Karen Alfaro

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April 2025

1. 22 April
2. The U.S. Seemed Happy to Revive its Nuclear Industry. Now, Tariffs Have Created a Problem
3. If You Wondered How the U.S. Would Get Rare Earth Elements After China’s Ban, the Answer Is Hard Drives
4. Who Was the First Person in History That Appeared on Video? It Might Be a Pope
5. 21 April
6. Inside Shenzhen’s Counterfeit Market: China Plays in a Different League When It Comes to Knock-Offs
7. Only Five People in the World Have Seen This New Color. The Trick: Lasers on Their Retinas
8. Millionaires Have a New Obsession: Fed Up With Technology, They Want Homes That Are as ‘Dumb’ as Possible
9. ChatGPT Used to Be a Tool. Now That It Can Remember Your Conversations, It’ll Be Something More: A Relationship
10. Google Earth Update Reveals China’s New Naval Base and Its Six Nuclear Submarines
11. 20 April
12. We’ve Been Drugging Salmon With Cocaine and Anxiety Meds. That Makes Them Behave Strangely
13. Japan Is Experiencing the Unthinkable in Its Most Emblematic Neighborhoods: The ‘Chinatownification’ of Anime and Video Games
14. 19 April
15. Olive Trees Are Known for Their Longevity. Some Could Be 4,000 Years Old
16. AI Is Also a Tool for Getting a Job: ‘No One Will Be Able to Know’
17. Protein Deficiency Is a Health Risk. Here Are the Key Symptoms to Watch For
18. 18 April
19. Drinking Too Much Alcohol Affects Your Brain. The Effects Aren’t Far From Those of a Brain Injury
20. The World’s Fastest Electric Car Looks Like Something Out of Batman’s Garage. Its Secret: It ‘Trains’ in a 19th-Century Tunnel
21. Thousands of Marine Ecosystems Depend on One Thing: Whale Pee and Poop
22. Some People Are Using OpenAI’s o3 and o4-mini to Find the Location of Photos. It’s a Privacy Nightmare
23. As Stock Markets Plunged and Gold Faltered, One Asset Held Its Own: Hermès Handbags
24. 17 April
25. New Fantastic Four Trailer Reveals More Than Visuals—It Hints at Marvel’s Plan to Escape the MCU Slump
26. The Webb Telescope Has Been Searching for Extraterrestrial Life for Years. It Has Just Detected the Strongest Signal Yet on the Exoplanet K2-18b
27. Another Blow to Google’s Empire: Judge Finds Part of Its Ad Business Illegal
28. o4-mini Is Much More Than Just Another AI Model. It’s OpenAI’s Tesla Model 3
29. The U.S. Wins: TSMC Will Produce Its Best Chips in Arizona, Though They Will Reportedly Be 30% More Expensive
30. 16 April
31. A New Android Feature Could Restart Your Phone Every Three Days—and That’s Good News
32. The U.S. Saw China’s Rare Earth Ban Coming. Now Its Plan B Is the Pacific Seabed
33. U.S. F-35 Fighter Jets and Ballistic Missiles Need the Key Component of a Magnet. The Problem: It’s ‘Made in China’
34. 15 April
35. ChatGPT Is Already the Most Downloaded App in the World. The Only Problem Is It Doesn’t Know How to Make Money From Its Popularity
36. Elon Musk Fired Self-Drive Car Safety Experts—the Same People Who Were Supposed to Regulate Tesla’s Vehicles
