Labels are the black entries of each volume table of contents, in printed order. Red bold entries are sections, red regular entries (mostly questions) are sub-sections. Front-matter entries (Top Headlines, State of Play, Key Events, Likely Near Term Developments, Opportunities and Threats, Important Terms, Scenarios, Authors, Selected Sources) are excluded and listed in skipped_toc_items. Quotes are the first sentence under the trend heading in the body. The report gives a time-of-impact chart per industry, not per trend, so horizon is empty.
Organizations must decide whether to use ready-made general purpose AI models like OpenAI’s GPT, or invest in developing custom models tailored to their industry and needs.
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Because of their massive size and complexity, the cost of developing LLMs is high.
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A radical new concept for computing has emerged—an operating system powered by a large language model at its core rather than traditional programming.
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Proprietary large language models cost millions to develop, which means high-quality capabilities are concentrated within wealthy tech giants.
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Achieving full transparency into complex AI systems is difficult.
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As AI systems improve, many researchers want guardrails to ensure that they are deployed in ways that do not harm humanity.
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We will soon reach a point when we can no longer tell if a data set has been tampered with, either intentionally or accidentally.
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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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AI now enables creating highly realistic fake media called deepfakes—bogus video, audio, and text that seem real.
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AI is good at writing like a human.
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With AI models capable of memorizing and reproducing content from their training data, the risk of copyright infringement becomes a significant concern.
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Hyper-realistic deepfakes pose significant security risks.
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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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Research labs around the world are actively working to build practical safeguards against malicious AI behavior.
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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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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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In 2023, many conservatives raised concerns about ChatGPT’s political bias, sharing screenshots of ChatGPT’s left-leaning responses.
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There are significant challenges related to race and gender bias in AI.
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The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) released an assessment in 2023 on the nearterm impact of AI on cyberthreats.
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Recent studies highlight a significant vulnerability in AI to adversarial attacks, revealing that these systems can be more easily manipulated to make incorrect decisions than previously understood.
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Data poisoning attacks represent a significant threat to AI systems, where malicious actors deliberately manipulate the training data to mislead the AI into making incorrect or harmful decisions.
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AI has lowered the bar to produce and distribute misinformation.
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Behavioral biometrics, which employs machine learning to analyze a vast array of biometric data points, raises significant privacy concerns.
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As AI models become more complex and larger, consuming a greater share of our computing resources, their energy usage also escalates.
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The monumental computational requirements of advancing AI could catalyze a nuclear power renaissance.
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AI presents a dual-edged sword in its impact on the environment, with its capabilities extending to both contributing to and alleviating climate change.
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Governments are racing to establish national AI champions and reduce reliance on foreign technology.
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Rising tensions between the US and China are catalyzing a supply chain schism for the AI chips critical to national competitiveness.
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The US Department of Defense recently 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 wargame a future conflict.
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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 the human hackers.
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Ukraine has become a test bed for modern AI-enabled battlefield awareness.
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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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In the US, the approach to regulating AI amounts to a diverse array of regulations that vary by state and sector, creating a patchwork framework rather than a unified national strategy.
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Debate persists over whether new institutions should be formed to oversee AI development and safety, or if this responsibility should fall to existing agencies.
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The abundance of AI job listings across practically every American industry signals surging demand for related skills.
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While late to consider AI as a national security issue, the US is quickly playing catchup.
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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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China is actively building out AI infrastructure and ecosystems, specifically focused on developing nations.
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Employer demand for AI skills is rising rapidly across nearly every industry in the US.
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A striking shift has occurred in where AI Ph.D. graduates build their careers.
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The integration of AI promises to both enhance efficiency for some roles while making other jobs more challenging.
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Emerging research suggests AI may profoundly reshape perceptions of high-status occupations in the coming years by automating prestigious skills.
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The workforce is increasingly familiarizing itself with chatbots to perform routine tasks like drafting emails and synthesizing technical language and documents.
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A breakthrough in AI’s mathematical abilities was showcased by DeepMind’s Alpha- Geometry.
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Logical argument is core to persuasion, but emotional resonance and validating existing views profoundly shape what people are convinced of too.
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Will I die within four years?
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A new type of neural network can determine how people are feeling.
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Neuro-symbolic AI combines the best of two worlds in AI: the learning capabilities of neural networks (which are good at handling unstructured data like images and language) and the reasoning capabilities of symbolic AI (which deals with structured data and logic).
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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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AI has arrived, but the underpinnings of the cloud may struggle to withstand its weight.
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The rising costs associated with cloud computing, especially for tasks like training AI models, are prompting some companies to reconsider on-premises solutions.
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Smart devices like phones lack the memory and computing power required to fine-tune AI models with user data over time.
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While large language models with billions or trillions of parameters have demonstrated impressive capabilities, smaller AI models may be better suited for edge-based use cases.
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Tech giants such as Samsung, Microsoft, Google, and Apple are spearheading a movement towards on-device AI, emphasizing a blend of performance and privacy.
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AI is changing human-computer interaction, shifting us away from screens, trackpads, and keyboards towards more intuitive, voice-based interfaces.
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Vector databases are poised to grow rapidly in importance alongside advancements in AI.
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Companies are increasingly adopting a holistic approach to AI development, seeking to dominate the entire spectrum from hardware to LLMs through end-to-end vertical integration.
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AI automation can significantly reduce the time and cost of recruiting by handling tedious, manual tasks like screening resumes, scheduling interviews, and tailoring outreach.
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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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AI automation is taking over the complex tasks of managing employee benefits, including facilitating open enrollment, tracking individual coverage, and making adjustments due to life changes.
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Early data signals that the rise of AI tools like ChatGPT may be subtly reducing Google search volumes.
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Traditional marketing communications like emails, PDFs, and social posts have been static and one-way, but AI is ushering in a new era of responsive, conversational messaging.
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Major digital advertising platforms like Meta and Google are unveiling new generative AI capabilities to assist advertisers in streamlining campaign creation.
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Until recently, subtle human interactions and reactions, like micro-expressions, were merely anecdotal insights.
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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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The COVID-19 pandemic sparked a surge in AI applications for expediting drug discovery.
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An antibody is simply a protein that protects an organism.
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AI can enable quicker, more accurate diagnosis and treatment, driving better patient outcomes.
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People have long turned to search engines to self-diagnose, but the emergence of AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Bing introduces a new era of medical consultation.
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Anomaly detection uses AI to detect abnormalities in medical images, helping clinicians identify issues faster.
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Groundbreaking medical research uses brain implants and artificial intelligence to give paralyzed patients control over their bodies again.
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Medical deepfakes are AI-manipulated medical images and data.
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ChatGPT release in 2022 triggered a surge in interest in applying natural language processing (NLP) to health care tasks like diagnosis and treatment recommendations.
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In-silico trials use computer simulations rather than human subjects to test new drugs and therapies.
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As mental health care systems struggle to meet rising demand globally, artificial intelligence presents new opportunities to increase access to support services.
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AI is changing the way scientists ask questions and form hypotheses.
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Beyond hypothesis, AI is also accelerating scientific experimentation itself—both in simulation and the real world.
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AI also stands to change how and who does the interpretation and analysis of scientific data.
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The replication crisis in science refers to a widespread problem where many scientific studies, particularly in psychology and the social sciences, cannot be replicated or reproduced by other researchers, casting doubt on the reliability of their findings.
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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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Running experiments with several variables often requires tiny, methodical tweaks to measurements, materials, and inputs.
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Financial institutions are increasingly utilizing AI to detect and reduce fraud.
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AI systems can help improve loan underwriting and reduce financial risk.
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Socially conscious investing is entering the mainstream as young investors assert their consciences and wield new purchasing power.
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The growing reliance on centralized data sources and AI models in finance raises concerns about potential fragility in the system.
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AI systems are being trained to detect possible workplace injuries.
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Insurers are pursuing a “connect and protect” approach to reduce risks by leveraging advanced sensors and artificial intelligence.
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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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Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are unlocking new creative possibilities across a range of artistic disciplines.
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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 has developed an AI system called Neuralangelo that creates realistic 3D environments automatically from short video clips.
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A wave of AI voice and music startups has emerged over the past year, aiming to revolutionize audio editing and creation.
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MusicLM is an AI system created by Google that can transform text descriptions into high-quality musical compositions.
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Stable Diffusion, MidJourney, DALL-E3, and ChatGPT-4 are now widely accessible to end-consumers, leading to AI-assisted human creativity.
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A philosophical fork is emerging in how creators respond to AI.
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As AI generative writing capabilities rapidly advance, friction is rising between the technology and professional human writers.
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The world of cryptocurrency and Web3 technologies has witnessed exponential growth in recent years, with North America, Europe, and East Asia emerging as the three largest markets in terms of cryptocurrency volume.
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Web3 VC funding has reached a three-year low, driven by regulatory uncertainty and the specter of major company collapses.
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Web3 security concerns are on the rise, with a growing focus on hacks and on-chain scams that result in the loss of millions of dollars.
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Blockchain is becoming even more powerful by integrating with IoT and AI for specialized applications.
