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May 2025

1. 03 May
2. This Map Illustrates What Earth Will Look Like in 250 Million Years, and It Looks Like the U.S. Will Have New Neighbors
3. A Young British Man Invented a ChatGPT Precursor in 2011. He Became a Millionaire and Vanished
4. Scientists Have Long Searched for a Definitive Cure for Allergies. The Biggest Question Remains Unanswered: How Do They Work?
5. 02 May
6. The Emirates’ Ambitions Don’t Stop. Its Next Project: A High-Speed Underwater Train From Dubai to Mumbai
7. Google Strikes a Blow Against Remote Work: Employees Can’t Simply Go to the Office, They Need to Live Nearby
8. China Is Close to Reaching Energy Self-Sufficiency. It Just Solidified Its Dominance in the Nuclear Sector With 10 New Reactors
9. The U.S. Has Long Dreamed of Having a High-Speed Train. It’s Been a Nightmare So Far
10. Apple Loses Its Legal Battle to Epic Games. It’s a Big Win for Spotify
11. 01 May
12. Chinese Companies Want to Lead the AI Race by Offering Free Services That Others Charge For
13. Microsoft Knows How You Can Improve Your Productivity: Stop Interrupting Every Two Minutes
14. Some People Reserved Tesla’s Roadster 2 in 2017, Paying $50,000. They’re Still Waiting
15. China Is Closer Than Ever to Having Its Own Starship. It Just Built a Steel Tank for Its Massive CZ-9 Rocket
16. Duolingo Starts a New Chapter: Human Talent Is No Longer Essential

April 2025

1. 30 April
2. Archaeologists Have Long Questioned the Legendary Gladiator Fights With Lions. A Bone Just Removed All Doubt
3. The Coffee Industry Says the Current Price Surge Is Unsustainable: $8 for a Cappuccino Is Too Much
4. European Scientists Have Launched the World’s First Space-Borne P-Band Radar. The Goal: Seeing Through the Forests
5. Intel’s New Roadmap: The Company’s Future Relies Heavily on the 18A and 14A Chip Nodes
6. Temu Products Are Now More Expensive in the U.S. Due to Tariffs. Despite Trump’s Claims, China Isn’t Paying the Extra Cost
7. 29 April
8. Researchers Have Discovered That Concrete Spheres Are Great for Energy Storage. Testing Is Underway off the Coast of California
9. See It to Believe It: The CMF Phone 2 Pro Price Has Turned the Mid-Range Segment Upside Down
10. Amid a Crisis of Faith Among Young People, the Church Has Discovered a New Way to Connect: TikTok Nuns
11. CMF Phone 2 Pro: There’s a New Contender to Top the Mid-Range Segment
12. I Have One Question After the Shanghai Auto Show: How Many Screens Are Too Many?
13. 28 April
14. There’s a New Rapid Weight Loss Trend in Time for Summer: Skin Patches
15. Chinese Cars No Longer Compete With Western Brands. They Compete With the Future Itself
16. There’s One Thing Apple Is Really Good At: Selling iPhones. There’s Another Thing It’s Not Good at All: Creating Mid-Tier Models
17. YouTube Turns 20: From a 19-Second Video at a Zoo to a Global Media Powerhouse
18. Due to a Shortage of Steel, Ships in World War II Were Built Using an Unusual Material: Concrete
19. China and Russia Have an Ambitious Plan: Building a Nuclear Power Plant on the Moon by 2028
20. 27 April
21. This 2,000-Year-Old Computer Has Captivated the World for Decades. Some Say It Never Actually Worked
22. One Surprising Buyer Is Transforming Abandoned Houses, Temples, and Factories in Japan Into Tourist Accommodations: China
23. 26 April
24. Plants Are the New Pets. Owners Even Choose to Bury Them in Their Gardens When They Die
25. Relabeling Products in South Korea: This is the Strategy Chinese Companies Are Using in the Ongoing U.S. Trade War
26. Einstein Was Right: Astronomers Discover a ‘Dark Matter Bridge’ Using His Predictions
27. Venice Has a New Plan to Plan to Curb Overtourism: Doubling Its Entry Fee
28. 25 April
29. Nintendo Switch 2 Comes With a Bitter Surprise: Many Third-Party Game Cards Don’t Include the Actual Game, but Rather a Download Key
