The Big Tech Show
Episodes
Look at all these gadgets
14 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Phones, smartwatches, hifi, tablets, laptops – Adrian goes through some of the best tech to get over Christmas and recaps on what has impressed duri...
Are male founders better bullsh***ers than female ones?
07 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
All the statistics show that when it comes to VC cash, men get almost all of it. In fact, they snag way more than the percentage of startups they sole...
Crypto: the good and the truly shady
30 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In the original dot com boom, all you needed was an idea and you were showered with millions in funding. But is the same now happening with cryptocurr...
Recycled iPhones and crypto w***ers
23 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Adrian throws off the shackles in a free-ranging conversation with the Irish Independent’s environment editor, Paul Melia. The two discus...
When success is a two-way thing
09 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when the tech company you build becomes wildly successful? Do you change?At the Web Summit, Adrian sat down with the Des Treanor, co-foun...
Is the new iPad Pro a replacement for your laptop? Does the Web Summit matter?
02 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Adrian returns to Dublin following Apple’s MacBook Air and iPad Pro launch. Joined by Sunday Independent business correspondent Michael Cogley and I...
All the news that’s fit to share
26 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Little is one of Ireland’s most recognisable media technology figures. From being an anchorman on RTE television to founding Storyful to becomi...
Knowing me, knowing you, David Schneider: Aha!
19 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
When do comedy and technology mix? Why is social media so much to the fore in critical analysis of current events? This week, Adrian chats to a contem...
A broadband clusterf***
12 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In a week that saw the resignation of the Minister responsible for the National Broadband Plan, Adrian asks some blunt questions about whether the who...
How to get €1m for your startup
05 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
How do you ask for money for your startup?That’s the question that Adrian put to Peter O’Malley, the co-founder of a new startup that has raised €...
How to get €1m for your startup
05 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
How do you ask for money for your startup?That’s the question that Adrian put to Peter O’Malley, the co-founder of a new startup that has raised €...
Tommy Collison, our man in Seattle
28 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Adrian talks tech and politics with Tommy Collison, an Irish transplant to Seattle. Tommy brings us up to date on where tech and politics i...
The new iPhone — an exercise in Xs?
21 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
With almost two weeks of rigorous testing under his belt, Adrian Weckler assesses the iPhone Xs and Xs Max . Is the screen on the Xs Max too big? Has ...
Apple’s big iPhone Xs launch. (And a scary look into the future.)
14 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Adrian reports from Apple headquarters in Cupertino, California where he was on hand to test out the newly-launched iPhone Xs Max, Xs and X...
For God’s sake, secure your devices
07 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Adrian Weckler talks to the global IT security celebrity and virus hunter Mikko Hypponen.Hypponen, chief research officer at F-Secure, says...
Ideas wanted: the Apple tech whizz who wants to help your startup
31 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Adrian talks to Daniel Gross, who grew up in Israel and went to Silicon Valley as a teenager to seek fame and fortune through the famous ac...
Exclusive Ryan Smith interview: the billion dollar techie obsessed with fighting cancer
24 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Adrian sits down for an exclusive chat with Ryan Smith, the charismatic Utah founder of the €2bn software firm Qualtrics.As well as being...
Unwelcome guests on social media
17 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Adrian and the panel discuss the thorny question of whether social media services should be allowed — or obliged — to kick people off f...
What’s good and terrible about Dublin as a tech city
10 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
They came to Dublin to seek success and fortune.This week, Adrian Weckler sits down with two ambitious, successful young entrepreneurs who have one th...
Facebook in trouble (again) and a new tech bubble
03 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week Adrian Weckler looks at the list of sins Facebook is again having to answer for. Joined by political correspondent Laura Larkin and business...
Homeless in Seattle
20 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
There is a downside to tech cities. On the US west coast, where the biggest tech companies have their headquarters, there is also terrible homelessnes...
Huawei vs Apple vs Samsung: the great cameraphone face-off
13 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Having tested dozens of handsets this year, Adrian Weckler gives his verdict on what the best cameraphone on the market is at present.It comes down to...
Behind the scenes at Microsoft’s Seattle HQ
06 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Adrian gets a behind-the-scenes tour of Microsoft’s campus headquarters in Redmond, Seattle.This includes a preview of the latest in he c...
Women taking charge in tech
29 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Adrian Weckler talks to two women directing crucial operations in two of the world’s biggest tech companies.The Big Tech Show travelled t...
Why Dublin is freaking out about Amazon jobs
22 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
How has it come to a situation where a big tech company announcing 1,000 new jobs is freaking people out?This week’s Amazon jobs announcement has le...
An idiot’s guide to artificial intelligence
08 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
“Are robots actually becoming intelligent?”“Is my job under threat from intelligent machines?”“How close are Google, Amazon and Apple to giv...