37. China Has Done What Global Industry Feared Most: Blocked the Export of the Most Valuable Rare Earth Elements
38. A Minecraft Movie Is Such a Phenomenon That It’s Causing Riots in Theaters
39. 14 April
40. Get the Most Out of Your AirPods With These Simple Tips and Tricks
41. What Phone and Apps Bill Gates Uses: Microsoft Co-Founder Prefers Android and Devices With Innovative Formats
42. For Years, We’ve Waited for Hours at Airports. TikTok’s ‘Airport Theory’ Says That’s a Mistake
43. After Betting on Space, Jeff Bezos Is Now Investing in Elon Musk’s Other Obsession: EVs
44. 13 April
45. Google DeepMind Has Made the Dream of Some Employees a Reality: Getting Paid Without Working
46. Duolingo and Your Favorite Supermarket Have the Key to Boosting Your Motivation: The Goal Gradient Effect
47. Gemini Live Lets Your Phone See—And It’s Both Fascinating and Creepy. Here’s My Experience
48. Scientists Developed 200 Sorghum Varieties, a Little-Known Grain That Withstands Drier Conditions
49. 12 April
50. Coffee Doesn’t Contain Cholesterol, but It Can Increase It. Researchers Discover the Best Brew to Lower the Risk
51. We Don’t Need More Productivity Methods. We Need a Purpose
52. Shopify’s CEO Has a Clear Message: ‘Using AI Effectively Is Now a Fundamental Expectation of Everyone’ at His Company
53. Researchers Thought They Had Solved the Mystery of the Giant Paleozoic ‘Trees.’ They Couldn’t Have Been More Wrong
54. 11 April
55. Why the U.S. Wants Greenland: Tech Billionaires See a Libertarian Utopia in the Arctic
56. Amid the Tariff Storm, the U.S. Quietly Passed Its First Crypto Law
57. 10 April
58. Canva’s New Visual Suite 2.0 Isn’t Just Another Push Into Photoshop Territory—It’s a Direct Shot at Google and Microsoft
59. This Nuclear Reactor Is Unlike Any Other. It Was Designed Specifically for Data Centers
60. The U.S. Threatens TSMC With Up to 100% Tariffs if It Doesn’t Build Its Chip Fabs in Arizona
61. 09 April
62. Twenty-three Years Later, SpaceX Wins Its Most Brutal Battle Yet: Becoming the Leading U.S. Military Launcher
63. U.S. Tariffs Are Already Affecting Two Companies That Are the Backbone of Taiwan’s Economy: TSMC and Foxconn
64. The U.S. Has Detected a Strange Object in Space and Located the Source That Released It: Russia
65. U.S. Tariffs Are a Tech Industry Wrecking Ball. The Exception: Chinese Phones
66. 08 April
67. China Responds to the U.S. by Putting the Global Chip Industry on the Ropes. Here’s Its Strategy
68. 07 April
69. Apple’s Big Opportunity Is to Use Tariffs to Fulfill a Long-Held Desire: The Subscription iPhone
70. The Obsession for Studio Ghibli-Style Images May Have Forced OpenAI to Take an Unprecedented Step: Adding a Watermark
71. Making the 256 GB iPhone 16 Pro in China Costs About $550. The New Tariffs Will Push That Price Up to $850
72. 06 April
73. For 60,000 Years, a Tribe Has Been Isolated on Their Island. A New Threat Has Put Them in Danger: Influencers
74. 500 Million Years of Evolution Separate Us From Starfish. However, the Hormones That Regulate Our Appetite Haven’t Changed Much
