It all began with a video game. More specifically, it began with Grand Theft Auto III, the free-roaming, criminal-sim that Mateusz Mach would play for hours at his parents’ house in Lebork,…
Why Are Poles Marching Against Surveillance Laws?
by Anam Alpenia Thousands of Poles have been marching through their country’s major cities, in protest of online surveillance laws proposed by the new right wing government. Foreign Policy yesterday accused the…
The Old Town and the Sea: How Marine Technology is Revamping Russia’s “Fortress in Europe”
Kaliningrad occupies one of Europe’s strangest geopolitical spaces. Tucked between Lithuania and Poland on the fringes of the Baltic Sea, the exclave is 300 miles from the rest of Russia, and almost…
Oscobo Hopes to Bring Private Searching to Britain
British web users now have a way to search for U.K.-specific content in privacy. Oscobo, a London-based search engine, launched last week. Its founders, who both ditched long term corporate careers, told…
2015 in Tech: The Year’s Biggest Winners and Losers
In another big year for technology news, there were, as always, plenty of winners and losers. Here Red Herring checks out some of those who felt on top of the world, and…
Gap between St Petersburg and Moscow narrowing – but funding still miles away
When Pavel Durov was dismissed as CEO of VKontakte, the social media platform he had founded in 2006, last summer, Saint Petersburg’s tech community lamented the loss of its most enigmatic character,…
Hyperloop to bet big at Vegas – and other transport tech tales
Hyperloop Technologies (HT) will test-run its cutting-edge tube-based “fifth mode of transport” next month, on the outskirts of Reno. But while the train(ish) concept – conceived by Elon Musk in 2012 but…
From turnips to tanks – the changing face of Russian video games
Repka, an arcade machine tucked in the corner of Moscow’s Museum of Soviet Arcades, might be one of the USSR’s oddest games. In it, would-be worker peasants must test their pulling strength…
Huawei’s VP External Affairs Bill Plummer on the company’s consumer future, and virtualization
Huawei’s VP External Affairs Bill Plummer talks about the company’s future in the U.S. and its forays into the consumer market.
Uber and OlaCabs battle it out for Mumbai’s ride-hailing market
by Anam Alpenia Uber Mumbai’s office is about as far removed from its 423,000 square-foot San Francisco headquarters as possible. Tucked into a small corner of a glass-fronted Standard Chartered block in Bandra…