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Google makes calling businesses less painful with features for seeing wait times, phone tree options and more
Alongside today’s release of the new Pixel 6 smartphones, Google has again upgraded one of the device’s most basic — but often overlooked — functions: the ability to make phone calls. In previous years, Google Assistant learned to screen your calls and make your reservations by phone via a technology called Duplex. Last year, it […]
Trade war looms as UK set to spurn EU offer on Northern Ireland
EU leaders urged to push back against No 10’s brinkmanship over role of European court of justiceFears that the UK is heading for a trade war with the EU have been fuelled by strong indications from the government that it thinks proposals to be unveile…
On the far side of borders, a new Ireland is taking shape | Susan McKay
Evidence is mounting that Northern Ireland is failing. A different constitutional future seems increasingly likelyA powerful new play has just opened at Belfast’s Lyric theatre. The Border Game, by Michael Patrick and Oisín Kearney, is a fractured love…
United or divided: what is the future of Ireland? | Letter
Guardian readers respond to Colm Tóibín’s essay on the island’s political futureColm Tóibín’s comparison of Sinn Féin, a pro-EU, pro-immigration, centre-left party, to Ukip, an anti-EU, anti-immigration, rightwing party, is decidedly muddled, like much…
What does the Irish tax deal mean for multinationals?
Tech titans came to Ireland for its tax lures – but may now stay despite Dublin’s agreement to raise its ratesIreland ends 12.5% tax rate in OECD global pactIreland has dropped its low-tax policy after months of wrangling over the fine print of an Orga…
Homeowners demand full payout in Ireland’s crumbling homes scandal
Thousands could be left homeless in rural Ireland because of devastating building defectHomeowners in Ireland hit by a devastating building defect that causes walls to “crumble like Weetabix” are set to reject a government compensation scheme unless it…
Father of the Cyborgs review – the Indiana Jones of neuroscience
This film exploring the ideas of Dr Phil Kennedy, who had an electrode implanted in his brain, throws up interesting prospects for the human futureDr Phil Kennedy is regarded by many as the Indiana Jones of neuroscience: a Limerick-born doctor who beca…
Global deal on 15% minimum tax rate for multinationals edges closer
Almost 140 countries understood to be in final OECD talks on measures to stop firms moving profits to tax havensAlmost 140 countries are edging closer to a global deal on the taxation of multinationals, with agreement on a minimum 15% rate of corporati…
The invisible migrant workers propping up Ireland’s €4bn meat industry
There has been a chronic mistreatment of workers in the country’s meat industry, according to unionsRead more: exploitation of meat plant workers rife across UK and EuropeIn spring 2018, Alina Serbenco’s husband, Vasile, sat in a fast-food outlet in Du…