Category Archives: Security

My interview on BBC Radio Ulster Sunday Sequence on the relevance 70 years later of George Orwell’s dystopian novel ‘1984’. We discuss how close to his fiction has our reality become.

My piece with CyberRadioTV on the cybersecurity risks associated with home IoT devices and the steps which can be taken to secure your smart home.

My interview on BBC Radio Foyle on Amazon unveiling their latest version of its Prime Air delivery drone, a hybrid aircraft that’s capable of vertical takeoff and landing as well as sustained forward flight. Amazon wish to launch a delivery service using the drone in “the coming months,” but has not said where this might take place or how many customers it might cover.

My interview on BBC Radio Ulster’s Good Morning Ulster Show about Amazon announcing it will use drones to deliver packages to customers “within months”. It unveiled its latest drone at a conference in Las Vegas, touting the machine’s ability to spot obstacles such as people, dogs, and clotheslines.

My interview on BBC Radio Foyle about how developments in technology has led to more workers turning to the gig economy to find home based job opportunities.

My interview in the Global Times (China) on the UK trying to strike a balance managing its relations with the US and China, with Huawei standing in the middle.

My interview on BBC Radio Foyle about EE launching the UK’s first next-generation 5G mobile network. 5G mobile networks offer faster downloads, but customers will need a new handset to take advantage. At first, the service will only be available in limited areas of Belfast, Birmingham, Cardiff, Edinburgh, London and Manchester.

My interview on BBC Radio Foyle about a UK fruit picking robot that could replace human pickers. Fieldwork Robotics claim the machine should collect 25,000 raspberries a day, while humans picks 15,000 over 8 hours.

My interview in The Global Times (China) on the escalating technology Cold War between China and the US.

My interview on BBC Radio Foyle about Google banning the world’s second biggest smartphone maker, Huawei, from some updates to the Android operating system, dealing a blow to the Chinese company.