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| Aug 21, 2026 | Supply chain, operations and health leadership moves across the market | Aeon
Joseph Xuereb has joined this developer of tactical weapons systems as vice president of supply chain, a role he brings three decades of experience to.
“As Aeon moves into rate production and expands our manufacturing footprint, buildi... |
| Aug 4, 2026 | Forgotten Poet, Borrowed Fame: What Bourdieu Predicted About Late Fame | By Clark Johnson
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| Mar 10, 2026 | Human Problems: It’s Not Always The Technology’s Fault | We have met the enemy and he is us.
When a teenage boy in Orlando started texting Character.AI’s chatbot, it started as an innocent use of a new tool. Sewell Setzer III customized the chatbot to have the Game of Thrones-inspired persona of ... |
| Feb 15, 2026 | Americans are asking too much of their dogs (Opinion) | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Margret Grebowicz
Americans love dogs.
Nearly half of U.S. households have one, and practically all owners see pets as part of the family — 51% say pets belong “as much as a human member.” The p... |
| Aug 14, 2025 | The great blockchain letdown | If you asked someone 10 years ago what the hottest technology of the 2020s would be, they would probably have said “blockchain”. It was all the rage. Forget bitcoin, they said, the real value is in the underlying technology that secures it,... |
| May 29, 2024 | Disaster Resilience, Sovereignty, and the 2024 Hualien Earthquake | Investments in disaster risk reduction can save lives, property, and livelihoods. As the aftermath of the 2024 Hualien earthquake shows, they can also protect sovereignty in an increasingly disaster-prone world.
On 3 April 2024, a magnitude... |
| Dec 22, 2023 | Best of the Web: Pivots, robots and the end of sleep | article-article-body
No sleep needed: New technologies are emerging that could radically reduce our need to sleep – if we can bear to use them, writes Jessa Gamble for aeon magazine.
Imagine a disease that cuts your conscious life by one-th... |
| Oct 23, 2023 | Google Bard AI appears to be censoring Israel-Palestine prompt responses | VentureBeat presents: AI Unleashed - An exclusive executive event for enterprise data leaders. Network and learn with industry peers. Learn More
Google Bard, the search giant’s vision for a conversational AI chatbot, has had a rocky road si... |
| May 22, 2023 | Бункер на случай Апокалипсиса. Как будут выживать богатейшие | В 2017 году известный футуролог и теоретик СМИ Дуглас Рашкофф принял приглашение выступить с программной речью на шикарном курорте в качестве лёгкого дополнения к его доходам в государственном секторе. Но в зале для выступления его встретил... |
| May 12, 2023 | More than 25% of biodiversity is under our feet — but we're destroying it. A biotech startup that's raised $56 million has a plan to help save our soil. | Two scientists at Trace Genomics' lab in Ames, Iowa, prepare soil samples for DNA analysis. Trace Genomics
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Insider More than one-quarter of all species lives in soil. Soil biodiversity enables farming, purifies water, sequesters ... |
| May 4, 2023 | Why a chatbot might seem more empathetic than a human physician | An April 28 article in JAMA Internal Medicine, “Comparing Physician and Artificial Intelligence Chatbot Responses to Patient Questions Posted to a Public Social Media Forum,” generated a great deal of discussion — much of it horrified. In p... |
| Oct 26, 2022 | A Letter From the CEO of BrainBristle - Changing Global Autism Narratives Tick by Tick | Event with BrainBristle
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A letter was written by the young, CEO of BrainBristle questioning global thinkers and media narratives for those diagnosed on the spectrum of autism.
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| May 26, 2022 | What defines our choices? Betwixt, an NFT-based game, takes us on a journey of self-exploration | UK ~
The air is so cold it feels like small knives cutting through your bones. Your eyes are open but all you see is white. You are standing on the edge of the cliff. A frozen, white plain has spread across as far as your gaze can reach. Yo... |
| Mar 24, 2022 | Сможет ли реклама проникнуть в наши сны? | В прошлом году производитель пива Molson Coors провел неприятно удивляющий эксперимент.
