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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.

Gear

Google Pixel 6A review: delicious Google flavour with minimal compromise

The Google Pixel 6A cuts corners in places you'll hardly notice, making this a smart choice for most users who love getting every feature Google has to offer.

Google Pixel 6A review: delicious Google flavour with minimal compromise
Byteside Podcast

Engineering for a clean future

Rosie Barnes from the YouTube channel Engineering With Rosie drops by to share her knowledge on all things clean energy and community building.

Engineering for a clean future
Byteside Podcast

Can Slack Huddles kill the 30 minute meeting?

Slack Huddles gave us an audio format for quick work chats. Now it's being extended to really put formal meetings out of business.

Can Slack Huddles kill the 30 minute meeting?
New Realities

The Visual Turing Test: a unified VR vision for the future

Showing your working helps us all grasp what we're aiming for.

The Visual Turing Test: a unified VR vision for the future
Business

Anyone notice Bunnings, Kmart and The Good Guys using facial recognition in stores?

Consumer champions CHOICE have spotted big retailers doing a very poor job of letting customers know they're running biometric surveillance.

Anyone notice Bunnings, Kmart and The Good Guys using facial recognition in stores?
Technology

Seeing humanity in all the bot places

The LaMBDA situation is a reminder we're just too good at personification.

Seeing humanity in all the bot places
Art & Design

Diablo is coming to tattoo shops around the world

Hellish ink is coming to Sydney and Melbourne in September as part of a Diablo anniversary world tour. Want some?

Diablo is coming to tattoo shops around the world
Music

Six videogame soundtracks make Classic Top 100 in latest radio poll

In a vote on the all-time greatest 'Music for the Screen', which videogame soundtracks break the glass ceiling?

Six videogame soundtracks make Classic Top 100 in latest radio poll
Media

The power to know

Things 'everyone knows' usually need to be shared and shared again more often.

The power to know
Politics

A platform of certainty

Knowing there's firm footing ahead makes big ideas easier to pursue.

A platform of certainty
Media

The quality of our questions

Back to basics for the media industry - or is it too late?

The quality of our questions
Media

How to hack your Netflix profile recommendations

If your profiles are just people's names, you're doing it wrong.

How to hack your Netflix profile recommendations

The cost of losing everything

We need to get more emotional to convince people to protect their data

The cost of losing everything
Games

Playstation sells 19 millionth PS5, might finally make consoles faster soon

With all the chip shortages, Playstation has sold millions less than the PS4 at the same stage in its lifecycle.

Playstation sells 19 millionth PS5, might finally make consoles faster soon
Games

Fortnite finally free on iPhone? Thank Xbox Cloud Gaming

Microsoft has opened up free access to its Xbox Cloud Gaming in a partnership with Epic to stream Fortnite to your iPhone or iPad.

Fortnite finally free on iPhone? Thank Xbox Cloud Gaming
Culture

The kids are bopping again... this week

Slang at the speed of meme culture.

The kids are bopping again... this week
Byteside Podcast

Can beer be more efficient?

Konvoy is quietly making beer move from brewers to bars in a far smarter and more sustainable way. We chat to the founder to find out more.

Can beer be more efficient?

More "freedom from", please

Why did "freedom to" advocates become so focused on punching down?

More "freedom from", please
Games

Is the DGTO really going to help?

We chat to R&D tax incentive expert Ben Thompson from Techlever about the Digital Games Tax Offset and some of the issues he'd like to see addressed ahead of its introduction.

Is the DGTO really going to help?

Editing on Twitter is a fraught idea

Does that retweet you said you loved still say what it said when you retweeted it?

Editing on Twitter is a fraught idea