The Illusion of Choice in a Digital News World Echo chamber effect of personalized news: You are reading a news app, or a social media feed, and you have an illusion of control, in that you can click on anything you want, read about it, and believe whatever you want. However the harsh reality is: […]
AI, the Apple Way: Subtle, Not Showy In the glorious wake of a months-long tsunami of generative AI promotion by Google, OpenAI, and Microsoft, Apple WWDC 2025 was, uh, more low-key. No pompous presentation of a feather. No fancy AI agent to write your emails or to create some images using your thoughts. Rather, we […]
The Silent Crises We Didn’t See Coming Do you recall the time, when COVID-19 surprised the world? It turned out that it was only the warm up. At present, there are two so-called silent health threats sneaking into hospitals and homes, and that is unexplained hepatitis in children and Candida auris, a deadly drug-resistant fungus. […]
Many assume that gaining fitness only involves going to the gym, eating within your calorie limits, and burning off more calories than you eat. But what happens when you are doing all the right things and still encounter feelings of fatigue, gaining weight unevenly, having difficult-to-lose fat, and no energy? This is something people rarely […]
The Latest Development in Electric Vehicle Industry While on an EV road trip, you’ll be able to recharge your machine during a fast coffee break anywhere. About 10 minutes after that, your vehicle is ready for another 600 miles of driving. That situation is coming soon, driven by the amazing potential of solid-state batteries. At […]
The Looming Quantum Threat: A Ticking Time Bomb for Cybersecurity Post-quantum cryptography: Consider this scenario: Right now, a foreign intelligence agency gathers huge files of finance documents and will wait with them until quantum computers can crack the encryption. This story sounds like something in a spy movie. It is an actual risk that is […]