75. People Have Wondered for Years if Going Barefoot on Long Flights Is a Good Idea. Airlines Are Clear About It
76. 05 April
77. Exploring Spotify’s Financial ‘Miracle’: This Is How the Company Reported a Profit After 18 Years of Losses
78. Solo Dining Is No Longer Taboo: Why More People Are Eating Alone
79. Billionaire Mark Cuban Has a Piece of Advice for Gen Z: ‘You Have to Learn About AI’
80. 04 April
81. Why Greenland Is So Important: The Key Is the GIUK Gap, Which Gives China and Russia Access to the Eastern U.S.
82. Nintendo Delays Switch 2 Preorders. Trump’s Tariffs Begin to Impact the Video Game Industry
83. With a 54% Tariff and a $2,300 iPhone, There’s No Easy Way Out for Apple
84. China Responds to U.S. Tariffs by Attacking One of Its Vulnerabilities: Rare Earth Elements
85. 03 April
86. U.S. Tariffs Threaten a Gigantic Domino Effect on the Global Economy. The First Domino Is Big Tech
87. The U.S. Social Security Code Base Is at Risk: Elon Musk Wants to Replace It Using AI
88. Trump Has Imposed New Tariffs on Almost the Entire Planet. There Are Two Exceptions: Russia and North Korea
89. Nintendo Switch 2, First Impressions: This New Console Is Here to Shake Up the Video Game Industry
90. 02 April
91. It May Seem Worrying That an AI Model Would Get Stuck Playing a Video Game as Simple as Pokémon. It’s Not at All
92. New Nintendo Switch 2: Nintendo’s Latest Console Is Bigger, More Powerful, and Ready to Win
93. New Samsung Galaxy Tab S10 FE and Galaxy Tab S10 FE+: These New Models Prove That Tablets Are More Alive Than Ever
94. 01 April
95. Neom Was Saudi Arabia’s Dream to Get Rid of Oil. The Low Price of Black Gold Is Proving to Be Its Worst Nightmare
96. Kids in Sweden Are Imitating Elon Musk’s Controversial Gesture. The Problem Is That Far-Right Groups Are Recruiting Them
97. With Simple Plans and Non-Exclusive Programming, YouTube Is About to Do the Unthinkable: Beat Disney

March 2025

1. 31 March
2. MrBeast and Mark Zuckerberg Think Users Don’t Understand Languages. That Could Improve Watching Videos on Meta’s Platforms
3. During the Cold War, Norway Built Underground Defenses Against the Soviets. Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine Has Revived Them
4. After Studying How to Eat Less, Researchers Came to a Conclusion: Eat More Slowly
5. Elon Musk’s Strategic Move: What to Expect After xAI’s Purchase of X
6. 30 March
7. The World’s Top Password Theft Expert Just Got Phished. Here’s What Happened to Him
8. In Singapore, Luxury Doesn’t Mean Owning a Ferrari or Lamborghini. True Luxury Is Simply Driving
9. Meet SiCarrier, the Little-Known Company Powering China’s Cutting-Edge Chip Production
10. 29 March
11. Gamers Are Craving More Relaxing Games: Demand for Cozy Titles Has Grown by 1000% in the Last Five Years
12. The Other Traumatic Consequence of Childbirth and Postpartum: Evident Changes in the Mother’s Brain
13. LED Masks: The Fascinating Trend Taking Over the Facial Routine of Thousands of Women on TikTok
14. 28 March
15. Be Prepared for a Future Without Doctors or Teachers: Bill Gates Says Humans ‘Won’t Be Needed for Most Things’
16. The World’s Transition to Renewable Energy Is No Small Feat. With AI and Satellites, You Can Literally See It
17. A YouTuber Bought a State-of-the-Art Connected Dishwasher. That’s When His Nightmare Began
18. AI Models Have Always Been a Big Black Box, Preventing Users From Knowing How They ‘Think’ Inside—Until Now
19. 27 March
20. Since DeepSeek’s Breakthrough, All of the ‘Magnificent Seven’ Have Plummeted in the Stock Market. There’s One Exception: Apple
21. U.S. Robot Manufacturers Ask the Government for Help to Compete With China. Without It, There Will Be One Clear Winner
22. Magneto Is 85 Years Old, but Marvel and Disney Believe He’s the Only Solution to Save Their Struggling MCU
23. Taiwan Has Copied Ukraine’s Anti-Invasion Tactic With the Endeavor Manta, a USV That Self-Destructs in Enemy Hands
