technology
Environment
''Smart'' Radar To Protect Thessaloniki's Sheikh Sou Forest from Wildfire
Local officials from Thessaloniki announced on Wednesday that they have selected two new methods to fight wildfires in the city's peri-urban forest of Sheikh Sou, or Cedar Hill, as it is officially known.
The two methods include three radar dishes, which...
Economy
Electronics Sales Booming in Greece
The sales of technological consumer products in Greece grew by 5.6 percent in the nine months between January and September 2018, totaling €1.5 billion ($1.7 billion), a survey revealed on Monday.
The survey, taken by the GfK TEMAX company, showed that sales of technological...
Greece
Google Celebrates Greek Computer Scientist who Predicted Internet's Dominance
Google's latest doodle pays tribute to Michael Dertouzos, the Greek computer scientist who anticipated how the internet would come to dominate almost every aspect of our lives.
Monday's Google homepage image honors the late academic, who died in 2001, on...
Greece
Greeks Rank 2nd in Europe for Addiction to Internet, Study Shows
ANA-MPA reported that Greece ranks second in Europe after the United Kingdom for rates of internet addiction among its population, according to a study conducted by nine European universities in collaboration with the Hellenic Association for the Study of...
Greece
OECD Data Shows Greece Lags in Broadband Connections
Although Greece has made strides in recent years in improving broadband growth, the country is still lagging in the sectors of mobile and fiber-optic broadband, according to the latest OECD data.
Compared to the majority of the OECD member countries,...
Education
Athens’ New Maker Space – Free for Students of All Ages to Explore (Video)
A new and first of its kind Maker Space has been created in Athens. The fabrication lab is free for all students in Athens and is aimed at helping them thrive in using 21st century technology.
The Maker Space provides...
Greece
Greek App Reveals Infants' Cries to be More than Just Baby Talk
A Greek-designed app which tells new parents what their baby is 'saying' when it cries has become a finalist in an international tech competition.
iCry2Talk is an official finalist in Microsoft's Imagine Cup 2018, which will be held in Seattle...
Greece
Greek MIT Professor Says Country Must Get Ready for Artificial Intelligence
Greeks must become technologically literate and become familiar with algorithms and artificial intelligence (AI), Konstantinos Daskalakis, Cretan-born MIT Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, told an Athens summit this week.
Speaking at the Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, Daskalakis,...
Economy
Next Facebook or Google Could Come from Greece, Says Apple Icon (video)
The next Facebook or Google could well be created in countries in economic crisis, such as Greece, Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple has said.
"Intelligent people are everywhere and the tools for software development are also available everywhere, so...
Business
Samsung Buys Greek Startup Developing Voice Technologies
Innoetics, a Greek startup developing voice technologies has been acquired by Samsung.
The high-tech company is a local firm with an international clientele. The total amount of money for which the company was bought by the South Korean giant was...