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Building through the bear market is a recurring theme in the crypto space: Even when markets cool and attention shifts away from the technology, protocol developers and companies keep innovating.
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Ethereum’s 2022 transition from electricity-guzzling proof of work (PoW) to a more energy-efficient and decentralized network secured by proof of stake was an incredible feat.
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By many measures, Ethereum’s merge to proof of stake (PoS) was a great success: The transition went smoothly, energy consumption dropped by 99%, staked ETH that secures the network has increased every month since the merge, and many more Ethereum users can participate in securing the network.
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The “blockchain trilemma” highlights a key challenge in Layer 1 blockchains: Optimizing for scalability, decentralization, and security simultaneously is difficult.
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Zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) aren’t new: They were theorized back in the 1980s by researchers at New York University and were first deployed at scale with the 2016 launch of ZCash, a privacy-focused cryptocurrency based on bitcoin’s codebase.
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The Appchain concept, originated by Cosmos, has been adopted in Ethereum’s Layer 2 (L2) ecosystem.
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Data storage, now cheaper and faster in the traditional economy, is a problem for blockchains.
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DeFi protocol business models are traditional: Protocols provide products and services and generate fees distributed to stakeholders.
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Airdrops raise awareness, drive user adoption, stress test platforms, and reward active or long-time users.
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Financialization has been a hot-button topic in the crypto market as goods typically not considered financial assets—such as art, video games, and social media—are commoditized, recasting their value from enjoyment to investment returns.
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Web3 has opened the door for consumers to earn through “X-as-a-service” models that allow for the automation of personal hardware and digital assets to generate returns—particularly in computation, security, and utility.
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As more and more platforms adopt AI, it becomes increasingly important for users to be able to verify the origin and authenticity of digital content.
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When NFTs hit the mainstream, they focused on JPEG art.
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Growing online interactions dramatically increase the data people share with third parties.
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The tokenization of real-world assets—security tokens—has been a bright spot in blockchain development.
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DeFi lending is not capital efficient: Most DeFi loans are overcollateralized.
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On-chain games incorporate blockchain technology, ranging from fully on-chain games to those that only have digital assets on-chain.
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While early virtual reality headsets offered consumers an escapist diversion, the technology is maturing, and developers are now targeting more pragmatic industries and experiences.
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Developments in smart glasses aim to make spatial computing technology subtle yet powerful in daily life.
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Virtual worlds to date have focused primarily on visual and auditory immersion, but replicating tactile sensations presents the next frontier for technologies like metaverse platforms to conquer.
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Human-computer interaction continues progressing beyond phones and screens, leveraging modalities like voice and gesture.
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Recent advancements in human-machine interfaces are ushering in a new era of multisensory experiences in VR and AR.
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Disney has developed a new flooring technology called HoloTile that allows users to walk freely in any direction without actually moving from their fixed location.
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Avatars have matured beyond static profile images into multifaceted digital representations in virtual spaces.
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Avatar portability in the metaverse, as facilitated by companies like Ready Player Me, intersects with larger discussions about data portability and ownership.
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Hyperrealistic avatars leverage 3D graphics and AI to produce nearly identical digital clones of individuals—capturing intricate facial details, expressions, and motions.
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Without a standardized, universal avatar system, users on various digital platforms create multiple online personas, each representing distinct facets of the self or even entirely fabricated alter-egos.
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AI is enabling digital replications of celebrities without their active participation or consent—an ethically murky development as likeness rights remain undefined.
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Synthetic speech leverages AI to digitally mimic human voices, enabling myriad applications from accessibility tools to creative media.
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Beyond mimicking existing personas, large language models (LLMs) can invent completely synthetic yet persuasive media identities from scratch.
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Virtual reality enables immersive job training simulations across industries from retail to medicine, with measurable improvements in information retention and role comprehension.
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True-to-reality digital twins are revolutionizing industries from autonomous vehicles to smart cities by enabling virtual testing and optimization of complex real-world systems.
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Research institutions are pioneering medical digital twins—detailed physiological simulations of individual patients for personalized care and quantitative analysis.
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VR is increasingly being recognized as a powerful tool in the field of psychological therapy and mental health treatment.
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The metaverse enables transformative innovations in medical education and care delivery via immersive simulation.
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Research has indicated the efficacy of VR in enriching learning experiences.
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The rise of synthetic media in Hollywood, accelerated by advancements in AI, is bringing both opportunity and ethical dilemmas to the industry.
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AR and VR show great potential in advancing forensics.
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The metaverse could significantly enhance the effectiveness and reach of science.
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In the metaverse, the dissonance between virtual and real-world experiences often leads to “experiential artifacts,” a phenomenon where VR users experience lingering sensory and cognitive effects that blur the lines between these two realities.
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The psychological effects of being constantly filmed, particularly when interacting with individuals wearing smart glasses, can be significant and multifaceted.
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Accessibility XR is a growing area of focus, aiming to ensure these immersive technologies are inclusive for all users, including those with disabilities.
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People with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often struggle to process sensory information, finding stimuli like bright lights or loud noises particularly overwhelming.
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Motion sickness and nausea remain significant challenges in the mass adoption of virtual reality, both for consumer and industrial applications.
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Advocates of the metaverse and blockchain share a core principle: decentralization.
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The metaverse shows promise as the next frontier for virtual experiences by creating immersive 3D environments mirroring real-world settings.
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AR lenses overlay real-time digital information onto the physical world.
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Holography is a technique that records and displays objects in three dimensions, making them either stand still or move just like real objects.
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The metaverse is being harnessed for significant causes, transcending beyond a mere digital escape into a platform for meaningful global action.
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Major tech companies are racing to make virtual collaboration a reality for enterprises.
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Play-to-earn games fuse gaming and economics in metaverse environments by enabling players to generate real-world value through virtual gameplay.
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Interoperability is fundamental for the envisioned metaverse: Akin to the universal standards of today’s internet, it would allow seamless data exchange and interaction across various systems and technologies.
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Government investment in the metaverse is emerging as a key strategy for fostering economic growth and innovation, with several nations recognizing the potential of this digital space.
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The creation of the metaverse is driven by a diverse array of developer tools, many of which are open source to align with the metaverse’s principles of inclusivity and community-driven development.
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Interdevice synchronization is a vital component in constructing the infrastructure of the metaverse, as it guarantees a unified and real-time interaction across various devices in AR and VR settings.
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The advancement of 5G technology is required for the metaverse to reach its full potential, as metaverse applications demand high bandwidth and reliable networks to process and transmit extensive visual data for immersive experiences.
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Historically, scientists struggled to mine big biological data sets for insights using conventional statistical tools.
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Just a few years ago, the pharmaceutical and life sciences industries weren’t all that interested in investing in or using AI to automate and improve various processes.
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While you were asking GPT-4 to write the lyrics for a rap song about avocados, researchers have been enhancing the capabilities of large language models to automate complicated tasks in chemistry.
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An AI system can now create new types of proteins that don’t exist in nature.
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What if it was possible to generate novel protein therapeutics using new computational tools, without having to discover them through trial and error?
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Increasingly, companies are using AI-powered simulations in place of the physical testing of drug compound candidates.
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Both the US Food and Drug Administration and the UK medicines regulator have finalized their groundbreaking approvals of the first CRISPR gene therapy for Casgevy, a therapy built on the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing tool.
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While CRISPR-Cas9 has been groundbreaking in enabling precise DNA cutting, its application is somewhat limited to diseases that can be addressed by gene disruption.
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First developed in 2016 by Harvard biochemist David Liu, base editing allows for the precise alteration of individual DNA letters.
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It is now possible to inject CRISPR components directly into the body and make changes to genetic material in vivo, or “within the living.”
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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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When the first human genome was sequenced in 2003, it cost roughly $2.7 billion and took 13 years to complete.
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Metagenomics represent a new approach in a genomic analysis.
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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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Quantum biology is an emerging field that combines quantum physics—the science of the very small—with biology, the study of living things.
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When the first human genome was deciphered two decades ago, it was mostly—but not entirely—complete.
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Rapid advancements in technology and a steep decline in sequencing costs are advancing the use of bioinformatics data.
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Archaeology and genetics are merging, hoping to surface new insights about the history of life on Earth.
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Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that certain eukaryotic organisms (like plants, animals, and fungi) have special enzymes that can cut DNA, similar to how CRISPR technology works.
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In a groundbreaking development that blurs the lines between biology and technology, researchers at UK-based Lancaster University successfully 3D printed glowing shapes inside nematode worms, demonstrating the potential to embed electronics directly within living organisms.
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There is a critical shortage of organ donations, and until now, the only path to organ transplantation involved matching with a donor, making sure the recipient’s immune response doesn’t reject the organ, and mitigating the risk of infection.
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It’s difficult and dangerous for scientists to study how living human tissue responds to viruses, medications, or other stimuli, because brain or heart tissue can’t be removed from a living person.
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Organoids are being used to research the lasting effects of SARS-CoV-2, the COVID-19 virus, in addition to other respiratory diseases.
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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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Drug manufacturing today requires enormous facilities and doesn’t allow for customization.
