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The Big Tech Show

Irish Independent Tech Editor Adrian Weckler hosts this award-winning business podcast which dives deep into the biggest industry advances and tracks the key movers and shakers behind the innovation. From interviewing Big Tech CEOs to investigations into how tech affects our working lives, the show has become Ireland’s most listened-to technology podcast.

Will Elon Musk finally buy Twitter?

22 mins; October 06, 2022

Does the UK’s proposed Vat free shopping mean cheaper tech?

21 mins; September 29, 2022

How a bank card was scammed with a phone

28 mins; September 22, 2022

Should TikTok be banned?

20 mins; September 15, 2022

iPhone 14 launch in California – is the latest release worth the money?

23 mins; September 08, 2022

Are data centres to blame for Ireland’s energy crisis?

24 mins; September 01, 2022

Power banks and laptops: the best college tech for 2022

24 mins; August 25, 2022

Ecommerce and accusations of ageism: an interview with Selazar founder Jack Williams

14 mins; August 17, 2022

Big Tech Slowdown: What smaller growth could mean for jobs in Ireland

22 mins; August 12, 2022

23 & Me: What home DNA tests can tell you about yourself

18 mins; August 04, 2022

Is Bill Gates’s promise to give all his money away heroic or an ego trip?

24 mins; July 28, 2022

Everything you need to know about Apple’s new MacBook Air M2 — should you get it?

18 mins; July 21, 2022

The Nothing Phone: What it is and why it could be the next big thing

10 mins; July 14, 2022

From AirTags to Power Banks: The best travel tech for 2022

27 mins; July 07, 2022

The iPhone at 15 -- what is its legacy and its future?

27 mins; June 30, 2022

An interview with Ireland's parcel locker king

27 mins; June 23, 2022

An interview with Zoom's Dubliner CIO, Harry Moseley

23 mins; June 16, 2022

What to do about your security password

23 mins; June 09, 2022

Remote control - how companies are pulling people back to the office

19 mins; June 02, 2022

The €40m Cork startup that's helping to solve the supply chain crisis

19 mins; May 26, 2022

An explainer on why Elon is backing away from Twitter and what happens next

13 mins; May 19, 2022

What effects do crashing tech stocks have on your pension and pay?

21 mins; May 12, 2022

Do you have to be an asshole to be a top tech founder?

24 mins; May 05, 2022

Is Dublin becoming San Francisco?

25 mins; April 28, 2022

The most irritating, broken tech in our daily routines

25 mins; April 21, 2022

A beginner’s guide to raising startup cash — from those who are doing it right now

25 mins; April 14, 2022

What you need to know about buying an electric car

29 mins; April 07, 2022

The EU gets tough with Big Tech

22 mins; March 31, 2022

A beginner's guide to putting in solar panels at home in Ireland

37 mins; March 25, 2022

How to avoid the Netflix price hike (and other penny-pinching tech tips)

23 mins; March 18, 2022

How to set up an NFT

24 mins; March 10, 2022

The Ukraine-Russia cyber fallout and HSE attacks: an interview with the newly-appointed cyber boss

27 mins; March 03, 2022

Helen Dixon on big tech

44 mins; February 23, 2022

Bank Of Ireland and cybersecurity

25 mins; February 17, 2022

Does Ireland have its own Tinder Swindlers?

22 mins; February 10, 2022

Are tech graduates who earn six figure salaries making Dublin a boring city?

26 mins; February 04, 2022

Who gets your social media accounts when you die?

25 mins; January 27, 2022

The problem with betting apps

27 mins; January 20, 2022

Learning lessons from Theranos: is it okay for startups to fake it until they make it?

27 mins; January 13, 2022

What to expect in 2022

26 mins; January 06, 2022

Tech, Ireland and 2021: the big losers and the winners

34 mins; December 30, 2021

Why fintech should be better

23 mins; December 23, 2021

How to make money as an Irish YouTuber

27 mins; December 16, 2021

Ho ho ho — the tech gift guide

20 mins; December 09, 2021

Enough streaming platforms already

31 mins; December 02, 2021

Finding the next Irish Collison

21 mins; November 25, 2021

Our utopian technosocialist future

26 mins; November 18, 2021

Where are our chips?

