Complete (2026-10-02): all 14 volumes. First capture (entries 1-257): six volume PDFs archived complete (Bioengineering, Climate & Energy, Health Care & Medicine, Metaverse, News & Information, Web3). Appended (entries 258-361): Artificial Intelligence from a later complete Wayback capture of its volume PDF (2023-10-26; the 2023-09-23 capture is truncated). Appended (entries 362-620): Mobility, Robotics & Drones; Computing; Financial Services; Government, Policy & Security; Space; Supply Chain & Logistics; Entertainment, whose volume PDFs were never archived (downloads were form-gated), read from the text layer of the full 820-page report as uploaded to Scribd by a reader (document 648865649, Wayback capture 2026-09-23). That parser was checked against the six PDF volumes: 255 of 257 labels and 243 quotes agree. rank is the order of capture (first capture, then appended volumes in report order), not one print order across volumes; within each volume it follows the contents. Labels are the trend entries of each volume table of contents; sections, sub-sections, Spotlight overview blocks, scenario questions, expert perspectives and front/back matter are excluded. Quotes are the first sentence under the trend heading, or of the WHAT IT IS / KEY INSIGHT block on one-trend-per-page layouts. Update 2026-10-02 (D40): the tagged page "Invisible Banking" (Financial Services, page 461 of the full report) was appended as entry 621. Page 551 "Wearables and Biointerfaces" (11TH YEAR ON THE LIST) is an intro paragraph without a KEY INSIGHT or WHAT IT IS block and is not an entry. Update 2026-10-02 (contents audit, issue #26): every volume contents list was compared with the entries (check_2023_contents.py) and 53 missing trends were appended as entries 622-674: 49 Climate & Energy trends from the second contents page of that volume, which the first capture did not read; "Undersea Fiber, Brought To You By Big Tech" (Computing); "Brain Machine Interfaces, Brain-Computer Interfaces, and Neuroprosthetics" (Health Care & Medicine, tagged umbrella page, D40); "Remote Kill Switches" and "Attacking Underwater IT Infrastructure" (Government, Policy & Security). Stored labels cut at a contents line wrap are listed in INDEX.md (Known issues), not edited.
The first human genome cost roughly $2.7 billion and took 13 years to complete.
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Archaeology and genetics are merging, with experts in both fields hoping to surface new insights about the history of life on Earth.
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Synthesis transforms digital genetic code into molecular DNA, allowing scientists to design and mass-produce genetic material.
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COVID-19 accelerated the use of machine learning (ML) in drug discovery.
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Though it makes the most headlines, CRIS- PR-Cas9 isn’t the only gene-editing tool available to researchers.
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For more than a decade, researchers have transplanted healthy, viable cells to replace or repair damaged ones.
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Scientists at MIT’s McGovern Institute and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have discovered a new class of programmable DNA-modifying systems called OMEGAs (Obligate Mobile Element Guided Activity), which could move small bits of DNA throughout bacterial genomes.
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A new technique called prime editing could make the gene-editing process much more precise and result in more accurate modifications.
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Scientists now use synthetic biology to discover and produce molecules on demand.
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It’s difficult and dangerous for scientists to study how living human tissue responds to viruses, medications, or other stimuli: Brain or heart tissue can’t be removed from a living person.
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Lab-grown lung and brain tissues are being used to research the lasting effects of SARS- CoV-2, the COVID-19 virus.
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Picture something like a computer chip, but with a transparent circuit board that’s connected to a biological system pumping a blood substitute through tiny blobs of tissue.
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Synthetic biology is an emerging field that builds new life, including replacement organs and soft tissue as well as entirely new kinds of organisms never before seen on Earth.
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To understand how new organisms might be created, scientists have long pursued developing an MVP—minimal viable product—for biology.
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In 2020, a cluster of stem cells from an African clawed frog served as the base for a fortuitous experiment involving a supercomputer, a virtual environment, and evolutionary algorithms.
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Research is already underway to develop biosensors that can detect deadly bioweapons on the battlefield and harmful chemicals in factories.
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Molecular robotics will someday be used on all life-forms to provide targeted therapies as well as genetic augmentation.
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In 2022, scientists at the Spanish National Research Council genetically modified a strain of E. coli called Marionette so that it could sense different chemicals and respond to them.
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Scientists are in the process of building biological circuits, made of synthetic DNA, and the software that operates them.
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In 2018, scientists from Microsoft Research and the University of Washington achieved a new milestone: They discovered how to create random access memory on DNA at scale.
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One of the fastest-growing data sets in the world comprises human genetic data.
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In addition to making edits, CRISPR also allows fast detection of pathogens by identifying sequences in their DNA or RNA.
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Environmental DNA, or eDNA, is genetic material found in the environment.
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For people who live with rare blood types (AB negative, AB positive, B negative) or who have blood disorders, access to blood for surgery or a transfusion can mean the difference between life and death.
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The world’s most powerful drug manufacturing factory may already be inside you.
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Antibiotic resistance is on the rise due to overuse and incorrect application.
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Last year, an experimental CRISPR therapy successfully treated a 13-year-old girl with aggressive leukemia.
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As we age, the sequence of our DNA might stay constant, but chemical changes do occur.
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For couples suffering from infertility or for individuals desiring to have a baby without a partner, acquiring donor sperm or eggs can be an expensive, overwhelming process.
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In 2022, a viral video made some people think they were living in “The Matrix.”
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New genetic screening techniques that test embryos before implantation are making their way into fertility centers.
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Researchers are developing a new technique that might someday enable people to upgrade their children before birth.
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Precision fermentation is an advanced version of a very old technology: brewing.
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In 2020, Singapore approved a competitor to the slaughterhouse by allowing a bioreactor—a high-tech vat for growing organisms—run by a US company to produce cultured chicken nuggets for its residents.
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Soon, milk substitutes won’t require soy-based products, oats, or nuts.
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Several companies are developing bio-based, ultra-durable biofilms and coatings so that chipped nails, scratched paint, and cracked screens become yesterday’s problem.
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Mycelium is a root-like mushroom structure, and its fast-growing fibers form what looks like a white, fluffy tuft of material.
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Smart packaging will drive agricultural advances and investment.
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In 2015, an environmental engineer at the University of Georgia named Jenna Jambeck published a groundbreaking study that used available data to estimate that 8 million tons of plastic enter the world’s oceans every year.
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Carbon dioxide is the undisputed culprit when it comes to climate change.
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The textile and clothing industry is a notorious polluter but is making steps toward more sustainable practices.
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Woolly mammoths were once a keystone species, one that other species in the ecosystem depended on in many ways for stability.
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Rewilding is a direct human intervention into nature using technology and science; this holistic approach to conservation focuses on restoring the natural phenomena of wilderness ecosystems, providing connective corridors between wild spaces, and reintroducing keystone species to their natural habitats.
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In 2021, biotech company Oxitec launched a controversial field test of specially engineered mosquitoes in Florida as a move toward reducing the spread of deadly diseases such as dengue, yellow fever, and the Zika virus.
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Synthetic biology-derived compounds are producing improved ingredients in skin care products.
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The human microbiome is a mini-universe of the genetic materials living on and inside our bodies, inherited from our gestational mothers.
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A mass extinction event is happening right now in our guts and in the environment.
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Some companies are offering direct-to-consumer DNA testing kits with the promise of recommendations for skin care products and foods— all based on the person’s individual DNA profile.
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When it comes to recreational drugs like marijuana, genetic factors can determine whether someone feels pleasantly relaxed or anxious and listless.
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Biohacking is a socio-technological movement bringing together citizen scientists, academic researchers, technologists, data scientists, and others interested in life sciences.
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Genetically modifying crops with upgrades could dramatically increase yields without needing to increase the other resources required for cultivation.
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Regenerative agriculture describes farming and grazing practices that rebuild soil’s organic matter and restore degraded soil biodiversity.
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New technologies allow growers to produce plants and insects using alternative techniques, which include aquaponics, hydroponics, and vertical farming.
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Researchers are harnessing synthetic biology to produce better feed for animals.
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CRISPR promises to enhance the nutritional value of produce, increase crop yields, and extend freshness.
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Unlike cellular-derived meats, which are made from living or once-living organisms, acellular meats are created with organic molecules that don’t contain any living (or once-living) material in the final product.
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In 2019, a major outbreak of swine fever devastated China’s stock and killed nearly a quarter of the global pig population.
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The Advanced Plant Habitat is a fully automated plant growth facility that was installed in the International Space Station in 2018.
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Terraforming—literally, “earth shaping”—is a concept from science fiction in which people re-form another planet to resemble Earth and support human life.
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The pandemic accelerated widespread use of infectious disease surveillance techniques, from saliva tests at airports and border crossings to nasal swabbing at testing centers.
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Genetic privacy will be increasingly difficult to safeguard—yet big genetic data sets are required to perform the kind of research that leads to new therapeutics.
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The UK Biobank (UKBB) made 200,000 DNA sequences available to scientists for research projects in 2021.
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Fewer than 2% of people who have had their genomes sequenced are from Africa.