24. 26 March
25. A Journalist Thought That Tesla Was Missing $1.4 Billion From Its Balance Sheet. It Was Then Found by the Magic of Accounting
26. Are AI Models as Good as Human Intelligence? The Answer May Be in Puzzles
27. Nearly 20 Years Ago, a Telescope Captured a ‘Cosmic Tornado.’ Now, the James Webb Telescope Reveals It Was Hiding a Galaxy
28. TSMC Has Always Claimed Making Chips in the U.S. Is More Expensive Than in Taiwan. Its Arizona Plant Proves Otherwise
29. 25 March
30. Too Expensive and Too Hard to Sell: Tesla Is Bursting Into Flames Over Its Bet on the Cybertruck
31. The AirPods Max Have Become the Poster Child for Apple’s Contradictions. Consistency Is No Longer a Priority for the Company
32. Ukraine Is Capturing and Avoiding Russia’s Drones Using an Unexpected Shield: The Fishing Nets of a Danish Village
33. 24 March
34. For Some Reason, People Are Trying to Crash Teslas Into Walls. It Makes More Sense Than It Sounds
35. The Atmosphere Is Shrinking. That’s a Problem for SpaceX and the Other Companies Working to Put 60,000 Satellites Up There
36. The Paradox of Ukraine’s Colossal Drone Industry: An Asset Against Russia, a Problem for Its Pilots
37. The World’s Smallest Microcontroller Is the Size of a Black Pepper Flake. It Opens Up ‘Unlimited Possibilities’
38. 23 March
39. We’ve Been Domesticating Avocados Since the Pleistocene. It Took Us 8,000 Years to Perfect Them
40. Thousands of Women Sleep With Masks and Tape on Their Faces. There’s a Reason Behind It: TikTok’s ‘Morning Shed’ Trend
41. 22 March
42. We Thought There Were 8 Billion People on Earth. Researchers Say the Real Number Could Be Much Higher
43. Once Known for Its Beauty and Bad Bunny’s Song, the Japanese Island of Yonaguni Is Now a Military Fortress Because of Taiwan
44. George Lucas Had a Massive Vision for Star Wars Before He Sold It to Disney: A $4 Billion Series
45. Figure Develops a System for Large-Scale Production of Humanoid Robots. This Means That There Will Be Robots Building Robots
46. 21 March
47. A New Study Challenges the Belief That Creatine Is One of the Most Effective Supplements for Building Muscle Mass
48. Generating Electricity From the Earth’s Rotation Seemed Impossible. These Physicists Have Proven Otherwise
49. Weather Forecasting Is a Private Business. A New AI Model Aims to Democratize It
50. 20 March
51. Scientists Trapped on a Remote Base in Antarctica Face an Unexpected Challenge: One of Them Threatens the Safety of the Others
52. Pebble’s Resurgence Is a Reminder to the Tech Industry That Greatness Lies in Small Ambitions
53. Despite Precarious Wages and Skyrocketing Rents, Gen Z Will Soon Be the Wealthiest Generation in History
54. Being an Astronaut Isn’t About Money. Here’s How Much NASA Pays for Overtime in Space
55. Elon Musk Fired 6,000 Federal Employees Weeks Ago. Now, the U.S. Faces a Massive Influx of Invasive Species
56. 19 March
57. The Images of the Sunset on the Moon Are More Than Just Curious. They’ll Also Help Solve an Old Mystery
58. iPhone 16e Review: The Most Affordable iPhone No Longer Offers the Best Value
59. 18 March
60. AI Videos Have Broken Instagram and TikTok’s Algorithms. Welcome to Social Media’s ‘AI Slop’ Era
61. Google Has Been Struggling With Pixel Processor Issues for Years. A Potential Collaboration Could Fix Them
62. Researchers Disassembled Batteries From Tesla and BYD to Find Out Which One Performed Better and Cost Less. The Answer Might Surprise You
63. 17 March
64. Interchangeable Heads and Terrifying Faces: These Five Puppets Are Turning Archaeology Upside Down
65. Researchers Detected a Strange Chemical Signal at the Center of the Galaxy. It May Be a New Type of Dark Matter
66. 16 March
67. Canada Wanted the U.S. to Get a Taste of Its Own Medicine, So It Targeted Coffee: Don’t Say ‘Americano,’ Say ‘Canadiano’