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In an emerging advancement bridging microbiology and medicine, researchers are transforming bacteria into nanosyringes capable of targeting human cells for precise protein delivery.
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Bacteriophages, also known as phages, are viruses that infect and replicate only in bacterial cells.
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To understand how new organisms might be created, scientists have long pursued developing an MVP—minimum viable product—for biology.
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In February 2023, scientists formed a new field, called organoid intelligence (OI), which is now considered the next frontier of biocomputing.
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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 a breakthrough that could redefine computing, scientists at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China unveiled what might be the world’s first programmable DNA computer, capable of executing billions of unique circuits.
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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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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 by identifying the presence of specific DNA sequences.
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Cyberbiosecurity is a relatively new intersection between biology, biosecurity, and cybersecurity that will soon become a critical frontier in the safeguarding of the global bioeconomy against burgeoning threats.
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Last year, the Google DeepMind team revealed its Graphical Networks for Material Exploration (GNoME)—a sort of AlphaFold, but for new materials.
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In an era marked by escalating fire risks to residential structures, synthetic biology may help enhance the safety of buildings.
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Besides fire retardancy and packaging, luxury companies are eying mycelium as an alternative to leather.
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Packaging made from natural materials like plants or proteins is biodegradable and safe for the environment.
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Active packaging works by incorporating substances like antimicrobials and antioxidants directly into the packaging to extend the food’s shelf life and enhance its safety and taste.
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Smart packaging will drive agricultural advances and investment.
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A biofilm is essentially a community of bacteria living together in a structured formation.
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There is growing interest in cultivated meat, which is produced from animal cells in a lab or biomanufacturing plant, which offers an environmentally friendly (and, let’s face it, animal-friendly) alternative to traditional meat production.
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Precision fermentation is an advanced version of a very old technology: brewing.
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People are becoming more interested in healthier, more responsible ways of drinking, leading to a big increase in nonalcoholic beers.
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Genetically modifying crops with upgrades could dramatically increase crop yields without needing to increase the other resources required for cultivation.
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Using the CRISPR gene-editing tool, researchers at the University of Georgia Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources and at Franklin College of Arts and Sciences figured out how to make trees mature faster.
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Farming faces a big challenge: how to provide plants with nitrogen to feed more people without harming the environment or reducing crop sizes.
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Regenerative agriculture describes farming and grazing practices that rebuild soil organic matter and restore degraded soil biodiversity.
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A recent Pew Research study showed that most Americans see food using genetically modified organisms as worse for their health than a food that has no genetic modification at all, while just 7% see them as healthier than other foods.
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CRISPR is making farmed animals bigger, stronger, and (hopefully) healthier.
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Growing plants in space, on the moon, and Mars is important for keeping astronauts healthy and happy.
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Israel-based Aleph Farms has already brought cultured steak to market.
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For people who live with rare blood types (AB negative, AB positive, B negative) or who have blood disorders, acquiring blood for surgery or a transfusion can mean the difference between life and death.
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Last year, Dr. Katsuhiko Hayashi from Osaka University successfully created eggs from cells harvested from male mice, with the eventual goal of developing new fertility treatments.
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Researchers at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) created an artificial womb called a biobag and used it to successfully keep premature lambs alive and developing normally for 28 days.
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Early in 2024, the first patient in the UK received a dose of a cancer vaccine as part of a larger clinical trial.
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Researchers are developing a new technique that might someday enable people to optimize their children’s genes before birth.
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Genetic screening tests promise a kind of prenatal fortune-telling: Many companies say they can predict the health outcomes of growing embryos.
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The UK Biobank made 500,000 genome sequences available to scientists for biomedical research projects last year.
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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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As we age, while our DNA sequence might stay constant, chemical changes do occur.
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Senescent cells are damaged cells that stop functioning but don’t die, accumulating in the body like cellular zombies—and they’re linked to aging.
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Synthetic biology–derived compounds are producing improved ingredients in skin care products.
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A mass extinction event is happening right now in our guts and in the environment.
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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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Environmental DNA, or eDNA, is genetic material found in the environment.
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Trees are a valuable natural resource, but improving their wood through traditional breeding is slow and complicated due to their complex genetics.
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Despite global efforts to recycle plastic products, there are numerous barriers: Consumer-facing plastics come in different varieties, they’re often coated with labels or print, and they have colors and other added features.
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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, a holistic approach to conservation that 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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Gene-drive technology, which has the potential to spread antimalarial genes among mosquito populations, is showing promise.
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As the Arctic warms, the thawing permafrost is raising concerns about the release of ancient viruses that could pose health risks to animals and humans.
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Starting last year, countries have been reevaluating their regulatory stance on genome-edited crops, marking a significant change in agricultural biotechnology policies.
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Can you produce a photo of someone’s face solely from their DNA?
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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 relationship between creating a child and being the parent of that child is becoming more complex due to advances in reproductive technology and changes in the law.
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Several countries are in the process of developing their own national DNA databases, notably for the purpose of medical research advancement.
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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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Overwhelmingly, the majority of people who have had their genomes sequenced come from affluent Caucasian Americans and Europeans; fewer than 2% 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 the wake of the Hamas terrorist attack on October 7, 2023, when hundreds of young men were among the Israelis who lost their lives, there was an unprecedented surge in requests for posthumous sperm retrieval (PSR) by embryologists and IVF specialists.
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In 2018, Chinese scientist He Jiankui caused a global uproar by announcing he had created the world’s first gene-edited children using CRISPR technology, targeting embryos to make them resistant to HIV.
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Last year, a team of military medical scientists in China reported that they had enhanced human embryonic stem cells’ resistance to radiation by inserting a gene from the water bear, a microorganism known for its extreme survivability.
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Concentrated solar power (CSP) uses parabolic mirrors or “heliostats” to focus sunlight and generate extremely high temperatures.
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Companies are building new solar installations with a mind toward additional benefits beyond electrical power generation.
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Dispatchable power enables a generation source to scale up or down based on fluctuations in demand.
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Perovskite is a crystalline compound that can be used as a semiconductor in solar cells as an easier, cheaper, and more sustainable alternative to silicon.
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Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSC) are made using organic dyes that capture photons from light.
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Organic solar materials that can be printed or stuck onto surfaces have continued to shrink in size.
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While normal photovoltaic cells respond only to less than half of the sun’s rays that are visible, solar thermophotovoltaics create electricity from heat waves.
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Offshore floating wind technology is growing with changes in base designs, innovative turbine configurations, and strengthened regulatory backing in the US and Europe.
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Vertical wind turbine innovation reached a milestone with Norway’s March 2022 approval of a vertical-axis floating wind pilot project.
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New innovation in wind turbines includes evolving designs beyond traditional blades.
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Kitemill, a Norwegian enterprise, is pioneering the advancement of airborne wind energy, which involves attaching a turbine to a flying device, to revolutionize wind energy’s effectiveness, versatility, and affordability.
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Like most other industries, AI is also reshaping renewable energy.
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As scientists find more ways to store wind energy, it will grow as a dispatchable electricity solution from which power grids can demand electricity based on market needs.
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Unlike other renewables, geothermal energy represents a stable source of power that doesn’t fluctuate with time of day or weather patterns.
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Supercritical geothermal energy production requires going deeper into the Earth’s crust than conventional geothermal, tapping into the extreme temperatures and pressures present there (in excess of 374 degrees Celsius and 221 bar, respectively).
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Geothermal energy storage techniques hold energy in the form of increased temperature and pressure which is “pumped” into the earth and released as needed.
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Ocean thermal energy conversion generates power from the temperature difference that exists in ocean water.
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Accounting for more than 15% of global electricity generation in 2022, hydropower continues to be the largest source of renewable power, contributing more than wind, solar, and biofuels combined.
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Hydro plants have invested significantly in digital management for their equipment and systems, all with the aim of optimizing energy output and safety.
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Small scale hydro projects are allowing energy suppliers across the globe to add more renewable energy generation to their portfolio without the need for massive, upfront investments of capital.
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Hydro storage, or “pumped storage,” involves pumping water into uphill reservoirs when energy is cheap (or when renewables are operating) and then allowing that water to flow downhill and generate energy as needed.
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Companies continue to innovate on the design of hydro turbines.
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Hydrogen fuel technology has been around since the 1950s, and for the past 75 years, it has served as the main propulsion source for spacefaring vehicles.
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Researchers are making progress in reducing the cost of green hydrogen generation.
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Currently, hydrogen is typically extracted from treated freshwater.
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Biofuels encompass any fuel made or derived from organic matter—typically corn, sugar cane, or soy.
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Hemp represents a unique opportunity for biofuels.
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Through photosynthesis, certain kinds of algae can produce biofuel.
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Synthesis gas, or syngas, is a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide that can be used as fuel and in the production of methanol.
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Abandoned coal mines could be the solution to warming homes in Europe, where homes across the continent are sitting on top of old mines filled with warm water.
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In many countries, regulators and researchers are attempting new ways to reduce fossil fuels’ impact on the climate crisis.
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Methane, a potent greenhouse gas, plays a major role in trapping heat in the Earth’s atmosphere.
