Andy O'Donoghue

And so the Loop Quiet 2 earplugs are essentially a way to muffle the world without making you completely deaf to it.

So unlike the cheap little disposable foam earplugs that people will find in pharmacies...

These have a flexible ring-shaped acoustic channel, sits flush inside the ear, lets some sound out.

It's like the pass-through mode that we talk about on headphones.

So it reduces background noise by up to 24 decibels.

And so they're very soft.

They're easy to wear.

I actually find myself, I've tried them wearing them at nighttime just to cut out some noise.

They work really well.

And for 20 quid, really nice little gadget.

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Andy O'Donoghue joins us now for Tech Thursday.

Andy, we will talk in a moment about deliberate use of deke fake video scams.

But before we get to that, tell us about the new training course, available I think to almost everybody, been provided by the government into artificial intelligence.

Is it interactive or is it just looking at a video explaining how things work?

Okay.

You're making it sound like AI or day-to-day use of it is inevitable, is it?

Okay, well, I didn't get a chance to ask him about it when he was on the programme yesterday.

I didn't get a chance to get to a lot of things I would have liked to have got to.

But the Minister for Finance, Antonis Simon-Harris, yesterday was at a conference and he said deep-faked videos portraying him endorsing fraudulent investment products