Vas Panagiotopoulos

This fall, more than 15,000 cameras will monitor soccer fans across eight stadiums and on the streets of Doha during the 2022 World Cup, an event expected to attract more than 1 million football fans from around the globe.
“What you see here is the future of stadium operations,” the organizers’ chief technology officer, Niyas Abdulrahiman, proudly told AFP in August. “A new standard, a new trend in venue operations, this is our contribution from Qatar ...

Wired reports on how Qatar will be using an unprecedented level of surveillance at the World Cup.

Σε μία αποκλειστική για την Ελλάδα συνέντευξη, ο Ρον Ντίμπερτ, διευθυντής και συνιδρυτής του Citizen Lab του Τορόντο –που βεβαίωσε ότι το κινητό του Θανάση Κουκάκη είχε μολυνθεί με το Predator– μιλά εφ' όλης της ύλης.

For more than two decades, the Danish People’s Party ran on an unapologetically anti-immigration, populist platform, pushing Danish politics to the right by rejecting multiculturalism and opposing the transfer of sovereignty to Brussels. Today, the DPP faces its own challenge from the right.

Ένας Έλληνας που ζει στις Βρυξέλλες και οργανώνει ξεναγήσεις στην γειτονιά των ευρωπαϊκών λόμπι, μας εξηγεί τα βασικά για τη σχέση ΕΕ και οργανωμένων συμφερόντων.

Samer El Sayary, Mars City Design

The ten foot-tall oak has a crown of rugged branches. Its large lobed green leaves look healthy and the soil below is well-watered. The tree is planted inside a thick protective shell. Outside, it’s dark with temperatures falling -73 °C. Wind and cosmic rays cause small high-frequency vibrations, which are converted into electricity to help sustain the tree.

“This will be the first generation of trees to be planted on Martian soil,” says Samer El Sayary, an a...

Ουάσινγκτον, Σάββατο 19 Νοεμβρίου μεσημέρι. Βρίσκομαι έξω από το επιβλητικό κτίριο «Ρόναλντ Ρέιγκαν» στο κέντρο της Ουάσιγκτον - μερικές εκατοντάδες μέτρα από τον Λευκό Οίκο. Το κτίριο είναι πολυτελές, λευκό, έχει αυτή την ψυχρή πολιτική χροιά που αναμένει κανείς από το όνομα του. Σήμερα, λαμβάνει χώρα το συνέδριο του National Policy Institute (NPI) υπό τον τίτλο Become Who We Are 2016, με σήμα μια αρχαιοελληνική προτομή.

Milo Yiannopoulos, the British-Greek journalist for Breitbart news, has become the de-facto figurehead of the emergent alternative right movement across the US.

His controversial ideas on immigration, feminism and political correctness have resonated with many - especially the young.

Athens Live attended one of his public speeches at George Washington University and interviewed Nicole Hemmer, assistant professor at the University of Virginia's Miller Center and author of the book 'Messengers of the Right'.

Two years after opening, Athens punk venue Bad Tooth has changed the face of the city’s music scene. We braved the mosh pit.

Black rock studios, in Santorini, is a musical hideaway for platinum-selling artists to record their biggest hits in peace. Vas panagiotopoulos visits

A new generation of Athenian architects is designing innovative buildings to spark a creative resurgence in the ancient city

The streets of Thassos are paved with gold, and that’s just the island’s exquisite pine honey...

A design workshop and contest will result in three to-scale habitat prototypes of Martian cities. Growing up in Jakarta’s polluted slums, Vera Mulyani loved building things. As a child, she dreamed of becoming an architect.
More than two decades later, Mulyani is a self-proclaimed “Marschitect,” and spends her time brainstorming how human life might be sustained on the red planet. After studying at École d’Architecture de Nantes in France and at New York Film Academy, in January 2015 she founded Mars City Design, a think tank of sorts aimed at developing blueprints for the first self-sustaining city on Mars.

With famous sites like the Acropolis, the Odeon of Herodes Atticus, the ancient cemetery of Kerameikos, and the Arch of Hadrian, Athens is a true gem for anyone having even the faintest interest in history. For archaeologists, especially, it’s an absolute playground. In the Ancient Agora, the commercial, administrative and social centre of ancient Athens – archeology students from all over the world are working tirelessly on restoring and cataloguing ancient artefacts and other findings.

In March, the Conservative government announced its intention to sell off the Land Registry, triggering a massive wave of protests. A petition against the move gathered more than 300,000 signatures, while 65 MPs signed a letter calling on the government to abandon the controversial plans.

The Land Registry holds more than 24m titles, and covers 86 per cent of the land of England and Wales. It employs 4,578 staff in 14 offices; its work generates a financial surplus for the government.

Selling...