Priya Ramaswamy

Technology Correspondent, The Continental Times

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

In Ljubljana Cafés, a Digital Euro Pilot Tests Whether Anyone Actually Wants One

Twelve thousand residents and 400 merchants are trying the central bank’s digital currency, and the early verdict is lukewarm: it works, and most people cannot say why they would use it.

Oct. 12, 2026 6 MIN READ

Café terraces along the Ljubljanica River in central Ljubljana, where merchants are accepting the pilot digital euro.

Physicists at CERN Measure One of the Rarest Decays in Nature, and the Standard Model Holds

After a decade of counting, an experiment has pinned down a decay that happens once in 10 billion times, a result that narrows the room for undiscovered particles.

Oct. 12, 2026 6 MIN READ

A particle detector in an underground experimental hall at CERN, near Geneva.

A Dutch Chip Plant Bets That Light, Not Electricity, Will Carry the Next Decade of Data

A 1.1 billion euro pilot line in Eindhoven will make photonic chips that shuttle data between servers with beams of light, a niche Europe hopes it can own.

Oct. 7, 2026 6 MIN READ