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WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM – TOP STORIES OF THE WEEK

World Economic Forum (June 29, 2025): This week’s top stories of the week include:

0:15 Top technologies to watch in 2025 – From digital trust to clean energy, 2025 is seeing breakthrough innovations with wide-ranging impact. Here are five of the most promising technologies this year.

2:50 How to close the gender gap in tech – Ayumi Moore Aoki is CEO of Women in Tech Global, an organization that works to increase gender equality in STEM. She says that amid all the talk of what AI can do, we must also consider what it cannot.

6:09 This robot could change all factories – Meet CyRo, a 3-armed robot designed to handle objects with the dexterity of a human – without the need for pre-programming. Its adaptive vision system mimics the human eye, allowing it to operate under varying lighting and handle tricky materials like glass or reflective surfaces.

7:33 Start-up plans data centres in space – As AI energy demands soar, one pioneering start-up is taking data infrastructure off the planet. Starcloud is building space data centres to tap into the vast, uninterrupted solar energy available in orbit.

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MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW – JULY/AUGUST 2025 PREVIEW

MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW: The Power issue features the world is increasingly powered by both tangible electricity and intangible intelligence. Plus billionaires. This issue explores those intersections.

Are we ready to hand AI agents the keys?

We’re starting to give AI agents real autonomy, and we’re not prepared for what could happen next.

Is this the electric grid of the future?

In Nebraska, a publicly owned utility deftly tackles the challenges of delivering on reliability, affordability, and sustainability.

Namibia wants to build the world’s first hydrogen economy

Can the vast and sparsely populated African country translate its renewable power potential into national development?

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN MAGAZINE – JULY/AUG 2025

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SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN MAGAZINE (June 17, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Is Greenland Collapsing?’ – How the Northern Hemisphere’s largest ice sheet could disappear..

What Greenland’s Ancient Past Reveals about Its Fragile Future

Jeffery DelViscio

Fun Ways to Ditch Fast Fashion for a Sustainable Wardrobe

Jessica Hullinger

How to Be a Smarter Fashion Consumer in a World of Overstated Sustainability

Laila Petrie, Jen Christiansen, Amanda Hobbs

Could Mysterious Black Hole Burps Rewrite Physics?

Yvette Cendes

What Most Men Don’t Know about the Risks of Testosterone Therapy

Stephanie Pappas

What If We Could Treat Psychopathy in Childhood?

Maia Szalavitz

THE NEW ATLANTIS — SUMMER 2025 ISSUE

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THE NEW ATLANTIS MAGAZINE (June 16, 2025): The latest issue features ‘The Lonely Neighborhood’…

How the Government Built the American Dream House

U.S. housing policy claims to promote homeownership. Instead, it encourages high prices, sprawl, and NIMBYism.

Does Marriage Have a Future?

From the Industrial Revolution to the pill to AI girlfriends, technology is unbundling what used to be marriage’s package deal.

Look at what technologists do, not what they say

A new alliance between tech and the family?

MIT Technology Review – May/June 2025 Preview

MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW (April 23, 2025): The Creativity Issue features Defining creativity in the Age of AI: Meet the artists, musicians, composers, and architects exploring productive ways to collaborate with the now ubiquitous technology. Plus: Debunking the myth of creativity, asteroid-deflecting nukes, bitcoin-powered hot tubs, and a new way to detect bird flu.

How AI can help supercharge creativity

Forget one-click creativity. These artists and musicians are finding new ways to make art using AI, by injecting friction, challenge, and serendipity into the process.

How creativity became the reigning value of our time

In “The Cult of Creativity,” Samuel Franklin excavates the surprisingly recent history of an idea, an ideal, and an ideology.

AI is coming for music, too

New diffusion AI models that make songs from scratch are complicating our definitions of authorship and human creativity.

The New Atlantis Magazine – Spring 2025

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THE NEW ATLANTIS (March 18, 2025): The Spring 2025 issue features How the water system works, how virologists lost the gain-of-function debate, living well with AI, a physics that cares, and more…

How Virologists Lost the Gain-of-Function Debate

For years, scientists kept the debate about risky virus research among themselves. Then Covid happened. As President Trump prepares to crack down on virology research, the expert community must face up to its own failures.

Stop Hacking Humans

From cradle to grave, surrogacy to smartphones to gender surgery to euthanasia, Americans are using technology to shortcut human nature — and shortchange ourselves. Here is a new agenda for turning technology away from hacking humans and toward healing them.

The Mars Dream Is Back — Here’s How to Make It Actually Happen

Between SpaceX’s breakthroughs and Trump’s inaugural promise, we have a once-in-a-generation opportunity. But it can’t be realized as an eccentric’s project or a pork banquet. Here’s a science-driven program that could get astronauts on the Red Planet by 2031.

MIT Technology Review – March/April 2025 Preview

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MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW (February 26, 2025): The ‘Relationships Issue’ features AI, Automation, and Surveillance will improve productivity. Or else.

This issue explores the many ways technology is transforming our relationships, from the AI chatbot revolution that’s changing how we connect with one another to the increasing power imbalance in the workplace that’s happening as monitoring increases and protections fall far behind. Plus animating ancient animals, lab-grown spandex, and adventures in the genetic time machine.

The AI relationship revolution is already here

Chatbots are rapidly changing how we connect to each other—and ourselves. We’re never going back.

Adventures in the genetic time machine

Ancient DNA is telling us more and more about humans and environments long past. Could it also help rescue the future?

Your boss is watching

Monitoring technology is increasing the power imbalance between companies and workers. Protections lag far behind.

Columbia Business Magazine – Spring 2025

COLUMBIA BUSINESS MAGAZINE (January 29, 2025): The latest issue features ‘AI: The Human Edge’ – The Winter/Spring 2025 Columbia Business Magazine delves into technology’s impact on society, the future of work, and the achievements shaping modern business.

The Future of Work Begins Now

The potential for AI to enhance workplaces is vast—as long as we remember the humans that make this enhancement fully possible.

Barron’s Magazine —- January 27, 2025 Preview

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BARRON’S MAGAZINE (January 25, 2025): The latest issue features ‘The Trump Effect’ – Bond prices could fall further. Why that’s bad for borrowers…

High Interest Rates Are Hammering Investors. What Lies Ahead Could Be Worse.

Rising rates would be bad news for bondholders and borrowers of all stripes, particularly the U.S. government. They cast a shadow over stocks, too.

Worried About Social Security Under Trump? What to Know About Claiming Early.

The program’s finances could take another hit if some of the president’s tax proposals are passed. What to know about claiming early.

Alphabet, Uber, Applied Materials, and 19 Other Picks From the Barron’s Roundtable

Four of our panelists discuss their favorite investments in the final installment of our 2025 stock-picking confab.

The Agony and the Ecstasy: A Look at Barron’s 2024 Stock-Pick

While our overall report card is disappointing, our best picks revealed our strength in digging into complicated situations.

Culture: The New Atlantis Journal – Winter 2025

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THE NEW ATLANTIS JOURNAL (January 14, 2025): The latest issue features…

The New Control Society

The gatekeepers are dying. Why is everything so mid?

We Live Like Royalty and Don’t Know It

Introducing “How the System Works,” a series on the hidden mechanisms that support modern life

The Tyranny of Now

There’s no time like the present to revisit the warning of forgotten media theorist Harold Innis: “Enormous improvements in communication have made understanding more difficult.”