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Forecasting is both art and science, reliant on both rigor and luck—but you can develop a mindset that anticipates and plans ahead.

January 10, 2025

Cargo volume on Russia’s main Arctic shipping lane continues to climb, although figures remain below the targets originally defined by President Putin earlier in the decade. Western sanctions have del...

Researchers got a better look at chatbots’ thoughts, amateurs learned just how complicated simple systems can be, and codes became expert self-fixers.

How forensic linguists use grammar, syntax and vocabulary to help crack cold cases.

VW hat mit einer neuen Blamage zu kämpfen. Bewegungsdaten von 800.000 E-Autos sowie Kontaktinformationen zu den Besitzern standen ungeschützt im Netz. Sichtbar war, wer wann zu Hause parkt, beim BND o...

Forecasting is both art and science, reliant on both rigor and luck—but you can develop a mindset that anticipates and plans ahead.

Every white-collar role will have an AI copilot. Some of these roles will be fully automated with AI agents.

December 27, 2024

A painting by Evelyn Dunbar and wintry, comfort reading

When the future arrived, it felt… ordinary. What happened to the glamour of tomorrow?

Is this shade of dusty brown a repudiation of “Brat” green?

As more and more people engage in generative AI on the job, it’s interesting to see a new generation of tools being adopted into workflows a...

Today we're sharing our first step towards spatial intelligence: an AI system that generates 3D worlds from a single image.

The milk chocolaty color evokes the comfort of coffee, but will mix with just about anything.

November 28, 2024

More than 3 billion phone coordinates collected by a US data broker expose the detailed movements of US military and intelligence workers in Germany—and the Pentagon is powerless to stop it.

A Swiss firm’s software mines the world’s knowledge for patent opportunities

And what I'm nibbling on is, to paraphrase Oliver Cromwell, the big question of what if all our models or paradigms for how to structure a colony effort are wrong?

Saxo: Uncover the end of the ‘old normal’ in 2024. Our Outrageous Predictions highlight how nations adapt and the double-edged sword of emerging technologies

November 15, 2024

AI is transforming how billions navigate the web. A lot will be lost in the process.

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