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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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25 2025 July

The U.S. Postal Service Turns 250—So Let’s Celebrate the Innovations They Have Given the World

For over 100 years in the early days of the U.S. Postal Service, the way mail would get sent from small towns involved a crazy...

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23 2025 July

How One Longtime Brand Fan Is Bringing Back the Commodore 64

The Commodore 64 is back!​ Appealing to grown-up geeks and younger technophiles alike, the computer aims to offer a “simpler, distraction-free computing experience” and suggests...

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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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