The year is off to a fantastic start for Northern Ireland's tech scene, with several companies announcing moves into major new refurbished buildings, some amazing new research coming out of Queen's University Belfast, award deadlines approaching, and a major global data breach exposing millions of people's passwords.
It can be difficult to follow all of the tech news as it comes out, but you don't want to miss a big announcement or the latest development in the NI business scene. With that in mind, below is a list of the top five tech stories we covered this week with links and an excerpt from each:
[Visit Post] Major global data breach: Check if your passwords are compromised
Last night saw the announcement of another major data breach as one of these massive password databases used by hackers has been released to the public. Cyber security expert Troy Hunt initially flagged the breach, which he calls the "Collection #1" Data Breach, when he was sent a tipoff about the database of almost 2.7 billion individual records being hosted on cloud service MEGA. He then processed the list and verified that it contains 773 million unique email addresses and at least 21 million unique known passwords.
To check whether your passwords may have been compromised in this breach, you can enter your email address into ... [
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[Visit Post] Queen's University develops amazing new disease detection technology
Early detection of disease and detection has always been a major contributing factor to patient health outcomes, with many serious diseases and infections being much more easily treated if they're detected before they've progressed too far. Medical technology researchers are always looking for more sensitive and accurate tests for diseases in order aid early diagnosis.
A group at Queen's has developed a new highly sensitive enzyme biomarker test that detects proteases, a strong indicator of microorganism infection and conditions such as ... [
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[Visit Post] Deloitte selects £85m Belfast development for new NI head office
The past few years have seen massive investment in Northern Ireland's business office space, with some of Northern Ireland's largest companies moving into new multi-million-pound office developments and refurbished spaces. Today Deloitte announced that it's selected the upcoming Bedford Square office development as the location for its new Northern Ireland head office.
Deloitte will become the anchor tennant in the new development, which will allow it to consolidate all of its Belfast staff into one space that will support over 1,000 staff. Bedford Square is an £85m ... [
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[Visit Post] DANI Awards 2019 now open for applicationsThe DANI Awards launched its ninth year at Ten Square Hotel Belfast this week. The awards have been dedicated to celebrating digital excellence and innovation and this year is no exception.
The awards work in partnership with Grafton Recruitment and this year includes numerous new categories to recognise the extent of digital innovation growth. ... With twenty categories, entry for all applicable categories is now open and will close on 22nd February 2019 at 5pm, ahead of the event taking place ... [
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[Visit Post] NI Science Festival launches out of this world programme for 2019
“Belfast City Council is delighted to support the NI Science Festival, now in its fifth year, and which continues to surprise, challenge and excite with its programme of 200 events. It is a unique festival, the largest of its kind in Ireland and one which raises the city’s international profile…people of all ages can learn about STEM subjects in a fun way. Technology advances so fast we need to be part of it and with the NI Science Festival we are doing just that”, commented Councillor Deirdre Hargey, Lord Mayor of Belfast.
The festival itself will be addressing many of science’s most pressing topics, including climate change, space travel, neuroscience, democracy and the internet, autism and ... [
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