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Long considered the “holy grail of energy production,” nuclear fusion technology would allow humans to emulate the atomic process that powers the stars.
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The US Department of Energy injected capital into a growing ecosystem of private fusion projects, by distributing $46 million in funding to eight companies.
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Although the idea of using molten salt as a coolant for nuclear fission reactors has been around since the 1950s, it was more or less abandoned as most commercialized nuclear installations opted for water cooling instead.
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Laser-driven fusion, also known as “inertial confinement fusion,” is a means of triggering fusion reactions by firing high energy laser volleys at small pellets of deuterium and tritium to increase temperature and pressure.
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Early in 2023, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission certified the first design for a small modular reactor capable of nuclear fission, meaning utilities can now select it when building a new power plant.
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New technology is being developed to create clean energy from the materials in the Earth’s atmosphere.
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Wave power, or using wave energy to create electricity, is a growing industry that is expected to increase 4.7% to $30.44 million by 2030.
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Underwater, companies are turning the movements of the tide into electricity.
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Researchers at the University of Cambridge have made a groundbreaking discovery in the photosynthesis process that could change how we generate renewable energy and clean fuel.
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Chinese mines account for about 60% of the global supply of germanium and 80% of gallium—minerals used in everything from smartphones to electric car batteries.
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As another strategy to decrease dependency on rare earths, researchers have begun developing alternative materials to replace them.
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Certain manufacturers have attempted to strengthen their supply chains by reducing, or completely eradicating, their need for rare earths.
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Given the inherent intermittency of wind and solar power, electricity generated from these sources needs a more dependable energy storage system that would work irrespective of weather patterns.
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With its abundance, iron continues to be a reliable source for energy storage, and companies are devising new ways to use iron batteries to do this on a large scale.
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Introducing a groundbreaking leap in making battery-powered flight a reality, NASA’s Solid-state Architecture Batteries for Enhanced Rechargeability and Safety (SABERS) team has unveiled a sulfur selenium prototype battery with a high energy density of 500 watt-hours per kilogram.
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In exploring innovative energy storage solutions, gravitational energy is gaining traction as a way to create kinetic energy.
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An emerging idea, flow batteries leverage the flow of special liquids to generate electric current.
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Supercapacitors store and release electrochemical energy using a flow of electrons between two conductive plates separated by an electrolyte.
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These systems use high pressure air to spin turbines and generate electricity.
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Ultra high voltage (UHV) power lines can efficiently carry electricity over long distances with minimal loss, enabling energy optimization across vast areas.
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Superconductors can unlock high-speed energy transportation without resistive loss.
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With climate change, energy grids across the globe are under more pressure, and grid operators are increasingly using new technologies like dynamic line rating (DLR) systems to enhance the grid.
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Balancing the flow of power within the grid is important to ensure that electricity demand is met in real time with supply.
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One method of naturally removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is the mass farming of seaweed, which sucks the gas from the air.
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Directly capturing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is expensive and requires a lot of energy.
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Denmark made history last March with Project Greensand, which captured carbon dioxide at a site in Belgium, transported the liquid gas to the Danish North Sea and then injected it into the seabed at a depth of about 1,800 meters.
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As the demand for carbon capture and sequestration services increases, CCS-as-aservice business models continue to spread.
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Traditional farming methods cause mass damage to our environment in the forms of habitat loss and deforestation—using up land, drying up water sources, and releasing a third of all greenhouse gas emissions.
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Diamonds come with a shady history that can frequently involve corrupt governments and exploitative working conditions.
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Theoretically, carbon can be sequestered in household products, and CleanCO2 has found a way to do that.
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The research team at RWTH Aachen has developed a new chemical reaction that uses carbon dioxide in the creation of a chemical compound called aromatic carboxylic acids.
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The rapidly growing climate technology industry is facing an overall mass increase in funding initiatives.
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Large, established companies are seeing the value in carbon tracking software, and many are creating their own or expanding their services to cover carbon data.
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The US General Services Administration’s Green Proving Ground program is on a mission to decarbonize federal buildings, and nZero, a carbon management and accounting platform, is at the forefront.
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A variety of new tools are encouraging individual consumers to consider carbon footprint when making decisions.
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From plant-based building materials to more sustainable concrete, companies are experimenting with new ways to construct buildings.
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The use of 3D printing methods to build housing is expanding rapidly, and the use of natural materials is expanding with it thanks to designers Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello.
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Steel production is responsible for 7%-9% of the world’s total carbon emissions, and investments in green steel companies are ramping up.
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As US regulators move to restrict two forever chemicals in drinking water, companies are experimenting with the technology to do it.
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Novella is creating plants without the whole plant by growing botanical ingredients with necessary macronutrients through nutrient cultivation—no plant needed.
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New developments in fertilizer technology are helping ensure stronger, healthier plants—and experimenting with new uses for waste material.
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CRISPR is a technique that allows for the editing (such as addition or deletion) of an organism’s DNA—it’s a different technology from what’s used in genetically modified organisms, or GMOs.
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Organic waste used to be something to be disposed of, but now opportunities are arising to utilize this material in new ways.
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The increased interest in machine learning has also raised questions about the carbon footprint of developing and using such technology.
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With Google employing the “4Ms,” the rest of the tech giants are also stepping up to address emissions from devices.
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AI’s accuracy is being used to improve the sorting of recycling in order to cut costs.
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Organic waste in landfills eventually builds up, breaks down, and produces methane, a powerful greenhouse gas.
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The startup Norbite uses the greater wax moth (Galleria mellonella), which naturally digests plastic, to get rid of the material.
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Cross-Laminated Timber is a minimum of three layers of timber glued together with grains that cross.
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Mycelium, a natural fiber from mushrooms, can be used as a plastic alternative in items such as textiles, building materials, packaging, and health care products.
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New research has focused on the fungus Fomes fomentarius and the way its multiple layers could soon replace a multitude of plastic products.
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There’s a lot of historical precedent in this field—ancient Roman concrete structures have long been known to be self-healing.
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Vegan leather is becoming more popular as a sustainable alternative to traditional leather, but the material typically uses polyurethane which is toxic.
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Micromobility refers to compact personal transportation, like bicycles, skates, and scooters, and companies are making it easier for people to use these devices for greener daily commutes.
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Until now, charging electric vehicles (EV) has been the primary way of keeping them on the road.
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Truck platooning, where one driver and truck are connected to a convoy of autonomous trucks via a network and drive close behind each other, could ease passenger traffic on motorways.
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Sun-Ways is making trains green by going beyond the locomotives themselves.
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When it comes to air travel, any part, no matter how small, can make a big difference.
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With shipping being such a large part of global trade, many ships are looking to reduce their carbon footprint due to new carbon efficiency regulations.
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Countries across the world are initiating rewilding efforts, an ecological restoration approach that involves restoring natural ecosystems and habitats by reintroducing native plant and animal species.
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Scientists predict that almost a quarter of all species on Earth are at risk of being lost within the next few decades.
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Geoengineering refers to environmental manipulation—manipulation of Earth’s resources including oceans, rivers, soil, and atmosphere.
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Still in a nascent stage, solar geoengineering is very controversial.
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Cloud seeding is a decades-old weather modification technique that enhances precipitation by dispersing specialized particles into the atmosphere.
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Innovative ideas are surfacing in the battle against microplastic pollution, offering hope for a cleaner ocean.
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Living Breakwater is an innovative approach to coastal protection and ecological restoration that utilizes nature-based solutions.
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Ocean chemistry is a multidisciplinary field that delves into the chemical processes and composition of Earth’s biggest bodies of water.
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Gene editing coral refers to the scientific practice of using advanced genetic engineering techniques to modify the DNA of corals.
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With increasing recognition of greenhouse gases (GHGs) as a significant driver of climate change, there is a pressing need to reduce these emissions.
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The increasing frequency and severity of extreme weather events is causing significant challenges for insurers and communities worldwide.
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In Africa, scientists are using artificial intelligence to predict the yields of vital crops by harnessing satellite remote sensing and machine learning.
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With climate change becoming a global phenomenon, community movements have grown.
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To tackle climate change, researchers are experimenting with digital twins of Earth as part of a strategy to combat warming.
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The Institute for Economics and Peace predicts that by 2050, more than 1 billion people may have to deal with inadequate infrastructure due to sea-level rise.
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Smart Forest City, an ambitious project by Italian architect Stefano Boeri, was revealed in 2019 near Cancún.
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Underground climate change is a silent hazard.
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Acknowledging climate change as an essential issue, Indonesia is building a new capital—Nusantara—that aims to transcend typical planned cities.
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Cities with sealed bio-domes that control air temperature, air composition, and air quality are also being explored as a potential solution for cities affected by climate change.
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Interest in carbon credits and green investing has increased as companies strive toward their net-zero emissions goals.
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With increased interest in carbon credits, it’s necessary to make sure the methods are sound to avoid greenwashing.
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Investors are frequently unsure if their credits are going to a verified company or one that is simply greenwashing.
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CarbonKerma is a platform that is embracing blockchain technology and combining it with a carbon capture marketplace in order to provide companies with trackable, quality, measurable carbon credits.
