Science / Technology

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.

The backlash against social media titans is in full swing. But are moves to bring them to heel, including new privacy laws, appropriate? Mike Morel investigates.

We’re increasingly relying on social media companies to act like governments and censor dubious content. Jillian York on the failures of this approach – and how to fix it.

So many voices online. Surely that means more diversity and media democracy? Not really, explains Laura Basu.

There is no one magic remedy – but lots of strategies. Vanessa Baird writes.

Aid-by-drone, what’s not to like? Plenty, as Nick Dowson explains.