Он проходил в незаметном здании в центре Лос-Анджелеса. 18 участников эксперимента должны были посмотреть странное видео под звуки синтезатора, в которо... |
| Dec 29, 2021 | Гипотетическая звездная система с 416 планетами в зоне обитаемости | Детство Фрэнка Дрейка пришлось на 1930-е. Он рос в Чикаго, и его родители, убежденные баптисты, отдали его в воскресную школу. В восьмилетнем возрасте он уже подозревал, что и его церковь, и другие религии, существующие в мире, в определенн... |
| Nov 24, 2021 | Oil Companies Ploughing Money into Fossil Fuelled Plastics Production at a Record Rate – New Research | 14 Mins Read
By Fredric Bauer and Tobias Dan Nielsen
Visiting a modern petrochemical plant makes you feel incredibly small. Enormous compressors roar incessantly, distillation columns tower high above your head, large pipelines full of oil ... |
| Jul 26, 2021 | Future Startup Weekly 12: Labor Productivity and Startup Success | What kills a far greater number of startups than any other reason is simple productivity loss, not being able to do with sufficient efficiency, what needs to be done. This is precisely why everyone talks about execution over ideas. While we... |
| Jul 20, 2021 | China's Digital Inequality Dilemma: Open-Source Innovation vs. Control | We got at least a hint of fresh insight yesterday into China’s ongoing crackdown on big tech companies, which recently swept up ride-share service Didi Chuxing and the fintech-focused Ant Group. At least one underreported goal of the crackd... |
| Jun 13, 2021 | The dream of the techno-utopian workplace is dead. Remote work proved that digitizing the workplace isn't liberating, it's a company-controlled nightmare. | When the pandemic hit, companies embraced remote work, especially as productivity began to increase.
Instead of investing in luxury office spaces, companies are investing in employee monitoring software to maintain a sense of control.
As co... |
| Jun 13, 2021 | The dream of the techno-utopian workplace is dead. Remote work proved that digitizing the workplace isn’t liberating, it’s a company-controlled nightmare. | When the pandemic hit, companies embraced remote work, especially as productivity began to increase.
Instead of investing in luxury office spaces, companies are investing in employee monitoring software to maintain a sense of control.
As co... |
| Mar 31, 2021 | Biz Stone and Mark Cuban are backing an Instagram for NFTs | This is the web version of The Ledger, Fortune’s weekly newsletter covering financial technology and cryptocurrency. Sign up here to get it free in your inbox.
NFTs remain all the rage in crypto-land, and projects leveraging that yen for bl... |
| Mar 31, 2021 | These Are the Female Pioneers of Psychedelics | March 31, 2021 6 min read
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.
Let’s talk about women who were ahead of their time, the curious, the risk-takers. These are women who paid prices they should never have had to. I’m h... |
| Nov 20, 2020 | Gamification: from Ice-creams to Drones | Imagine it is 2005, you are in the fifth grade – five years away from judgement day (10th board exams :p ), it’s close to midnight on a Saturday and after multiple retries you’ve successfully installed Call of Duty 2 on your Windows XP PC, ... |
| Jul 28, 2020 | One Billion, Two Billion, Three Billion, Four? DeFi's Knocking on TradFi's Door | The Takeaway:
Projects like MakerDAO, Compound, dYdX and Dharma realized in 2018 they were a distinct group with shared interests within the cryptocurrency industry.
Finance has been part of Ethereum from the beginning, but the first attemp... |
| Jun 20, 2020 | Мнение: стартап-экономика поломалась, а коронавирус ещё все усугубил | Александра Кукуть Cтартап 20 июня 2020, 09:15 Мнение: стартап-экономика поломалась, а коронавирус ещё все усугубил
Публикуем перевод статьи корреспондента издания The Week Райана Купера про то, что компании с бизнес-моделью вроде Uber вредн... |
| May 10, 2020 | ANALYSIS: The US Covid-19 response has finally shattered the myth of American exceptionalism | Anthony Fauci listens to President Donald Trump speak to reporters following a meeting of the coronavirus task force at the White House on April 7.
