Tech & Science

Cyprus-based biotech innovator Marianna Prokopi-Demetriades has been named the 2026 Study UK Alumni Awards global winner for Business and Innovation, becoming one of only four people worldwide to receive the British ...

A new free mobile app helping people in Cyprus report signs of wildfires, receive nearby alerts and access key fire-safety information has gone live, with TechIsland and Brickworks Games launching ...

Enterprise technology services provider Kyndryl has announced the expansion of its sovereignty solutioning through new capabilities and services developed with Microsoft. According to its statement, the collaboration combines Kyndryl Sovereignty ...

Research firm Omdia has sharply increased its forecast for global semiconductor revenue in 2026, saying surging artificial intelligence demand continues to outstrip the industry’s manufacturing capacity, with supply bottlenecks expected ...

Ad-supported connected TV (CTV) video services could generate an average of $0.21 per hour of viewing if every available advertising slot were sold, according to a new report from Omdia, establishing ...

The world’s six largest PC manufacturers are expected to account for a record 80.4 per cent of global notebook panel purchases in 2026, as component shortages and rising production costs increasingly ...

Global smartphone shipments fell by 6 per cent year-on-year to 272 million units in the second quarter of 2026, as persistently high memory prices disrupted supply chains, raised component costs and forced manufacturers ...

Global AI-related demand may exert lasting upward ​pressure on Japan’s inflation, the Bank of Japan has said, signalling its alarm ‌over mounting inflation risks that could boost the case ...

Cyprus appears to generate more Tinder revenue per resident than Greece or Portugal, while its use of generative AI is also unusually high. Now a new class of matchmakers is ...

A version of Chinese startup DeepSeek’s flagship AI model is by ‌far the least expensive to run on benchmark tests among well-known models globally and more than 100 times cheaper ...

Cyprus allocated approximately €112 million to research and development (R&D) in 2025, almost doubling government funding over the past decade despite a decline from the previous year, according to figures ...

The strategy is stronger than a typical policy vision document. It understands Cyprus’s structural weaknesses and proposes institutions, infrastructure, sector-specific applications and governance mechanisms.  Its central weakness is execution ...

Sainni bets on real-time AI to change the way businesses sell Artificial intelligence is reshaping the way businesses sell, but a Cyprus-based startup believes the next step is moving beyond ...

Asbis delivers ‘best quarter in company history’ Cyprus-based IT distributor ASBISc Enterprises Plc, commonly known as Asbis, on Thursday reported its most profitable quarter on record after net profit more ...

Meta said one of its AI models hacked another company during cybersecurity testing, fanning concerns about how developers can contain increasingly capable AI systems after similar incidents at rivals Anthropic ...

Google parent Alphabet has overhauled the leadership of its artificial intelligence operations, moving Nobel laureate Demis Hassabis from the day-to-day running of Google DeepMind into a newly created group-wide science ...

Stargazers in Cyprus will have the chance to observe the Perseid meteor shower this month, with the phenomenon expected to peak on August 12 and 13, deputy mayor of Nicosia and astronomer ...

Enterprise technology service provider Kyndryl on Wednesday announced the expansion of its distributed cloud capabilities, using Microsoft’s AI-powered adaptive cloud approach. Designed to help customers innovate, modernise and simplify ...

A SpaceX rocket piece floating in space since last year was expected to have smashed into the moon at high speed early Wednesday morning, though the impact was unlikely to ...

Cypriots embrace online ticket buying for concerts and events Cyprus recorded a higher-than-average rate of online event ticket purchases in 2025, according to figures released by Eurostat on Tuesday, as digital ...

Neapolis University Paphos will lead a three-year European research partnership with University College London (UCL), the University of Barcelona and Greece’s KMOP, after securing Horizon Europe funding in a ...

Europe’s three financial supervisory authorities have called for stronger governance, enhanced operational resilience and a more consistent supervisory approach to protect the European Union’s financial sector from the ...

Adonis Georgiadis used a debate in the Greek parliament at the end of July to explain why he had bought Ray-Ban Meta glasses. “Whoever wants to insult me, spit at ...

Artificial intelligence is not only replacing routine work but also creating a major new demand for verifying its outputs, a trend largely overlooked in industry debate, according to a recent ...