17 mins; November 11, 2021

Drone deliveries in Irish towns

25 mins; November 05, 2021

Are data centres sucking the energy out of Ireland?

28 mins; October 28, 2021

What is Facebook's new metaverse?

26 mins; October 21, 2021

Will Bitcoin survive China's ban?

26 mins; October 14, 2021

Are Facebook's new video-recording glasses creepy?

23 mins; October 08, 2021

Why Ireland's cyber security is still a joke

27 mins; October 01, 2021

The layman’s review guide on which iPhone 13 to get and which to avoid

30 mins; September 24, 2021

How to build a tech company in the West of Ireland

21 mins; September 17, 2021

Why Simon Coveney’s hacked phone is such a big deal

43 mins; September 10, 2021

Should we ban tech billionaires?

32 mins; September 03, 2021

Etsy's Fisher king

35 mins; August 27, 2021

Making a hash of iPhone privacy

35 mins; August 20, 2021

Ireland’s cable guy

27 mins; August 13, 2021

Space tourism or tech titan egomania?

27 mins; August 06, 2021

Are we living in a simulation?

23 mins; July 30, 2021

Nip, tuck, cut, paste

30 mins; July 23, 2021

Death and 12.5% taxes

20 mins; July 16, 2021

How pub passes work with QR codes in Denmark

18 mins; July 09, 2021

Is Starlink perfect for Ireland or just Elon hype?

27 mins; July 02, 2021

Should we ban facial recognition?

35 mins; June 25, 2021

Are Irish tech valuations out of control?

20 mins; June 18, 2021

Dublin trembles as Facebook says workers can now work from abroad

28 mins; June 11, 2021

Bitcoin: is now the time to buy?

26 mins; June 04, 2021

In defence of the gig economy

29 mins; May 28, 2021

Sorting out the HSE ransomware mess

25 mins; May 21, 2021

Weather or not: the apps that work and the ones that don’t

36 mins; May 14, 2021

Apple’s new iPhone ad-tracking rules — a blow for freedom or a shackle on business?

26 mins; May 07, 2021

An Irish class action suit against Facebook grows

29 mins; April 30, 2021

Enough with the emoji, grandad

22 mins; April 23, 2021

NFTs and art — a scam or the new, new thing?

37 mins; April 16, 2021

What Buffalo can teach Dublin

29 mins; April 09, 2021

The WWE’s Irish tech media king

24 mins; April 02, 2021

Lights, camera, action... for your Zoom calls and home working setup

42 mins; March 26, 2021

Living the Vito local

50 mins; March 19, 2021

It’s Hannon time

31 mins; March 12, 2021

We’re becoming a nation of Twitchers

28 mins; March 05, 2021

Questioning the regulator in charge of Facebook

55 mins; February 25, 2021

An interview with Eir’s chief executive

28 mins; February 19, 2021

Ride, Larry, ride

30 mins; February 12, 2021

Why your DNA may be your next health check

34 mins; February 05, 2021

Bitcoin for the long term?

21 mins; January 29, 2021

Tech unions in Ireland?

33 mins; January 22, 2021

Giant TVs and robots – Samsung’s top man tells us what the future

32 mins; January 15, 2021

The case for cashless

22 mins; January 08, 2021

Here’s what will happen in 2021

50 mins; January 01, 2021

Is big tech beating up small tech?

32 mins; December 23, 2020

Here’s the best tech of 2020

44 mins; December 18, 2020

Slack co-founder Cal Henderson speaks exclusively

31 mins; December 11, 2020

Europe vs big tech

22 mins; December 04, 2020

An in-depth interview with NBP CEO, Peter Hendrick

57 mins; November 27, 2020

Are you a bad person for shopping on Amazon?

28 mins; November 20, 2020

Is there such a thing as a ‘right to disconnect’?

40 mins; November 13, 2020

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