30. YouTube Sounds Different: Human Voices Are Less Prevalent, While Creators Are Increasingly Using AI-Powered Dubbing
31. Two Students Created an AI Model to Cheat on Job Interviews. Their Project Just Raised $5.3 Million
32. One Fact Shows the Dramatic Future Ahead After U.S.’ Tariffs on China: Container Ship Bookings Have Fallen by 60%
33. 24 April
34. Nvidia’s AI Chips Are All the Rage. However, Gamers Are Still Complaining About Issues With Its Graphics Cards Months Later
35. ITER Addresses One of Nuclear Fusion’s Biggest Challenges: Preventing Incredibly Hot Plasma From Damaging the Reactor
36. Australian Snipers Have Shot Down 750 Koalas From Helicopters. Believe It or Not, It Was for the Animals’ Own Good
37. Nintendo Has Its Eyes on Discord as It Hunts Down Pokémon Leaker. It Won’t Give Up Easily
38. Being Friendly to ChatGPT Isn’t Cheap: This Is How Much It Costs OpenAI Every Time You Say ‘Please’ and ‘Thank You’
39. Mark Zuckerberg Moved Two Superyachts 5,300 Miles From Home for One Reason: Going Heli-Skiing in Scandinavia
40. 23 April
41. Tesla Was a Shiny New Toy for Wall Street Until Musk’s Political Pursuits Almost Ruined It
42. A Look at Samsung’s Historic Moment as the Company Loses Its 30-Year Leadership in the DRAM Chip Industry
43. The U.S. Wants to Build an Unprecedented Missile Defense Shield. SpaceX Has the Perfect Technology for It
44. Logitech and Anker Are Starting to Show the Consequences of Trump’s Tariffs: They’ve Raised Prices on Some Popular Products
45. Alibaba’s AI Pancreatic Cancer Detection Tool Is So Effective That the FDA Has Expedited Its Approval
46. NASA’s Longest-Serving Astronaut Returns to Earth on His 70th Birthday: What Does This Mean for Space Photography?
47. Meta Has a Long History of Copying Rival Apps for Profit. Edits Is the Latest Example
48. 22 April
49. Intel’s Future Depends Heavily on the Success of One Chip Fabrication Node: The 18A Process
50. Shein and Temu Respond to Trump’s Tariffs by Increasing Prices on All Products
51. Experts Have Warned of the Dangers of Arsenic in Rice for Years. We Might Be Underestimating the Risks When It Matters Most
52. Scientists Suspected That Mars Was Once a Habitable Planet. NASA’s Curiosity Rover Has Just Cleared Up Any Doubts
53. Egypt Has a Problem With Its Pyramids. Many Tourists Say They’re Traumatized After Their Visits
54. 21 April
55. Mark Zuckerberg Criticizes Apple for Not Innovating for Decades While on His Ever-Faithful MacBook
56. Explore 40 Years of Apple Operating Systems Without Installing Any Software: Infinite Mac Is the Ultimate macOS Museum in Your Browser
57. Olive Leaf Tea Sounds Like a Perfectly Healthy Drink. Scientists Aren’t So Sure
58. 20 April
59. Why Is Fruit Becoming Sweeter? The Answer to This Question Is More Complex Than You Think
60. The Chromecast USB Port Offers More Than Just Power: Here Are Three Lesser-Known Uses You Should Try
61. Microsoft Once Believed It Had Discovered a Way to Humanize Windows Through a Program Called Bob. It Was a Total Failure
62. Sex Can Be Deadly for Many Male Species. Octopuses Have a Unique Strategy to Survive: Injecting Venom Into Their Partner
63. 19 April
64. Many Elderly People Die in Japan With No One Noticing. These Are the Companies Cleaning Up Their Final Traces
65. You Don’t Need to Pay for a Remote Desktop Solution: RustDesk Is Free and Works Perfectly on Your Phone
66. Welcome to Apple Park: You’ll Feel Like You’re Stepping Into a Severance Scene
67. An Old Dream, a Boeing 727, and an Unusual Decision: This Is How an Engineer Transformed an Airplane Into His Home
68. 18 April
69. Who Is Clarus? Meet Apple’s Unofficial Dogcow Mascot That Had Its Own Merchandise and Easter Eggs
70. You’d Be a Nobody at Apple Unless Steve Jobs Invited You to the Top 100 Retreat. What Happened There Defined the Company’s Future
71. The Bugatti Veyron Was a Fascinating $1.7 Million Supercar. Yet, Volkswagen Lost $6.7 Million for Every Unit Sold
