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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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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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13 2025 October

Everyone Hates Friend AI and That Is Actually the Point

Out-of-home advertising can be a mixed bag. Brands can stand out for an exceedingly clever breakthrough billboard or end up alienating potential customers by turning...

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09 2025 October

Beyond Self Driving, Future Cars May Be Emotionally Attuned Too

For all the attention on self-driving capabilities of cars coming in the future, there is a wave of research happening now into vehicle-driver interactions that is yielding...

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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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29 2025 August

How “Dumbification” May Be the Next Hot Technology Trend

What happens when all the good TVs that you can buy in the market are automatically programed as “smart” TVs, ready to connect to the...

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13 2025 June

The Secret of Optimism and the New Peruvian Airport

Earlier this week when I arrived in Lima, it was in their brand new airport that is less than two weeks old. People in the city had...

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16 2025 May

Why 3D Fixables Could Create an Entirely New Sustainable Industry

Philips is beta testing a new platform that allows consumers to 3D print a replacement accessory for one of their electric shavers. Right now, it’s just one...

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18 2025 April

3 Powerful Talks from TED This Week That Are Already Available Live to Watch

The TED conference took place this past week and some of the talks have already been released. While most of the year the TED social...

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17 2025 April

Google Uses AI to Reimagine The Wizard of Oz (and Maybe the Future of Hollywood)

This past week, a closed group of attendees at a private Google event got a first look at an ambitious project that has been in...

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10 2025 April

The Backstory of How Dubai’s Museum of the Future Was Imagined Is Worth Reading

Thirty percent of the visitors to the Museum of the Future in Dubai have never been to a museum before. That’s just one of the...

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07 2025 April

How NFL’s New 8k “Hawk Eye” Cameras Offer an Interesting Model for Truth and Verification

Rather than relying on chains and the human eye to measure whether teams have achieved a first down in NFL football games next season, the...

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