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Nations around the world have scrambled to respond to t... |
| Apr 1, 2020 | How Foreign Policy Factors for American Muslims in 2020 | Muslims represent only around 1 percent of the American population, yet today they find themselves playing an increasingly important public role. For instance, two of the most prominent congresspeople are the first two Muslim congresswomen ... |
| Feb 3, 2020 | Can You Feel Your Heartbeat? The Answer Says a Lot About You | Take a moment to pay attention to your body, and all of the sensations within it. Zero in on your heartbeat and try to notice each beat. How strongly can you feel each thump-thump? Do you think you're catching each beat, or are some escapin... |
| Dec 14, 2019 | Информационная диета. Как ограничить время на соцсети и развивать концентрацию | Александра Кукуть 14 декабря 2019, 15:22 Информационная диета. Как ограничить время на соцсети и развивать концентрацию
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| Oct 17, 2019 | Why a Computer Will Never be Truly Conscious | Computer. Photo by Christopher Gower on Unsplash |
| Oct 17, 2019 | Why a Computer Will Never be Truly Conscious | Computer. Photo by Christopher Gower on Unsplash
by Subhash Kak
Many advanced artificial intelligence projects say they are working toward building a conscious machine, based on the idea that brain functions merely encode and process multis... |
| Jul 21, 2019 | What type of fascism is driving the far right today? | If anyone needed further proof that fascism is still alive and well in Italy, the footage of Carola Rackete, the 31-year-old captain of the migrant-rescue ship Sea-Watch 3, getting arrested in Lampedusa for trying to save 42 asylum seekers,... |
| Oct 14, 2018 | At what point do we admit that geoengineering is an option? | In 1883, Krakatoa erupted, spewing volcanic ash and gas into the stratosphere, making clouds more reflective and cooling the entire planet by roughly 1° C that year. In 2018, the UN reported that human activity has already raised Earth’s te... |
| Mar 2, 2018 | Is Your Smartphone an Extension of Your Mind? | Karina Vold is a postdoctoral research associate at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge.
In November 2017, a gunman entered a church in Sutherland Springs in Texas, where he killed 26 people a... |
| Aug 21, 2017 | Nigeria Electronic Fraud Forum releases its 2016 annual report | Here’s everything interesting in African technology today. Not subscribed? Click here to get this goodness in your mailbox every day at 7am (GMT + 1). Hello.
I’m writing this newsletter from Lagos, Nigeria, the second worst city to live in,... |
| Aug 16, 2017 | Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Cellphone | Author: Philip Reed is an associate professor of philosophy at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York State. His scholarly interests are in ethics and moral psychology.
It is mildly subversive and perhaps a little quaint when someone clings... |
| Jun 12, 2017 | To Be Happier, Focus On What’s Within Your Control | About the author: Massimo Pigliucci is professor of philosophy at City College and at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His latest book is How to Be a Stoic: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Living (May, 2017). He lives in Ne... |
| Feb 24, 2017 | What Almost Every Outbreak Story Gets Wrong | In the lexicon of infectious diseases, the term 'Patient Zero' denotes the primary case of an outbreak, the first person to show symptoms of an illness. The idea that an epidemic can be traced to a single individual, the high-stakes search ... |
| Dec 14, 2016 | Why we are still light years away from full artificial intelligence | Clara Lu Contributor
Clara Lu is the marketing manager at ViSenze, an artificial intelligence company that makes search by images possible without keywords.
The future is here… or is it?
With so many articles proliferating the media space o... |
| Sep 16, 2016 | Can Financial Products Improve the Lives of Poor People? | Happy Friday!
Just a quick note up top, since I’m on my way to SOCAP16, the annual confab of social entrepreneurs with a very cool tagline: A conference at the intersection of money + meaning.
Paid Content You can't secure what you can't se... |
| Sep 7, 2016 | Reflections on a historic few months for online video | Ashu Garg Contributor
Ashu Garg is a general partner at Foundation Capital.
