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WELCOME TO THE Weird Wide Web – where we take a look at the week’s best offerings in tech and social media news.
This children’s hospital in San Francisco has roaming robots that deliver meals and medication to patients. It also has scan suites that look like VIP hotel rooms, according to Business Insider.
The Taoiseach and Tánaiste got to try out the Oculus Rift this week and they certainly seemed to enjoy it…
This week Gizmodo took a look at some so-called “spyware” that allows users to keep track of the phone activities of another person. This extends to their calls, texts, Whatsapp messages, Facebook posts and stored photos. Though companies who offer this software often claim it is mostly used by parents to protect their children, there is nothing to stop people using it to breach a partner’s privacy to check if they’re cheating or generally track their activities. Worse, it could also be the perfect tool for dangerous stalkers or perverts, according to Gizmodo, with seemingly no limits or regulation.
If you have limited storage on your phone and are now faced with deleting some much-loved apps, then Facebook Lite might be for you. Cnet reports this is a “slimmed-down” version of the app and if you want it, you’ll have to manually install it on your device.
We’ve spoken before about the Airpnp app, that shows you toilets in your location in case you have a sudden bladder need and aren’t sure where to go. A Buzzfeed reporting spent the day essentially peeing his way around New York City using the app, with some amusing results. We checked and the concept still doesn’t appear to have taken off in Ireland, with just one toilet listed here…
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This is not a story. Move on.
@Ian McDonald: couldn’t agree more.
Yeah in fairness I cannot stand Leo Varadkar and Fine Gael but this is a non-story… If Varadkar hadn’t been speaking at the event I’d argue otherwise but he was there to take part so it wasn’t just a jolly jaunt.
Why he is forced to defend this trip is beyond me. Only lazy journalism can explain it, just looking for a quick headline. With all the difficulties we have at the moment it’s essential that our views as a country are represented at the highest level.
@Michael Drennan: just wait….they’ll be posting against the trip soon.
So PBP are forcing the government to defend their actions in representing the country…..maybe PBP should actually start by defending their own actions the day Zelenskyy addressed them. After all, between them, Wallace and Daly, they are representing the country in an embarassing light!
@Joe_embarrassing light to who,all war mongers must be exposed , wouldn’t you agree Joey ..
@jim dee: let me guess…..another lad who thinks the west is responsible for everything…
Russia is ordering it’s troops to deliberately target civilians. There are mass graves with hundreds of bodies being found weekly, and you lot are deflecting attention away from it, by going on about how western troops are doing it as well.
Go learn the differences in what is happening. Where western troops are involved, it usually where some unfortunate has lost their mind and goes on a rampage. Now does that sound familiar? It should, there has been 3 very similar attacks in America itself in the last week and a half or so.
Yes, there are civilians being killed, I’m not denying that, but you lot are making it sound as if the US and NATO are going in guns blazing killing thousands. Well, tell you what, theres another commentator on here, Roy is name…..look up my replies to him. Could not be arsed dealing with you lot now
Slow news day
Paul Murphy needs to go back to sleep
What next for Paul Murphy? Taoiseach and Tánaiste to crawl to work? Or maybe they could stop eating as that’s clearly on taxpayer money as well.
Murphy, please leave politics. You are simply ruining effective opposition with your student union, jump on any bandwagon type of tabloid nonsense. We can do so much better than this.
If this is what’s is going on in the Dail,then we are more fuxked than I thought,as a Country our societies are so broken,that an awful lot of work needs to be done,and then problem was bad before Covid,now everyone is been badly affected,and he thinks it’s OK to waste time asking about a flight and hotel,
It must have been a torment in a 4star
Just waiting on FG/FF/GREEN Trolls.. FG/FF/GREEN Pandemic Travel now re-opens
@Maurice Frazer: I’d say it will be the opposite,the Country is on its knees,and PBP thinks that bringing up a flight and hotel,and waste the time in the Dail,it’s not that they are sitting every day for hours,u need to talk about the urgency of how badly working can’t make ends me.just goes to show,PBP they are constantly saying how the cost of living is affecting their Constituance.there is not 1 person in that government whether ur the parties in power,or the opposition,have a clue how hard it is
What’s he even doing there in the first place.a total waste of a space
Why did he and Martin both go.
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