For Climate and Livelihoods, Africa Bets Big on Solar Mini-Grids
Nigeria pioneers in mini-grid installations to bring reliable electricity to remote communities — a model for other African countries
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AI-Generated Images Can Exploit How Your Mind Works − Here’s Why They Fool You and How to Spot Them
Some tips on detecting AI-generated images.
Read more...For Health Apps, Questions Over Privacy and Efficacy
Apps that track health data or help provide care may be beneficial, but experts worry about the lack of regulation.
Read more...Trump Thinks Tariffs Can Bring Back the Glory Days of US Manufacturing. Here’s Why He’s Wrong
More on the false premise that Trump can restore the US as a manufacturing powerhouse.
Read more...Why America Is Acting This Way on Trade: A Globotics Shock, a Failed Social Policy, and Middle-Class Fury
An attempt to divine the political roots of Trump’s trade and tariff policies.
Read more...Trump Tariffs Run Over Already-Desperate Car Industry; Higher Prices, Job Cuts, and Supplier Closures Baked In
The tariff situation has developed not necessarily to the advantage of the car industry.
Read more...Trump Executive Order Calls for End of Paper Checks for Taxpayer and Government Payments by Sept. 30; Industry Official Snort About Deadline; What About User Payment Charges?
Trump has mandated a Mission Impossible: getting rid of paper checks for Treasury receipts and payments by September 30
Read more...Cuts to Science Research Funding Cut American Lives Short − Federal Support Is Essential for Medical Breakthroughs
Biomedical researchers explain why everyone stands to lose from the Trump/DOGE reduces US investment in medical research.
Read more...What Is Trump’s Grand Plan?
Is the real driving force behind the Trump agenda rule by broligarch?
Read more...The Next American Constitution
Trump’s Constitution-trampling has historical predecents. Where might we be headed?
Read more...As AI’s Power Grows, So Does Our Workday
Staffers uing AI are putting in more hours relative to non-AI-deploying positions. So who is working for whom?
Read more...AI Robot Pets Can Be Adorable and Emotionally Responsive. They Also Raise Questions About Attachment and Mental Health
A discussion of AI companions consider some, but perhaps not enough, of the downsides.
Read more...The Dark Enlightenment: The Tech Oligarch Ideology Driving DOGE’s Destruction
How DOGE isn’t just tearing down institutions but also laying the groundwork for an experimental new kind of authoritarian rule.
Read more...How an Israeli-US Startup Wants to Make Geoengineering Profitable
Forget contrails. Here’s a geoengineering initiative that should give cause for pause.
Read more...The Far-Right and the Crypto Scam
How Trump and his allies use crypto to rig the rules of the game in their favor and fleece rubes.
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