Science / Technology

Struggling with an ethical dilemma? New Internationalist’s Agony Uncle can help you find answers in our troubled political times.

Screens, by P J Polyp.

Imagery generated by artificial intelligence has become the beloved aesthetic of today’s dictators, argues Decca Muldowney. A robust media is needed to combat misinformation and its miseries.

Meditating on the Moon, by Tony Milligan.

Tech oligarchs are co-opting fictional universes to sell us a false story of their inevitability. To defeat them we need to reclaim the power of fiction to imagine a world beyond their grasp, argues Elia Ayoub.

Pumped up. Are heat pumps the low-impact solution we need to heat our homes? Words by Danny Chivers.

Founder and CEO of Huawei Technologies.

AI Tubman by Matt Broomfield.

Report on the UK’s ‘Online Safety’ Bill by Nick Dowson.

Your counter-surveillance guide.

Mass communication technologies by Marc Roberts.

The summer of 2021 in Iran was marked by frequent, dangerous power outages.

Schoolchildren fall through the digital divide.

A public-health emergency requires a degree of monitoring people. All the more reason to be especially vigilant on privacy, argues Nick Dowson.

We got our attention back?

Data-snatching, AI and eye-spy: some of the new technologies undermining migrants’ rights.

Should I delete my Facebook account? Ethical and political dilemmas abound these days. Seems like we’re all in need of a New Internationalist perspective. Enter stage: Agony Uncle.

Jacob Ohrvik-Stott from Doteveryone on how to do it.

Exploitation by tech firms is not inevitable, suggests Vanessa Baird.

The high-tech 'snake-oil salesman', gets a grilling.