Professor Kevin Curran

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.

My review of selected news on Highland Radio along with Mary Hart & Lorraine Thompson. We discuss the backlash over the proposed Donald Trump visit, the use of social media in elections, whether 5G poses a health risk, the divorce referendum & the Jeremy Kyle show ban.

My interview with SC Magazine on Microsoft’s new decentralised identity (DID) network called ION (Identity Overlay Network) which runs over the top of the Bitcoin blockchain and achieves throughput of tens-of-thousands of operations per second.

My interview with Sputnik News on the controversy surrounding Google’s aggregation algorithm with regard to the purported censorship of conservative political discourse by the Silicon Valley giant.