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Biological materials from Indigenous peoples are still missing from genetic databases, basic research, and clinical studies.
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In 2022, famed Harvard geneticist George Church announced that one of his startups, Colossal, was aiming to bring back the woolly mammoth—but without tusks.
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He Jiankui, the Chinese biophysics researcher who used CRISPR to edit embryonic DNA, performed a trailblazing type of surgery—on genes.
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Over the past decade, China has quietly created a scaled, national DNA drive to collect, sequence, and store its citizens’ genetic data.
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Researchers are building the first-ever comprehensive map of all 37.2 trillion human cells in the body.
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Perovskite is a crystalline compound that can be used as a semiconductor in solar cells as an alternative to silicon.
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The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, set a new record for the energy efficiency of dye sensitized solar cells (DSC) using molecules that can harvest light from the entire visible light spectrum.
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Solar panels cannot produce energy at night, for obvious reasons.
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Organic solar cells are also known as plastic solar cells.
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Solar thermophotovoltaics create electricity from heat waves, while normal photovoltaic cells respond only to the visible part of the sun’s rays, which constitutes less than half of solar irradiation.
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The development of floating offshore wind farms continue to accelerate.
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Vertical wind turbines will have applications on sea and land as new designs increase their energy-production efficiency, which has historically been lower than that from horizontal blade turbines.
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A relatively new technology, bladeless wind turbines consist of a tower with magnets attached to the top portion.
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In airborne wind energy, the turbines are as high as half a mile up in the sky and can take advantage of high-altitude winds.
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The wake effect, the reduction in speed and added turbulence of wind after it hits a turbine, reduces the energy production of a wind farm by 10%-20%.
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Geothermal energy is the stepchild of the renewable energy family.
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Deemed by many to be as elusive as nuclear fusion, supercritical geothermal involves drilling deeply into the earth—20 kilometers or farther—to access temperatures above 500 degrees Celsius.
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As wind and solar technologies scale, geothermal could offset the fact that they don’t produce energy consistently.
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While geothermal is the stepchild, hydropower is the sleeping giant of renewable energy.
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The Digital Twin for Hydropower Systems Project, led by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Pacific Northwest Laboratory, aims to optimize operations and use real-time data for plant maintenance and cybersecurity.
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Smaller-scale, modular hydropower plants have recently been developed that can be spread throughout a river.
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The San Diego County Water Authority uses the San Vicente Reservoir as a “water battery” for solar power.
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Hydrogen has seen a lot of public support this past year: Nine countries, which together cover 30% of the global energy sector’s emissions, released national strategies.
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The cost of “green” hydrogen production, using renewable energies, is still high.
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Professor Naomi Halas of Rice University discovered that hydrogen can be created from sewer gas, also known as hydrogen sulfide.
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Just like hydrogen, biofuels have received a lot of policy attention recently.
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Hemp shows promise as one of the most viable options for biofuels because of its efficiency: it produces more fuel per hectare than any other land-grown crop and can be processed quicker because it doesn’t need to be dried like corn or sugar.
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Syngas, a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide, is an ingredient in many industrial products and can also be used as a fuel.
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In the US, two government initiatives are exploring how current and former landfills, mine sites, and other contaminated lands can be repurposed for renewable energy development.
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A pilot program between Centrica and British Gas is exploring how hydrogen can be used in power generation.
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While the promise of break-even fusion power had been a pipe dream for a long time, recent milestones suggest that fusion could achieve commercial viability sooner than expected.
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At the end of 2022, the DOE announced that scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s National Ignition Facility achieved break-even fusion power, or a net energy gain from their fusion reaction.
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In early 2022, the Joint European Torus (JET) broke its own previous world record by producing 59 megajoules of heat energy from fusion in 5 seconds.
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A bevy of private companies have entered the fusion sector with the hope that smaller, more nimble players can bring about fusion’s commercial use.
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Some experiments, like the one mentioned earlier from the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, use lasers rather than magnets to achieve net positive energy.
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Progressive small modular nuclear reactors will make energy more accessible and cleaner.
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Researchers from the National University of Singapore’s College of Design and Engineering have developed a moisture-driven electricity generation (MEG) device consisting of thin fabric, sea salt, carbon ink, and water-absorbing gel.
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Harnessing the energy of waves in the ocean could create an infinite source of zero-emission electricity—but making that happen will not be easy.
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Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have developed a biofilm that adheres to the skin and can harness sweat to generate electricity for wearable devices.
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A new breed of energy-harvesting platforms makes the most of potential kinetic energy.
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Tetrataenite is a high-performance magnet used in electric vehicles and wind turbines.
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The global offshore wind market is booming, and so is the need for alternatives to rare earth magnets that run the current crop of turbine generators.
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With approximately 80% of the world’s supply of rare earth metals currently produced at great environmental cost in China, it’s increasingly important to find a reliable and cost-effective domestic source for the metals that help run our smartphones, electric vehicles, wind turbines, and headphones.
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A major sticking point in the switch to clean energy is the fact that wind and solar power are inherently intermittent.
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An updated device offering record-high thermal-to-power conversion efficiency could lead to thermal batteries for power grids.
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As one of the most widely available elements on the planet, iron is an especially convenient potential base for low-cost and long-term clean energy storage.
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The costs of wind and solar electricity have dropped to a point that is not only cheaper than traditional electricity but cheaper than fuels.
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The lithium-ion battery is almost ubiquitous in phones, computers, and electric vehicles.
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Looking up at a skyscraper, it is hard to imagine the building as a giant battery.
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Researchers from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore recently developed a wind harvester—a low-cost, durable, and lightweight tool that captures energy from even the most gentle gusts of wind.
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China’s State Grid plans to invest $22 billion in eight ultra-high-voltage direct current power transmission line projects to connect far-flung utility-scale renewable energy plants to its cities, hundreds or thousands of miles away.
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Researchers at the US Naval Research Laboratory successfully beamed power from one point to another using microwaves, which could someday enable power to be transmitted wirelessly on Earth, in space, and from space to Earth.
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Emrod, Airbus, and the European Space Agency conducted a demonstration in late September 2022 to showcase the potential of space-based solar power.
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Sectioning off the electric grid into unlimited microgrids can keep power flowing even when other sections are taken offline to work through storm damage, wildfires, or cyberattacks.
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A $45 million boost in federal funding will accelerate creating and testing new technology to protect against cyber threats.
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In 2003, overgrown trees in Ohio made contact with a high-voltage power line and set off a cascade of failures that left 50 million people in the dark across eight states and parts of Canada.
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The push toward widespread adoption of electric vehicles includes plans for a national network of EV chargers—and new tools to protect them from cyber threats.
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Through composting, tree planting, and sustainable agricultural practices, California could sequester one quarter of its annual CO2 emissions by 2030, according to a report by the Climate Center and the Carbon Cycle Institute.
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There are currently 19 Direct Air Capture facilities operating around the world, but the International Energy Agency estimates that for the world to fulfill its climate goals, 32 large-scale plants must be built each year until 2050.
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Italian Startup Energy Dome has developed a CO2 battery, using the gas as a working fluid in a closed thermodynamic process.
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Several companies are offering “as-a-service” products in the CCS space.
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California-based Covalent uses the biomaterial AirCarbon to produce fashion products including sunglasses, wallets, purses, handbags, totes, and tech cases.
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The Air Co., backed by Toyota Ventures, JetBlue Technology Ventures, Parley for the Oceans, and Carbon Direct Capital Management, makes vodka using CO2 that’s been captured before it’s emitted into the atmosphere.
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The biotech company LanzaTech uses recycled CO2 to manufacture polyester fabric.
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Agriculture is responsible for one quarter of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, and meat production is the primary reason.
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The aviation industry emits 1 billion tons of CO2 annually while consuming 100 billion gallons of fossil fuels.
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Chinese tech giant Alibaba has developed a carbon ledger program called 88 Carbon Account.
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Lune, a climate-tech startup, aims to inform consumers about the environmental impact of the goods they purchase online.
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Deepfakes are digitally manipulated content intended to deceive another person into believing they are real.
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Artificially generated (or synthetic) data can convincingly represent patient data sets for use in research, training, or other applications.
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Screening babies for genetic diseases with a wholegenome sequence could soon become a routine part of wellness exams.
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Treating genetic disorders in fetuses could mitigate risk before babies are born.
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Researchers are developing genetically engineered organs in animals for xenotransplantation—that is, transplantation into human patients.
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In a move that evokes the company towns of the early 1900s—when then high-tech heavyweights like Pullman Co., Colt, and the Mark Steel Co. designed communities with cutting-edge amenities built around factories— investors are launching partnerships with some communities’ health care systems to create pilot sites for the startups in their portfolios.
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Once limited to pharmaceutical companies, hospitals systems, and insurance providers, chief medical officers (CMO) and chief health officers (CHOs) are now being recruited by all types of companies that needed additional guidance during and after the pandemic.
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Breakthroughs in sensors and artificial intelligence expand the possibilities for remote diagnosis.
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Technology is bringing the power of the laboratory into our homes.
