2024: Showrunner Per Blankens Previews What to Expect, From ABBA to the Runtime

billboard.com With the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest less than seven weeks away, production in host country Sweden has kicked into high gear. Taking on the role of showrunner, Per Blankens…

Independent to take control of BuzzFeed and HuffPost in UK and Ireland

theguardian.com The Independent will take control of BuzzFeed and HuffPost in the UK and Ireland with the intention to create “Britain’s biggest publisher network for gen Z and millennial…

Utilities Can Meet Growing Power Demand Without Fossil Fuels

newsweek.com Several of America's utilities are warning that red lights are flashing across America's power grids. They claim surging demand will crash America's electric infrastructure…

The aftermath of ChatGPT's launch leaves media industry battling profitability with layoffs

publicize.co first burst onto the scene in November of 2022, its potential has seen industries from entertainment to insurance questioning how the cutting-edge technology would impact…

Crusader Kings 3’s new plagues absolutely rocked my royal house

polygon.com Crusader Kings 3’s newest expansion, Legends of the Dead, adds two major elements to the game. The first is a sense of legacy, with individual monarchs forging out their own…

Dogpatch to bring back all-island e-sports competition in April

siliconrepublic.com Projected to reach a revenue of $4.2bn globally this year, e-sports has been growing in popularity wildly and start-ups such as Nativz Gaming are trying to hone it. In…

Independent to Take Over BuzzFeed Sites in UK, Ireland

thewrap.com BuzzFeed on Thursday signed a licensing deal that will see its namesake U.K. website and other titles in Britain and Ireland taken over by Independent Digital News and…

Why BuzzFeed Shares Are Surging Thursday

benzinga.com BuzzFeed, Inc. BZFD shares are rising on Thursday. The firm entered into a multi-year license and strategic partnership with Independent Digital News and Media. The…

5 top tips for starting in a new job

siliconrepublic.com Hays’ Pam Lindsay-Dunn has some advice for new starters, including knowing the difference between normal settling in feelings and ‘I’ve made a huge mistake’. Starting a new…

Britain’s The Independent signs deal to take control of BuzzFeed’s operations in U.K., Ireland

theglobeandmail.com British media group The Independent will take control of BuzzFeed’s editorial and commercial operations in the U.K. and Ireland in a multiyear licensing deal announced on…

News media job cuts 2024 tracked: At least 980 redundancies in January and 615 in February

pressgazette.co.uk Last year was a brutal year for the journalism industry, with at least 8,000 job cuts made in the UK, US and Canada according to Press Gazette’s analysis. The biggest job…

WILDBRAIN'S FAMILY CHANNEL BRINGS LOUISE LIVES LARGE TO CANADIAN AUDIENCES

benzinga.com During Family Channel's free preview, enjoy this uplifting new series about resilience and embracing change, which premieres in Canada on April 3 The international…

Sports Betting Is Now Legal in 38 States. These 3 Stocks Might Be Worth the Gamble

finance.yahoo.com As an avid sports fan, I've been interested in sports betting for a while, even if it seemed reserved for Las Vegas trips and a few under-the-table sportsbooks. However, I…

Americans increasingly want to move to another country

newsweek.com More than three times as many Americans would like to live in another country now than half a century ago, new polling shows. A survey of 902 U.S. adults by the Monmouth…

5 reasons to feel positive about the climate

siliconrepublic.com In celebration of climate activists and researchers around the world, here are some positive climate stories to brighten your day. As we face an accelerating climate crisis,…

Amazon strengthens Anthropic ties with $2.75bn investment

siliconrepublic.com The latest investment gives Amazon a minority ownership position in Anthropic, which is already backed by the likes of Google and Salesforce. The e-commerce giant looking to…

Bord na Móna and SSE to boost Irish wind in €1bn venture

siliconrepublic.com The joint venture aims to create multiple wind farms across Ireland’s midlands, which would create hundreds of jobs and power up to 450,000 homes. A new joint venture…

Wellola raises €2.2m led by Elkstone for healthcare platform

siliconrepublic.com CEO and founder Sonia Neary said the investment will help the company expand its footprint across the UK, where several hospitals use its Portasana platform. Dublin-based…

Finding the ‘delicate’ balance of security and innovation in IT

siliconrepublic.com Qualcom’s managing director Ken Ryan discusses how the IT sector has evolved over the years, the technology that will shake up industries and the shift from reactive support…

