The latest business & emerging technology news in Belfast & across NI. Main account: @SyncNI
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1 Aug 2021
This week Irish FinTech @PrepaidFS were awarded the contract for NI High Street Voucher Scheme, a £145m contract!
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31 Jul 2021
DID YOU HEAR?
The Nokia brick is back!
And it still has snake🐍
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17 Jul 2021
This week it was announced that Belfast cybersecurity company @Cyphra_com have been acquired by Pixel, the parent company of IT solutions company @perfectimage
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27 Jun 2021
A 'cyber-seed' which grows into products including aircraft parts and medical devices is to be created.
Experts from @QUBelfast @lborouniversity and @UniOfYork have been awarded £7.3million to work on the design.
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9 Apr 2021
"The focus of the webinar will be on optimising the green hydrogen pipeline, reducing costs for production, transmission, distribution, retail, and end applications."
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@Wright_bus @GenComm_CH2F #ClimateAction
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1 Apr 2021
"Some merchants have accepted Bitcoin in the past but were forced to stop taking payments due to currency volatility. With conversions taking place instantly at check-out time, Visa and PayPal can eliminate that risk."
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#bitcoin #cryptocurrency
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18 Feb 2021
"The rover will officially touch down on the surface of Mars at 8:55PM GMT, but the show starts at 7:15PM tonight. The event will be streamed live on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, ..."
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8 Feb 2021
"... raises questions about how the law can catch up with existence of cryptocurrencies. Fraudulently obtained currency is normally confiscated, but you can't really confiscate anything that's on a public blockchain ledger."
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20 Jan 2021
"Ireland is in the rare position of having abundant wind and large suitable areas for offshore wind farms, which could be used to generate hydrogen from water by electrolysis."
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18 Jan 2021
"The Traditional Medicine Group followed clues from ancient Irish folk medicine about soil in west Fermanagh"
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12 Jan 2021
Almac Sciences awarded £2m grant for enzyme discovery biotech
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"Almac Sciences, a member of the Almac Group, has been developing a new digital platform for enzyme chemistry with R&D support from Invest NI." @AlmacGroup
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7 Jan 2021
OpenAI creates amazing new AI that can create photos and artwork
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"DALL·E is able to take a short text prompt such as 'an armchair in the shape of an avocado' and will then generate a series of images corresponding to that input. " #ai
5 Jan 2021
Northern Ireland begins rolling out Oxford Covid-19 vaccine
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"The injection was given to 94-year-old Eileen Lynch at a GP surgery on the Falls Road in Belfast." #COVID19 #MedTech
10 Dec 2020
Consumers don’t fully trust new smart home technologies due to fears over security breaches, according to research from Queen’s University Belfast and the University of Warwick.
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5 Dec 2020
"Staking is what you need to do to become a validator in a proof-of-stake system. This is a consensus mechanism that is going to replace the proof-of-work system currently in place on the Ethereum #blockchain network."
@RakutenBelfast
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26 Nov 2020
Economy Minister Diane Dodds has stressed the importance of renewable electricity and her plan to develop a hydrogen economy in Northern Ireland.
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21 Nov 2020
In our latest podcast episode of #TechCraic, @niamhcam94
speaks with @KainosSoftware's Ruth McGuinness on her career path into tech and what we can expect from the upcoming AI Con 2020!
#AI #tech
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21 Nov 2020
SONI, the Electricity System Operator for Northern Ireland is developing a 10-year programme of work, and wants your views on its outlook to 2029.
#SONI #electricity #NIfuture
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15 Nov 2020
Irish micromobility start-up Zipp Mobility has completed its first week of e-scooter rental trials in the UK, with promising results.
#escooter #micromobility #startup
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14 Nov 2020
Allstate, like many other organisations, is becoming more proactive and creative in finding new ways to enhance the customer journey using Artificial Intelligence
@AllstateNI
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