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More than two-thirds of Poles used internet on daily basis in 2022

The Digital Care Group report "10 Years of the Mobile Revolution", found that now 69.3 percent of Poles turn to the internet daily compared to 35.9 percent in 2012. Adam Warżawa/PAP

The number of Poles who use the internet everyday has almost doubled in ten years, according to a new survey.

Poland unveils country’s fastest ever supercomputer the size of a small APARTMENT

Named Athena after the Greek goddess of wisdom, the computer has a mind-boggling computing power of over 7.7 petaflops and according to Kraków’s elite AGH University of Science and Technology, is set to give a boost to Polish science and innovation.

Boy wonder! Fourteen-year-old genius becomes Poland’s youngest business owner

Having built his first robot at the age of three, teenager Kamil Wroński has now founded his own firm to develop a pioneering solar tracker.

Police seize journalist's laptop over alleged threats

Police in the western city of Zielona Gora on Saturday entered the flat of a journalist with leading Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza and seized his employer's computer over an alleged threat to a politician.

New life for ‘Senster’ robotic sculpture

The ‘Senster’, one of the world’s first robotic sculptures to be controlled by a digital computer, has gone on display at Warsaw’s Zachęta art gallery.

World’s first robotic sculpture which gave the ‘impression of being alive’ goes on show

VIDEO: A portmanteau of 'sensual' and 'monster', the 4.5-metre-long Senster enthralled audiences in the early 1970s, at a time when space exploration and mechanical revolution made anything seem possible.

Whopping 35-billion-pixel Toruń photo is largest panorama in Poland and one of the largest in the world

Photography duo Jadwiga and Marek Czarnecki took over 1,700 individual photographs of the Toruń skyline before electronically stitching them together to create the incredible panoramat. Zooming in, even the smallest details can be observed, with highlights including the Sailor’s Gate, the soaring steeple of the Church of the Holy Spirit, the solid dimensions of St. John’s Cathedral and the city defensive walls running along the bottom.

IT whizz creates incredible eco-computer to show how ‘real’ computers work

Built out of recycled wood, the fully-functional analogue ball computer known as KulKomp works in a similar way to an electronic digital computer, performing a surprising number of operations performed by an electronic computer, but in a visible and mechanical way, not electronic.

Face to face: artist creates stunning 3D portraits of Chopin

The images reveal just how the composer may have looked like in real life.

Consumer loans surge but economists warn of future ‘consumption collapse’

Figures released by the Credit Information Bureau, the days from May 4 to May 10 saw a 62.1 percent increase in the number of loans on the previous week, and an 8.3 percent rise on the same week last year.

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Chilling new book reveals meticulous planning behind Auschwitz death camp

The Polish-English book “Auschwitz Bauleitung. Designing a Death Camp” sets out in shocking detail how the full potential of German technology and industry took part in building the death apparatus that claimed the lives of 1.3 million victims.

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Rzeszów scientists develop phone battery that charges in eight minutes and lasts 68 YEARS!

Produced by The Batteries, the new technology has already been dubbed “a game changer” by the industry press, with the firm hoping to begin large-scale production once work on their “pilot factory” is finished.

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