Where it’s being built.
Silicon Canals covers the global innovation ecosystem city by city. Each city below has a dedicated landing page that surfaces the latest reporting on the people, companies, and institutions building there.
Amsterdam
1,818 articles
Latest: Singapore's millionaire density hit 1 in 6 households — and the mental health data is telling a very different story about what that wealth is buying
Bangalore
21 articles
Latest: ASML in Veldhoven is the only company on Earth that can build extreme ultraviolet lithography machines, and each one contains a mirror so perfectly polished that if you scaled it up to the size of Germany, its tallest bump would be less than a millimetre high
Barcelona
10 articles
Latest: The Boring Billion is the name geologists give to the stretch between roughly 1.8 and 0.8 billion years ago, when low-oxygen oceans slowed complex life — but evolution did not pause and Earth was not simply a billion years of slime
Berlin
66 articles
Latest: Uber’s $14.8B Delivery Hero bid would take its global platform to 99 markets
Brussels
5 articles
Latest: The Clarion-Clipperton Zone’s nodules are estimated to contain more nickel and cobalt than all terrestrial reserves — but commercial mining is still waiting on permits and an unfinished global rulebook
Copenhagen
3 articles
Latest: Roughly 80% of the cheese in the US and other major markets is now made with an enzyme produced by genetically modified microbes, not from calf stomachs — and most shoppers have no idea
Dubai
5 articles
Latest: Saudi and UAE sovereign AI plans still rely on Nvidia and US technology
Dublin
13 articles
Latest: In 1887, a Scottish veterinarian named John Boyd Dunlop watched his son bounce painfully along a cobbled path on a tricycle and glued strips of rubber into a tube of air around the wheels that night, because the boy had complained of headaches from the ride — and the pneumatic tyre he improvised in his garden was working on Belfast streets within a year
Helsinki
10 articles
Latest: How did a Nordic company that started by making rubber boots and paper pulp become the world's biggest mobile phone maker by 2000, then lose almost all of it inside seven years?
Lagos
10 articles
Latest: In 1816, a 35-year-old French physician named René Laennec rolled a sheet of paper into a tube and pressed it against a young woman's chest because he was too embarrassed to put his ear there, and the sound of her heartbeat through the cylinder became the first stethoscope
Lisbon
8 articles
Latest: Uber’s $14.8B Delivery Hero bid would take its global platform to 99 markets
London
284 articles
Latest: How does a bundle of glass fibres thinner than a garden hose, lying on the ocean floor under four kilometres of water, carry more than 95 percent of all intercontinental internet traffic?
Madrid
11 articles
Latest: Two men are each called the inventor of email: one chose the @ sign between two computers in 1971, the other wrote a program he named EMAIL as a 14-year-old in 1978, and the fight over whose claim counts ended up in a federal courtroom
Munich
39 articles
Latest: How does a bundle of glass fibres thinner than a garden hose, lying on the ocean floor under four kilometres of water, carry more than 95 percent of all intercontinental internet traffic?
New York
20 articles
Latest: Singapore's millionaire density hit 1 in 6 households — and the mental health data is telling a very different story about what that wealth is buying
Oslo
7 articles
Latest: Neurologists increasingly point to ultra-processed foods as the single largest modifiable risk factor for cognitive decline — and the mechanism runs through the gut, not the brain
Paris
49 articles
Latest: How does a bundle of glass fibres thinner than a garden hose, lying on the ocean floor under four kilometres of water, carry more than 95 percent of all intercontinental internet traffic?
Rotterdam
45 articles
Latest: After raising Seed funding, Rotterdam’s Blockrise becomes a Bitcoin-only platform
San Francisco
14 articles
Latest: Nobody is asking why Apple filed its OpenAI trade secrets suit now, weeks before a rumoured public listing — and the answer sits inside a screenless device shaped by the more than 400 ex-Apple hires OpenAI has quietly made
Seoul
9 articles
Latest: In 1911, an Oklahoma auto dealer named Clyde Cessna taught himself to fly by crashing his hand-built monoplane at least thirteen times on the salt flats of northern Oklahoma, because there were no flight schools within reach, no manuals worth trusting, and no one nearby who had flown one and could tell him what he was doing wrong
Singapore
24 articles
Latest: Singapore's millionaire density hit 1 in 6 households — and the mental health data is telling a very different story about what that wealth is buying
Stockholm
36 articles
Latest: How does a bundle of glass fibres thinner than a garden hose, lying on the ocean floor under four kilometres of water, carry more than 95 percent of all intercontinental internet traffic?
Sydney
10 articles
Latest: Neurologists increasingly point to ultra-processed foods as the single largest modifiable risk factor for cognitive decline — and the mechanism runs through the gut, not the brain
São Paulo
6 articles
Latest: In 1816, a 35-year-old French physician named René Laennec rolled a sheet of paper into a tube and pressed it against a young woman's chest because he was too embarrassed to put his ear there, and the sound of her heartbeat through the cylinder became the first stethoscope
Tel Aviv
10 articles
Latest: US hits Iranian nuclear site as Hormuz shipping stalls and troop deaths mount
Tokyo
17 articles
Latest: ASML in Veldhoven is the only company on Earth that can build extreme ultraviolet lithography machines, and each one contains a mirror so perfectly polished that if you scaled it up to the size of Germany, its tallest bump would be less than a millimetre high
Vienna
6 articles
Latest: In 1957, a stray dog named Laika was strapped into Sputnik 2 and launched into orbit about a week after being plucked off the streets of Moscow, and Soviet engineers admitted decades later that she died of overheating within hours because the thermal control system failed and there had never been a plan to bring her home
Zurich
10 articles
Latest: Stripe's payment infrastructure was built in a Palo Alto apartment by two Irish brothers from Limerick who, before they turned 25, had convinced Peter Thiel and Elon Musk to back them, and the company's annual payment volume now exceeds the entire GDP of Ireland by more than three times