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Membership-based services and health tech startups are creating new direct-to-consumer (D2C) models that better fit the needs and lifestyles of younger, digitally savvy generations.
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Americans are legally able to access their medical data, though existing systems make it difficult to access most of it.
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Automatic medical transcription continued to gain traction as telemedicine accelerated during the pandemic.
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Remote patient monitoring (RPM) is used by health systems to reduce demand for hospital beds, and to remotely track patients under treatment or at risk for developing severe disease.
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Telemedicine services have increased more than 38x since the start of the pandemic, and been used by more than half of the Medicare population in the US.
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Big Tech is doubling down on its bid to muscle into the health care industry, while reorganizing and shifting strategies to take advantage of emerging technology breakthroughs.
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The FDA approved the first prescription-only video game as a treatment for attention deficit disorder in 2020.
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Medical misinformation and disinformation aren’t new, but the pandemic dramatically deepened the problem.
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From treatment of mental disorders to pain management, virtual reality is gaining traction in medicine.
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In June 2022, doctors at Mount Sinai West in New York wired a patient’s brain with a 1.5-inch long implant created by Synchron, a brain-computer interface (BCI) startup.
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Neuroprosthetics exist for vision and hearing loss, but until recently there wasn’t a solution for the loss of other senses.
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It’s now possible to remotely control fruit flies with a computer and command them to make specific movements.
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The brain transmits a form of electrical signals, but it’s composed of gelatinous tissue.
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Meta sponsored research at University of California, San Francisco, only to later abandon efforts to turn its BCI—which had the goal of allowing mobile device and computer users to communicate at a speed of at least 100 words per minute, much faster than anyone can type on a keyboard—into wearable consumer technology.
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As neurotech moves from labs into trials, some countries are banning the collection and sale of brain data.
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BMIs, BCIs, and neural implants offer a tantalizing opportunity to regain control of their senses.
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As wearables and sensor technology proliferate, so do floods of patient data that can help health care providers assess a person’s overall health.
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Brain training is a controversial multibillion-dollar industry.
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Since the start of Covid, consumer adoption of digital fitness technologies has accelerated significantly.
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Ohio State University scientists developed software that can design more complex DNA robots and nanodevices in minutes, instead of days.
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You’ve seen them in sci-fi movies: tiny robots that are swallowed or embedded, and then remotely controlled by doctors.
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A team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems has designed and built a tiny millipede-like robot that can climb around in the gut to deliver therapeutic drugs.
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In 2022, researchers published a new breakthrough in managing pain.
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Nanowear’s SimpleSense is an FDA-cleared, noninvasive undergarment that monitors and analyzes multiple patient vitals—such as heart rate and sounds, respiration rate, lung volume, and physical activity—to predict risk of heart failure or lung disease, among other ailments.
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Smart beds monitor patients’ breathing, temperature, pulse, and other vitals through sensor chips.
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Several 2020 studies found that wearables, such as the Oura Ring, Fitbit, and Apple Watch, can detect early signs of infections.
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Researchers at the University of Tokyo developed a new form of synthetic skin designed to cover robotic prosthetics.
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Researchers at the University of Waterloo in Canada are using computer vision and deep learning to create more natural movement for disabled persons who wear exoskeletons.
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The University of Texas at Austin is exploring how graphene electronic tattoos can measure brain waves, heart activity, and muscle activity through biopotentials, which are electrical activities naturally occurring in the body.
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Researchers at Northwestern and George Washington universities developed a cardiac pacing device that is absorbed by the body over five to seven weeks—ideal for postsurgical patients whose hearts require temporary pacing.
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Basic smart eyewear that makes use of augmented reality (AR) is already on the market.
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A new type of flexible patch can provide continuous ultrasound imaging of internal organs for two days.
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Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley are testing in-ear electroencephalogram (EEG) technology, which measures electrical activity in the brain using small electrodes attached to the scalp.
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Smart clothing uses smart threads and small sensors to capture various physiological data.
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Harvard University and MIT developed a face mask that can detect the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
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Manufacturing and military settings are using exoskeletons to reduce fatigue and risk of injury.
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In April 2021, Sony introduced a more powerful wearable air conditioner called the Reon Pocket 2, which is currently available only in Japan.
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Skinput uses human skin as an interface and effectively turns an arm and hand into an input device.
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In 2022, the FDA changed its rules and no longer requires a medical examination or hearing test for prescription hearing aids, which will likely increase competition in a previously closed market.
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Scientists from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and Massachusetts General Hospital’s Center for Artificial Intelligence created an open-source toolkit that lets users design and fabricate health-sensing devices like bracelets that detect distracted driving or bands that provide important data during physical therapy like muscle motion, strain, and tension.
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Personal protective equipment manufacturer Mechanix Wear and thermal wearables technology company Clim8 created a smart glove that self-regulates temperature to keep hands comfortable.
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As virtual environments evolve, users are increasingly interested in acquiring digital possessions as investments and to enhance their profiles and experiences in the metaverse, and VR stylists have emerged to cater to them.
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Early in Web 2.0, people were selling pixels on websites and trying to figure out how to monetize digital spaces.
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New realities platforms have the potential to change how we work together.
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From prescription gaming to VR pharmacies, digital therapeutics are earning medical backing—cueing up a new class of meta-medicine that brings the digital dimension to physical medicine.
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Crime scene investigations are evolving with the help of augmented and virtual reality tools, allowing trainees and analysts to explore simulations and recreations of remote, destroyed, compromised, or artificially generated crime scenes.
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Many AR experiences available today require users to download an app to their device—or buy a new device altogether—but WebAR is a growing field in which augmented reality experiences are built using JavaScript and WebGL to make them directly accessible through a browser.
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AR lenses overlay real-time digital information onto the physical world.
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Extended reality is blending the physical and digital realms, transforming real-world spaces into interactive environments.
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New screen and spatial tracking technology could make it possible to show personalized information and wayfinding details in context.
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The US Army Research Laboratory has set out to build One World Terrain, an up-to-date, high-resolution 3D map of the world that can be used for positioning and navigation on the ground in territories where GPS cannot be accessed.
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Holograms are light field recordings that, when reproduced, can appear as static or dynamic three-dimensional visuals.
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Though still in the R&D stage, holographic data storage is a promising potential technology for storing data in the volume of the recording medium, rather than on the surface, as in optical and magnetic data storage.
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A pivotal technology for generating XR content in the metaverse that emulates real spaces and forms, volumetric video is a method of capturing dynamic environments and figures in 3D.
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Just like volumetric video gives perspective and depth to visual content, spatial audio offers an immersive or omnidirectional soundscape that can react and adjust to the listener’s positioning in real time.
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Spatial displays offer the magic of virtual reality without having to strap on a head-mounted display.
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Head-mounted displays (HMDs), which offer more robust, immersive functionality than smart glasses but are too cumbersome and restrictive for casual use on the go, are more commonly worn in controlled workplace environments or for relatively stationary entertainment and gaming.
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If the metaverse is our future, smart glasses will be our ideal entry point for heads-up displays.
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Smart contact lenses, embedded with sensors and electronic components, can display text and images.
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If physical buttons and screens become a thing of the past, how will we control and communicate with our devices and the virtual world around us?
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While new realities promise to make exploring the world more accessible to people like seniors with low mobility, XR interfaces pose a number of accessibility challenges.
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Motion sickness and nausea are still significant barriers to entry for widespread consumer and industrial adoption of VR.
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Avatars are virtual representations of users in digital platforms.
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Avatars can be created in a variety of forms, but as users spend more time in XR and metaverse platforms virtually carrying out everyday tasks and interactions, there will be rising demand for avatars that can convincingly re-create their true human likeness.
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In the absence of standardized universal avatars, users of digital platforms are free to—and in many cases required to—create multiple online versions of themselves, each tailored to the virtual context they inhabit.
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Generative algorithms are creating synthetic voices that sound just like the original, and those voices can be modulated to the exact pitch and tone desired.
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In the imaginary universe of “Harry Potter,” the halls of Hogwarts are hung with framed portraits of past wizards that can move and speak with living observers.
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With the spread of AI-generated media, a new crop of synthetic celebrities has emerged.
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From Michael Keaton in “Multiplicity” to Tom Hardy in “Legend,” Hollywood has already experimented with multiple iterations of the same actor appearing on screen simultaneously, but with synthetic media, the possibilities are endless.
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Founded in 2017, the personalized greeting app Cameo has made a name for itself by connecting public figures of varying levels of fame to average individuals—pay a fee, and the celeb (or B-lister) will record and deliver a personalized message to the recipient, whether it be a birthday greeting, a pep talk, or an apology on behalf of the sender.
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Despite understandable concern about the effects of deepfakes and synthetic media “in the wild,” the technology has potentially beneficial applications, particularly in the classroom and workplace.
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Experiments in the metaverse are not without material brand reputation and consumer risk.
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Deepfake images of singer Billie Eilish promoting sexually explicit content for purchase were promoted and viewed 11 million times on TikTok’s For You page before they were removed for violating community guidelines.
