On a weekday afternoon in Addis Ababa, dozens of young people sit absorbed in their phones—not doomscrolling through endless ...

A comparative analysis of internet shutdowns in African countries highlights how the tactic is increasingly used to repress ...

On the banks of the Blue Nile, Ethiopia is redefining its national trajectory through the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), Africa's largest hydroelectric project and one of the biggest ...

In theory, the GERD, whose 13 turbines can produce more than 5,000 megawatts of electricity, could be a boon not just for Ethiopia, but also for its neighbours. Yet it has long caused rancour between ...

Families who lost loved ones in two crashes of Boeing 737 Max jetliners may get their last chance to demand the company face criminal prosecution Wednesday. U.S. prosecutors charged Boeing with ...

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In George Orwell's prophetic novel 1984, authoritarian power thrives not by silencing truth directly, but by distorting it so thoroughly that the line between reality and propaganda disappears. One of ...

Since the 1990s, evidence has been growing that quantum computers should be able to solve a range of particularly complex computational problems, with applications in everything from supply chain ...

China's surveillance exports are already being used in Pakistan and other authoritarian states, according to a bombshell ...

Newly discovered fossils in Ethiopia show that Homo coexisted with Australopithecus 2.6 million years ago, rewriting the timeline of human evolution. Far from a straight line, early human history was ...

Because microbes are always adapting to changes, they could revolutionize how we think of computers—and how computers think.

The first USB port hit the market in 1996, and the Universal Serial Bus quickly became the go-to port for connecting peripheral devices to computers. It remains a popular connection port today, with ...