GameStop could be gone in less than 5 years, says analyst

fastcompany.com Wall Street has been skeptical about meme stock favorite GameStop for a few years, but one of the leading analysts in the video game space now says he expects the company to…

Diageo price hike fails to bring cheer to pub landlords

euronews.com The price hikes will mainly hit the Rockshore, Guinness, Hop House 13 and Carlsberg brands. British-Irish drinks giant Diageo is to raise its pint prices for the third time…

GameStop Needs To Get Its Game Back

benzinga.com On Tuesday, GameStop Corporation GME missed both top and bottom-line estimates with its latest quarterly report. Amid the ongoing shift to digital downloads with the rise of…

Rose Dugdale

newsweek.com She was an upper-class woman who was presented to Queen Elizabeth II during her debutante season and ended up as one of the chief bomb makers in an Irish terrorist…

Galway-based Mbryonics bags €17.5m from European accelerator

siliconrepublic.com The space-tech company will use the funding to create a manufacturing, assembly and testing facility over the next five years. Mbryonics, a space-tech company that develops…

Free speech is under attack in the U.S., but it’s on the ropes elsewhere

reason.com If you think free speech is under attack in the United States—and it is—you should see its besieged status in the rest of the world. Open contempt for unrestricted debate…

Fertility statistics

ec.europa.eu Almost 2 times fewer children born in the EU in 2022 than 6 decades ago In 2022, 3.88 million children were born in the EU, corresponding to a crude birth rate (the number…

Farmers in Brussels throw beets, spray manure at police and set hay alight to protest EU policies

fortune.com Farmers threw beets, sprayed manure at police and set hay alight on Tuesday as hundreds of tractors again sealed off streets close to the European Union headquarters, where…

‘Ghostbusters’ Bests ‘Dune 2’ at U.K., Ireland Box Office, Sydney Sweeney’s ‘Immaculate’ Makes Third Place Debut

variety.com Sony’s “Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire” debuted atop the U.K. and Ireland box office with £4 million ($5.1 million), according to numbers from Comscore. In the process, the…

CEO of UK's National Grid warns of datacenters' thirst for power

theregister.com John Pettigrew, the CEO of British utility National Grid, warned on Tuesday that datacenter power consumption is on track to grow 500 percent over the next decade. In a…

Irish Economy Forecast to Return to Growth, Easing Drag on Eurozone

wsj.com The eurozone economy may be freed of a headwind that enfeebled growth in 2023, with new forecasts pointing to a return to expansion for Ireland, one of the currency area’s…

Ireland’s economy forecast to return to growth, easing drag on eurozone

marketwatch.com The eurozone economy may be freed of a headwind that enfeebled growth in 2023, with new forecasts pointing to a return to expansion for Ireland, one of the currency area’s…

Holidaymakers going to EU caught out by 10-year-passport rule

bbc.co.uk UK travellers used to be able to carry up to nine months from an old passport over onto a new one. But post-Brexit, EU countries will not accept passports issued more than…

Liam Neeson on Working With Irish Pals in New Film and Why He Said Yes to ‘Naked Gun’ Sequel

hollywoodreporter.com Liam Neeson was 56 when his career took an unexpected detour into the action hero genre thanks to 2008’s Taken, a Pierre Morel-directed surprise blockbuster that raked in…

GameStop cuts jobs and quarterly revenue falls amid rising competition

theglobeandmail.com Video game retailer GameStop GME-N said on Tuesday it had cut an unspecified number of jobs to reduce costs and reported lower fourth-quarter revenue amid rising competition…

GameStop cuts jobs, quarterly revenue falls

finance.yahoo.com Videogame retailer GameStop said on Tuesday it had cut an unspecified number of jobs to reduce costs and reported lower fourth-quarter revenue amid rising competition from…

Where is housing most expensive in Europe and how much are people willing to spend?

euronews.com New data shows where housing is most costly in Europe - and where people are willing to spend more on it. Those in Finland spend the most on housing, followed closely by the…

The 3 Best EV Charging Stocks to Buy in Q2 2024

investorplace.com Legislation in both the U.S. and overseas encourages the deployment of an electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure. As a result, investors are gravitating toward the…