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The New Acre Project, which recently partnered with Albo Climate and ALUS, is an investment platform for corporations that is identifying carbon stocks and sequestration for trees using a remote sensing-based platform.
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Blue Carbon Offsets are the management of marshes, mangroves, kelp, and seagrasses in ocean ecosystems for carbon offsetting.
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Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) is the ocean equivalent of land zoning planning and is helping to ensure the ocean is sustainably used.
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is providing free and opensource ocean and coastal data that provides a perfect foundation for the future blue economy.
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Cognizant, a technology services and consulting company, has partnered with Tidal to make the company’s ocean information platform available to the wider aquaculture market to allow companies to make more informed decisions.
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GAIN (Green Aquaculture Intensification in Europe) is an EU project that has monitors and sensors located around fish farms and placed into fish to help track and understand the activities in the farms.
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Ocean Oasis, a Norwegian company, has found a way to use the oceans’ natural wave power to produce fresh water.
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In the US, the transportation sector generates the largest amount of greenhouse gas emissions—primarily from burning fossil fuel for cars, trucks, ships, trains, and planes.
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Major car companies and transportation platforms are making significant investments in an electric future, with plans and announcements from the late 2010s now becoming reality.
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, the shortage of semiconductor chips caused significant supply chain constraints.
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Many vehicle manufacturers and battery makers are investing heavily in the development of electric vehicles and their future success.
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Major players in the automotive and battery chemistry industries are investing in US battery production.
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The debate surrounding the sustainability of EVs versus internal combustion engine vehicles (ICEs) revolves around the environmental impact caused by the mining of lithium and cobalt, which are crucial materials for batteries.
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Electric vehicle manufacturers and their partners are working hard to improve batteries by exploring new battery types, designs, and materials.
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Solar-powered EVs require less frequent charging and can increase efficiency.
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While the mobile service model is not new, it’s increasingly impacting the mobility and automobile industry.
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The rise in electrification of vehicles is extending beyond consumer cars.
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The electric vehicle revolution is well underway, but a key bottleneck remains a concern: charging infrastructure.
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One of the lingering issues in the development of the EV market has been fragmentation of charging standards.
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The rise of EVs is transforming our roadside experience.
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Accelerating frequency and severity of climate events, along with rising electric vehicle adoption, has seen cities push their electrification strategies to the top of their agenda.
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As the EV market has matured, a significant shift has been taking place in the home.
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Electric vehicles with bidirectional charging capabilities present an exciting frontier.
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Auto manufacturers are revolutionizing the way we experience our vehicles.
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Electric vehicles are known for being incredibly quiet, and some view this as problematic.
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The role of high-speed, low-latency connectivity is becoming a prominent factor impacting the performance of the vehicle along with the in-cabin experience.
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As cars become even smarter and offer more immersive experiences, navigational and entertainment systems will continue to evolve, necessitating a holistic and centralized operating system.
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Simulation has become an increasingly ubiquitous component across several areas of mobility and will be a defining characteristic in the development of its future.
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Vehicle connectivity is changing the landscape of mobility.
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Technological advancements have enabled detailed monitoring of both driver and passenger behaviors, significantly enhancing safety and operational efficiency within vehicles.
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The Mobile Weather Station (MWS) has become a crucial instrument for the real-time monitoring of weather and environmental conditions, offering granular insights crucial for sectors like transportation, agriculture, and emergency response.
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Superapps are emerging as a powerful force, amalgamating various transportation services into a singular mobile platform, and subtly changing the mobility landscape for governments, businesses, and consumers alike.
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Mobility data has become a pivotal asset in modern transport dynamics.
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As the auto industry continues to push toward fully autonomous self-driving, advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) are giving drivers a glimpse of what that future might look like.
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The advent of autonomous vehicles (AVs) and micromobility solutions like e-scooters and e-bikes in urban landscapes has triggered a cascade of pedestrian concerns.
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Autonomous vehicles are making major strides in capability and level of adoption, but full self-driving still remains far out of reach.
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As 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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Robotaxis are undergoing significant testing and deployment across numerous US cities, with 23 states having enacted laws permitting companies to do so.
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Cobots serve to supplement or even replace workforces, especially those constrained by labor shortages.
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Versatile, general purpose robots are the holy grail of robotics, promising bots that do not have to be limited or pigeonholed into single categories but can be used for vast and diverse purposes without requiring extensive calibration between disparate tasks.
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The landscape of domestic robotics is transforming homes into hubs of automation, easing daily chores and offering companionship.
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The field of robotics continues to demonstrate how possibilities are endless for application.
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Space exploration has long been an area that has embraced robots and drones.
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Virtual training harnesses the power of AI, simulation, and digital twins to propel the capabilities of robots and drones to new heights.
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Drone swarms, made up of groups of drones functioning as a collective unit, unlock capabilities far beyond the reach of individual drones.
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Drone fleets are steadily gaining traction as companies seek to enhance operational efficiency, reduce delivery times, and minimize human intervention.
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The escalating use of drones necessitates advanced traffic management solutions to ensure safe and efficient operations.
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Delivery robots and drones are significantly altering the logistics paradigm for last-mile delivery.
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Increasing payload capacities and extending flight distances are pivotal in accelerating the adoption of drones across sectors.
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The realm of urban air mobility is buzzing with the promise of electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircrafts, often referred to as “flying taxis” or “air taxis.”
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Ocean-faring drones, comprised of both unmanned surface vessels (USVs) or autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) are changing the nature of exploits across the seas.
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For individuals hampered by limited mobility or injuries, exoskeletons can help.
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Exoskeletons can not only enhance worker performance in industrial settings but also impact athletic performance.
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Robotics has the opportunity to be an incredible democratizer, capable of supporting, supplementing, and enabling mobility for individuals with mobility impairments.
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Various companies and startups have made significant advancements in developing robots that mimic the abilities and activities of humans.
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Traditionally, robots have not been nimble enough to handle delicate objects: They apply too much force, making them unsuitable for human replacement.
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As with many advanced technological systems, a constellation of disparate technologies is required to enable the effective and efficient use of the technology.
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Companies such as Boston Dynamics and Unitree have popularized quadrupedal robots that can be used for a variety of purposes, including security, monitoring, inspection, and data collection.
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In 2022, Rice University researchers transformed a deceased spider into a robot, giving rise to a new field called necrobotics.
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Researchers have built applications that use organic and biological compounds and now even specimens themselves for robotic applications.
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As robots become more capable and sophisticated, engineers are turning to living organisms for inspiration for overcoming even more complex challenges.
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Fluid movement enables robots to work in diverse environments, which holds promise in fields like medicine and machinery repair.
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Robotics are no longer limited to a single modality or simple movements.
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The CHIPS Act, signed into law in August 2022, has sparked numerous initiatives to bolster the US semiconductor industry.
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The global semiconductor industry is grappling with a shortage of skilled talent.
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Embedding advanced AI comes at a computational cost.
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With the continued growth of AI models, energy consumption also escalates.
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RISC-V, an open-source computer chip architecture, is disrupting the semiconductor industry.
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Major tech companies like NVIDIA are using AI to improve AI chip design.
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Instead of relying on traditional chip suppliers like Intel, major tech companies like Meta, Google, and Microsoft are developing their own AI chips and hardware to improve the efficiency, cost, and performance of running AI models.
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For decades, the personal computing market has run on x86 chips from the likes of Intel and Qualcomm.
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To tap into AI’s potential, leading companies like Foxconn and NVIDIA are collaborating to build a new generation of data centers purpose-built for AI workloads.
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Researchers at the University of Michigan have developed a system that can turn everyday surfaces into high-accuracy input devices.
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An international research team led by the University of Cambridge has developed next-generation smart textiles that are lowcost, sustainable, and produced using standard industrial looms.
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Pervasive computing, also known as ubiquitous computing, embeds computational capabilities into ordinary objects and environments so that computing can become an invisible and seamless part of everyday life.
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AI is changing human-computer interaction, shifting us away from screens, trackpads, and keyboards towards more intuitive, voice-based interfaces.
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The portable PC market is gaining momentum, fueled in part by interest in dedicated gaming devices.
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The Right to Repair movement has rapidly gained momentum across the United States, with several states passing laws to empower consumers and independent repair shops in the face of repair restrictions imposed by manufacturers.
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There are traditionally two cooling methods for PCs: active cooling with fans and passive cooling without fans.
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In November 2023, AI luminary Andrej Karpathy introduced a groundbreaking concept that could redefine our interaction with computers: an operating system fundamentally powered by a LLM.
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Major automakers are transforming their cars into personal computers on wheels.
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Researchers are experimenting with new architectures to make computers faster and more energy efficient.
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Researchers at Johns Hopkins University recently outlined a vision for the future of biocomputers, powered by human brain cells, in a paper published in the journal Frontiers in Science.
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Indiana University researchers have crafted an organoid with lab-grown human brain cell clusters capable of solving elementary math tasks.
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MIT Media lab and Boston Dynamics are collaborating to build the first brain-controlled robot.
