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For Tech’s Sake
Join Elaine Burke and Kelly Earley for a weekly edition of the people’s tech podcast, where they demystify the news and help you decode your digital life.
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Episodes
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Think of the children!
Everyone's talking about kids and tech, but is the internet responsible for young people's anxieties? And are bans an effective way of moderating behaviour? We…
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Roomba-quality work
In this bonus episode from For Tech’s Sake, Elaine and Jenny assess where we’re at with the current AI hype cycle (with some help from a scathing op-ed from…
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Internet of trash
Did you know there are bins in Dublin connected to the internet? They are part of what’s known as the internet of things, or IoT, which is turning into…
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Interstellar space and a doorbell for fish
In this bonus episode from For Tech’s Sake, Elaine is joined by special guest host Dr Jessamyn Fairfield, a physicist and performer of science stories…
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Trust the (democratic) process
2024 is a major year for voters worldwide, but with tech being used to push all sorts of manipulative messaging and agendas, how can we trust what we see…
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Make robots hairy again
In this bonus episode from For Tech’s Sake, Elaine and Jenny are laughing at Grimes’s disastrous Coachella set and squealing at an impressive and terrifying…
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Fast tech
In this episode of For Tech’s Sake, Elaine and Jenny draw parallels between the tech industry and ‘fast fashion’ – notorious for its short production cycles…
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Techin’ eejits and techin’ legends
In this bonus episode from For Tech’s Sake, Elaine and Jenny single out their techin’ eejits and techin’ legends from recent tech news. Listen in to find out…
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AI can be good, actually
We’re back! And we’re catching up on all the AI news, good and bad, that’s been happening. And to prove there really are good applications of AI out there, we…
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Elaine and Jenny, your hosts
It’s just us, your hosts, for this bonus episode of For Tech’s Sake. Following on from our round-up of 2023, we’re giving out the For Tech’s Sake awards for…
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What’s another year in tech?
This week it’s just Elaine and Jenny as we round up 2023’s tech news – which took a long time to get through! And even at that, things have changed since this…
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Padraig Hennessy, chair of AgTech Ireland
In this extended interview with Padraig Hennessy, chair of AgTech Ireland, you’ll hear more about how he built a successful agri-tech start-up as CEO of Terra…
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Smart farming
For a sustainable future, farmers need to learn to work smarter, not harder. That’s according to our guest Padraig Hennessy, CEO of agri-tech start-up Terra…
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Rachel O’Dwyer, author of Tokens
If you enjoyed our chat about the digital disruption of the value of money, you're in luck because we had a lot more to discuss with Rachel O’Dwyer. Rachel is…
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Money talk
Do you understand money? Neither do we, to be honest. And now that digital platforms are creating their own forms of finance – often without the restrictions…
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Niamh Donnelly, co-founder of Akara Robotics
In this extended chat with Niamh Donnelly, the award-winning entrepreneur and co-founder of Akara Robotics, we learned even more about the challenges of…
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Why robot?
Robots are among us, and are likely to become an even more commonplace fixture in our future. But what does it mean to be living and working alongside robots…
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Aisling Murray, Beta Festival founder
We have a whopper of an extended episode for you, with lots of talk on how technology – especially AI – intersects with the world of the arts. If you’ve…
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Wherefore art now?
In this episode we look at tech’s impact across the arts, from designers and artists to writers and musicians. We also got the lowdown on Ireland’s new…
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Dr Conor Linehan, psychology researcher
In this extended interview with UCC’s Dr Conor Linehan, we talk more about how people respond to deepfakes, why some people don’t want the ability to recast…
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Rolling in the deepfakes
Think you could tell a deepfake from real content? Think again. Dr Conor Linehan, a senior lecturer in applied psychology at UCC, joined us to explain how…
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Bobby Healy, founder and CEO of Manna
In this extended interview with serial entrepreneur Bobby Healy, we find out more about his roll-out plans for drone delivery company Manna across Ireland. We…
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The drone ranger
Did you know that an Irish company is one of the world leaders in developing drone delivery services? We spoke to Manna CEO and founder Bobby Healy about the…
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Dr Colman Noctor, child psychotherapist
This bonus episode of For Tech’s Sake features our full, uncut interview with Dr Colman Noctor, child and adolescent psychotherapist, about kids and…
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The kids are online
Our online spaces are being taken over – by kids! Many children as young as eight have their own devices and social media accounts, and while efforts are made…
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Dr David McKeown, rocket scientist and Dublin maker
In our latest episode we spoke to Dr David McKeown, one of the originators of Dublin Maker, a fantastic and free annual event that brings together makers of…
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Be smart and break things
Dublin Maker is coming soon so we spoke to one of its founders, Dr David McKeown, to find out all about this year’s festival and discuss the importance of…
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Dr Gareth Jones, search technologies expert
In this bonus episode of For Tech’s Sake you get to hear our complete interview with Prof Gareth Jones because we simply couldn’t fit all his knowledge on…
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Dude, where’s my bias-free search engine?
