Jonas Hallberg

Technology Correspondent, The Continental Times

Jonas covers technology for The Continental Times and has reported from more than a dozen countries.

Hamburg Becomes the First German City to Let Robotaxis Carry Paying Passengers With No One at the Wheel

Forty driverless vans began service in a 55-square-kilometer zone on Monday after 18 months of supervised testing, a milestone for a country that wrote Europe’s first autonomous driving law.

Oct. 11, 2026 6 MIN READ

A street in Hamburg’s Speicherstadt warehouse district, part of the zone where driverless taxis now operate.

In Munich, an Insurer and Its Works Council Strike a Deal on How A.I. May Watch Employees

The 11-page agreement bars individual productivity scores and gives claims handlers a right to overrule the software, a model that unions hope will spread across Germany.

Oct. 8, 2026 6 MIN READ

Office towers in Munich’s Arabellapark district, home to several of Germany’s largest insurers.

A German Fusion Machine Holds a Plasma for 8 Minutes, Its Longest Yet

The record at the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator strengthens the case for a twisted reactor design long considered too hard to build.

Oct. 7, 2026 6 MIN READ

The interior of a stellarator’s plasma vessel, lined with carbon tiles to withstand temperatures of millions of degrees.