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Conventional brain implants are rigid, making them ill-suited for the soft tissues of the brain.
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Researchers at the University of Sydney built nanowire networks that physically mimic the structure of the human brain.
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Humans are good at predicting how objects and people will move.
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Researchers are exploring DNA computing as an alternative storage medium to resource-intensive data centers, due to DNA’s immense storage capacity and long-term stability.
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Traditional computer hardware is limited in its ability to interface with living organs, and computerized implants require a constant supply of electricity and cause damage to soft tissue.
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Recent advancements are allowing us to glimpse inside the human mind, offering a way to reconstruct thoughts and images.
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Exascale computers are digital computers that are much more powerful than today’s supercomputers but different from quantum computers.
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Cloud computing holds value in part because of its user-friendly nature—it provides an abstraction layer over storage, processing, and applications, eliminating the need for users to handle hardware and software maintenance.
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Serverless cloud computing is a transformational approach to cloud services.
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The monumental computational requirements of advancing AI could catalyze a nuclear power renaissance.
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Machine vision allows computers to interpret images similar to how the human eye and brain “sees,” but even faster and more accurately.
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Caltech researchers have leveraged optical hardware to create cellular automata, computer models consisting of cells that can live, die, reproduce, and evolve.
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Traditional computing architectures separate processors and memory, requiring energy-intensive signal conversions to move data between components.
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Quantum advantage, also known as quantum supremacy, is the theoretical point when quantum computers outperform classical computers by solving problems more efficiently, accurately, or faster.
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Both the US and China are competing to become the global leader in quantum—a position that would enable the leading country to threaten adversaries’ various information infrastructures by cracking existing encryption methods, building impenetrable encrypted communication networks, and developing highly precise sensors.
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In 2023, researchers made several advances in strategies to overcome noise and errors that limit the accuracy and reliability of quantum computers.
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Quantum error detection and correction are essential for the advancement of quantum computing, ensuring accurate computations. 2023 witnessed several significant strides in this area.
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As we await the era of full quantum supremacy, hybrid classical-quantum computing has emerged as a practical solution in the interim.
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Some quantum computing companies have shifted their focus from chasing qubit count records to building practical systems that can solve real-world problems.
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The complexity and enormity of drug design pose significant challenges for traditional computational methods.
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The quantum internet is a proposed future network that would allow quantum computers and quantum devices to communicate with each other using quantum information.
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Quantum computing holds great promise but remains prohibitively expensive for most researchers.
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Programming quantum computers presents significant challenges, primarily because they introduce an entirely new computational paradigm.
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Owning and maintaining a quantum computer requires substantial financial resources and a high level of technical expertise.
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“Q-Day” refers to the threshold when quantum computers can crack traditional internet-securing encryption protocols.
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Researchers at the University of Sussex and Universal Quantum have achieved a major milestone in quantum computing: successfully demonstrating the direct transfer of quantum bits (qubits) between microchips at remarkable speed and accuracy.
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Two recent studies showcase significant progress in efficiently manipulating light and quantum particles to advance quantum technologies.
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Large language models (LLMs) require massive computing power, often relying on distant, centralized data centers (cloud).
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Researchers from the University of Leicester have made significant strides in addressing the growing demands on mobile telecommunications networks.
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In 2022, the deployment of 5G technology unfolded globally, albeit at a pace slower than initially projected.
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The global 6G race is escalating, with the US, China, and India investing heavily in advancing their telecom capabilities.
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In a major breakthrough for next-generation wireless technology, researchers at the China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation’s Second Institute have achieved the first real-time wireless data transmission using 6G cellular networks.
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To achieve the faster data rates expected with 6G networks, signals will be distributed across an extremely wide frequency spectrum in the millimeter wave and terahertz bands.
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While many only recently updated their networks to Wi-Fi 6 or 6E, the next generation Wi-Fi 7 has already arrived to build on their advancements.
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Chrono-urbanism refers to municipalities seeking to contain everything residents need on a daily basis within a 5-, 10- or 15- minute walk.
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Technology is automating planning, site selection, and infrastructure deployment around cities.
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Urban planners, designers, engineers, and architects are using nature-inspired interventions to restore natural processes and environments in cities.
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As urban decay threatens many cities, developers and practitioners are giving new life to often-abandoned buildings and areas—converting them into livable and workable areas and spaces.
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Emerging materials are on the horizon that are notable for their responsive and programmable nature, along with capabilities that enable greater sustainability and self-repair.
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New practices and technologies are helping us plan for future climate change and crises.
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With rising homelessness and housing shortages around the globe, cities and companies are creating new forms of housing.
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Comprising sustainable and circular design, regenerative design includes spaces, structures, products, real estate practices, and places that are working to give back to the community they sit within and benefit the environment.
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Technology is allowing for more immersive experiences and design within the built environment.
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AI integration is increasingly prevalent, from automating the design practice and tools, enhancing iterations of drawings, and generating specifications and purchase orders to synthesizing customer insights and enabling decisions on sustainable implementation processes for construction and manufacturing.
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While the metaverse is still up in the air—literally and figuratively—many architects and designers are exploring the possibilities of what they can create within it and figuring out how to enable collaboration and accessibility.
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Inclusiveness has become a top goal in this industry, and meeting the minimum requirements is no longer palatable.
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Data collection through sensors and other platforms is now being used for cost estimation, to understand use and behavior patterns, and to make more informed real estate and built environment decisions.
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The buildings we occupy are becoming further automated as smart technology is incorporated.
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Homes are continuing to become more helpful and personalized through smart technology.
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Traffic congestion is one of the top concerns many municipalities hope to address with smart technology.
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Sensors are being further integrated into the built environment to collect data that can be used in predictive models and enable intensive and ongoing monitoring.
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Digital models are not new to the built environment industry.
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New technologies such as edge drones, connected cameras, and novel communication systems are being used to enhance urban management processes.
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As one of the newer developments for more sustainable construction, mass timber construction is gaining attention as many studies and projects consider using its components in lieu of concrete and steel.
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Net-zero construction is about balancing carbon emissions during construction and over the life of a project.
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The 3D and 4D printing of structures, materials, and buildings is becoming more of a norm.
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Project management tools that allow for real-time monitoring and data transmission are creating efficiencies in construction.
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Modularity has struggled to scale within construction, but has still continued to grow with its technical precision to include whole hospital suites that can be shipped and plugged into a new hospital building.
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The use of robots and other automated processes is changing construction practices and reporting, reducing project timelines, as well as reducing worker risk.
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Publishers are becoming more comfortable with applying AI in the newsroom.
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Even as the hype for metaverse products fades, the line between our digital and physical selves is increasingly blurred.
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Generative AI excels at consuming content and transforming it.
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Generative AI is creating new challenges for journalists.
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News organizations will use artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies strategically, but they must also consider them journalistically: Holding the powerful accountable means scrutinizing how AI is trained, built, and deployed.
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As immersive devices become mainstream, journalists will have the power to tell stories that tap directly into their audiences’ senses.
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Researchers and start-ups are looking to harness the power of AI to streamline the time-consuming process of fact-checking.
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The future of search isn’t just a list of links.
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News literacy is a skill that helps audiences understand how to find reliable sources in an increasingly crowded information ecosystem.
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Technology and consumer preference are blurring the lines between media formats.
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The ease of searching and retrieving digital information creates the illusion of its permanence.
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Publishers have two imperatives to respond to the propagation of large language models: First, they need to reckon with the value that LLMs generate after being trained from their content.
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Social platforms thrive because of their ability to deliver users compelling content.
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Any sustainable future for news—whether it’s funded by advertising, subscriptions, or philanthropy—depends on the credibility of the news organizations being supported.
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Digital redlining describes the ways that real-world inequalities are reflected in the digital world.
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There is an emerging consensus that philanthropic funding is the future of local news.
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Threat modeling is the process of identifying and mitigating security vulnerabilities.
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The next generation of overthe-air broadcast will deliver richer audio and video with more efficient management of digital spectrum.
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Everyone wants their hand in the health care system.
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Startups and health care providers are bypassing traditional intermediaries by adapting direct-to-consumer (DTC) health care models, which aim to offer consumers cost savings, convenience, and accessibility to products and services.
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Barriers like global access, cost, provider availability, and care quality limit health care for some.
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Efforts to reduce ecological footprints of health care labs and facilities are gaining momentum, with areas like water consumption, waste reduction, and pharmaceutical development the most readily available for improvement.
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More than ever before, we have greater access to an abundance of data points that help us evaluate individual health and well-being.
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Amid the increased volume of patient-generated data due to recent innovations, policymakers are grappling with the need for revised regulations and policies that will address the evolving landscape of health data ownership and privacy.
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The fragmented state of the health care industry’s infrastructure is a result of the incompatibility between health care devices, applications, and information systems, which hinders the seamless exchange of patient data and information.
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Automation is transforming health care, making the industry more efficient and reliable.
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Cybersecurity concerns are on the rise, and the threat to health care organizations, information systems, and patient safety are substantial.
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Digital biomarkers are behavioral and physiological data, such as heart rate, blood pressure, body temperature, sleep patterns, and physical activity, collected through digital devices.
