Yet another governmental collapse causes an Institutional crisis in Italy. The peninsula has been plunged into fresh political turmoil after prime minister-designate Giuseppe Conte formally rejected a mandate to form a new populist government. M5S is considering calling for the impeachment of president Mattarella.

Last week I wrote about blockchain, the technology that underpins cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. I’m interested in this latest development, and so is the Maltese government. Critics tell us Bitcoin is only meant for criminals, but how true is this? Just to recap, the technology behind cryptocurrencies, a blockchain is a chain of many blocks of records.…

For as long as anyone could remember, the United States has been the main source of public shootings for decades. It seems that we hear at least once every few weeks of a lone gunman shooting at unarmed people in confined spaces like schools, offices or government buildings with the intention of killing as much…

There’s been plenty of talk in Malta about blockchain over the past 12 months. I’ve followed the international news and am struck by the coverage. Blockchain is either going to solve all our problems or will cause civilisation to collapse. This is the first of a 3-part series that separates fact from fantasy. I In…

There is plenty of talk on the international scene about smart cities. They’re creating our future by basing city-planning on accurate and timely data. Malta, as a small island, is perfectly poised to take advantage of this research. But does it? I Anyone who works in technology will tell you nothing beats testing in a…

IVF is understood as in vitro fertilisation this is a process of fertilisation where an egg is combined with sperm outside the body, in vitro. This process has been largely controversial from its beginning due to the morality of it and nowadays the somewhat of the commercialism of IVF. In today’s day and age we…