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In 2021, a group of US senators proposed the National Deepfake Task Force Act, one of the first federal legislative actions in the US to address synthetic content; it would establish an oversight group within the Department of Homeland Security.
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High-profile generative AI launches from OpenAI’s DALL-E and ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion’s text-to-image generator have raised thorny questions about fair use.
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With the advent of synthetic media comes the end of the premise that seeing (or hearing) is believing.
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Last year, a viral synthetic video surfaced in which Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky appeared to tell his troops to surrender, but clues in the video—his head was oversized and his accent was flawed—got it quickly removed from distribution platforms.
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Just as the internet continues to buck traditional jurisdictional boundaries, raising thorny legal questions about platform accountability and data rights, the metaverse and XR technologies will most certainly raise new questions that stretch the limits of legal precedent and analogy.
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A growing number of newsrooms are using AI-powered tools to automate tasks like homepage curation and initial drafting of breaking news stories.
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News organizations should prepare to cover newsworthy events happening in persistent virtual spaces.
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Journalists are increasingly targeted by governments and other bad actors looking to discredit the media, influence stories, and gather intelligence.
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Search engines are the gatekeepers for publishers and retailers looking to reach new audiences.
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Subscriptions power multibillion-dollar media giants like The New York Times and individual passion projects on Substack alike.
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Trust in news continues to fall, across continents and distribution channels.
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Creating a personal media brand has never been easier.
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Digital frailty is the tension between digital assets’ apparent indelibility and their tendency to be lost because of technical glitches, evolving file systems, or intentional design.
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Sensory journalism is storytelling that integrates directly with a consumer’s senses—either through an immersive experience using a virtual reality headset, or emerging devices like smart glasses or headphones that can augment a user’s perception.
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Not all of the information available is reliable.
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The lifeblood of the content economy is ad revenue that creators can earn for delivering captive audiences to platforms.
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As AI-powered decisions seep into every aspect of our lives, journalists need the skills and resources to hold algorithms—and the companies that design them— accountable.
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A handful of conglomerates own and influence the mainstream digital and print publishers in the US.
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Whether an individual can fully participate in the digital world—seeking news, building community, and accessing the myriad of services that depend on an internet connection—depends on where they are.
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Attention metrics go beyond just reach to measure whether consumers are engaging with content.
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It’s increasingly common to find text accessible as audio, podcasts uploaded to YouTube, and videos rendered as scannable transcripts.
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In stark contrast to the decentralized nature of Web3, a large proportion of its infrastructure development is being funded by venture capital firms, especially Coinbase Ventures, Balaji Srinivasan, Spartan Group, Polygon, and Hashkey Capital.
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Last year was a difficult year in terms of crypto losses, beginning with the Ronin Bridge hack in Q1, and wrapping up with the FTX and BNB Chain hacks in Q4.
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Ethereum made headlines in September 2022 with The Merge—its shift from proof of work (PoW) to a proof of stake (PoS) consensus mechanism.
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Proof of SpaceTime (PoST), introduced in a 2016 paper by Tal Moran and Ilan Orlov, is endorsed by some as the new consensus mechanism.
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Distributed computing technology enables people to donate idle processor time on their personal laptops, phones, or other digital devices to support causes or earn (fractional) income.
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Blockchain-based applications that track origins of digital content and permanently store original assets have been in use for years, and are now maturing.
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At their inception, NFTs were primarily focused on digital artwork, and that reputation has stuck. 2022 saw the rise of the NFT avatar, where “metaverse” users created virtual versions of themselves that could be used for influencing and making money.
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The need for individuals to access, share, and prove their identity and store personal data and information is growing as digital interactions and transactions become increasingly common.
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The health care industry, which underwent significant digitalization over the past decade, is facing positive disruption from Web3 technologies.
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Blockchain applications will alter the food and agricultural industries as Web3 technologies improve provenance validation and tracing.
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Startup Spectral has built what it claims is an on-chain equivalent to the FICO score—the Multi-Asset Credit Risk Oracle (MACRO) score.
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Web3 is being used to track, exchange, and archive intangible information for the first time, including cultural material, records of historically significant events, connections among people or organizations, and the scale of information sharing.
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Prompt learning/engineering encompasses a collection of techniques that focus on customizing a foundational LLM for a particular use case, using a supervised learning technique.
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RLHF is a technique used to align LLMs with human intentions and is based on training a reward model to mimic human feedback and intentions.
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Neural networks are trained to perform tasks by watching humans do them.
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Some organizations want to move away from traditional machine learning methods, which are time-consuming and difficult, and require data scientists, AI specialists, and engineers.
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At the moment, deep learning techniques are helping systems learn to solve complex tasks in a way that resembles what humans can do—but those tasks are still specific, such as beating a human at a game.
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Federated learning is a technique that distributes machine learning to the edge.
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Researchers are developing single algorithms that can learn multiple tasks.
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A fundamental subtask in video computer vision is activity recognition: identifying the activities that occur in videos.
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The Visual Commonsense Reasoning challenge is a relatively new benchmark for visual understanding.
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If a computer system has access to enough images—say, millions and millions—it can patch and fill in holes in pictures.
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Computer vision systems are getting smarter, which enables neural networks to predict geometry from a single color image.
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The development of AI has been on two conceptual tracks since the 1950s: symbolic (machines that use a base of knowledge and rules that represent concepts) and non-symbolic (machines that use raw data to create their own patterns and representations of concepts).
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One big challenge in AI is building machines that can proactively collect and interpret data, spot patterns and incorporate context, and ultimately learn in real time.
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Models like GPT-3 are trained on syntax and grammar, not creativity or common sense.
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Dreamer is a reinforcement learning (RL) agent that uses a world model to learn long-sighted predictions, employing backpropagation (an algorithmic way of working backward to test for errors) through model predictions.
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Last year, we saw the proliferation of large AI models, and this year supersized models are on the horizon.
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Increasingly, researchers are introducing specialized language models for different industries, and LLMs for proteins are already in use.
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Language models can learn to use the tools we rely on every day, like calculators and search, simply by accessing text interfaces.
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Current opinion on language model (LM) scaling laws might be wrong; they are enormous, yet the amount of data they’re trained on isn’t commensurate with their overall size.
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Deep neural nets are good at identifying objects in photos and videos and processing natural language, but until recently models had to be trained separately.
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Most LLMs have been trained on publicly available data sets such as Reddit and Wikipedia.
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Diffusion models are beating GANs at benchmarks for text-to-image generation.
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Code is important for reproducibility, accountability, and transparency, and it is a key to driving improvements in the greater AI community.
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Google, DeepMind, Salesforce, and OpenAI are actively building systems that help the computer science community develop code.
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Google’s TensorFlow and Meta’s PyTorch are two popular frameworks used by researchers, and the relative popularity of different frameworks typically mirrors trends in the commercial application landscape.
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It’s expensive to train a model, and several variables influence those costs, all of which have increased in the past few years.
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As AI systems improve, they are surpassing benchmarks.
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There’s a renewed call to make AI explainable—meaning, to reveal to researchers and others how systems make their forecasts and decisions.
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For many years, demand for AI talent has outpaced supply.
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Companies are looking to upskill their workforce in machine learning and the basics of AI.
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The brain drain of AI researchers out of academia and into corporations is growing at an alarming pace.
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AI labs are located around the world, with concentrations in North America, Europe, and Asia.
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The Middle East is vying to become the next Silicon Valley, with a particular focus on developing its own AI ecosystem.
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Microsoft, Google, and AWS are all partnering with outside companies to compete in, and with, AI.
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As companies adopted AI, they initially relied on packaged solutions from vendors.
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Hyperscalers like AWS, Alibaba Cloud, Microsoft’s Azure, Google Cloud, and Baidu Cloud are rolling out new offerings and packages for developers with the goal of making it easier and more affordable for a variety of AI startups to launch their ideas into the marketplace.
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As machine learning matures and new applied business solutions emerge, developers are shifting their focus from building models to operating them.
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Corporate leaders within the AI ecosystem have been racing to capture AI cloudshare—and to become the most trusted provider of AI on remote servers.
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AI-driven processing and decision-making that occurs closer to the source of data generation, as opposed to in the cloud, is a technique known as edge computing.
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Machine learning is transitioning, as new platforms allow businesses to leverage the power of AI to build applications without the need to know specific code.
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As much as the AI ecosystem booms, a rush of acquisitions means consolidation, too.
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Today’s neural networks have long required an enormous amount of computing power, take a long time to train, and rely on data centers and computers that consume hundreds of kilowatts of power.
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A new approach to memory, which could eventually power the next generations of smartphones and help usher more smart devices to market, involves breaking some of the current bottlenecks in computing.
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Recognition systems can now be deployed to watch people in an interview and gauge enthusiasm, tenacity, and poise.
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In 2020, DeepMind’s AI made a big announcement: It had solved a 50-year grand challenge with AlphaFold, an AI tool that predicts the structure of proteins.
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Running experiments with several variables often requires tiny, methodical tweaks to measurements, materials, and inputs.