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Telemedicine leverages technology for remote health care delivery.
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As the population ages, remote patient monitoring (RPM) is increasingly relevant for achieving a higher quality of life.
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Incorporating sensors into textiles offers noninvasive data collection for advanced health monitoring and analysis.
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Biosensors recognize biological material as it binds to a specified target and convert the biological response into a detectable signal.
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Molecular diagnostics leverage the sensitivity and accuracy of CRISPR technology to analyze genetic material for early detection of disease, aiding timely intervention.
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Conveniently performed near a patient, point-of-care (POC) diagnostics offer speed, convenience, and accessibility.
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XR is transforming medical diagnostics by introducing ways to interact with medical data, patient information, and anatomical structures.
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Medical deepfakes involve the use of AI to manipulate medical data or images and present a double-edged sword: They’re promising for the advancement of medical education and research, but involve substantial risk when used maliciously.
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Nanobots offer precise, minimally invasive treatment for targeting disease and improving drug delivery.
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A versatile technology, extended reality is being increasingly used in therapeutics for a wide range of physical and mental health issues including rehabilitation, pain management, exposure therapy, and reducing stress and anxiety.
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In-womb treatments address fetal conditions pre-birth through surgery or medication.
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There is a growing focus on optimizing brain performance by enhancing cognitive function and mental well-being.
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Our bodies are hosts to trillions of microbiota—communities of microorganisms that inhabit specific parts of our bodies, and as a whole, a microbiome.
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Brain computer interfaces (BCIs) establish a direct communication pathway between the human brain and computers, enabling body control without the use of the peripheral nervous system or muscles.
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Precision medicine replaces the traditional one-size-fits-all approach by tailoring treatment and prevention to an individual’s environment, lifestyle, and genetic makeup.
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Breakthroughs in synthetic biology have ignited interest in designing and prolonging human life.
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Natural predators of bacteria, phages regulate bacterial populations in the human body.
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Misinformation and disinformation entail the spread of false information and the deliberate intent to deceive, respectively.
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Scientists seek a more custom approach to implants.
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Innovations in prosthetic design aim to improve sensing capabilities with synthetic skins and novel surgical procedures.
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The next frontier of wearable technology not only transcends the boundaries of convenience but ushers in a new era, where our daily experiences are interconnected with the advanced capabilities of these devices.
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As wearables become more sophisticated, they offer unparalleled access to personalized health insights and environmental interactions, becoming indispensable tools for maintaining well-being.
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Synthetic health data is artificially generated health data that mimics real data properties without privacy risks.
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Traditional trials suffer from lengthy timelines—averaging 10 years—and significant costs related to the recruitment and retention of participants.
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Lab-on-a-chip (LoC) devices are revolutionizing POC diagnostics by integrating sample preparation, testing, and analysis on a single microchip.
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Body-on-a-chip (BoC) technologies typically consist of microfluidic channels and chambers that contain manufactured biomaterials, allowing researchers to simulate the behavior of various tissues and organs.
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A rapidly evolving technology, 3D bioprinting involves the creation of functional structures that imitate the complexity of biological tissues and organs by layering living cells and bioinks.
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The processing power of quantum computers rivals traditional computers.
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Digital identity is the online presence or persona of an individual, organization, or device, represented by uniquely identifiable attributes and used for digital interactions and transactions.
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Data minimization is a principle in data protection and privacy that emphasizes collecting only the data that is directly necessary and relevant for accomplishing a specified purpose.
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Almost three-quarters of leaders have prioritized expanding AI across the customer experience.
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AI-assisted data modeling is a game-changer for the insurance industry, driving significant advancements in risk assessment and fraud detection.
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Financial services and insurance companies are integrating cryptocurrencies, leveraging their scalability for efficient products as well as new financial products, like crypto custody, digital asset protection, and efficient transactions.
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Open banking, the practice that provides third-party developers access to financial data through application programming interfaces (APIs), enables new apps and services while ensuring greater financial transparency.
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Frictionless payments streamline transactions by minimizing user effort, creating a seamless experience.
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Instant reconciliation enables card issuers and merchants to swiftly balance accounts while cardholders enjoy the immediate reflection of transactions in their bank accounts.
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Digital wallets are virtual platforms that store payment information and other identifying credentials, offering seamless, secure, and fast payment options.
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Technology is revolutionizing commerce by leveraging algorithmic purchasers and other features that extract data directly from vehicles or other sources and process transactions without traditional secure elements.
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Amid digital transformation, banks and insurance companies face escalating cyber risks.
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Cryptocurrency regulation varies globally, but many nations are working to pass regulation, striving to balance investor protection, financial stability, and innovation.
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Alternative credit scoring represents an approach to evaluating an individual’s creditworthiness that diverges from traditional methods.
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Over the past year, despite down crypto markets, developers & institutions have made strides in integrating traditional finance & Web3.
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Programmable money, or “Purpose Bound Money” (PBM), refers to digital currencies or assets that can be controlled and manipulated through code or programmable logic.
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Digitization of assets refers to converting physical or nondigital assets into digital form.
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With the rapid demise of regional sports networks (RSNs), flexible and accessible content models will need to fill this new void.
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Sports teams are increasingly using blockchain and other Web3 technologies to enhance fan experiences by creating a consolidated golden record, digital passports, or enhanced ticketing experiences.
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Perhaps to the disappointment of fans, advertising through multiple channels has become more advanced, pervasive, adaptive, and dynamic.
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Mixed reality, or the merging of real-world environments with computer-generated elements, is upgrading in-person fan experiences at sporting events.
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When it comes to broadcasted or streamed sporting events, the US’ four major sports leagues are using innovative digital and virtual experiences to cater to new fans both young and old.
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Technology and evolving regulations have changed the way that individuals place bets and make sports investments.
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Professional sporting leagues have constructed outdoor facilities to enhance the viewers’ experience, providing spectacular and picturesque environments to engage fans, both old and new.
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Leagues are increasingly using technology to augment or even replace human judgment and help make rulings within sports games.
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Virtual reality is increasingly being used for training regimens and conditioning.
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Sports programs and teams are turning to a constellation of technologies including motion capture devices, cameras, sensors, machine learning, and AI to improve player performance and training.
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Many athletes, like NBA legend Michael Jordan, have gone beyond their sports and created their own brands.
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Sports equipment is technology in and of itself, enabling athletes to achieve new feats and break previous records.
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With intense competition comes the risk of injury.
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As climate change persists, sports play the role of both victim and villain.
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A series of mergers, acquisitions, and new partnerships are having a seismic impact on the world of sports.
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Investors are showing unprecedented interest in organized sports.
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Advanced analytics have increasingly been used over the years to inform coaching decisions.
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While sports sponsorships and partnerships have essentially existed since ancient times, a series of unique and innovative collaborations are creating synergies and resulting in increased exposure through the unlikely pairing of brands and sports teams.
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In sports journalism, there has been the common refrain to “stick to sports” rather than using platforms to provide political or cultural commentary.
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Sports have not always been the most consistent drivers of social and cultural change, but the industry is now transitioning to address inclusion and accessibility at all levels, using technology and systemic change to usher in new experiences for fans, athletes, and personnel in sports management.
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Geopolitical tensions on Earth are spilling over into space-based relations among various nations and complicating aspirations to explore beyond our globe.
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Multiple factors, such as reduced payload costs, advances in launch technology, and overall lowered barriers to entry, are making the prospect of space exploration more accessible to new figures in the public sector.
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Both governments and intergovernmental organizations are advocating for responsible space behaviors to avoid a major catastrophe in space.
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Nations around the globe have a vested interest in protecting themselves from space-related activities.
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Having recognized the economic impact the new space economy will have on local economies, select US states and markets are trying to establish themselves as major hubs for domestic operations.
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Despite competition arising from the quest to travel to space, there’s also been extensive collaboration.
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Space junk refers to the tens of thousands of defunct humanmade objects in space, including old rocket parts, dead satellites, and debris from collisions—both accidental and intentional.
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Low earth orbit (LEO) may be a more suitable environment for manufacturing some goods and products like semiconductors and artificial proteins.
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Biomanufacturing in space leverages microgravity to enhance production of biomolecules and materials, like drugs and tissues.
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Off-planet resource production, or in-situ resource utilization (ISRU), refers to the extraction, processing, and use of resources found on other celestial bodies like the moon or Mars.
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Over the past decade, the number of satellites in space has grown almost sevenfold as costs decreased for building satellites and shipping payloads to space.
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With the meteoric rise of the satellite industry over the past several years, there is increasing need for effective and dependable satellite constellation management solutions.
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Space mining is the process of extracting valuable resources such as minerals, metals, and water from celestial objects like asteroids, the moon, and other planets.
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A considerable portion of the world’s population shares information through mobile phones, PCs, and various electronic communication devices.
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On-orbit servicing extends the operational life of satellites by repairing, upgrading, or performing maintenance while they are in Earth’s orbit.
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The harshest critics of space exploration often emphasize the need to focus on the challenges here on Earth before extending our energy to explore the cosmos.
