Adrian Weckler

Emmet O'Neill, Chief Executive of Storytoys, thank you very much for joining us today on the first episode of Can It Scale? Rory Bones was on sound today and JJ Clark produced.

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Hey there, we are Indosport with me, Joe Malloy, and we have things like this.

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Because for me, the ratio between using the small screen and the big screen was probably about 80/20.

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What is Apple's folding phone, the iPhone Duo, really like to use? Is it worth the money? And what might you miss compared to other iPhones? I'm Adrian Weckler.

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In this episode, we will give you a comprehensive rundown of the iPhone Duo with Saoirse Hanley here to help walk us through it.

Alan Kelly was on sound.

Like, what?

I heard Adrian Weckler of This Parish, uh, talking about it, like, that he's, he's met Zuckerberg, and he's been up close, and yeah, he is, but he said the way he's portrayed in the movie is way, way beyond-

Reality?

Yeah, way beyond.

Like, this is a mess.

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Now, today we're talking about The Social Reckoning, which is the follow-up movie of sorts to the 2010 film The Social Network.

So, is it worth seeing from a tech and historical perspective? Is it accurate? And even if it's not, is it interesting? So the movie follows Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen, played by Mikey Madison, who discovers internal company research showing that Facebook knows its algorithms are contributing to things like political extremism and misinformation harm to young people and doesn't do anything to stop that.

Thanks so much for being with us today.

The research, which was done for International E-Waste Day, shows that nearly 90% of Irish people bought some fast tech product in the last year.

And joining me now to discuss this further is Adrian Weckler, technology editor with the Irish Independent.

Adrian, you're very welcome to The Hard Shoulder.

Um, the, these are quite interesting, the products.

All right.

Look, thank you very much for joining us on that fast tech story.

That is Adrian Weckler, technology editor with the Irish Independent.

So many people texting in about the public sector strike that is, it looks like, set to go ahead on Wednesday.

So that's how much these deficits, sorry, deficits of €13 billion, that's how much these windfall gains are worth to Ireland right now today.

And just on that, Adrian Weckler posted, it's weird that three US companies, Apple, €4.1 billion, Microsoft, €5.6 billion, and Eli Lilly, €5.7 billion, now pay for people's heating, oil, pension increases and tax cuts across the budget.

So it's mad, Ross, isn't it?

Yeah, I mean, the scale of some of these businesses is incredible and difficult to fathom.

And then we have to buy their products and services because they're the most advanced companies.

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Today we're going to look at whether AI is going to kill us all or not.

We're going to check the scorecard of who is saying it will kill us and those who are saying this is all overhyped.

Grainne Dowling was on sound.

But really deep down, like we are a corporation and a more efficient form of corporation than imperial companies of the past.

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Now, my guest today, I don't really need to introduce to our viewers, but I will anyway.

He's an award-winning journalist, one of the most recognizable faces on TV for years before leaving to create a startup that was bought by Rupert Murdoch, then became boss at Twitter in Ireland, then created another startup, Kinzen, which was bought by Spotify in 2022.