How much do you know about a tech tool you use every day? Google is often the first port of call for many of us online, but how much do we understand the…
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Dr Patricia Scanlon, Ireland’s AI ambassador
In our latest episode we spoke to Dr Patricia Scanlon, Ireland’s AI ambassador, about the kind of work that needs to be done to build better AI, and we…
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Please, AI responsibly
Dr Patricia Scanlon is Ireland’s first AI ambassador, and she sees it as her duty to start a national conversation on AI and, especially, ethical AI. She…
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Brian Honan, cybersecurity expert and founder of BH Consulting
There’s so much to talk to when it comes to cybersecurity that we could only fit a fraction of our discussion with internationally recognised expert Brian…
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Practising safe tech
We are not the weakest link in the cybersecurity chain, at least that’s what expert Brian Honan says. Brian is internationally recognised for his expertise on…
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Aoife Barry, author of Social Capital
You may have already listened to our episode on online content and social media with journalist and author Aoife Barry, and we had so much more in this chat…
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The good, the mods and the ugly
Social media can connect us, divide us, entertain us and enrage us. We’d love if online spaces were made safer and better moderated to keep the nasty parts at…
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David Singleton, Stripe CTO
If you already listened to our episode on how small start-ups become Big Tech behemoths and how that scaling cycle continues today, you might like to hear more…
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Big fish, little fish, corporate shocks
We’re talking Big Tech, small start-ups and how they scale, disrupt and sometimes become one. Our special guest is Stripe CTO David Singleton, who we nabbed…
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Dr Caroline West, sex educator
This bonus episode from For Tech’s Sake features our complete interview with Dr Caroline West a sex educator and host of the Glow West podcast. Caroline has a…
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Let’s talk about sex-tech, baby
If you ever wanted to hear two nerds talk to an expert about sex, you’re in luck! In this episode, we speak to Dr Caroline West, a sex educator with a master’s…
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We’ve only just begun...
It’s the last bonus episode of the season and we are letting you in on an exclusive chat on what we have in mind for season two of For Tech’s Sake, including…
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An open and shut case
Do you realise how much of the tech we rely on is maintained by volunteer coders? This isn't just Wikipedia. A plethora of everyday tech would collapse if not…
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Sorting through the rubbish
We follow up our For Tech’s Sake episode on tech waste with a closer look at what sustainability really means to tech companies, from explaining what a B Corp…
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A waste of space
In this episode of For Tech’s Sake, we dive into the landfill of digital waste to turn up some nuggets of information we hope you’ll re-use. Tech waste…
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The great singularity
We follow up our For Tech’s Sake episode on dark patterns with our musings on the copycat patterns we see across the tech we use, where every app just steals –…
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Hello dark patterns, my old friend
‘Dark patterns’ are design techniques used to weaponise user behaviour and manipulate us into delivering on a company’s goals. They have become so common that…
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You drive me lazy
We follow up our For Tech’s Sake episode on the power behind our tech, with a teardown of the electric vehicle industry and, in particular, self-driving cars…
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Max power
We have an energy crisis, and it's not the one you think. To move to a more sustainable future we need to figure out how to power mass electrification, and…
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A glass case of emojis
Listeners, an update to the Microsoft Teams platform since the recording of this episode can only lead us to believe that Satya Nadella has bugged our podcast…
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Working not-so nine-to-five
A robot might steal your job, but it might also make it better. And some platforms make it easier to communicate remotely, while others enable micromanagers to…
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It’s AI-live!
Sentient AI is not a thing, but why do some people believe that it is? Following our AI-focused episode of For Tech’s Sake, we look at some of the astoundingly…
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AI & U
Claims of sentient AI have been largely debunked by experts, but there are still plenty of unsettling aspects of this technology that raise ethical questions…
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The Elon-phant in the room
Following our For Tech’s Sake episode on health-tech, we decided it was time to take the temperature of the tech industry itself, as it's not doing so well…
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Does an app a day keep the doctor away?
Medical technologists are racing to fix all of our ills – even our inevitable death! But in the rush to embed technology into healthcare, are we thinking about…
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The tech is coming from inside the house
Following our For Tech’s Sake episode on tech-facilitated abuse, we got chatting about the fact that while humans can be terrible, sometimes the tech itself is…
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Tech-facilitated abuse
While plenty of technology has been designed to make the world a safer place, it can also introduce a whole new way to abuse and exploit others. From stalker…
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When tech goes too far
Following our For Tech’s Sake episode on digital transformation, we got talking about the things that have just gone too far, from tractors that have become…
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Digitise, disrupt, destroy
Digital transformation is a buzzword in all business right now, and some businesses are deciding to push ahead with new tech adoption without consideration for…
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Billionaire space bros
Following our For Tech’s Sake episode on space-tech, we got talking about billionaire space bros, space junk, and the commercialisation of space. Apparently…
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Space is ace
It’s been 60 years since John F Kennedy famously said, “We choose to go to the moon.” But why? Space exploration comes at the cost of billions and on the back…
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For Tech's Sake - Coming Soon!
Elaine Burke and Jenny Darmody have been writing about tech for a long time. Now they’re talking about it in For Tech’s Sake, a co-production from Silicon…