1+ week, 3+ day ago   (88+ words) eKathimerini.com Greece plans to build its second supercomputer, a €43 million system optimized for artificial intelligence, at the University of Western Macedonia in Kozani Minister of Digital Governance Dimitris Papastergiou announced the project, funded by the Just Development Transition…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (190+ words) Wildfires continued to burn across Greece on Friday, with firefighters battling overnight against strong winds and repeated flare-ups as authorities warned of a very high fire risk across much of the country. The most serious blaze remained in the Agia…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (776+ words) Homes where indoor temperatures can reach an unbearable 38 degrees Celsius, bedrooms that don’t cool down even at night and residents who limit air-conditioning use because they can’t afford to have it running for hours: This is the picture of summer…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (103+ words) Greek authorities on Monday placed nine additional regions under a very high wildfire risk alert (Category 4), expanding heightened fire precautions as hot, dry conditions persist. The affected areas are Arcadia, Laconia, Aetolia-Acarnania, Achaea, Phocis, Evia, Thessaly, Kilkis, Thessaloniki and the…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (92+ words) eKathimerini.com Firefighters have largely contained a wildfire that broke out Saturday afternoon in a forested area of the Krioneria region in western Greece, according to the Fire Department. A separate wildfire, also in the Nafpaktia area, at a forested…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1213+ words) CENTRAL UKRAINE — At a launch site deep in a pine forest in central Ukraine, five men in balaclavas removed a camouflage cover from a lightweight replica of a Russian-made Shahed drone. “Pull!” one man shouted, and the winged, triangular drone…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (331+ words) eKathimerini.com This year’s winner of the respected literary magazine Granta’s competition for unpublished short stories from the British Commonwealth was Jamir Nazir’s “Serpent in the Grove.” The panel of judges, headed by award-winning writer Louise Doughty, chose his entry…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (752+ words) His name will always be associated with the Turing Award – he is, after all, the only Greek to ever have been awarded the so-called Nobel prize of computing. But Greek-French computer scientist Joseph Sifakis’ life and career are much more…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (383+ words) The Strait of Hormuz has just told us something we were not ready to hear. Not about Iran, not about shipping lanes, not even about oil prices, though all of that is true. What Hormuz exposed is the scale of…...

4+ mon, 5+ hour ago   (444+ words) eKathimerini.com As we ponder how each country can strengthen its economy, its politics, and its defenses in an ever more unpredictable world, as the leaders of the two largest Christian churches unite in their calls for human dignity to…...