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A US radio journalist who lost his voice two years ago will soon return to the air, thanks to artificial intelligence. Jamie Dupree, 54, a political radio journalist with Cox Media Group, is unable to talk due to a rare neurological condition. A new voice was created for him by …

Donegal software business CloudRanger has been sold to a Silicon Valley buyer for an undisclosed sum. The purchaser is Druva, which itself has only been in existence since 2008. It has raised around $200m (€170.7m) from investors including venture capital giant Sequoia. CloudRanger provides IT backup and disaster recovery services. …

Talk to many in Ireland and you’ll hear that it’s a good time to be a female tech founder. The facts tell a slightly different story. So far this year, less than 1pc of available venture capital (€310m) has gone to firms founded (or co-founded) by women. On a rolling …

Indiegogo has said that it is willing to extend the deadline it gave to a project attempting to make a handheld version of a classic British computer. But the crowdfunding site says that the team behind the ZX Spectrum Vega+ has yet to meet its conditions. In February, Indiegogo threatened to …

HP Inc reported better-than-expected quarterly revenue and raised its full-year profit forecast, helped by strong demand for its notebooks and desktops. The company also named Steve Fieler as its chief financial officer, succeeding 32-year HP veteran Cathie Lesjak. Mr Fieler, whose appointment is effective from July 1, currently leads HP …

Snap chief Evan Spiegel launched a stinging critique of Facebook, dismissing both its appeal and its successful attempts to copy Snapchat’s most popular features. Spiegel aimed a series of barbs against his larger adversary at the annual Code Conference in California – moments before Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg took …

  A service used to identify and contact website owners has been forced to strip out most of the information on its site to comply with the EU’s GDPR legislation. Whois, which is used by the police and journalists to check the legitimacy of websites, no longer displays the name, …

The makers of Fortnite, one of the world’s most popular video games, have been accused of copying rival title PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG). The studio behind PUBG has asked a court in South Korea to determine whether Epic Games copied its intellectual property. Fortnite and PUBG have both attracted millions of …

Are night lights on earth captured by satellites from outer space a good way to measure inequality? Economists Praveen Chakravarty and Vivek Dehejia certainly believe so. They acquired images grabbed by satellites from the US Air Force Defence Meteorological Satellite Programme. These satellites circle the earth 14 times a day …

Former US astronaut Alan Bean, who was the fourth man to walk on the Moon, has died in Texas aged 86, his family has said. In later life he became an accomplished artist, producing paintings that were inspired by space. His family said he had fallen ill two weeks ago …