London extradition hearing was the last stand of either Wikileaks founder or Western Intelligence Imperialism, and awaits January decision
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We Are Totally Facebooked
We’re enslaved by social media which will manipulate emotions for money By Mark Kernan This year Facebook filed two very interesting patents in the US. One was for emotion recognition technology; which recognises human emotions through facial expressions and can assess what mood we are in at any given time -happy or anxious for example. This […]
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EU’re in the Line of Fire
EU Digital Copyright Directive aims to reward content providers but overreaches on ordinary web users By Laurence O’Bryan Our world is experiencing a cathartic period of change, thanks to the internet and social media. The President of the United States uses Twitter to rally popular support among his base, including people who believe, as he […]
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Vogue, commercialism or realism?
The Irish Film Board rebrands as Screen Ireland
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Michael Smith interviews Max Keiser
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The well-worn phrase “it’s all over bar the shouting” couldn’t be more apt with regard to the Referendum which repealed the eighth amendment to the constitution (article 40.3.3). The referendum is all over, the shouting has begun and it is going to continue for some time. So far the shouting has been confined to a […]
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The lacklustre prose might have tipped you off that all of the above items are from press releases, and so lack the sharpness good newspaper prose should have after subediting. But it’s not just PR-speak that distinguishes these news items. Each one was subject to a news embargo. News embargoes are not unknown in Ireland, […]
