Tech & Data
Robots, smart cities, open datasets, and the tech connecting the world.
The World's Smartest Cities in 2026
Zurich, Oslo and Geneva lead the IMD Smart City Index 2026, which ranks 148 cities on how residents rate their infrastructure and technology. Here are the top 20, with each city's move since 2025.
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The Largest AI Data Centers in the World by Power Capacity
Ten AI campuses ranked by current IT power in megawatts, per Epoch AI's September 2026 estimates.
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Internet Access in Africa 2026: Countries Ranked
Morocco, Libya and Seychelles lead a continent where most people are still offline — Africa's most connected countries, ranked by the share of their population using the internet.
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Cleaning Robots in 2026: Floor, Window & Facade, and Solar Panel
A roundup of cleaning robots on the market in 2026 — autonomous floor scrubbers, window- and facade-cleaning robots, and waterless solar-panel cleaners — with maker, country, launch year and a standout spec for each.
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Robots of CES 2026: The Ones to Watch
From Boston Dynamics' production-ready Atlas to LG's laundry-folding CLOiD and a stair-climbing Roborock vacuum, the humanoids, home helpers, mowers and companion bots that stole the show at CES 2026 in Las Vegas.
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Smart Building Tech for Moving People in 2026
Connected elevators, AI lobby screening, elevator-riding delivery robots and indoor wayfinding: 25 real products that move people and parcels through buildings in 2026.
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Countries with the Largest National Open Data Portals in 2026
The U.S., India and Germany run the world's biggest government open data portals — 15 countries ranked by how many datasets their national portal lists in 2026.
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Robot-as-a-Service Companies in 2026
Twenty companies that rent, subscribe or charge per use for their robots instead of selling them, and how each one gets paid.
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U.S. States Where Delivery Robots Are Legal in 2026
Since Virginia went first in 2017, more than 20 states have passed laws letting sidewalk delivery robots roll alongside pedestrians. Here's every state-level personal delivery device law we could confirm, with its weight limit, speed limit and whether robots can use the road.
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Autonomous Driving Open Datasets in 2026
A roundup of 22 free, public self-driving datasets, from classics like KITTI and Cityscapes to nuScenes, Waymo, Argoverse 2 and NVIDIA's 1,700-hour 2025 release, with publisher, sensors, scale and license for each.
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The Big Tech Projects Connecting Africa in 2026
Subsea cables, satellite constellations and cloud regions: a roundup of the projects Meta, Google, SpaceX, Amazon, Microsoft and others are using to bring the internet to Africa.
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Smart Restroom Products in 2026
Connected dispensers, stall-availability lights, odor sensors, touchless fixtures, smiley feedback kiosks and even a bathroom-cleaning robot: 20 real smart restroom products for offices, airports and public spaces in 2026.
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