68. SMRs Were Touted as the Future of Nuclear Power. The U.S. Pilot Project Just Failed
69. 15 March
70. Airlines Always Let You Bring a Parachute on Board. The Only Problem: It’s Useless
71. A New Study Confirms the Myth: Marriage Leads to Weight Gain, but Only for Men
72. A 19-Year-Old Hacked an iPhone and Got Hired by Apple. He Lost the Job Over a Missed Email
73. This Fly Larva Turned Its Butt Into a Termite’s Head. The Big Question: What Will It Look Like as an Adult?
74. 14 March
75. Pirates Bought an Island in the U.S. in 1959. Its Inhabitants Have Spoken a Variation of English That No One Understands Ever Since
76. Long Workdays Are Out in China. To Get Employees to Comply, Companies Have Resorted to Kicking Them Out of the Office
77. The Tesla Roadster Remains a Dream, So Two Former Tesla Engineers Decided to Build Their Own
78. China Is Getting Closer to Surpassing NASA With Its Own Mars Mission. It Just Invited Other Countries to Join
79. 13 March
80. Amazon Was on the Verge of Buying the Company Behind Roomba for $1.4 Billion. Today, It’s Worth Seven Times Less
81. The Webb Telescope Has a New Friend in Space: ‘We Are Literally Mapping the Entire Celestial Sky’
82. All Major AI Companies Have Ignored Copyright Laws. The Shocking Thing Is That There Are Still No Consequences
83. Cutting and Firing Employees in the U.S. Isn’t Enough for Elon Musk. He Has a New Target: Italy
84. 12 March
85. In a World Where AI Systems Say Yes to Everything, One Concern Remains: We’ll Never Create an Einstein or Newton This Way
86. There’s One Way to Enhance the Effectiveness of Weight Loss Treatments Like Ozempic. The Key: Tricking Your Metabolism
87. Meta Has Fired 35,600 Employees Since 2020. Mark Zuckerberg Has a List to Decide Who Can Return
88. After 50 Years, the U.S. Returns to the Moon With ‘Low-Cost’ Spacecraft. The Results Have Been Disastrous
89. M4 MacBook Air (2025) Review: Apple’s Most Exciting Laptop Just Got Better With More Power at a Lower Price
90. 11 March
91. We Thought We Had Seen Everything About the Futuristic City of Neom. A Document Reveals What Saudi Arabia Had Been Hiding
92. DeepSeek Is the Most Popular AI Company in Tech. Unlike Its Peers, It Refuses to Accept External Investments
93. Tech Billionaires Bet on Trump in January. By March, They Had Lost $209 Billion
94. 10 March
95. Move Over, DeepSeek: Manus Is China’s New AI Sensation. However, It’s Sparking Both Excitement and Skepticism
96. China Has an Ace Up Its Sleeve to Win the AI Race: It Relies on Thousands Upon Thousands of Chinese University Students
97. 09 March
98. We Have a Lot of Digital Superstitions. They Just Stifle Our Productivity
99. Bill Gates Has a $107 Billion Fortune and a Surprisingly Affordable Watch Collection. All of His Watches Are Casio Models
100. China Has Discovered an Energy Source So Massive It Could Last 60,000 Years. The Bad News: It’s Thorium
101. 08 March
102. Meet China’s ‘Water Dragon,’ the World’s Largest Amphibious Aircraft
103. While the Rest of Japan Shrinks, Tokyo Grows. This Phenomenon Has a Name: Ikkyoku Shūchū
104. Some People Never Know When to Stop Watching a Show. This Data Journalist Found the Exact Moment to Cut the Cord
105. Gen Z Is Back in the Office With a New Anti-Stress Strategy: Pretending to Be Too Busy
106. We Spent Years Trying to Reinvent the Wheel. It Turns Out It Was as Easy as Replacing It With Pilates Balls
107. 07 March
108. As Japan Moves Away From Paper Porn, Its Streets Feel the Impact
109. Google Co-founder Larry Page Reportedly Has a New Company and a Goal: AI-Driven Manufacturing
110. Shaquille O’Neal Reveals How He Quadrupled His Fortune Using Jeff Bezos’ Investment Philosophy
111. 06 March
112. The ‘Anti-Musk’ Movement Is Growing in the U.S. Tesla Dealers, Cars, and Charging Stations Are Paying the Price
113. How to Use an Old Phone as a Music Player
114. Nothing Phone (3a) Pro Review: You Can’t Judge Something Only by Its Looks… Not Even This Nothing Phone