72. 17 April
73. Edward Albert Lancelot Dodd Canterbury Caterham Wickfield Was One of Brazil’s Most Prestigious Judges, or So Brazilians Thought
74. All Apple Products Follow the Same Design Pattern From 1874: The Euler Spiral
75. A South Korean City Offered Young People $14,000 to Encourage Them to Get Married. They Couldn’t Care Less
76. 16 April
77. Contrary to Popular Belief, Not All Pirates Used the Same Flag. It Was Their Way of Introducing Themselves to Others
78. Can I Get a WOOP? This Is the WOOP Method, a Strategy for Overcoming Obstacles to Achieve Your Goals
79. 15 April
80. German Scientists Made the Impossible Possible in the 1990s: They Developed a Critical Component for Today’s Chip Manufacturing Machines
81. Don’t Put Coffee Up Your Butt, Scientists Say
82. After Analyzing the Abstracts of Scientific Papers, Researchers Came to One Conclusion: They’re Pretty Much Clickbait
83. 14 April
84. The Divisumma Calculator Was Olivetti’s Mechanical Masterpiece. It’s Become a Retro-Futuristic Icon
85. 13 April
86. Six Scientists Living 6,500 Feet Underwater for 40 Days: This Is China’s Ambitious Deep-Sea Space Station
87. There’s One Area Where Renewable Energy Is Clearly Outpacing Fossil Fuels: Patents
88. The Australian City of Darwin Has a Population of 250,000, Including 100,000 Wild Crocodiles
89. 12 April
90. Scientists Just Discovered That 20% of Our DNA Comes From an Unknown Hominid Population: Population B
91. The White Lotus Is Proof That All You Need Is a Group of Millionaires Vacationing on Your Shores to Attract Tourists
92. A Princeton Student Wrote a Paper in 1977 on How to Build an Atomic Bomb at Home. The FBI Confiscated It
93. 11 April
94. Nvidia Will Continue to Sell Its H20 AI GPUs in China. It Cost the Company a $1 Million Dinner
95. 12 Years After Mocking SpaceX’s Reusable Rocket ‘Dream,’ Europe’s ArianeGroup Is Developing a Mini Falcon 9
96. The Hermès Heir Who Adopted His Gardener Has Lost His Shares Again. The Emir of Qatar Is Suing Him
97. U.S. Wealthiest Billionaires Take a Breather: After Losing a Fortune, Their Net Worth Has Skyrocketed Again
98. The Universe Is Becoming Increasingly Chaotic. Scientists Don’t Know Why, Suspect Dark Energy Might Be the Culprit
99. Boeing Might Be the Next Victim in Trump’s Trade War. The Winner: Airbus
100. China’s Next Move Amid Tariff War With the U.S.: Cutting Hollywood Film Releases
101. 10 April
102. Luxury Brands Hoped to Expand in the U.S. Following a Decline in China. Tariffs Had Other Ideas
103. Big Tech Shares Are Plunging. The Question Is Which Companies Can Best Withstand the Impact of Trump’s Tariffs
104. Midjourney Used to Have the Best Image Generation Technology. ChatGPT Just Taught It a Lesson: Distribution Is Key
105. China Might Have Found a Solution to Circumvent Trump’s Tariffs: Kyrgyzstan
106. The Main Issue With Trump’s Tariffs Isn’t That the iPhone Might Cost You More. Rather, It’s the Snowball Effect They’ll Trigger
107. 09 April
108. Bombardier Global 8000 Is Set to Enter Service: This Is the World’s Fastest Civilian Aircraft Since Concorde
109. The U.S. Has Long Dreamed of Having a ‘Made in America’ iPhone. It Seems It’ll Have an Indian-Made Phone First
110. Satellite Imagery Reveals the Scale of China’s Military Ambitions: It’s Building The World’s Largest Military Base
111. Apple Takes Action to Mitigate the Impact of Trump’s Tariffs: It’s Reportedly Flying Five Flights Filled With iPhones From India
112. Trump’s 104% Tariff on China Officially Comes Into Effect. Apple Is No Longer the World’s Most Valuable Company
113. 08 April
114. Starlink Satellites Have Revolutionized Modern Warfare. China and Russia Are Developing ‘Starlink Killers’ to Disable Them
115. Scientists Have Successfully Brought Dire Wolves Back From Extinction 10,000 Years Later. Are They Really Back, Though?
