27 2024 September
This Chatbot Could Actually Change Minds … Using Facts?!
The prevailing wisdom about human behaviors and beliefs today is that facts are not persuasive in changing minds or shifting beliefs. Usually, it’s true. That’s...
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05 2024 September
Why I Paid Human Musicians + Artists to Create the Sonic Identity for My Podcast
Earlier this week I posted on LinkedIn about a project that my team and I have been working on for nearly a year. During the pandemic, I...
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29 2024 August
In a World of Digital Silence, What Should Anything Sound Like?
Electric cars are quiet. Maybe too quiet. The problem, as some public health groups warn, is that electric cars dramatically increase the risk of accidents with...
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01 2024 August
Milli Vanilli Could Have Been Heroes Today … Maybe?
If you are a certain age, you might remember Milli Vanilli. I still have a cassette tape of their album that I could have resold...
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24 2024 July
Welcome to a Future Where Food Is Made from Thin Air
Last year when Henry and I were writing The Future Normal, we wrote about a trend we named Unnaturally Better and profiled Solar Foods, a company...
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17 2024 July
After 40 Glorious Years of Simplicity Notepad Gets “Improved” By Adding Autocorrect and Spellcheck
I admit I’m a Notepad junkie. I use it nearly every day to capture ideas for stories, writing to use elsewhere and just general notetaking....
Read Now04 2024 July
Neuralink May Create a Generation of Gamers with Superhuman Reflexes
Earlier this year Noland Arbaugh became the first patient to receive a brain-computer chip implanted by Elon Musk’s startup Neuralink after a diving accident left him paralyzed....
Read Now21 2024 June
Scent Camera Recreates Travel Smells and More Core77 Design Award Winners
For the 12th year, the Core 77 Design Awards have spanned 22 categories and showcased product, branding and conceptual ideas from students and professionals imagining...
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Marques Brownlee and Walt Mossberg on Trustworthy Tech Reviews
How useful will tech reviews (or any other kind of online review) be in a future where they can increasingly be AI generated? This was...
Read Now31 2024 May
Soundproof Silk May Transform How We Manage Noise at Home and Work
Early in the pandemic I decided to make a home studio and looked into installing sound panels. Unfortunately, they were generally expensive, bulky and needed...
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The Lost Emotion of “Perfectly Colorized” Old Black & White Photos
A photographer edited and colorized 30 vintage black and white photos. His intention was to “breathe life into these vintage snapshots, turning monochrome memories into vibrant...
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Can Seaweed Mining Become the Next Billion Dollar Industry?
A tiny branch of the US Department of Energy focused on high-risk projects just awarded $5 million dollars to three startup ventures that are each...
Read Now23 2024 April
What Would You Put In the “Forever Library” to Archive Human Existence for a Billion Years?
Several million years from now when future civilizations or aliens or whatever is around then look back on human existence, at least they will know...
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