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COVID-19 accelerated the use of AI in drug discovery.
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New medical algorithms address the level of patient care in the US.
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A new system designed to improve stroke outcomes, Viz.ai, showed promising results in a real-world 2021 study.
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Deepfakes are digitally manipulated content intended to deceive another person into believing they are real.
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An antibody is simply a protein that protects an organism.
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Researchers at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory are applying deep learning to microscopy, which until now had relied on humans to painstakingly organize, observe, and analyze microscopic samples.
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Natural language processing (NLP) algorithms, which are typically used for words and sentences, are also being used to interpret genetic changes in viruses.
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The success of therapy and counseling requires trust between a clinician or doctor and patient— and that trust is built through dialogue.
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JPMorgan Chase spent $100 million to develop anti-fraud systems for consumer payments, which has paid off—its AI systems reduced fraud by 14% from 2017 to 2021.
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AI systems can help improve loan underwriting and reduce financial risk.
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AI systems are being trained to detect possible workplace injuries.
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Insurance companies are applying AI to assess damage and improve forecasts.
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Automated assistants are moving from the fringe to the mainstream as consumer adoption increases.
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While human claims writers must painstakingly review pictures and reports to assess damage, compare what they see to coverage policies, and make a determination about appropriate actions, an AI system can digest the same data and accomplish the same work in a matter of minutes.
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Who’s to blame when machines behave badly?
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Stable Diffusion, MidJourney, DALL-E 2, and ChatGPT are now widely accessible to end consumers, leading to AI-assisted human creativity.
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Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are capable of far more than generating deepfake videos.
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Starting with a 2D image, researchers can now create a rich 3D view of a scene by using a neural network to capture and generate spatial imagery.
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Nvidia is teaching AI to build realistic 3D environments from short video clips, a method that builds on previous research on GANs.
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In the past year, there has been an explosion of AI voice generator startups.
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For some time, we’ve been training computers to watch videos and predict corresponding sounds in our physical world.
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A new type of neural network can determine how people are feeling.
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AI can now measure biomarkers that suggest a person’s emotional state, such as agitation, sadness, or giddiness.
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Research teams are attempting to teach machines about love, active listening, and empathy.
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In 2022, experimental apps moved quickly into the mainstream, as consumers enthusiastically generated AI avatars of themselves.
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Low-code and no-code offerings from AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud will start to trickle down to everyday people, who will create their own AI applications and deploy them as easily as they can create a website.
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Real-world conversation is full of nuance: We use words and emphasis in unique ways, we interrupt each other, and sometimes we need others to help us express what we’re thinking.
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As facial recognition becomes ubiquitous, various groups want to limit the technology’s effectiveness to protect privacy.
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Quantifying and analyzing our biometric data can reveal patterns in our activities and a lot about who we are, what we’re thinking, and what we will likely do next.
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Data sets are growing larger and more controversial.
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There is no question that machine learning systems trained correctly can help find missing children and detect abuse.
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Computers do exactly what they are told to do.
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What happens behind closed doors may not be secret for long, and executives should beware of new ambient surveillance methods.
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As AI systems improve, some researchers are insisting on guardrails to ensure that they are deployed in ways that do not harm humanity.
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Seemingly the moment OpenAI’s ChatGPT went public, there were multiple accounts of the system displaying racism, ageism, and gender bias.
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Humans can be tricked into believing machine-generated faces, especially when they’ve been engineered to elicit trust.
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The rise of remote work during the pandemic accelerated the surveillance of workers, and will likely continue to grow as remote and hybrid work models take root.
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During the pandemic, many students were issued laptops and other devices by schools to facilitate remote learning.
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We will soon reach a point when we will no longer be able to tell if a data set has been tampered with, either intentionally or accidentally.
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Governments are instituting new restrictions on mergers and acquisitions and investment activity to ensure that AI does not aid foreign adversaries.
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The EU will finalize its Artificial Intelligence Act (AIA) this year, which will focus on the use of AI systems that use citizen data for potentially detrimental purposes.
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From self-driving car accidents to election interference, disinformation campaigns to political repression enhanced by facial recognition and automated surveillance, events over the past few years have exposed the dangers of AI.
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The US National Defense Authorization Act includes provisions that address the growing problem of deepfakes, requiring the Department of Homeland Security to issue an annual report for the next five years on the risks posed by deepfakes.
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New strategic technical alliances between countries will help drive future R&D, but could also strain existing geopolitical alliances or heighten tensions.
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Late January 2023, the US Department of Defense updated its guidance on autonomy in weapons systems.
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Given the rising tensions between the US and China over Taiwan, several groups are building AI-powered simulation tools to war-game a future conflict.
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In 2022, a retrofitted Black Hawk helicopter flew autonomously between mountains to deliver blood supplies in a simulated mission.
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In 2021, the US military said that it had started using AI to guide its airstrikes, deploying algorithms to a live operational kill chain.
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Lethal autonomous weapons systems, powered by AI, are capable of finding targets autonomously and making decisions to complete a mission.
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Thanks to advancements in AI, one of the big trends in security is automated hacking—in short, software that’s built to out-hack human hackers.
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Future wars could be fought entirely in code, using data and algorithms as powerful weapons.
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Project Maven was developed to enlist AI to analyze surveillance video.
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It’s a challenging time for Chinese startups because of rising tensions with the West.
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Alibaba, Tencent, and Baidu, which have made important advancements in AI research, may find it difficult to keep innovating.
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In late 2019, China began requiring all citizens to submit to facial recognition in order to apply for new internet or mobile services, and began requiring that telecom companies deploy AI to check the identities of people registering SIM cards.
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We’re living through a precarious moment.
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Numerous governments are focusing on curbing carbon emissions through decarbonization legislation and incentives.
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Legacy automakers are restructuring and making substantial investments in an electric future.
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Supply chain constraints on automotive parts, specifically semiconductor chips used to power operating systems, cameras, sensors, and entertainment systems, came to a head during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Investments in US battery production are coming from major players in the automotive and battery chemistry industries.
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The sustainability debate over EVs versus ICEs centers on the impact of mining two key battery materials—lithium and cobalt—on the environment, but battery recycling could help address this concern.
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To make EVs viable, manufacturers are working to increase their range, which is of concern to potential customers, especially those who live in more rural areas where longer driving distances are part of daily life.
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Solar vehicles lessen the burden of battery weight and the need to charge as frequently.
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Plug type is an issue across charging stations.
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The rising demand for charging stations is causing organizations to rethink how they can profit from or remain viable in the transportation space.
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The retrofitting of buildings, and layouts of cities and towns, are taking into consideration the needs of electric vehicles.
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As home-charging equipment becomes cheaper, consumers are likely to seriously consider purchasing an EV.
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For the first time, EVs have the ability to store and transfer energy back to the grid as municipalities begin to explore and invest in vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology.
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Auto manufacturers are creating better cabin environments for customers to drive, ride, relax, work, and play within their vehicles.
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One sticking point with electric vehicles is how quiet they are; they even lack typical shifting noise.
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High-speed, low-latency connectivity is playing a growing part of the vehicle experience.
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The new wave of connectivity can assess personal and commercial vehicles in real time.
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With human error the leading cause of accidents, it is not surprising that the vehicle makers would like to take the human factor out of the equation.
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Connected vehicles are able to constantly pull in information about road conditions, traffic, and the weather.
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As food delivery services increase in popularity, many related companies are expanding the offerings on their platforms.
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The immense amount of data generated by mobility services and applications is enabling organizations to develop insights and new business models by sharing or selling their data.
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Safety experts believe that many automotive deaths are avoidable, and that active safety features are the solution.
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Videos that depict autonomous vehicles failing to stop quickly enough or detect shorter pedestrians have created public concern about walking near semiautonomous or autonomous vehicles.
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ADAS systems will continue a slow rollout to prove autonomy in personal vehicles.
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Cobots serve as legitimate replacements for human workers in certain instances, especially in the constrained labor market.
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A number of companies make quadrupedal robots that can be used for security, monitoring, and inspections; they can also take readings or collect images or data.
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Nearly every industry has now invested in robotics, from industrial applications in warehouses and production lines to cleaning robots in hospitals that might someday work alongside surgical robots.
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Autonomous robot swarms work together to efficiently accomplish a variety of tasks.
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Exoskeletons can assist those with limited mobility or injuries, providing an excellent use case for those experimenting with them.
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Exoskeletons can enhance worker performance in industrial settings, giving people capabilities beyond their own natural strength or endurance.
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A key feature of soft robotics is their ability to gently grab and pick up objects.
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Fluid movement allows a robot to operate almost anywhere and has promising applications across fields like medicine and machinery repair.
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Researchers are working on applications that use organic and biological compounds for robotic application.
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Rice University researchers recently turned a deceased spider into a robot, giving rise to a new field called “necrobotics They manipulated its legs with a puff of air from a syringe, using the spider’s natural hydraulic system for opening and closing its legs.
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Robotic applications in small spaces have driven the development of robots that are smaller than human- or animal-size machines, but not quite nano scale.