116. The Brain Controls Everything: Researchers Just Discovered Neurons That Tell You When to Eat and Drink
117. The U.S. Shaped Modern Globalization. Now, It's Destroying It
118. China Has Become Hostile Territory for Microsoft. Its First Joint Venture in the Country Ceases Operations and Lays Off 2,000 Employees
119. There’s One Clear Winner From the 25% Car Tariffs: BYD, the Epitome of Everything China Has to Gain
120. SpaceX’s Valuation Has Reached Such Unprecedented Levels That President Gwynne Shotwell Is Now a Billionaire
121. 07 April
122. Building a $200 Million 260-Foot Yacht Wasn’t the Hard Part, but Rather Getting It to Sea in Perfect Condition
123. Ukraine Is Sending Drones to Russia That, When Captured, Infect Military Systems With Malware
124. China Has Developed Its Own Alternative to HDMI and DisplayPort. It’s Called GPMI and Supports up to 192 Gbps
125. The Great Solar Paradox: The Cheaper Solar Energy Becomes, the More It Collapses Global Power Grids
126. Researchers Discovered Fungi That Can Metabolize Gold in 2019. They Could Become Crucial for Space Mining
127. 06 April
128. Genetics Might Have the Answer to Every Cat Owner’s Eternal Question: What’s My Pet Thinking?
129. Japan Activates Plan Amid Growing War Fears: This Is How It’ll Evacuate Its Islands Closest to Taiwan Within Six Days
130. When You Think About All the Great Things the Romans Did, Remember That They Got Them Done Even Though They Had Lead Poisoning
131. 05 April
132. The World Recognizes the Wright Brothers as the Inventors of the Airplane. Brazilians Think Otherwise
133. Exploring Spotify’s Financial ‘Miracle’: This Is How the Company Reported a Profit After 18 Years of Losses
134. TikTok’s Most Popular Wearable Isn’t Apple or Samsung. It’s the Oura Ring, and It Can Track Your Menstrual Cycle
135. China Introduces a Powerful New Tool Amid Rising Incidents Involving Undersea Cables: A Colossal Radial Cutter
136. 04 April
137. A Group of Researchers Has Tried Out 4:3 Intermittent Fasting. The Results Are Promising
138. Researchers Just Found a Lichen Species That Can Live and Thrive on Mars. This Is Why It’s an Incredibly Fascinating Discovery
139. Only 15 People Belong to the Exclusive $100 Billion Club: They’re the 0.5% of the Richest 1%
140. A Small Island in the Indian Ocean Is Home to Only Seals and Penguins. It’s Not Safe From Trump’s Tariffs, Either
141. Microsoft Turns 50: What’s Truly Remarkable Isn’t That It Still Exists, but Rather That It Remains Incredibly Relevant
