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AI Romantic Relationships: When Bots are Choose Over Humans
A 39-year-old Michigan man thought he had finally found someone patient, attentive, and impossible to disappoint. She remembered everything he shared and never made him guess how she felt. There was just one detail he couldn’t ignore: she was an AI. This is where AI romantic relationships begin to shift the emotional landscape, offering a connection that feels safe,…
GLP-1 Drugs Second Act: Weight Loss to Brain Health
The GLP-1 drugs everyone’s been obsessed with for weight loss may turn out to be far more powerful than expected. Ozempic, Wegovy, and Saxenda, these GLP-1 weight-loss drugs, originally developed as GLP-1 diabetic medications, are now in major clinical trials to evaluate whether they can slow the progression of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. And the early…
Physical AI: When Silicon Valley Bets Billions on Robots That Think
Something big is shifting in the world’s most risk-obsessed zip codes. After years of building software that lives behind screens, Silicon Valley is once again obsessed with things that move. The new obsession isn’t apps, it’s physical AI, robots that think. Across the Bay Area, venture capital and corporate giants, including NVIDIA, Google, and OpenAI, are backing a new generation…
Microsoft Ignite 2025: The Future of Resilience and AI Unfolds
Microsoft Ignite 2025 returned to San Francisco from 18–21 November, and the message across the four days was impossible to miss: the future of enterprise resilience will be shaped by AI. Not just AI as an add-on or a productivity trick, but AI that sits inside your cloud, your workflows, your security, and every operational decision your…
Academic Strategist Ross Morrone on the TikTok Job Search Era
Expert insight on how TikTok’s influence, algorithms, and creator-driven advice are reshaping early-career expectations for Gen Z and millennials. Careers in the Algorithm Age: As algorithms shape how we learn, network, and pursue opportunity, the job search has shifted from a private journey to a digital performance. This series examines the platforms, creators, and behaviours…
The Rise of Space Startups: Building the Next Orbital Economy
For decades, space belonged to the giants. NASA charted new frontiers. Roscosmos kept pushing the limits. ISRO proved that world-class missions don’t always need world-breaking budgets. ESA and JAXA filled in the gaps with deep-space science and engineering brilliance. These agencies shaped the early chapters of space exploration, the era of national pride, moonshots, and slow, steady progress. …
Structural Batteries: When the Frame Becomes the Fuel
On a test floor in Gothenburg, a researcher lifts a thin carbon fibre panel and taps it lightly with a gloved hand. It vibrates with a faint, metallic hum. That should not happen. Carbon fibre does not typically store energy. Yet this panel does exactly that because it has structural batteries. It functions like a support…
Why a Site Reliability Engineer Treats Failure as a Feature
Resilience By Design When you work in technology long enough, you realise something unusual. Systems don’t break because people are careless; they break because complexity wins. That is why every site reliability engineer learns early that failure is part of the job. They don’t wait for trouble. They design for it, call this mindset resilience by design, and it…
How a Single AWS Outage Bug Cascaded Across Industries
The dependency crisis: The latest AWS outage in late October shook the digital world again. It began with what seemed like a minor technical slip. A quiet DNS (Domain Name System) automation bug inside US-EAST-1 created a fault that few noticed at first. Then the failures spread. Payments stalled. Health data streams paused. Smart home…
Cash App Settlement: What Fintechs Learned the Hard Way
When a payment app stops working, people feel it in real life. They worry about rent, groceries, school fees, fuel, and bills. The Cash App outage demonstrated the scale of stress financial delays can cause. Transfers failed. Cards declined. Balances are updated slowly. Users felt unsure and unprotected. Soon after, stories about the Cash App settlement, data exposure,…