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26 2025 November

Why Young People Have Nostalgia for a Time Before They Were Born

Here’s an oxymoron for you: people are using AI generated images to evoke the nostalgia of the 90s—the last human decade without ubiquitous technology. This idea...

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20 2025 November

Does the World Still Need Car Keys? I Hope the Answer is Yes.

Writing about innovations that I hope die quickly isn’t usually my style … except for today. A recent piece in WIRED magazine asks whether we should still...

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12 2025 November

Electricity Will Be Free in the Future. In Australia, It Already Is.

Solar power in Australia costs about a third of what it currently costs in the US. As a result, more than 1 in 3 homes...

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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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05 2025 November

Bill Gates Now Says We Are Fighting Climate Change Wrong …

Something unusual was amiss in the media this week: climate activists were hating on Bill Gates. It all started with Gates publishing a blog post...

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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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20 2025 October

This Homework Motivation Pen Could Transform How We Learn

Every time I work out, my health app gives me a “Strive Score” that tells me how hard I worked and how much I pushed...

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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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26 2025 September

An Insider Perspective on What Happened to Silicon Valley

One of the long reads from this month’s WIRED magazine offers an insider account to the shift that’s happened within Silicon Valley and particularly to the ideals...

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17 2025 September

The Long-Awaited AI Copyright Payday May Soon Arrive

For years now, publishers in all categories of media have been fighting a battle with AI firms to be compensated for their content that was...

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11 2025 September

How Fixing AI Slop Might Be the Next Big Job Opportunity … For Those Willing to Do It

What do you do when your AI generated text or image comes out not quite right? A growing number of people are ​turning to writers...

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02 2025 September

The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams

If you thought, like I did, that many of the negative impacts that Facebook has had on our culture from failing to curb the spread...

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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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