The internet can learn a lot from crypto. Why do we entrust so much of the internet with a few big players and create single points of failure, when we could build something that benefits the many?

Drug discovery loses billions because most drug candidates fail early. Quantum simulation offers a more accurate way to model molecular behaviour, addressing major limitations in classical docking and improving the odds of finding effective treatments.

This week brought seismic shifts in AI leadership, record-breaking infrastructure deals, and a funding environment that continues defying gravity. From Meta’s internal shake-up to Microsoft’s European expansion, the week of November 9–15, 2025 delivered a clear message: as AI transitions from research curiosity to industrial necessity, the

Every network on the internet operates as an Autonomous System (AS) with a unique ASN. Discover how 73,000+ ASes use BGP to exchange routes based on business relationships, why anyone can hijack internet traffic, and what it really costs to run your own AS in the global routing table.

Three emails. Eight years apart. One recurring theme: Epstein believed Trump knew. The new disclosures challenge Trump’s narrative of distance and ignorance, also exposing the deeper machinery of influence that protected Epstein for decades.

Networks fall into three tiers based on a simple question: Can they reach the entire internet without paying anyone?

Your weekly pulse check on the moves shaping technology and business.

We've handed writing to machines that learned language by predicting what word comes next. The question isn't whether AI can write—it's what happens to us when we let it.

The telecom giant claims its exit from public internet exchanges will give customers "lower latencies." Is putting in the middleman (inter.link) achieving this? After some consideration, that might actually work.

A foreign minister's compassion ignited a firestorm within Germany's Christian Democrats, exposing tensions between the party's professed values and its political instincts

Your annual physical is the most mundane appointment you'll make all year. It's also possibly the most important.

A comprehensive guide to the alphabet soup of air filtration standards.

Your Saturday briefing on the week that shaped technology

With SNAP benefits halted by the government shutdown, 42 million Americans now face the threat of hunger as families, food banks, and states scramble for solutions.

Trump continues to flirt with the idea of a third term, blending political showmanship with constitutional brinkmanship. But beneath the bravado lies a hard legal reality: the 22nd Amendment leaves no room for presidents-for-life.

Your Saturday briefing on the week that shaped technology

Japan’s new female prime minister breaks barriers but her far-right stance raises new questions about the country’s future on more accounts than one.

A bold daylight robbery at the Louvre has left France questioning whether its most prized treasures—and its sense of heritage—can ever be fully protected.

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The question is no longer if Trump will weaponize federal power—but how far he will go to secure absolute dominance.

For thousands of years, human societies barely grew. Then something changed. The 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics recognizes three scholars who've explained this transformation through concepts like "useful knowledge" and "creative destruction"—ideas that shape economic policy worldwide.

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Trump didn’t win the Peace Prize—but his shadow loomed large over it. A look at how the Nobel’s past decisions reveal a prize perpetually torn between diplomacy, politics, and irony.

Silicon Valley has largely overlooked medical imaging, but the physics-meets-AI convergence happening in MRI and CT technology represents one of healthcare's most profound engineering transformations.

Metal-organic frameworks—crystals with empty internal spaces—are transforming science, from water harvesting in deserts to capturing carbon and storing energy.