As the FIFA World Cup 2026 shows, identity, belonging, and tension combine to make football fandom unlike any other sport. So, what is going on in fans' brains?
AI is creating more emissions, but it is also being used to find "smart" solutions to fight climate change and offset the cutting-edge tech's growing contribution to it
The World Bank says Palestine's tech sector has unrealised potential that, if appropriately harnessed, can lead to more job creation and boost economic growth
A global brand and a much-loved bird are out, taking blue-tick verifications with them, scandal has arrived, rivals have launched and advertisers left. And the world has been asking: 'Why?, Elon?'
When Israel hit Palestinians' connection to the outside world, people worked out how to reconnect and helped the reporters on the ground keep the world informed
A relatively recently formed part of the group has had a rapid rise and significant success in gathering intelligence and breaching digital defences despite a series of assassinations of its leaders.
Web Summit CEO Paddy Cosgrave is forced to resign because of his comments alleging Israeli war crimes in Gaza. On their part, Google, Apple and Waze imposed a traffic congestion blackout in Gaza.
With Israel calling up 360,000 reservists, mostly tech workers, to take part in the war on Gaza, the second largest technology ecosystem in the world after Silicon Valley is threatened with collapse.
New research has solved one of cosmology's biggest mysteries, proving that antimatter isn't subject to antigravity. This has thrown many unconventional theories out of the window.
Microsoft customers will no longer be able to renew services in Russia. Meanwhile, local substitutes like Astra, RedOS, and BaseAlt vie for a higher market share.
A US envoy wants the institutions of western Libya to accommodate the son of an eastern warlord as Libyan president. Is this another doomed effort to unite the feuding factions, or could it work?
A forgotten lecture by the renowned Italian writer at the University of Bologna in 2008 traced the history of hatred through language, myth, and imagination, all of which still apply today