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Smaller robots can also more effectively explore hard-to-reach locations, and the CARL-Bot (Caltech Autonomous Reinforcement Learning Robot) fits roughly in the palm of a hand.
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Researchers will push the design and development of robots by finding new and unique ways to miniaturize their motors and design.
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Drone swarms, or groups of networked drones capable of coordinated operations and communication, expand the capabilities of a single operator.
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Drone fleets could one day take over the package delivery market, but regulatory issues have limited the testing of UAV delivery drones.
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Drones that can fly longer and carry heavier payloads could drive more commercial adoption.
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Electric and eVTOL aircraft are the embodiment of the flying car, invoking “The Jetsons” and capturing the public imagination.
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As drone usage grows, so will the need for dedicated airspace.
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Uncrewed, or AI-driven, shipments are emerging as a viable option to move goods and people on the water.
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5G networks enable more edge processing— which is the processing of data at or near the source of the data, as opposed to sending data back to a central location—which unlocks computing applications for self-driving automotive infrastructure.
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5G means faster download speeds for games, lower latency for better cloud gaming experiences, and better graphics/interactive design—all of which is required for augmented reality/virtual reality and extended reality (XR) games.
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VictorXR, a VR- and AR-based education company, is developing immersive experiences for students on T-Mobile’s 5G network.
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Today’s robotic surgeries—or, to be more precise, robot-assisted surgeries—still require that human surgeons stay close to the patient.
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Chinese researchers at Tianjin University say they have developed a 6G-based technology to track hypersonic weapons communication.
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5G helps XR to trick our eyes and ears into accepting digitally created senses. 6G may enable XR to trick all our senses for a truly immersive experience.
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Soon networks will allow much quicker communication between hyperintelligent AI-powered machines. 5G networks are designed to perform at latencies close to the human sensory system, but AI is not limited by the same constraints.
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Over the course of 2022, Meta announced several key network-related requirements for its metaverse.
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More than 500,000 square miles of the US lacks cell phone service.
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In 2022, Starlink provided broadband internet to more than 150,000 Ukrainian ground stations from an interlinked system of low orbiting satellites.
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The moon could have internet service as soon as early 2024.
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Anyone with a mobile plan can access mobile operators’ 4G or 5G cellular networks.
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What if networks could automatically diagnose and heal themselves?
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Staggering volumes of data are being collected from IoT sensors.
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Edge management maintains and manages computing resources and devices located at the “edge” of a network.
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The semiconductor supply chain issues accelerated adoption of RISC-V architectures.
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The CHIPs Act, which President Joe Biden signed into law in 2022, was designed, in part, to reduce dependence on foreign chip production and make the US’ semiconductor supply chain more resilient.
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The US is not alone in moving to become a self-sufficient chip-producing region.
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Industry leaders—Samsung, Intel, TSMC, and IBM—announced they are transitioning to nanosheet transistor architectures, a type of transistor that uses extremely thin sheets of material, known as nanosheets, to control the flow of electrical current.
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Need to store something for a long time?
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On September 6, 2022, Ethereum made a major move to cut its energy footprint by switching from a proof-of-work to a proof-of-stake model.
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Serverless GPU means that consumers only have to pay for the GPUs they use.
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As fast as conventional computers are today, they’re not fast enough for certain AI applications.
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Researchers at University of California, San Diego developed the NeuRRAM chip, a neuromorphic computing chip that can read handwritten numbers, identify cars and other objects, and decode voice recordings.
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Researchers at Cortical Labs grew brain cells that learned to play “Pong,” the pioneering minimalist video game from the 1970s.
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Johns Hopkins University is putting tiny hats on mini-brains.
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Koniku, a synthetic biotechnology company, is building a neuron-silicon hybrid chip that can “smell.”
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The entire human genome is encoded into a single nucleus of a cell.
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Until recently, one drawback of using DNA as a means of storage and computing are slow read and write times.
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Synthetic biologists at Northwestern developed a DNA-powered hand-held device that determines whether water is safe to drink.
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OpenWorm is an open-source platform dedicated to creating the first virtual organism.
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Molecular electronics chips use very small molecules, as opposed to traditional materials like silicon.
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Neuralink, another brainchild of Elon Musk, is an ultra-high bandwidth implantable brain-computer-interface.
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One major challenge with brain-computer interfaces is the physical challenge of integrating electronics with brain tissue.
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Q-day: the day quantum computers break the internet.
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Quantum sensors collect data at the atomic level to sense changes in motion, and within electric and magnetic fields.
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Building and owning a quantum computer is hard.
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There is an enormous gap between quantum talent and what is required by the level of quantum investment, which is growing 20% per year.
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We are still in the pre-quantum-supremacy era, meaning that classical computers are still better for certain applications.
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Today’s classical computers connect to the internet and transmit data using a set of standardized protocols.
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The quantum internet is inherently secure, since qubits do not rely on physical code.
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In order to build the quantum internet, there must be a means to store and transmit quantum states.
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Designing a quantum system requires a deep understanding of quantum mechanics.
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Quantum systems are highly sensitive, and still extremely error prone.
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Given the laborious cycle of drug development, testing, and approval, it often takes decades after a therapeutic discovery for medicines to reach patients.
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The Monte Carlo method is a well-known way to predict outcomes using random samples of parameters.
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Researchers at the University of Virginia’s School of Engineering and Applied Science created a scalable quantum computing platform on a single photonic chip the size of a penny.
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Open banking makes financial data more accessible, which can then feed into creating new systems without the baggage of working on decaying digital systems.
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The API-ification of financial services has made possible scale that, previously, was difficult to fathom.
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SCA, in combination with the General Data Protection Rule (GDPR), has accelerated the discussions around customer privacy and the minimum required information necessary for transactions.
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Open banking spread thanks to the free market—and because of regulation.
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As back-office infrastructure opened and standardized, companies providing bankingas-a-service, like Marqueta and Railsbank, are growing increasingly popular.
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In the past, orchestration meant being able to accept online and offline purchases through one platform.
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Nearly every consumer-facing platform now offers the ability to store payment credentials, either through onsite storage in account settings or through the connection to a digital wallet.
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Consumers live in a next-day Amazon Prime delivery world, one in which Uber instantly shows how far away a ride is.
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The automation and digitization of money are enabling increasingly complex standing orders to buy or sell stocks.
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New digital wallets allow for storage, payment, and transfers or many other assets beyond cryptocurrencies.
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Digital identity is the starting point for anything fintech-related, and radiates beyond financial services into the realms of government, health, and education.
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Companies continue to make business decisions using different sources of data than what they’ve long obtained from consumer reporting companies.
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Embedded finance inserts financial instruments into interactions—think buy now, pay later or installment plan offers at checkout—and makes opting into such mechanisms frictionless.
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The financial services industry tends to be quite risk averse, and as a result adopted some of the most conservative IT practices anywhere.
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Platforms own customer experiences and claim complete control over what happens within their ecosystem.
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Business models are now designed around establishing a beachhead within an ecosystem and then spreading throughout the system.
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Sustainability and morality in the financial actions of organizations are increasingly visible, trackable, and desirable.
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The issues of coordination and authority in the world of decentralized finance create an ideal environment for experimenting with new forms of governance.
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Data localization laws enforce how data can be stored and transferred within and across territories.
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Generating passive income is increasingly a key financial goal for millennials and Gen Zers.
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While IPOs remain the primary mechanisms through which the public can participate in a company’s growth, the IPO is no longer the de facto fundraising mechanism for businesses.
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Roughly half of all US-based nonprofessional internet creators monetize their online hustle, and such creators now have more options than ever.
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Incentives continue to become more nuanced.
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Stablecoins are cryptocurrencies pegged to a fiat currency, most typically the US dollar, which the coin issuers then hold in reserve.
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Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) are digital currencies, issued and regulated by the central bank of its issuing country.
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Social and digital payments are helping to monetize social interactions, and embed exchange within them.
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Staking allows you to earn rewards or “interest” for holding on to certain cryptocurrencies.
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The energy intensity of blockchain has long been a subject of criticism for the technology, but in 2022 the topic garnered additional attention.
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Bitcoin and Ethereum are typically identified as Layer 1 chains because they settle each transaction individually.
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Digital identity systems authenticate citizens and enable them to interact with their government and its privatesector partners.
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Public agencies are pooling and standardizing their data, making it interoperable and reusable across government departments and the private sector.
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The global pandemic accelerated digital transformation.
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Facing new threats from climate change, critical health care challenges, and a shift in geopolitical alliances, governments are investing once again in basic research.
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The federal government is developing plans for permanent hybrid work-from-home (WFH) policies, which will allow employees to split their time between being in the office and teleworking.
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Parts of the federal government rely on comically old technology that is very difficult to maintain.
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When tech companies made bold announcements about the shift into decentralized technologies and the metaverse, some cities broke (digital) ground on new infrastructure and services.
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For many years, creating a network for exchanging specific types of data was something reserved for the highly technical at really large corporations.
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US states are developing charters and special permissions to stimulate blockchain use for digital identification, cryptocurrencies, and digital asset management.
