"Digital authoritarianism" refers to governments using technology for surveillance and censorship to repress dissent. China remains the master practitioner. There, sweeping surveillance and censorship ...

“Digital authoritarianism” refers to governments using technology for surveillance and censorship to repress dissent. But this problem is no longer confined to Moscow or Beijing. Democracies, too, are ...

For years, China’s massive surveillance apparatus was viewed largely as a domestic phenomenon. Inside China, authorities built one of the world’s most extensive systems of monitoring through facial ...

It has become impossible to cross the main avenues of Dakar, Lagos or Abidjan without being filmed. Behind the lenses of the cameras being installed across many West African cities lies, in most cases ...

The agreement is important for both nations, as Canada seeks new markets away from the United States and Germany tries to diversify its energy supply. By Matina Stevis-Gridneff and Ian Austen Matina ...

Using powerful superconducting magnets, this train doesn’t just ride the rails — it lifts off them entirely, hovering above the track before accelerating to speeds of 500 km/h. Built deep within Japan ...

As the U.S. seeks to enforce a blockade on Iranian exports and potentially board Iran-linked ships outside the Middle East in the coming days, the country faces a significant revenue hit if the ...

As the Strait of Hormuz remains de facto closed for tanker traffic, Saudi Arabia is scrambling to hike its oil exports via the Red Sea route by boosting east-west pipeline flows and accelerating ...

BEIJING — China has prohibited the export of dual-use items to 20 Japanese entities that it says supply Japan’s military, the commerce ministry said Tuesday, in the latest escalation of a dispute with ...

Vibe coding trades creativity for coordination and oversight. Performance and UI issues still demand human judgment. AI shines when developers relentlessly lead, test, and correct. Over all my years ...

HOUSTON/WASHINGTON, Jan 6 (Reuters) - Caracas and Washington have reached a deal to export up to $2 billion worth of Venezuelan crude to the United States, U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday, ...