Umberto Bacchi is a journalist at the Thomson Reuters Foundation covering humanitarian crises, human trafficking and women’s rights.
From offering refugees their spare rooms to donating cryptocurrency, people around the world have been using technology to channel help to Ukrainians since Russia launched its military as...
From El Salvador adopting bitcoin as legal tender - a world first - to China banning all cryptocurrency transactions, 2021 was an eventful year in the world of digital currencies.
Connecting everyone in the world to the web will not single-handedly bridge the digital divide, tech experts at the Web Summit said this week, citing other invisible barriers like high co...
As worsening extreme weather ruins harvests, some winemakers are switching to growing nuts - and the government is firing anti-hail rockets.
Tired of having to gaze at a screen for anything from a pub quiz to work calls, Anna Redman and her boyfriend headed to a wooden cabin outside London, locked their phones in a sealed enve...
If you're a woman from an ethnic minority group hoping to land a job in Germany's tech sector, you might want to rethink your CV.
Taller buildings are key to enhancing quality of life as the world's urban population grows, but cities should not become obsessed with skyscrapers and must prepare for horizontal expansi...
From Mongolia to southern Brazil, forests big enough to cover France have grown back during the last 20 years, but the gains did not make up for losses elsewhere, a study found.
A few weeks into Italy's first coronavirus lockdown in March 2020, Andrea Pestarino started setting a 5.30pm alarm as a reminder it was time to turn off his laptop and go play football wi...
France and Thailand this week became the latest countries to launch coronavirus vaccine passports, fuelling the global debate over the use of certificates to reopen the economy.
As a third lockdown traps millions of British schoolchildren at home, free tablets and televised lessons are being touted as alternative ways to learn in a lockdown.
Get fit, quit smoking, eat healthily. Most years begin with good intentions that often fall by the wayside as life gets busier again.
从端咖啡的机器人到会议后自动重新排列好的椅子，中国的智慧城市项目希望让人工智能起到管理作用，其创始人们在本周的一个会议上这样说道——这引起了一些人的惊讶。
From robots delivering coffee to office chairs rearranging themselves after a meeting, a smart city project in China aims to put artificial intelligence in charge, its creators told a con...
More than 40% of people in large European cities have considered moving away due to the new coronavirus pandemic, a survey showed, with Londoners most prone to dreaming of living in a sma...
