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China’s Solar Oceans
On a sweat-inducing, sweltering day last summer I landed in Shanghai. It had been a long time coming. Since high school, I had wanted to...
Jaap Steunenberg
Feb 11


Tech titans to tech tyrants: The remarkable journey of tech entrepreneurs to the heart of power
“I believe the former president should be responsible for his words, and the people who broke the law should be responsible for their...
Zeteny Jakab
Jan 31


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...
Jaap Steunenberg
Jan 22


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...
Fin Gerke
Jan 15


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,...
Carolina Scheuch
Nov 15, 2024


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...
Alodia Heijmans
May 29, 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...
Pauline Keller
May 25, 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...
Ninetin Lu
May 11, 2023


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...
Ana Navarro Bullo
May 8, 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....
Anahita Lotfollahzadeh
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...
Simon Wirtz
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,...
Anthi Likitsakos
May 7, 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...
Mercure Libbrecht Gourdet
May 6, 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...
Ethan Bergman
Apr 9, 2022


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...
Céline Zahno
May 5, 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....
Suzon Mazataud
Mar 7, 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...
Céline Zahno
Feb 16, 2021


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...
Teresa Costa
Nov 26, 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...
Stella Theocharidou
Nov 6, 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...
Peter Pelzer
Nov 5, 2020
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