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Over 250 people gathered at the City Hall in Cork yesterday for the 7th instalment of the it@Cork Tech Summit 2018, which welcomed tech gurus from the US, UK, Germany and further afield, along with some of Ireland's indigenous foremost tech thought leaders. A broad array of topics were discussed at the event, from the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on healthcare, to the tech industry's responsibility to make social media as safe a space as possible for children. AI is not new but the exponential rise in computer processing power is making the impossible possible. The Summit explored how these technologies, along with crypto currencies, can reduce business costs, elevate success and finance business in new and exciting ways. Attendees at this year's event got the opportunity to meet a live cyborg to see first-hand how humans can be augmented by biohacking with the next generation of embedded sensors and non-medical implants.