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08 2025 December

How the Breakers Might Make Everything Better … Just After They Destroy It

Back in the year 2000, I remember driving to a client meeting on the streets of Sydney and sitting in the car outside their office...

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18 2025 November

The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: The Age of Extraction by Tim Wu

Tim Wu is exactly the voice that we need right now to help imagine what the positive version of our technological future could be. Known...

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10 2025 November

Adobe Is Rolling Out Emotion Mixers Where AI Can Shift the Tone of Voice Overs

At the Adobe MAX Creative event last week, WIRED reported on several enhancements to audio editing that are likely to be coming soon inside of Adobe products....

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03 2025 November

The Personal Exoskeletons Are Coming—Here’s What It Means

Nike just announced a groundbreaking new sneaker​ that includes an advanced exoskeleton to make walking and running easier. It’s essentially a bionic shoe. The upside...

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30 2025 October

Lessons From the Reinvention of Pittsburgh into an AI Robotics Hub

Pittsburgh was known for steel. Now the city has ambitions to become a hub for something else: AI and robotics. The pieces seem to be...

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27 2025 October

Can The Ring Camera Eliminate Neighborhood Crime In 12 Months?

Thanks to advancements in AI and the ubiquity of the Ring household doorbell cameras, Ring CEO Jamie Siminoff believes we might be twelve months away...

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22 2025 October

The Next Generation of Gig Work Will Be Microtasking

This week Uber announced that they will have a new offering where gig works can choose to take on “microtasks” such as training AI models...

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17 2025 October

AI Matchmaking and How Expertise Is About to Be Scaled

There is an elite $2000-per-month matchmaking service called Three Day Rule that made news this week for their choice to ​create an AI matchmaking app​...

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16 2025 October

The Room Where You Can Hear Your Own Nervous System

Imagine a room so quiet you can actually feel your own heart beating. It exists already and it’s ​known as an anechoic chamber​. Over the...

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02 2025 October

The Swedish Perfume That You Pay for with Your Time in Nature

Deep in the Småland woods of Sweden, there is a “forest-based perfumery” where perfume brand Koyia invites customers to “pay” by spending 599 seconds being...

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23 2025 September

The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: Design for a Radically Changing World by Diane Hoskins and Andy Cohen

The offices (or coffee shops) we work in, bridges we drive across, and temples we pray in were all imagined, designed, and built by architects....

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18 2025 September

The Future of Agriculture Is Peak Farmland + Growing Reforestation

Today, about half of the world’s land is used for farming. In the future, it could be far less–even as food production increases. As technology...

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12 2025 September

“Vibe Movie Making” and the Real Future of AI In Movie Production

Can AI make a good movie? That question will soon be put to the test as Open AI announced this week that they are backing an...

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