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When Africa’s internet breaks, this ship answers the call

2025-09-17 18:00:00

As the Léon Thévenin eased into Cape Town port last month, Shuru Arendse was ready to rush home to his family. He had a month off and a laundry list...

Syria’s quest to build its own Silicon Valley

2025-09-16 18:00:00

At the end of November, Hamza Hourani’s phone rang. It was a cloudy morning in Damascus, and some Syrians were quietly stocking their cupboards as rebel fighters marched south toward...

Countries are struggling to meet the rising energy demands of data centers

2025-09-15 18:19:01

Behind a miles-long gray wall in the central Mexico town of Colón, a Microsoft data center portends the future for other data centers in the country. Unable to plug into...

The myth of sovereign AI: Countries rely on U.S. and Chinese tech

2025-09-12 18:00:00

Every government aiming for sovereign artificial intelligence has roughly the same mantra: build their own ChatGPT, leapfrog into AI leadership, and be free of foreign dependence. It’s a compelling narrative,...

The cold truth about EVs: Freezing weather slashes battery mileage

2025-09-11 18:00:47

Bashir Ahmad sold his wife’s gold jewelry to buy an electric three-wheeler that would revolutionize his apple business in Kashmir. Until winter arrived and killed it. On a freezing morning,...

How Vietnam’s military built one of the hottest tech companies in Southeast Asia

2025-09-10 18:00:00

A Vietnamese military-owned company has quietly become one of the most ambitious state-backed technology firms in the world. Viettel, launched by Vietnam’s Ministry of National Defense in 1989 to build...