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Self-assembly technology confronts numerous engineering hurdles related to deploying structures in space and constructing them there.
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Eco-friendly, storable highperformance hypergolic propellants have been the holy grail of space propulsion for decades, but current breakthroughs are making this elusive form of propulsion more of a reality.
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Ongoing tracking and surveillance of defunct humanmade objects in Earth’s orbit will help prevent collision catastrophes and ensure that space remains accessible to us in the future.
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Simply monitoring orbital debris is not enough—we also need to come up with technology to deorbit existing debris and make plans and protocols for deorbiting future space assets.
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In existence since the 1990s, the commercial space transportation industry initially focused on launching satellites and sending cargo to the International Space Station.
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Staying in space involves constructing and inhabiting innovative structures that can serve tourists as well as businesses and scientists.
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As we establish long-term settlements in space, we will need forms of entertainment to inspire and stave off the impending isolation being in space elicits.
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The inception of space travel and exploration was mostly driven by public or governmental interest.
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Lower barriers to entry into the space industry as well as years of record-setting private investment have given smaller and fledgling companies a seat at the table in the new space economy.
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The search for nearby signs of life encompasses not only currently thriving organisms but also traces of past life and indicators of potential future habitability.
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As astronaut Buzz Aldrin once said, “Mars is there, waiting to be reached.”
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The quest for cosmic resources encompasses the discovery, identification, and extraction of energy and material resources in outer space.
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Astrophysicists are working to create a map of the universe that helps us better understand space and time.
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The next time we land on the moon, we plan to stay long term.
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Simulated space environments are artificially created settings on Earth that replicate the conditions of space, including Mars and the moon.
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Surviving space’s harsh conditions requires more than physical structures shielding against radiation and other adversities.
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Government efforts to understand unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) are gaining momentum.
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AI is being used as an end-to-end assistant, as well as a synthetic persona to engage with guests.
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In-room technology now allows for voice-controlled interactions, new VR activities, sleep sensing beds, and more.
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Virtual wellness experiences, detox technology, and exercise technology are being integrated into traditional spa and wellness centers.
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The hospitality industry is responding to the call for better use practices by investing in smart resource management platforms, devices, and systems.
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While a nascent trend, some new hotels are creating mobile properties that ebb, flow, and move due to guest demand.
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Beyond contactless checking in and out, new technology for payments and authentication are minimizing staff-guest interactions and providing guests with greater access to the facilities and activities on site.
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On-premise staff, rooms, and spaces are utilizing technology to know guests’ preferences on a granular level; this includes predicting what guests might want before they even know themselves.
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Travel is no longer just about going to a physical destination.
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From addressing staffing challenges to increasing sales to providing new means of safety, new technology is augmenting hospitality business practices and efficiencies.
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Restaurant patrons can now pay for their meals with new forms of integrated payment.
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Some kitchen, waitstaff, and ordering activities can now all happen with very little human intervention.
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Customers can order food for delivery almost anywhere now, especially with new tracking software and apps.
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As climate change creates fear that food resources will be disrupted, many are focusing on being more responsible with their food waste.
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Eatertainment has evolved from breweries to be either mobile or permanent dining experiences that use technology to elevate the room, table, and decor.
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As a means for better health and sustainability, many restaurants are working to incorporate and offer lab-grown and engineered food.
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Digital loyalty programs are increasingly looking to blockchain technology for verification of customer spending and offering new rewards for those engagements.
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AI and other technology are being used to craft menus and meals customized to individual customer preferences.
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Supply chain and logistics providers are continuing to harness AI-enhanced automation and AI-augmented decision support solutions to stay ahead and capture value right from day one of implementation.
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Companies can increase the control of the flow of goods, maximize fuel efficiency, and increase sustainability when they are able to optimize routes in real time, while still delivering their goods on time.
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Track and trace solutions let organizations and customers track movement at every stage of the supply chain, helping manage uncertainty and disruptions in real time.
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With ESG tracking and declarations, companies can align their supply chains with their environmental, social, and governance goals, to foster transparency, responsibility, and sustainable practices.
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A comprehensive platform that includes everything from warehouse management systems, to enterprise resource planning, to transportation management systems eases the responsibilities behind sourcing, manufacturing, and delivering products to customers.
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Companies are expanding their supplier base to make it more inclusive and in line with their corporate values—which can also benefit their bottom line.
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Companies are seeking to shorten the last mile to increase their margins.
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The congestion at ports that arose during the pandemic has begun to ease, but concerns about the future have companies looking for new shipping routes, new devices for monitoring congestion, new smart technology implementation, and new ways to expedite loading and unloading.
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The production process known as continuous additive manufacturing streamlines the creation of items by constantly printing parts, thereby reducing downtime and enabling the efficient production of complex, customized products.
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Smart warehouses are technologically advanced facilities that leverage automation, AI, and real-time data analytics to optimize inventory management and streamline the entire supply chain process.
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Nano-fulfillment centers enhance supply chains and logistics by enabling hyperlocal, efficient, and swift last-mile deliveries.
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Intelligent packaging, equipped with real-time monitoring and quality assessment capabilities, is necessary for reducing food waste, maintaining product freshness, and optimizing environmental benefits.
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Autonomous cobots—robots that work next to human workers— and other equipment are augmenting the warehouse and delivery spheres with safety and efficiency.
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The influencer economy—driven by digital creators producing content to generate revenue for self-profit, brands, advertisers, and platforms—is estimated to hit over $21 billion in 2023.
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The growing demand for content has led to many new ways to produce it virtually, fueled by a global talent pool of creatives continually craving fresh ways to collaborate.
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As our entertainment devices become more advanced, consumers are increasingly seeking out more engaging content that they can experience with multiple senses.
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With the emergence of more flexible forms of storytelling, audiences are no longer limited to a single journey.
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Combining the reach of broadcast TV and the interactivity of video games, massive interactive live events (MILEs) invite audiences to follow a plotline that unfolds over several weeks, encouraging them to interact with a livestream to impact the action.
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Virtual stars never complain or get into trouble—plus, they work for free and are always available.
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Artists are increasingly relying on artificial intelligence not only to improve their creative processes and come up with project ideas but also to generate complete works—and even direct productions—with very little guidance.
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AI makes it possible to take a film’s dialogue and dub it in multiple languages using re-creations of the actors’ voices.
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AI is providing more efficient ways to streamline workflows and processes, enabling companies to not only scale their corporate communications and marketing efforts but also crank out fresh material at lightning speed with just a few text prompts and clicks.
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Streaming platforms are revamping their business models in an effort to decrease shrinking membership.
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Though media streaming might be more eco-friendly than producing a vinyl record or CD, it still accounts for 3%-4% of the global carbon footprint.
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The blockchain art market— which centers on NFT-based works created using modeling, algorithms, and data—went bust in 2022, partly due to the rapid devaluation of crypto exacerbated by the fall of digital currency exchange FTX.
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Slowly but surely, new regulations on intellectual property and copyrights surrounding AIgenerated content are trickling in around the globe—but not fast enough.
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Since films are so readily available at home via streaming, audiences are demanding a lot more from in-theater experiences.
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Creatives are playing with new ways to incorporate technology into their works to better engage viewers, showcase alternate realities, and connect audiences around the world.
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Volumetric capture and highspeed connectivity are enabling larger-than-life hologram shows, with digital 3D renderings of human and animal performers alike taking over every stage.
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Virtual reality concerts— which feature digitized stars performing in the metaverse— have given entertainers a chance to rebound after countless live shows were canceled due to the pandemic.
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Armed with a growing stable of creative tools powered by new technologies, artists are increasingly blurring the lines between the physical and digital worlds.
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AI-powered creative tools are making it possible to create elaborate works of art nearly instantaneously.
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Artists and musicians are leveraging their craft to bring attention to environmental issues plaguing the planet, from global warming and deforestation to animal endangerment and reef preservation.
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Location-based entertainment (LBE) offers high-fidelity experiences that take place in a set physical space as opposed to exclusively online.
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Augmented reality provides a more affordable and accessible way to enhance experiences than VR, and the rapidly-evolving technology is positioned to become the cornerstone of LBE entertainment in the coming years.
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Web3 is poised to disrupt business strategies and operations in the entertainment industry, offering new ways to combat piracy and boost efficiency, security, and transparency through blockchain technology.
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Robots are no longer just sitting pretty at theme parks.
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Amusement parks are constantly evolving to meet consumers’ increasingly diverse interests.
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Theme parks are leveraging AI and the Internet of Things—coupled with data gleaned from in-park platforms, mobile apps, and wearables—to analyze customer behavior and create more customized experiences.
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Theme parks are leveraging data to sway customers’ decisions regarding when they will visit and what they will do during their stay, employing tactics such as surge pricing and push notifications that keep visitors up to date on wait times.
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As society becomes more tech savvy, visitors at traditional institutions—including museums, zoos, galleries, and aquariums— are expecting attractions to be increasingly smart and captivating.
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In an effort to decrease their carbon footprint amid worsening climate change, amusement parks are incorporating more ecofriendly features—from renewable energy installations and electricpowered vehicles to water conservation systems and largescale recycling programs.
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