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Scientists at Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory have been working flat out over the last week repairing Voyager 2. The sp... Read more

Cyber criminals are exploiting the pandemic to send fraudulent emails and deploy all kinds of tools to steal our money, ... Read more

In these unprecedented times of a global pandemic many people are working or studying from home, doctors are facing new ... Read more

Tracking our digital rightsFrom the moment governments around the world realised the severity of the coronavirus outbrea... Read more

Bolsonaro’s tweets deletedOur South America reporter Angelica Mari tells us about the daily pot banging protests against... Read more

Supercomputing power for Covid-19 solutionsThe world’s most powerful supercomputers are being used for urgent investigat... Read more

Major events around the world are being cancelled as the COVID-19 virus spreads across the globe. Despite significant fa... Read more

Contact tracing is an essential part of controlling the Coronavirus pandemic but how should this data be collected and s... Read more

Could your smart fitness device detect if you were coming down with respiratory symptoms? A project collecting data from... Read more

In Spain, there are a total of nine COVID-19 tracing apps, but is this too many? Which type is preferable and does there... Read more

Using anonymous mobile data, researchers tracked the movement of people from Wuhan to other regions of China and showed ... Read more

Trials are taking place to manage the massive locust swarms in the Horn of Africa and the Indian subcontinent with drone... Read more

Ethiopia’s online hate speech lawDisseminating hate speech online in Ethiopia could now land you with a prison sentence ... Read more

ITU emissions standardThe UN ICT agency, the ITU, wants to cut greenhouse gas emissions by nearly half in the next decad... Read more

Why the tone of chatbots matters and how a feminist perspective can help use them to address online problems such as bul... Read more

Following the events at the US Capitol this week, photos have emerged on social media showing protestors in offices wher... Read more

Thousands of people in the UK have now received the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine and vaccinations have just started in Canada... Read more

Malaysia, Rwanda and Columbia are amongst the countries where it is cheapest to get online, according to the Alliance fo... Read more

Despite a pandemic, nearly everyone voting in the upcoming US election will do so with a tick in a box on a piece of pap... Read more

A major problem in laying internet cables in Nigeria is the phenomenal cost of right of way charges – these are local st... Read more