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Seamus Byrne

Founder and Head of Content at Byteside. Brings two decades of experience covering tech, digital culture, and their impacts on society.

Technology

BuildBee and the future of easier 3D printing for everyone

We talk to BuildBee co-founders about their company and its place in the 3D printing ecosystem as they prepare to go global.

BuildBee and the future of easier 3D printing for everyone
New Realities

Zero Latency: the rise of the freeroaming VR experience

With Sydney getting its first Zero Latency, we catch up with CEO Tim Ruse to look at the history and future of these freeroaming VR centres.

Zero Latency: the rise of the freeroaming VR experience

Addicted to addiction rhetoric

Communication is unfailingly the solution to keeping someone on the right path to building great relationships with games. To know how to stay focused on all the benefits and values they can get from loving games, and where the pitfalls lie and how to avoid them.

Addicted to addiction rhetoric
Games

Why you shouldn't buy a PlayStation 5 Digital Edition in Australia

Sure, you'll save $150 on the console, but in the long run you're going to end up way behind. Here's the maths that proves it.

Why you shouldn't buy a PlayStation 5 Digital Edition in Australia

The right time for a new era

When is the right time to do ‘the new thing’? Whatever that may be? I’m a big fan of using the New Year as a launching pad for new ideas, new goals, new efforts. It’s arbitrary, but our brains still really like latching onto milestones as starting or

The right time for a new era
Security

Spams, scams and monolithic weirdness

This week we cover all our bases, with technology, games and weird digital culture debates all popping up in the final show for 2020.

Spams, scams and monolithic weirdness
Games

Why I (still) love World of Warcraft

What changes about how you feel about a game when it shifts from being something you play for the gameplay? Is that when it's truly a hobby?

Why I (still) love World of Warcraft
Xbox

Xbox Series X competition: we have a winner!

The winner of our Xbox Series X competition has been drawn! Lights. Drumroll. Envelope. And the winner is...

Xbox Series X competition: we have a winner!

Fighting the Unlightenment

By every measure, the future demands creativity. It demands a return to the raw pursuit of ideas. And supporting nerds in their pursuit of amazing innovations is fundamental to the problems we face.

Fighting the Unlightenment
Byteside Podcast

Subscribing just to avoid the ads

The latest Byteside podcast features COVIDSafe spying audits, YouTube trying to win the music biz, and Shay on his Warcraft love.

Subscribing just to avoid the ads
Media

Fleeting fingers and free photo farewells

Tweety fleets, Apple's M1 gets tested, NSW gets digital vouchers, and we've got a great recommendation for the speed cube lovers.

Fleeting fingers and free photo farewells

Faith in numbers

Criticism, skepticism, negativity. When the numbers start talking it's OK to start to get excited about what's really happening.

Faith in numbers
Xbox

The Byteside Xbox Series X giveaway! Seriously!

We've got an Xbox Series X to giveaway to our fab Byteside readers. All the entry details are waiting right here so get on it!

The Byteside Xbox Series X giveaway! Seriously!

Free as in anti-competitive

There's big questions in what it means for Google to offer free cloud photo storage and then take it away when the free service spoiled the market for paid competitors for so long.

Free as in anti-competitive
Byteside Podcast

Enforced temptation control?

Do school kids need some help resisting the temptation of the smartphone? Do the rest of us? Plus Apple, QR codes, Netflix Direct and more.

Enforced temptation control?
Games

Hearthstone: Madness at the Darkmoon Faire roundtable

Highlights from a roundtable on the latest Hearthstone expansion, featuring Game Director Ben Lee and Game Designer John McIntyre.

Hearthstone: Madness at the Darkmoon Faire roundtable
Computers

Apple 'M1' Macs announced, claiming 3x to 5x faster than Intel

Today we see new MacBook Air, MacBook Pro and Mac mini models with Apple's new M1 chip. And they're bonkers fast.

Apple 'M1' Macs announced, claiming 3x to 5x faster than Intel
Games

Xbox Series X: the launch review

The best Xbox you've seen. A new benchmark. Stunningly familiar. But if you didn't get a pre-order? It's going to be fine to wait until 2021.

Xbox Series X: the launch review
New Realities

Deepfaking Trump with Harry Shearer

We speak to virtual production studio Mod's Michela Ledwidge about the tech that brought Harry Shearer's Donald Trump satire to freakish life.

Deepfaking Trump with Harry Shearer
Games

Overanalysing the Xbox box

This is the extended, over hyped, over dramatic, over detailed Xbox Series X unboxing you have been waiting for.

Overanalysing the Xbox box