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State governments are developing rules and regulations for data privacy protections.
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State governments are developing new Biometric Information Privacy Acts (BIPA) for using biometric data, with a special focus on how law enforcement uses it.
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As electric vehicles become more sophisticated, adding semi- or full-autonomous features, local governments must determine when and how to authorize their use within city limits.
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Lawmakers worldwide are targeting consolidation, anticompetitiveness, and the use of consumer data by Big Tech.
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Tech companies, advocacy groups, and governments are grappling with who should own rights to consumer data and who has ultimate power and control over private information.
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A handful of companies control the cloud and have the ability to set pricing, access, and standards.
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Tech platforms connecting the cloud, our smart homes, and our everyday digital activities aren’t interoperable.
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When a company denies one or more users, businesses, or governments the ability to access its platform or services, this is an example of a CDoS.
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The European Union is set to launch the world’s first broad standards for regulating the development and deployment of artificial intelligence.
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Multilateral export controls are created by groups of states to informally govern the exports of certain technologies for mutual benefit.
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Large companies have always lobbied to influence policy and regulation.
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Technology shapes the ways countries relate to one another and influences the global balance of power.
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The founding promise of the digital world was broad connectivity where information could flow freely.
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Throughout history, multilateral efforts have resulted in nations working together to promote shared purposes.
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Effective COVID-19 vaccines exist, but capacity still meets only a fraction of the global demand.
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As we enter a new era of space exploration, strategic countries are forming geopolitical alliances to propel commercial development—and to forge new military capabilities.
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Emerging technologies allow researchers to peer into the brain to gain insights about the organ’s function.
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Biometric data isn’t stored as securely as it should be, opening doors to theft and manipulation.
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As more consumers send away their saliva for genetic testing, the need for secure DNA databases has never been as important.
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The first known death resulting from a cyberattack occurred in 2020.
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Cybersecurity has its own supply chain, which includes IT services, vendors, software, networks, and data.
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A zero-day vulnerability is a flaw—a problem within a hardware or software system that developers didn’t discover during the testing process.
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With all the hacking scandals that have plagued us in the past several years, we will begin to see a transition to something called zero-knowledge proofs, which allow one party to verify data without conveying any additional information.
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In the past few years, some social media users left big platforms for nascent startups that were established quickly and with little technical oversight.
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In late 2018, more than 50 countries signed an international agreement on cybersecurity principles.
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While they sound malicious, backdoors aren’t necessarily bad.
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In 2022, a retrofitted Black Hawk helicopter flew autonomously between mountains to deliver blood supplies in a simulated mission.
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Lethal autonomous weapons systems, powered by AI, can find targets on their own and make decisions regarding mission completion.
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Thanks to advancements in AI, one big trend in security is automated hacking—in short, software built to out-hack human hackers.
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It is thought that the 2020 SolarWinds supply-chain attack was planned and facilitated by an elite Russian government agency, and that Russian hackers targeted more than 20 US states’ voter-registration databases leading up to the 2018 elections.
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Cybercriminals constantly target critical infrastructure and facilities, and for years, security experts have warned that hackers could potentially disable dams, power plants, and traffic lights with their attacks.
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Rather than simply pursuing cyber deterrence, governments are more actively engaging in offensive positions in cyberwarfare.
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With so many people now working from home and using their own personal computers, routers, and internet service providers, hackers are finding it easier to breach company data.
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With the proliferation of smart devices—connected speakers, mirrors, fitness gadgets— hackers have a wellspring of new targets.
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Machine learning is being used to recognize and regenerate sounds, including the sound of a key being inserted into a lock.
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White hat (read: good hacker) bug bounty programs, in which businesses pay friendly hackers to search for vulnerabilities within their systems, are becoming popular.
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Rather than malicious actors simply stealing data, new kinds of attacks will emerge involving hackers accessing and manipulating data for long-term damage.
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New forms of insurance intended to help businesses protect against hackers will enter the marketplace.
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A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack happens when a hacker sends so many requests to a battalion of machines that the entire network goes down.
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The protocols underpinning the web were written long before we had connected microwaves and billions of daily users.
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Ransomware is devastating companies and even entire cities.
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Hackers-turned-activists have had a busy few years, working for causes they believe in by launching DDoS attacks against governments, corporations, and banks.
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Many people confuse the deep web, hidden parts of the internet that aren’t indexed by search engines, with the dark web—niche spaces that promise anonymity and are often used for illegal activities.
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Since the Cold War’s end, disparate nations have been forming space blocs, or groups of countries that join forces to further their interests in space.
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Advances in launch technologies, reduced costs, and lowered barriers of entry result in outer space becoming increasingly accessible to the public sector.
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As the space industry becomes more lucrative and low-Earth orbit grows more crowded, concerns increase that bad actors may threaten space assets to gain leverage.
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Defending interests in space manifests from a national level, with individual countries invested in keeping the skies free of international turmoil.
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Reusable rockets used by players in the satellites-as-a-service model significantly reduced the price of satellite use and the per-kilogram cost of space launches.
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Skeptics call into question our need to explore space, often by placing emphasis on tending to the needs of Earth first.
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Low-Earth orbit, the atmospheric layer relatively close to Earth’s surface, provides a more suitable environment than the planet for manufacturing certain materials, including semiconductors and artificial proteins.
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Entire industries are developing to inform how we travel to and stay in space.
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As we become a spacefaring people, habitats and built environments will adjust commensurately with settlement of new planets.
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Although it’s becoming cheaper to send payloads to space, we must not expect to ensure the survival of our species in off-planet living by shipping our most-needed resources from Earth.
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Companies and governments are developing unconventional, more economical, and environmentally friendlier means to transport humans and cargo to space.
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After much excitement and fear surrounding the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, engineers and astronomers have expressed satisfaction with the mission’s success.
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Self-assembling technology addresses several engineering challenges around bringing structures to space and building them there, opening doors to space architectures that are novel, efficient, and multi-purpose.
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Humanity is heading back to the moon, and the areas surrounding it, known as cislunar space, are becoming a target for both the public and private space sectors.
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Private space companies—namely SpaceX—are in the driver’s seat to Mars.
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The pros of Mars life include gravity at about 38% of that on Earth, which means we can lift heavy stuff and jump high; the atmosphere contains carbon dioxide, allowing plant growth, with some atmospheric moderation; and the planet has decent sunlight and water among its resources.
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Since the advent of smart labels in the early 2010s, labels have become far more intelligent and provide a lot more information than a shipping destination.
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Information being passed along the supply chain about processes is now documented by a new digital exchange— the digital passport.
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Consumers want to know when an order is arriving, and the pandemic brought delivery tracking into the mainstream.
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The supply chain and logistics industry needs to rethink AI’s role.
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As automation augments the role workers play, augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) can create new models and training for supply chain employees.
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Route optimization is not just about getting goods to the consumer faster.
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The list of management software platforms to serve the supply chain, logistics planning, and the value chain is growing.
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Disruptions in the supply chain from the pandemic, extreme weather, the war in Ukraine, decoupling from China, and other global factors have forced many companies to look to nearshore or reshore manufacturing.
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Considering that 53% of shipping costs are eaten up by last-mile delivery, companies are seeking to shorten the last mile to increase their margins.
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Micro-fulfillment centers are entering more markets, allowing companies to gain a foothold in new regions and obviating the need for consumer-facing storefronts.
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While there is currently a shortage of traditional warehouse space, secondary use sites offer flexibility and strategically appealing locations.
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Combining 3D and 4D printing under one umbrella, additive manufacturing (AM) has created opportunities for change and presents new solutions to parts of the supply chain.
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One of the key factors improving the supply chain industry’s sustainability is the implementation of cleaner fuel sources.
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ESG policies are compelling companies to rethink supply chains, sourcing and procurement, and transparency for customers.
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The supply chain industry faces challenges in obtaining climate-related insurance.
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Packaging, which usually plays a smaller role in the supply chain, has become a focus because of new sustainability standards.
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Consumers are selecting goods based on if their values align with a company and manufacturer, and part of their calculation involves the supply chain.
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The adoption of robotic enhancements into the supply chain is the key to reducing future bottlenecks and relieving the pressure of recruiting the next wave of workers.
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Changes to the warehouse focus on both the needs of humans and the new technology assisting them, including robots, or autonomous machinery, and cobots, machines that operate alongside humans.
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Companies must prioritize technology that ensures a safer working environment.
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With the current uncertainty in the workforce pipeline for the supply chain industry, technology offers solutions to attract new talent and retain current employees.
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Augmented and autonomous cobots are capable of learning from human workers, and are then better able to support people’s efforts.
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Retailers have learned that product demand may increase dramatically because of a viral social media post, and the supply chain has to figure out a way to deal with those spikes.
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Digital twins, which are virtual duplicates of physical objects or processes, can assist in the monitoring of resources; model production needs and shipping routes; and prepare the supply chain for future disruptions.
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With a global recession looming—International Monetary Fund head Kristalina Georgieva warned in January that one-third of the global economy should expect a slowdown—concerns are rising as to what it will mean for consumer demands.
