Have a proven innovation that can transform the NHS? Apply to the NIA Fellowship for expert mentoring, support, and national scaling opportunities.

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THE campaign to ban social media for people under the age of 16 is gathering pace.

How cities are scaling AI from pilot projects to operational public services

Lord Wolfson tells the BBC Next now typically receives double the number of applicants for one role than it did two years ago.

NHS leaders privately told that “clunky” £330m platform built by Trump donor Peter Thiel’s firm is “slow” and has “poor user experience”, new documents show

Ukraine claims it captured a Russian position using only unmanned systems, signaling a major shift in the future of warfare.

Platforms like X, Facebook and Instagram harvest our personal data so that they can target us with ads. Their platforms are designed to keep us online, pushing out content that will keep us engaged.…

Reform, Tory and some media rhetoric runs contrary to poll showing far more voters for net zero than against it

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Several countries have passed—and many others are considering—restrictions or bans on teens accessing social media platforms.

GovTech Lab Ukraine has chosen three startups to pilot digital solutions in the public sector in its first open innovation programme.

Until last week, Scott Shambaugh was a private, almost anonymous, software developer from Denver, Colorado. Now the world knows him as the first person to be defamed by a malicious AI agent acting of ...

Membership with NMN is free. About us: The Neurodivergent Music Network (NMN) is a cross-disciplinary hub for neurodivergent researchers to explore the intersection between music and neurodivergence...

A special issue at DESIGNS is published as an ebook, edited by Tony Castillo-Calzadilla and Carlos Quesada-Granja. This collection of articles explores the forefront of sustainable urbanism, where…

“We’re all in learning mode … and looking at it with a wary eye,” one mayor said about AI’s potential for municipal operations. Read more in this 2026 outlook.

Cities across North America are shifting parking enforcement away from ticket volumes toward compliance-first strategies, according to a new survey of city, university and private-sector parking…

Chattanooga power and telecoms company EPB has announced a Quantum Computing Fellowship to provide training to equip participants to develop quantum solutions

Candela P-12 completes record-breaking voyage. The P-12 is the world's first serial-production electric hydrofoil ferry.

View datasets from the City of Vancouver, BC, Canada. Download data in various formats, explore with charts and maps, and access via API.

Uber expects to have robotaxis in 15 cities by the end of this year, but AVs will not replace all human drivers, the company’s CEO said.

SmartCitiesWorld has today launched AI CityXchange, a dedicated platform and series of workshop events focused on how AI is being applied across cities

Influential Labour committee chairs call on government to clean up politics as our new analysis finds record £42 million in company donations ahead of last election

As jobs are created, transformed, and displaced—often accelerated by AI—cities face urgent choices about how to address economic distress and build resilient, productive workforces. Gordon Hanson...

Jakarta, the British Embassy, and C40 Cities have officially concluded the UK-funded CAI programme, marking a shift toward fully integrating...

Aberdeen City Council has partnered with Microsoft to launch a website and improved webchat, making it easier to find info and access council services online

Municipalities from around the world are being invited to apply for one of five fully funded, no-cost innovation projects in the latest AcceliGOV programme

The annual Transit Tech Lab competition which seeks to harness expertise to improve public transit in the New York metropolitan area is open for entries

Billed as a “world-leading” child-protection law, the UK’s Online Safety Act has instead normalized surveillance and ID checks. “Tech policy wonk" Heather Burns writes that the model is spreading acro...