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Conservators scan Ukraine’s wooden churches to help preserve them

Sacred Spaces

Since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, people have been evacuating and safeguarding Ukrainian works of art and museum pieces. Now, a team of conservators and students are also creating permanent, 3D records of buildings and objects that can’t be moved in case they are damaged or destroyed.

This club in the Netherlands offers a much-needed break from technology

Internet

A wrinkle in time: GPS jamming in Ukraine and its ripple effects

Cyber warfare
boredom

In praise of boredom: Researchers dish on the brain benefits of idle time

Health
Car and smartphone

Our cars are becoming another device on the Internet of Things

Technology
Entrepreneur and author Andrew Keen argues that the free model of the Internet isn’t really free at all.

The Internet may be hurting all of us

Technology

According to author Andrew Keen, the promise of the Internet is far removed its reality. Far from creating equality, he says, it’s birthed a new elite.

The elevator at Washington DC's historic Old Post Office Pavilion.

Elevators are kind of a big deal

Technology

Tom Sybert, host of the Elevator Radio Show Podcast, believes elevators are one of the most important inventions of the modern world. Here are three reasons why.

Mariam Adil (far right) onstage at a Clinton Global Initiative University's conference with President Bill Clinton and other commitment makers. Image courtesy GRID Website

She’s shaking up the video game industry. From Pakistan

Technology

Mariam Adil, a young entrepreneur, is making waves, challenging stereotypes in the gaming industry. Her mission: By letting gaming become more inclusive, the industry can do so much more to advance social progress.

A screenshot of the interactive Submarine Cable Map, which tracks active and planned submarine cable systems and their landing stations according to the Global Bandwidth Research Service.

What links the global Internet? Wires inside tubes no bigger than a garden hose.

Technology

If you think your life is getting ever more wireless, think again. The Internet connections the world relies on still cross the globe thanks to cables laid along the sea floor. And while terrorism isn’t yet a major threat to their health, dropped anchors or human carelessness are.

A girl and a computer

Online learning holds great promise — but mostly for the well-off

Technology

Online education held the promise of leveling the playing field, making a college education accessible to those who are too poor to go to college. But because of what’s required to get an online education — a device and an Internet connection — online education is merely reinforcing socio-economic ghettos.