115. Where’s My Downloads Folder? How to Find It on Android, iPhone, iPad, Windows, and Mac
116. 05 March
117. This NASA Image Reveals the Latest U.S. Project: Turning an Abandoned Island Into a Global Weapons Delivery Base
118. New Apple MacBook Air (2025): More Power, New Colors, and a Lower Price
119. New Apple Mac Studio (2025): The Most Powerful Apple Computer Arrives With M4 Max and M3 Ultra Chips, Plus a Focus on AI
120. 04 March
121. New Apple iPad (2025): It Has More Power and Storage, but the Real Surprise Is Its Price
122. New Apple iPad Air (2025): The M3 Chip Arrives to Give Apple’s AI Extra Power
123. 03 March
124. Meet the First Commercial Biological Computer, One of MWC 2025’s Biggest Surprises
125. Sergey Brin Calls for 12-Hour Workdays Five Days a Week to Boost AI Development
126. Singapore’s Government Reveals Which Companies Are Involved in Supplying Nvidia GPUs to DeepSeek
127. No Other Land Won the Oscar for Best Documentary, but No One in the U.S. Can Watch It
128. 02 March
129. Meet the 2-7-30 Method: A Simple Strategy to ‘Hack’ Your Brain to Better Retain Knowledge
130. This Curious Image Puts Humanoid Robots Side-by-Side in a Pseudo Police Lineup
131. 01 March
132. Thousands of Years Later, the Great Wall of China Is Still Revealing Secrets: It Turns Out It’s Older Than We Thought
133. BMW Doesn’t Want to Hear Anyone Talk About Solid-State Batteries: ‘There Is Still a Long Way to Go With Lithium-Ion’
134. After Years of Isolation, North Korea Reopens to Foreign Tourists. The Price Is Over $600
135. Meet the ‘Tesla of the Seas,’ a Start-Up That Wants to Reinvent Container Ships With Sails
136. With These Solar Panels That You Can Install Like Stickers, China Wants to Conquer Every Surface

February 2025

1. 28 February
2. Meta Didn’t Has Its Own App to Compete With ChatGPT. Mark Zuckerberg Says That’s About to Change
3. There’s a Booming Market Where Meta Is Beating All Its Competitors: Smart Glasses
4. AI Is ‘Unstoppable’: Freepik’s CEO Discusses Artificial Intelligence, Rival Models, and the EU’s Limiting Approach to AI Regulation
5. Skype Had Everything It Needed to Dominate Video Calling. Microsoft Just Gave It an Expiration Date
6. 27 February
7. How Elon Musk Built His Empire With the Help of the U.S. Government: $38 Billion to Boost Tesla and SpaceX
8. Tensions Are Rising Between the U.S. and Taiwan. The Chip Industry Is at the Center of the Conflict
9. Kathleen Kennedy’s Departure From Star Wars Is a Signal That the Franchise’s Worst Slump Ever Is Upon Us
10. Satya Nadella Is Skeptical About the ‘AI Revolution.’ The Reason Is Simple: No One Is Making Money Yet
11. 26 February
12. Elon Musk Tried to Fire Officials by Email, but the FBI, Pentagon and NASA Told Them Not to Respond. What They Do Is Secret
13. The U.S. Has Another Problem: China Prepares to Lead in Chip Manufacturing for Advanced Weapons
14. Anthropic May Have the Best Generative AI Product, But Even That Doesn’t Guarantee Its Survival
15. 25 February
16. There’s a Problem with Used Wind Turbine Blades. A Startup Thinks It Has a Solution: Make Them Out of Wood
17. A Bakery Accepted Tesla’s Order for 4,000 Pies. In the End, Elon Musk Had to Step In to Prevent It From Going Bankrupt
18. 24 February
19. A Pair of AI Models Purportedly Acquired Consciousness and Cheated at Chess. What Actually Happened Was Very Different
20. Mark Zuckerberg Tried to Ride Elon Musk’s Wave to Improve His Image. People Still Hate Him
21. There Was a Time When Poop Powered the Economies of Half the World. This Is the Rise and Fall of Guano
22. China Turns Boeing’s Crisis Into an Opportunity: It Managed to Transform Starliner’s Helium Leak Into a Military Breakthrough
23. Hackers Steal $1.5 Billion From Cryptocurrency Exchange in the Largest Crypto Hack in History
24. 23 February
25. Microsoft’s CEO Has an Unusual Perspective on AI Development. He Also Has an Idea on How It Will Impact Global Economic Growth
26. Researchers Have Been Smelling 5,000-Year-Old Mummies for Months to Recreate the Scents of Ancient Egypt