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Companies are expanding their supplier base to make it more inclusive to better align with their corporate values, which can benefit their bottom line.
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Countries and businesses are searching for alternatives to avoid the weaponization of resources, like oil and critical minerals, that they depend on.
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The influencer economy—built around influential digital creators generating content to make money for themselves, brand partners, advertisers, and platforms— reached an estimated value of over $16 billion in 2022.
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Content production is in transition.
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As the capabilities of our technical devices expand, consumers don’t just watch their favorite content, they experience the narratives with all—or most—of their senses.
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Stories are evolving from finite products to flexible formats consisting of a variety of modules that can be combined in a near infinite number of ways.
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Massive interactive live events (MILEs) are a hybrid between TV shows and video games.
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They’re never tired, always available, and don’t get into trouble.
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AI is transitioning from supporting creatives in their workflows to providing the foundational ideas for projects.
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AI systems can now take a movie’s dialogue and dub it into multiple languages, re-creating actors’ original voices.
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Text-to-video solutions enable companies to scale their corporate communication and marketing messages.
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Blockchain technology is redefining the digital experience of creating, authenticating, acquiring, owning, and investing in art.
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The state of intellectual property (IP) rights is uncomfortably undefined.
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Although traditionally not thought of as a technology, physical spaces are becoming more hybrid, giving artists free rein on the built environment and resulting in adaptable experiences for viewers.
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Theater companies are experimenting with varying degrees of audience participation, alternate realities, and both persistent and ephemeral world building.
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Live acts are freeing themselves from location-specific constraints.
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Virtual reality concerts first gained popularity during the pandemic to make up for canceled shows.
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Installation artists have long developed fully immersive multisensory experiences, pulling viewers into alternate realities and new worlds.
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Generative AI tools are both more sophisticated and easier to use than ever.
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Though studies show a relationship between increased time spent viewing digital screens and adverse effects on someone’s state of mind, the versatility and convenience of technology has enabled new applications of art in the service of mental health.
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New virtual reality entertainment experiences use the technology for localized social activities that stimulate all the senses, enabling customers to fully immerse themselves in artificial worlds.
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Web3 disruption is on the horizon for operations and business in the theme park industry.
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Enhancing the guest experience at theme parks is not just limited to data collection, applications, and customer experience management systems.
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The concept of the amusement park is evolving and expanding to meet the expectations of increasingly techsavvy visitors, who skew younger and higher-income than before.
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Existing theme park customer platforms, mobile apps, and wearables provide an evermore optimized and personalized experience to park visitors, thanks to AI and Internet of Things technologies.
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Amusement parks are increasingly using data to influence and direct their customers’ decisions about when they will visit and how they will spend their time there.
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Visitors to zoos, aquariums, and museums increasingly want meaningful, immersive experiences to make education more fun and exciting.
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Banking-as-a-service (BaaS) providers that take banking infrastructure behind the scenes are creating environments where real-time payments and other financial transactions are invisible to the consumer.
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As businesses feel pressure to adhere to strict environmental, social, and governance (ESG) standards, a host of new tools have become available to help them better track their carbon footprints throughout their value chains.
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The buildings and construction sector has rebounded since the COVID-19 pandemic to its highest carbon dioxide emissions ever, according to the 2022 Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction.
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Cement makes up 10%-15% of concrete, more than any other ingredient.
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In Georgetown, Texas, Icon is building the first community of 3D-printed houses.
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The construction industry is still largely analog and therefore inefficient.
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Demand has increased for products from the heavy industries—cement, iron and steel, and aluminum.
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Producing steel with electricity from green sources and hydrogen instead of fossil fuels, Stockholm-based H2 Green Steel plans to start large-scale production by 2025, Colorado-based Electra has developed an emission-free iron production process at a relatively cool 60 degrees Celsius (compared to the 1,600 degrees Celsius traditionally required).
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Bioplastics are produced from renewable biomass such as corn starch or recycled food waste, instead of the petroleum-based materials used in traditional plastics.
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Computer vision has evolved to the point that AI robots can be trained to identify more than 50 types of recycled materials, including paper, plastic, and aluminum; gauge the purity of the materials; and distinguish between food-grade and non food-grade plastics.
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Norway’s commitment to 100% emission-free passenger vehicles by 2025 has led to a 3,000% increase in sales of battery EVs from 2011 to 2019.
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Entrepreneurs in Jordan have developed a prototype closed-loop process using pyrolysis to convert shredded plastic particles into sulfur-free diesel fuel.
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Buildings produce 40% of global greenhouse gas emissions and consume 50% of the world’s energy and 40% of raw materials.
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Mycelium, or the vegetative structure of a fungus, is a very durable material that is resistant to mold, water, and fire, and is also compostable.
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Portland cement, the most common type of cement, is made from quarried limestone and creates significant greenhouse gas emissions.
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Making concrete a “living organism” is another possible way to replace carbon-intensive traditional cement.
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While lab-grown meat receives more attention, lab-grown leather is also promising.
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After first focusing on the camping market, Paris-based Koolboks pivoted to providing its power-free refrigeration solutions to businesses throughout Africa that get unreliable and inconsistent power from the grid.
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Swap Robotics intends to make sustainable and environmentally responsible outdoor work equipment.
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Every time a washing machine runs, 700,000 microfibers are released into the ocean, which damages the environment and can even harm people’s health, as microplastics have been detected in humans.
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Lufthansa’s fleet of 10 Boeing 777F cargo planes now have a sleek new sharkskin exterior coating to reduce drag and emissions.
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The pandemic saw public transit ridership plummet and accelerated the trend toward micromobility options like electric bicycles and scooters.
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Scientists in China have developed a way to charge a lithium-ion battery to 60% capacity in under six minutes and 80% in just over 11.
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Projects in downtown Detroit and on the Central Florida Expressway near Orlando will soon test electrified roadways that can wirelessly charge EVs as they drive over them.
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The United Nations’ High Commissioner for Refugees estimates that about 21.5 million people are forced from their homes each year by natural disasters.
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According to the UN, food accounts for about one-third of all greenhouse gas emissions caused by humans.
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Buildings are responsible for more than 30% of energy-related carbon emissions, according to the US Green Building Council.
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Restoring nature to its uncultivated state is not a new form of conservation, but it has gathered attention as a way to combat climate change.
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Many initiatives to reclaim land for plants are taking place on a local level.
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The highly publicized efforts of Texas-based Colossal Biosciences to resurrect the woolly mammoth have stirred a wide debate over the plausibility of such projects.
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A novel way to counteract global warming could be to prevent some sunlight from reaching the earth in the first place.
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Cloud seeding is the geoengineering practice of injecting silver iodide particles into clouds to cause rain or snow.
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Scientists in Australia are brightening clouds over the Great Barrier Reef in an attempt to cool it and prevent mass coral bleaching.
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There’s a surprise hero in the effort to rid the world’s oceans of microplastics: mussels.
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Plans to protect vulnerable shorelines from flooding have evolved from functional but single-purpose piles of rocks to healthy and resilient living breakwaters.
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A Virginia seagrass restoration project two decades in the making has enabled the world’s first blue carbon seagrass credit program.
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After red tide algal blooms killed off 90% of local coral species at Hong Kong’s Hoi Ha Wan Marine Park in 2015 and 2016, researchers at the University of Hong Kong 3D-printed terracotta tiles to try to save the remaining coral and save the reef.
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Scientists believe that enriching the ocean with minerals could increase alkalinity and encourage quick growth of phytoplankton blooms that can help sequester carbon emissions.
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Due to climate change, natural disasters are more frequent, extreme, and destructive than ever.
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The changing climate exacerbates the loss of biodiversity by hurting the health of ecosystems and habitats.
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Loss of life as a direct result of extreme weather clearly demonstrates the human cost of climate change.
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Plastic pollution alters habitats and natural processes, reducing ecosystems’ ability to adapt to climate change.
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AI is becoming an increasingly powerful tool for monitoring climate change.
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Next-generation satellites allow scientists to monitor climate-change effects that previously would have been invisible.
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Airborne and seaborne drones can monitor previously inaccessible areas to obtain data to feed into forecasting models.
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The climate crisis is likely to make entire cities uninhabitable in the coming decades, resulting in the migration of hundreds of millions of people from urban areas.
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Floating ocean cities provide a potential solution to rising sea levels and scarce available land.
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As the climate crisis creates an increasingly hostile surface environment, some governments and urban planners believe heading underground might be the safest bet.
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Climate-controlled domed cities are another potential solution if the external atmosphere becomes too hostile for habitation.
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Historically, undersea fiber-optic cables were constructed and controlled by governments and telecoms.
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While Elon Musk’s brain-machine interface (BMI) company Neuralink grabs all the mainstream’s attention, many other innovative research and commercial initiatives continue to accelerate the union of technology and the human brain.
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As our technology becomes more immersive, we’ll have increased needs for remote kill switches, which give programmers a failsafe in case of emergency.
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Subsea cables allow countries to exchange power and citizens to get online.
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