142. The Intel and TSMC Deal Is Almost Done: What Does This Mean for Intel’s Semiconductor Fabs?
143. 03 April
144. Archeologists Keep Uncovering Ancient Corpses as Glaciers Melt. It’s a Race Against the Clock
145. BYD Cars Offer 250 Miles of Range in Just Five Minutes. Mercedes Isn’t Impressed
146. Asteroid 2024 YR4 Won’t Kill You, But It Might Hit the Moon. This Is Amazing News
147. A Google Innovation Was Crucial for the GPT Models. The Company Reportedly Has a New Plan to Stop Benefiting Its Rivals
148. Once-Stranded Astronaut Says That NASA Went Against the Protocol to Save Them: ‘These Folks Are Heroes’
149. Elon Musk’s Role With DOGE Has Harmed Tesla the Most. He’s Reportedly Set to Step Down Soon
150. 02 April
151. An Apple-1 Auctioned for $375,000 Just Revealed New Facts About the Origins of the Company
152. CERN Physicists Knew the Symmetry Between Up and Down Quarks Was Broken. What They Just Discovered Changes Everything
153. One Million New Users in One Hour: Studio Ghibli-Style Images Have Boosted the ChatGPT Phenomenon Again
154. A Bitcoin Billionaire Paid SpaceX to Carry Out the First Spaceflight Around the Poles. He Just Achieved It
155. 01 April
156. AI Still Hasn’t Become the New Google: It Still Relies Heavily on Hyping Up Potential Users
157. OpenAI Just Secured the Largest Funding Round in History: Investors Seem to Have Faith in AI After All
158. ChatGPT Studio Ghibli Photos: Here Are Some Free Alternatives to Create Animated Images From Your Photos
159. Temu Is Still Making Billions, but Its Aggressive Model Is Showing Initial Signs of Strain
160. Chinese AI Startup Manus Just Launched a $200-per-Month Subscription. It’s Bad News for the Industry
161. A Lifetime in 300 Days: Once-Stranded Astronauts Look Incredibly Different From How They Did Before Getting Stuck in Space

March 2025

1. 31 March
2. BYD Surpassed the $100 Billion Revenue Mark in 2024. Tesla Is Still Far From This Feat
3. Forget Your Go-To Cocktail: Drinking Coffee Is All the Rage at Daytime Raves
4. China Is Breaking Records in Its Pursuit of Oil. Its Latest Feat: Drilling Asia’s Deepest Vertical Well
5. Elon Musk Says That Mars Will Be Part of the U.S. His Claim Is a Historic Challenge to the Outer Space Treaty
6. Pooping Outside Your Gut’s ‘Goldilocks Zone’ Might Be a Sign of Poor Health
7. 30 March
8. ‘Poop Doping’ Has Been a Problem in Elite Sports for Years. Now, Scientists Want to Democratize It
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10. More and More People Are Choosing to Go on Vacation for One Reason Only: Going to Sleep
11. MrBeast Has Found a More Lucrative Business Than Creating YouTube Videos: Selling Chocolate
12. 29 March
13. Group Orders Are the Future of the Food Delivery Industry. China Is Already Experimenting With the System
14. An Old Urban Phenomenon Is Now Spreading Throughout Japan: Neighborhoods With More Chinese Than Japanese Residents
15. 28 March
16. Elon Musk Laid Off Thousands of Federal Employees. China and Russia Want to Recruit Them as Spies
17. The Latest ChatGPT-Made Image Fever Is ‘Melting’ OpenAI’s GPUs. As a Result, The Company Is Limiting User Access
18. Researchers Say Consuming More Fruit and Coffee Can Lower the Risk of Tinnitus. They Don’t Know Why
19. Everyone Wants to Use ChatGPT Again. The Problem: The Reason Why They Want to Use It Infringes on Copyright
20. There’s One Clear Winner From Trump’s New Tariffs on Imported Cars: Tesla, of Course
21. 27 March
22. The U.S. Offers to Cut Tariffs on China, but It Wants Something in Return: TikTok
23. Isaac Asimov Predicted in 1941 That Satellites Would Transmit Energy to Earth. It’s Closer Than Ever to Becoming a Reality
24. NASA Cuts $420 Million From Its Budget Per DOGE’s Guidelines. Surprise: It’s Elon Musk’s Favorite Number
25. The AI Infrastructure Boom Is Starting to Crack: China Has Hundreds of Unused AI Data Centers, and It’s Not the Only One
26. Ozempic Will Soon Be a Thing of the Past: Meet the Next Generation of Weight Loss Drugs
27. 26 March
