Tag: Innovation
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Ford reveals breakthrough process for lower priced EVs
The Blue Oval is betting its future on a new “universal” vehicle platform and manufacturing process that will require more automation and fewer workers.
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TikTok Promotes Stickers for Secretly Recording Meta Ray-Ban Video
Millions of TikTok users are watching videos promoting a “ghost dot” sticker that conceals the recording indicator light on Meta’s smart glasses.
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Airbnb Is in Midlife Crisis Mode
CEO Brian Chesky is spending hundreds of millions to relaunch his travel company as an everything app. Fitness! Food! Microdermabrasion?
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There’s Neuralink—and There’s the Mind-Reading Company That Might Surpass It
Unlike Elon Musk’s brain-computer interface, Synchron’s doesn’t require open-skull surgery, and it has an OpenAI chatbot baked in.
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The After Dark Bandit
The police couldn’t figure out how the perpetrator ripped off two banks at the same time. Until they discovered there wasn’t just one robber but a pair of them: identical twin brothers.
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The Many Lives of Marc Jacobs
Through the fashion designer’s various identities and struggles, two things have remained consistent: his ability to predict a cultural moment and the pure emotion of his work.
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Enough of the billionaires and their big tech. ‘Frugal tech’ will build us all a better world
Titans like Musk would love us to believe innovation means top-down solutions that only enrich the wealthy. In fact, we all have the power
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From Treasury Vault to the Manhattan Project
The U.S. War Department borrowed 14,000 tons of government silver in its drive to make the world’s first atomic bomb
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The First Widespread Cure for HIV Could Be in Children
Evidence is growing that some HIV-infected infants, if given antiretroviral drugs early in life, are able to suppress their viral loads to undetectable levels and then come off the medicine.