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The rise of the platform economy in the South East and Eastern Europe: What does the future hold? With Ukraine, Serbia and Romania representing the leading providers of digital platform workers in Europe and beyond, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe deserve...

Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed the technology that produces liquid fuels from sunlight and air. For the first time worldwide, they demonstrate the entire thermochemical process chain under real conditions. The new solar mini refinery is located on the...

One thing is certain: no piecework can tolerate digital transformation. Despite rapid changes, the building blocks of connectivity, infrastructure and security must not neglect one. Find out what a holistic digitalization approach looks like. Transformation is a permanent topic in companies...

There have been rumors for quite some time – now, according to Google, it is said to have been a success: For the first time, a quantum computer has completed a task that conventional computers would fail to do. Competitor...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to radically change the financial world. Companies spend billions of dollars on a technology that they hope will help them make smarter decisions, improve customer service, reduce fraud, and – they hope – save...

We are in the early stages of a massive technological change that is affecting all industries. Will automation also cost workstations? The fear of losing one’s job and thus of financial and emotional stability is one of the great fears...

Every day, tens of trillions of cells in our bodies work in unison to keep us alive. Now, an ambitious new project coordinated by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has set out to help map each of those cells...

The canton of Geneva wants to have drones developed for patient transport. A drone ambulance will transport up to 10,000 patients between the University Hospitals of Geneva (HUG) and Trois-Chênes Hospital. Until 2025 a prototype could glide through the air....

Space food is notoriously lackluster, but new technology is slowly revolutionizing the way astronauts eat. Whereas the first astronauts in space squeezed their meals from toothpaste-like tubes, today’s astronauts chow down on ice cream and fresh fruit and season their...

A French man was able to regain control over all four of his paralyzed limbs thanks to a mind-controlled exoskeleton suit. 30-year-old Thibault (last name redacted) wore the bulky 143-pound exoskeleton, which hangs from a support rail attached to the...