28. A Japanese Man Was Imprisoned by Mistake and Will Now Get $85 for Every Day Spent in Jail. It’s Going to Make Him a Millionaire
29. Napster Still Exists. A Tech Startup Just Bought It for $200 Million to Transform It Into the Spotify of 3D Concerts
30. A Russian Drone Has Pierced One of the World’s Greatest Engineering Works. The Problem: It’s the Sarcophagus of Chernobyl’s Fourth Reactor
31. 25 Years After the Dot-Com Bubble, a New Concern Is Looming Over the Tech Industry: A Potential AI Bubble
32. Years Ago, a Finnish Company Shortened Its Name to Lumon. Apple TV+’s Severance Has Turned This Into a Problem
33. Some European Companies Seek to Cut Ties With Amazon, Google, and Microsoft Cloud Services. It Won’t Be Easy
34. 25 March
35. Waking Up at 3:52 A.M., Dunking Your Head Into Ice Water, and Rubbing a Banana on Your Face: Male Morning Routines Are Becoming Increasingly Bizarre
36. Boeing’s Had a Rough Few Years. The Air Force Just Gave It a Prime Opportunity to Recover: The New F-47 Contract
37. After Conquering Space, EVs, and Social Media, Elon Musk Is Ready for His Next Venture: A Restaurant. It Won’t Be the Normal Kind
38. The FBI Issues Warning About Online File Converters: Hackers Are Using Them to Scam You and Steal Your Data
39. SpaceX Is Set to Launch the First-Ever Polar Spaceflight Soon. The Mission’s Client Is a Bitcoin Millionaire
40. 12 Million People Gave Their DNA to 23andMe. The Company Just Went Bankrupt, but There’s a Bigger Problem at Stake
41. 24 March
42. China’s Thorium-Based Molten Salt Reactor Might Be the Reason the Country Is Now a Leader in Nuclear Energy. Here’s Why
43. The Pentagon Has a Secret Plan in Case of a War With China. The Problem Is in Who It Might Have Told: Elon Musk
44. Chinese Researchers Discover a Way to Recycle 99.9% of Electric Car Batteries: The Glycine in Your Protein Shakes
45. What if the Constants of the Universe Aren’t Truly Constant? Researchers Say the Key Lies in the Nuclear Clock
46. North Korea Unveils a Small ‘Manhattan’ With 10,000 New Apartments. The Question Is What Lies Beyond the Facade
47. Willpower Alone Often Isn’t Enough When Creating New Habits. Your Brain Offers a Better Solution: Personal Automation
48. 23 March
49. U.S. Denies to Put a Kill Switch in Its F-35 Fighter Jets to Avoid Losing a Fortune. There’s a Bigger Issue at Play: Controlling the ‘Blue Line’
50. Disney+’s Latest Idea to Attract Users: Streaming the Simpsons 24/7 on a Dedicated Channel
51. 22 March
52. Digital Serendipity Is at Risk of Disappearing. The Internet Knows You All Too Well
53. 21 March
54. This 4,500-Year-Old Game Was a Complete Mystery Until Now. AI Has Finally Deciphered It
55. Tesla Recalls Nearly Every Cybertruck Ever Sold in the U.S. It Has a Good Reason: Some Parts Are Falling Off
56. Nvidia Eyes Another Disruptive Technology After the Success of Its AI Chips: Quantum Computers
57. Samsung Faces One of Its Most Challenging Periods Ever. The Issue: It’s Struggling to Keep Up With TSMC and SK Hynix
58. OpenAI’s New Voice Models Can Now Talk Like Customer Service Agents. Their Next Destination: Call Centers
59. Chinese Scientists Have Just Turned the Moon Race Upside Down After Detecting a Design Flaw in NASA’s Reactor
60. 19 March
61. Elon Musk’s Dad Thought His Son Had Too Much on His Plate. Tesla’s Latest Setback Proves Him Right
62. iPhone 16e Review: The Most Affordable iPhone No Longer Offers the Best Value
63. Google’s New AI Model Is a Great Yet Problematic Tool: It Can Remove Watermarks From Images
64. China Declassifies a Top Secret Spacecraft: The Highest-Altitude Radar Satellite Ever Created
65. Data From the James Webb Space Telescope Revives a Bold Cosmic Theory: Our Universe Exists Inside a Black Hole
66. The Stranded Astronauts Soap Opera Comes to an End: They’ve Finally Returned to Earth Nine Months Later
67. 18 March
68. Something Weird Is Happening With the Super Nintendo Consoles From the '90s: They’re Getting Faster and Faster
69. Japan Makes a Historic Decision Amid U.S. Uncertainty: Deploying Long-Range Missiles Capable of Reaching North Korea and China