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Jaap Steunenberg
Jan 22
A Tiny Hole Has Appeared in China’s Great Firewall
‘You must pay your cat tax!’ is what Chinese users of Red Note, also known as Xiaohongshu, are demanding of new American users. The cat...
Fin Gerke
Jan 15
The UN’s New Cybercrime Treaty: Win against Cybercrime or Loss for Human Rights?
The United Nations (UN) General Assembly has adopted a new Convention against Cybercrime on December 24th 2024. The multiple years of...
Carolina Scheuch
Nov 15, 2024
Why I Don't Biohack - and Neither Should You
Top foods for skin health, supplements for longevity, cold plunges, blue light blocking glasses, inflammation, red light therapy,...
Alodia Heijmans
May 29, 2023
Eesti-residency: The New Digital Nation with Edward Lucas
A small innovation of technology and a revolution on the global market, the system of Estonian e-Residency, also called...
Pauline Keller
May 25, 2023
The Digital Euro: Why Europe is Embracing a Cashless Future
It’s Wednesday afternoon, you've spent the whole day in the library, and the only thing you want is to go home. But wait, you have...
Ninetin Lu
May 10, 2023
When the Chips are Down
A review of Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller For the last few months, there has been a steady...
Ana Navarro Bullo
May 8, 2022
The GIG economic times for the EU: on our way to a more socially proactive Union
Thirty years have gone by since the city where we find ourselves, Maastricht, witnessed the birth of the European Union (EU), bringing...
Anahita Lotfollahzadeh
May 7, 2022
Facebook: The only crucial book of the digital age
Facebook and co. might be the big tech equivalent to the infamous toxic ex-partner most of us have at least encountered in the movies....
Simon Wirtz
May 7, 2022
Space as an extension of earth?!
Some thoughts about the next decades in space More than 50 years ago, NASA and humanity reached a milestone in space exploration when...
Anthi Likitsakos
May 7, 2022
The Cryptocurrency debate: Is cryptocurrency harming or helping sustainable development?
Cryptocurrencies have caused a lot of buzz in the past few years with some subscribing to the idea of a decentralized currency system,...
Mercure Libbrecht Gourdet
May 6, 2022
A license to hack: Russia in Ukraine
In cybersecurity it is no longer asked if your system gets breached, it is asked when. No system is safe in the 21st century. Since...
Ethan Bergman
Apr 8, 2022
Anonymous’ Revolution; The Wild West of Cyber Warfare against Russia
‘’One two three four, they declare Cyber War. Five, six, seven, eight hackers do proliferate. Nine, ten, eleven, twelve servers can’t...
Céline Zahno
May 5, 2021
Learning from the EU’s mistakes
Pan-Africanism and sustainable strategies to provide electricity for all In 2013, the African Union introduced Agenda 2063, its...
Suzon Mazataud
Mar 7, 2021
Is it time to leave WhatsApp?
As university students, connecting with our friends and classmates through WhatsApp is something most of us do without second thoughts....
Céline Zahno
Feb 16, 2021
Do Humans Need Work to Have a Purpose?
It started with self-checkout counters at your local supermarkets and could soon transform virtually every aspect of your life; the rise...
Teresa Costa
Nov 26, 2020
More Social Dilemmas
‘Where do we come from? Who are we? Where do we go?’ The French artist, Gauguin, asked these questions when he painted one of his...
Stella Theocharidou
Nov 6, 2020
Do sex robots dream of electric dicks?
“She said nothing with her voice and everything with her caring touch”. That’s what’s written in Dave Cenker’s book ‘Second Chance’ and...
Peter Pelzer
Nov 5, 2020
A quantum leap for mankind
Quantum computing is among the more peculiar objects of occasional media coverage. It pops up once in a while in a news report or...
Rhiannon Read
Oct 19, 2020
Turn your camera on Sweetie
Technology is a form of power that evolves in service of humanity, in service of the masses. Modern technology saw the creation of the...
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