Industry approach: How ISTA’s new president will steer Irish science ed

siliconrepublic.com The new president of ISTA, Ken Keohane, wants his tenure to be about emphasising how industry can shape science education and teaching in Ireland. When Ken Keohane was…

Why Celsius Holdings Shares Are Gaining Today

benzinga.com Celsius Holdings, Inc. CELH shares are gaining on Tuesday. The company disclosed its plans to expand into new international markets, growing the global sales and…

Managed SIEM Services Market worth $16.0 billion by 2028, growing at a CAGR of 16.3 %: Report by MarketsandMarkets™

benzinga.com Chicago, March 26, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The global is estimated to be worth USD 7.5 billion in 2023 and is projected to reach USD 16.0 billion by 2028, at a CAGR of…

TikTok Announces Youth Council To Improve Safety Measures

socialmediatoday.com TikTok is adding another element to reassure parents of teens who use the app, with the establishment of a new Youth Council who’ll share the young user perspective on the…

Top Gear’s Clarkson and May brand crypto scam ads as ‘balls’

protos.com Former Top Gear presenters Jeremy Clarkson and James May have denounced as “balls” a series of crypto scam ads using their names, and have encouraged fans to “say b*****ks…

Dozens of farmers block streets in Brussels to protest EU policies

theglobeandmail.com Dozens of tractors on Tuesday sealed off streets close to European Union headquarters where the 27 EU agriculture ministers were planning to discuss the crisis in the sector…

The CEO of Ryanair says the airline would regularly find missing seat handles and tools under floorboards on Boeing planes

businessinsider.com Ryanair CEO Michael O'Leary. Horacio Villalobos/Getty Images Ryanair CEO Michael O'Leary said Boeing has quality control issues. O'Leary said the company found leftover…

Widening gulf between weekday and Saturday UK newspaper sales revealed

pressgazette.co.uk The Daily Mail’s Saturday edition today sells almost double the number of copies than it does on the average weekday. New Press Gazette analysis of ABC data shows the extent…

With blaring horns rumbling engines, farmers in tractors block Brussels to protest EU policies

apnews.com Dozens of tractors on Tuesday sealed off streets close to European Union headquarters where the 27 EU agriculture ministers were planning to discuss the crisis in the sector…

Florida-Based Cybersecurity Company Launches Australian Data Centre

benzinga.com Sydney, March 25, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Leading cybersecurity solution provider, ThreatLocker, proudly announces the launch of its advanced data centre in Sydney,…

CrossCountry upgrade will see 25% more rail seats

bbc.co.uk Long-distance train operator CrossCountry has announced an expansion that will see about a quarter more seats available on its trains. Twelve new trains will be in place by…

TikTok Announces New ‘Youth Council’ to Improve its Safety Measures

socialmediatoday.com TikTok is adding another element to reassure parents of teens who use the app, with the establishment of a new Youth Council who’ll share the young user perspective on the…

Fiery exchange over Nature Restoration Law overshadows climate debate

euronews.com The failure of EU ministers to rubber stamp a political agreement on a new Nature Restoration Law risks undermining climate action and damaging the EU's credibility both…

The new boss of Boeing's commercial airplanes division is a third-generation employee

businessinsider.com Stephanie Pope has worked for Boeing for nearly three decades. Geoffroy Van Der Hasselt/AFP/Getty Images Dave Calhoun named a new chief executive of Boeing's commercial…

How 3D-printed units can boost marine life along Dublin Port

siliconrepublic.com Taking inspiration from the shores of Ringaskiddy in Co Cork, a UCD-led project aims to create a world-first in eco-engineering along the shoreline of Dublin Port. When…

Monday assorted links

marginalrevolution.com 1. First woman to complete grueling Barkley marathon. 2. New Aztec codices discovered on amate paper. 3. Why Ireland’s housing bubble burst. 4. Wokeness was associated with…

Europe’s hottest talent is moving to the continent’s second cities like Manchester, Rotterdam, and Stuttgart for a better quality of life

aol.com Workers are packing up their belongings and turning their backs on the constant grind of Europe’s most intense capital cities, like London, Amsterdam, and Berlin. Instead,…

Energy agency announces $6 billion to slash emissions in industrial facilities

apnews.com The Biden administration announced $6 billion in funding Monday for projects that will slash emissions from the industrial sector — the largest-ever U.S. investment to…

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