The 20 stupidest tech ideas and products
01 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Adrian Weckler and Dr Mick O’Kerrigan from RecommenderX discuss 20 of the dumbest, faddiest tech ideas in recent years.From connected for...
An absolute idiot’s guide to GDPR
25 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
“I run a sports club – does this mean I have to ask them for permission to email now?”“Is it the end of cold-calling?”“What about if I wan...
Adrian Weckler on the digital age of consent, Google’s Duplex, Elon Musk and Yanny versus Laurel
18 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Adrian is joined by culture journalist Roisin Kiberd and INM’s head of product (and Sunday Independent columnist) Steve Dempsey to pore through some...
Adrian Weckler talks to James Kavanagh about the new media world
11 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
What sort of power do ‘influencers’ really yield?Adrian sits down with one of the most powerful social media figures in Ireland, who is a wanted m...
Baby you can’t drive my car
04 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
What’s the story with self-driving cars coming to Ireland? How will it all affect insurance? Will middle-aged men be able to bear giving up ‘contr...
Megabits, ministers and media ownership
27 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Communications Minister Denis Naughten sits down with Adrian and Fearghal O’Connor to talk of plans to make high speed broadband an “enforceable l...
“He should get an Emmy for that…”
20 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week Adrian sits down with the Emmy award-winning Boston tycoon who is the last man standing in Ireland’s controversial National Broadband Plan...
Hey, leave those kids alone…
13 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Adrian talks about digital consent, kids, Facebook, privacy and all points in between with Dylan Collins, the Tipperary founder and c...
Come fly the trumpety, scratchcardy skies with me
06 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Adrian is joined by the CTO of Europe’s biggest airline, Ryanair. John Hurley talks about the barrier to putting wifi in the planes, thos...
Tech dating and the electric car dream
30 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
What are the rules when it comes to dating people you work with? In tech companies, there are some interesting new guidelines emerging.To discuss this...
The #DeleteFacebook clusterf***
23 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Facebook is a mess — but are we really deleting it from our lives?Adrian is joined by outspoken privacy expert Daragh O’Brien and the group editor...
A chat with Europe’s social media tsar
16 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Adrian sits down with Helen Dixon, the most powerful data protection enforcer in Europe.Dixon talks about the factors and contexts involved in dealing...
Unboxing the S9; TDs tanking on Twitter
09 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Adrian sits down with journalist Roisin Kiberd and Dublin TD Noel Rock to talk about Twitter, having a social media ‘score’ and S...
Airbnb - an agent of misery?
02 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Adrian sits down with DIT head of design Barry Sheehan and freelance culture journalist Roisin Kiberd to talk about whether AirBnb is helping society ...
How to take a good photo
23 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Adrian sits down with award-winning Irish press photographer, Steve Humphreys, to talk about the best cameras on the market, how to take a good photo ...
The buyers’ guide episode
16 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Best phone? Or Windows laptop under €1,000? What about noise-cancelling headphones? Or mid-level camera? Adrian is joined by Independent tech whizz ...
Portugese Man Of War: The Paddy Cosgrave Interview
09 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Web Summit founder Paddy Cosgrave sits down with Adrian to talk bluntly about Irish journalism, politics, the property crisis, the future of tech and ...
Phones, phones, phones
02 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Adrian is joined by former Ireland rugby player (and Android enthusiast) Mike Ross and long time Apple user Dermot Daly to talk about the latest phone...
The rugby star, tech and blockchain
26 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Adrian is joined by Leinster and Ireland rugby international player Jamie Heaslip, who talks about his favourite tech and why he has become a keen inv...
The fast and the notorious
19 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Adrian talks to one of the world’s most infamous hackers, Kevin Mitnick, about what it’s like to be on the run for two years, get caugh...
Our scary, cool future
12 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
After a week of tech utopia at CES, Adrian looks at the some of the gadgets to come out of it – the growing influence of Alexa, giant TVs, drone car...
The Big Tech Show Episode 4 - Bitcoin or bust
05 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
“Bitcoin will reach $200,000 by the end of 2018.” That’s the view of Reuben Godfrey, one of Adrian’s guests on today’s show, who insists tha...
The Big Tech Show Episode 3 - What to expect from tech in 2018
29 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Adrian is joined by award-winning tech journalist Marie Boran and INM ‘newsonomics’ expert Steve Dempsey to talk about whether the media will surv...
Big Tech Show Episode 2 Oisin Hanrahan and the gig economy
22 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Is the ‘gig economy’ exploitative or a source of opportunity? Adrian discusses its pros and cons with Oisin Hanrahan, the 34-year-old Dubliner who...
The Big Tech Show Episode 1 - Mark Little
15 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In the first episode of The Big Tech Show, technology editor Adrian Weckler and Neva-Labs cofounder Mark Little discuss startups, gadgets, Facebook an...