This has been my Summer of Video — several months when it became clear to me that we’ve reached an inflection point in the transition from linear TV to online video... |
| Oct 5, 2015 | The Stagnation Of eBooks Due To Closed Platforms And DRM | Craig Mod has a fascinating article for Aeon, talking about the unfortunate stagnation in digital books. He spent years reading books almost exclusively in ebook form, but has gradually moved back to physical books, and the article is a lon... |
| Oct 4, 2015 | NASA Astronauts Can Already Farm On Mars | The prospect of conquering the dark and vast expanse of space has fascinated the human mind for a good part of the last century. Perhaps that is why ‘The Martian,’ a film adaptation of Andy Weir’s book about one man’s struggle to survive on... |
| Sep 29, 2015 | Elon Musk Says Tesla Cars Will Reach 620 Miles On A Single Charge “Within A Year Or Two,” Be Fully Autonomous In “Three Years” | Tesla CEO Elon Musk sat down with a Danish TV show last week and had some interesting predictions to share.
Asked, for example, when he thought the company could produce a car that can “break 1,000 kilometers” (or 620 miles) on a single cha... |
| Sep 18, 2015 | The Guy Who Caught the Internet's Favorite Giant Fish Is Bummed No One Gets It | Earlier this week, an odd-looking gargantuan fish from Japan became a minor celebrity on Twitter. But the tide soon turned as curious reactions gave way to harmful rumors that its strange appearance is the result of the effects of radiation... |
| Jun 20, 2015 | Here Come The Dannies | Jon Evans Contributor
Jon Evans is the CTO of the engineering consultancy HappyFunCorp; the award-winning author of six novels, one graphic novel, and a book of travel writing; and TechCrunch's weekend columnist since 2010.
More posts by th... |
| May 4, 2015 | Elon Musk is changing the future | Elon Musk is renowned worldwide for his roles as co-founder of PayPal and CEO of green technology giants Solar City, SpaceX, and Tesla Motors. Now, the billionaire has crafted a feasible plan for supplying Internet to all areas of the world... |
| Oct 31, 2014 | Virgin Galactic crash is a tragic reminder of the dangers of space flight | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
This week was a sobering reminder about the inher... |
| Oct 31, 2014 | Virgin Galactic crash is a tragic reminder of the dangers of space flight | This week was a sobering reminder about the inherent dangers of space flight.
On Tuesday, an unmanned Antares rocket containing 5,000 pounds of supplies and experiments bound for the International Space Station malfunctioned, prompting its ... |
| Oct 10, 2014 | BEST OF THE WEB: A Google master class; a mission to mars; and it’s not the maths, stupid | Google needs to be understood, writes Steven Levy on Medium, as part of a “master class” he is doing on Google.
“Google isn’t the biggest corporation on Earth, but is arguably the most important. Certainly, if one is to understand the 21st ... |
| Oct 10, 2014 | BEST OF THE WEB: A Google master class; a mission to mars; and it’s not the maths stupid | Google needs to be understood, writes Steven Levy on Medium, as part of a “master class” he is doing on Google.
“Google isn’t the biggest corporation on Earth, but is arguably the most important. Certainly, if one is to understand the 21st ... |
| Aug 15, 2014 | BEST OF THE WEB: Snowden, the business of Buzzfeed and the first smile | If there’s one thing you take the time to read this week, let this be it. At 7500 words it’s nearly the length of a novella, but Wired’s interview with Edward Snowden is a visually beautiful and detailed account about one of the biggest sto... |
| Jun 20, 2014 | Best of the Web: Pivots, robots and the end of sleep | No sleep needed: New technologies are emerging that could radically reduce our need to sleep – if we can bear to use them, writes Jessa Gamble for aeon magazine.
Imagine a disease that cuts your conscious life by one-third. You would clamou... |
| 'If it blows up, it's cool': The far-out philosophy that explains why Elon Musk won't let a few baby sea turtles stop SpaceX's quest to get to Mars | This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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| The US can afford to pay reparations to Black Americans — as long as it sells some federal lands | Demonstrators attend a reparations rally in Washington, DC, in 2002. Manny Ceneta/Stringer/Getty Images
Editorial Note: Any opinions, analyses, reviews or recommendations expressed in this article are those of the author’s alone, and have n... |
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