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A collection of concise articles addressing key questions in the digital world.

Neil Rimer predicts AI investments will return

Neil Rimer, co-founder of Index Ventures, publicly stated his belief that the enormous wealth accumulating around AI will inevitably lead…

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How Your Period Tracker Exposes Private Data

Many period tracking apps quietly share sensitive health data, such as fertility information and sexual activity, with third-party analytics firms,…

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BrainCo Debuts Brain-to-Robot Platform at WAIC 2026

BrainCo demonstrated a brain-controlled robot arm at the World AI Conference in Shanghai, where a user wearing an EEG headset…

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Why Oil Companies Fear Climate Attribution Science

Climate attribution science, which determines if specific extreme weather events were made more likely by climate change, has matured significantly…

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Paralyzed Man Moves Again with AI Brain Implant

Researchers restored movement and touch in a paralyzed man using a "double neural bypass" that combines a brain-computer interface, AI,…

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Helium Baked Off Rocky Exoplanet’s Atmosphere

Most planets originally had hydrogen-helium atmospheres, but over billions of years these can be lost or transformed into secondary atmospheres,…

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90s Computers in Jurassic Park: An Engineer’s Guide

The "Jurassic Park" film's tech accuracy is surprisingly authentic, with the production team going to great lengths to depict realistic…

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F1 aerodynamics expert raises $55M to train robots with chore videos

Former Red Bull Racing aerodynamicist Bercan Kilic founded microagi, which raised a record $55 million seed round led by Humblinbird…

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SaaS Needs More Than Great Software to Compete Now

Enterprise software value depends not on features but on operational consequence,how deeply a platform becomes embedded in an organization's workflows,…

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Why People Share Secrets With ChatGPT, Explained by a Chatbot

The new book "Inventing ELIZA" corrects the historical record by presenting the actual source code from the MIT Archives, revealing…

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Buzz Aldrin sells Apollo pen that helped launch from the Moon

A broken circuit breaker switch on the Apollo 11 lunar module threatened to strand astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin…

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How Sega’s $5M Rescue Saved Nvidia

In 1995, Sega invested $5 million in Nvidia when the company was on the brink of bankruptcy, a lifeline that…

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I tested a human-only ‘Ghost Font’ that tricks AI readers

Ghost Font is an experimental typography project by designer Eric Lu that uses moving dots to create hidden letters visible…

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Unlikely Astronaut Makes Historic Spaceflight

After four rejections, NASA flight surgeon Anil Menon gave up on becoming an astronaut at age 39, believing there was…

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Sotheby’s T. rex auction sparks fears hype and wealth are distorting science

A 67-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton named Gus, one of the largest and most complete ever found, is expected to fetch…

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US Approves Mirror Satellite to Reflect Sunlight at Night

The FCC approved Reflect Orbital's experimental mirror satellite Eärendil-1, which will test an 18-meter reflector designed to reflect sunlight onto…

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Painted e-tattoos signal the next generation of wearable biosensors

Researchers at Pennsylvania State University have developed a conductive ink that can be painted directly onto the skin in custom…

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Nadella’s Paradox: The Hidden Cost of AI

Satya Nadella warns that businesses buying AI pay twice: once in cash, and again by surrendering their proprietary knowledge through…

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Building a Public Internet for Children

Growing concern over the internet's harm to children has led to proposed bans and age verification laws, but a more…

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Feynman’s Sprinkler Solution Decodes “Silly Sprinklers” Too

Researchers at NYU's Courant Institute have solved the classic "reverse sprinkler problem" in fluid dynamics, using experiments with different sprinkler…

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