Alba Mora

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March 2025

1. 18 March
2. The iPhone 16e Is Selling Like Hot Cakes. As It Turns Out, a Phone That Was Just a Phone Wasn’t Such a Bad Idea
3. Someone Aced a Job Interview at Amazon Using AI. The Incident Is Making Google Consider Bringing Back In-Person Meetings for Candidates
4. Elon Musk Shuts Down Design Flaw Rumors in the New Starship, Says It’s Going to Mars Next Year
5. 17 March
6. If You Use Wired Headphones, You’re at Risk: They’re the Ideal Prey for Hackers
7. Something Incredible Occurs Inside the Most Advanced Chip-Making Machines: Small Supernovae
8. Boeing’s Latest Product Isn’t a Plane. It’s Called the GLSDB, an Improved Bomb On Its Way to Ukraine
9. While All Eyes Were on Silicon Valley, a Danish City Was Quietly Shaping Its Future. Today It’s Established Itself as the Capital of Robotics
10. The COVID-19 Pandemic Has Had an Expected Effect on American Restaurants: It’s Boosted Their Productivity
11. Google Is Killing Off an App That’s Been on All Android Devices Since 2016. AI Is to Blame
12. Debris From SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Rockets Isn’t Something to Be Taken Lightly. It Cost Poland’s Space Agency President His Job
13. 16 March
14. Researchers Have Been Studying the Oldest Human Remains Found in Western Europe for Years. They Still Don’t Know Which Species They Belong to
15. Can You Spot an Intelligent Person Based on Their Personality? Scientists Say You Should Stop Trying
16. The Number of Young Chinese Students Enrolled in Japanese Art Schools Has Surged Significantly. It’s a Springboard for Long-Term Residency
17. 15 March
18. China Eliminates the Last Advantage Fighter Pilots Had Over AI: The Ability to Predict the Unpredictable
19. Elon Musk Bought a New Laptop and Was Asked to Create a Microsoft Account. He Utterly Refused
20. 14 March
21. The Jewel in Apple’s Crown Isn’t Its Products, but Its Credibility. The Company Just Threw It Away
22. Nvidia Addresses GeForce RTX 50 Shipment Backlash. Users Aren’t Convinced
23. A Fired Developer Wreaked Havoc at His Former Company With a Kill Switch. He’s Now Facing 10 Years in Prison for the Damage
24. Mufasa Is Disney’s Most Unexpected Box Office Hit This Year. It’s All Because It Didn’t Rush It to Disney+
25. Meta Has Started to Shut Down Its Independent Fact-Checking Program. It’s Replacing It With a Tool That Uses X’s Algorithm
26. 13 March
27. Volkswagen Has a Backup Plan in Case Its $22,000 EV Doesn’t Succeed: Selling Sausages
28. Chinese Scientists Claim to Have Created a Groundbreaking Device: The World’s Fastest and Most Efficient Transistor
29. Who Is Lip-Bu Tan? Intel’s New CEO Promises a Change of Direction and May Announce Further Layoffs
30. Taking AI Beyond the Screen: With Gemini Robotics, Google Enhances Robots’ Interaction With the Physical World
31. Astronomers Thought They Had Counted All of Saturn’s Moons. After Studying Them for a Year, They Received Quite a Surprise
32. Intel Has a New CEO: Lip-Bu Tan Takes Up the Role at a Crucial Time for the Tech Company
33. 12 March
34. Las Vegas Transformed Entertainment With The Sphere. Its Creators Now Want to Take This Innovative Concept a Step Further
35. The World Needs More Efficient and High-Quality Batteries. Researchers Have Come Up With an Innovative Solution: Nuclear Batteries
36. Emptying a Robot Vacuum Is a Total Bore. iRobot Has Come Up With the Perfect Solution: Sticking a Dust Compactor Into Its New Roomba
37. Ukraine’s Problem Isn’t Just a Shortage of Weapons. It’s Also the U.S.’ Capability to Disable Supplied Artillery Remotely
38. M4 MacBook Air (2025) Review: Apple’s Most Exciting Laptop Just Got Better With More Power at a Lower Price
39. Chromecast Not Working? This Is Why You Can’t Cast Content and How to Fix It
40. 11 March
41. A Reddit User Has Found an Effective Solution to Fight Procrastination: Writing Down Tasks as Soon as You Think of Them
42. Tesla Has a Serious Problem: Its Stock Has Been Plummeting Since the Beginning of the Year and It’s Getting Worse Day by Day
43. China Isn’t Sitting Still When It Comes to Nuclear Fusion. It Just Took One More Step Towards Completing Its Own ITER Project
44. A Group of North Korean Hackers Pulled Off the Biggest Crypto Robbery in History. This Is How They Did It
45. The Astronauts Stuck in Space Are Finally Leaving the ISS. Their Final Message Is a Bold Statement: Elon Musk Was Right
46. 10 March
47. North Korea Eliminates Doubts About Its Alliance With Russia by Announcing Its First Nuclear-Powered Submarine
48. Japan’s Demographic Crisis Is Causing Serious Labor Shortages. The Solution: Thousands of Cat-Faced Robots
49. Mickey 17 Is the Latest Dystopian Sci-Fi Movie to Top the Box Office. It’s Still Not Enough
50. France Attracts More Tourists Than Any Other Country. To Limit the Influx, It’s Increasing Flight Prices
51. Alibaba’s RISC-V CPU Is More Than Just a Chip. It Represents China’s Path to Tech Self-Sufficiency
52. BYD Debuts a James Bond-Like Car That Can Launch a Drone. Now the Question Is: What For?
53. 09 March
54. ‘I’m Literally Losing Sleep’: Bill Gates Saw Microsoft’s Dominance Threatened in 1996 by This Revolutionary Technology
55. Best Streaming TV Device: Here Are the Top Media Players of 2025
56. 07 March
57. China and Elon Musk Are Now Competing Over Humanoid Robots. We’re In for a Long Ride
58. Researchers Discover an Anomaly at the Bottom of the Pacific Ocean. The Issue: They Don’t Know What It Is
59. One Key Fact Explains Why China Might Challenge America’s AI Dominance: DeepSeek Is 8.5 Times Cheaper to Run Than ChatGPT
60. The Creator of Ozempic Has a New Plan: Selling and Sending Wegovy Directly to Consumers
61. It’s Happened Again: Intuitive Machines’ Lander Reaches the Moon Successfully but Falls Over at the Last Minute
62. SpaceX Loses Another Starship: The Rocket Has Exploded for the Second Time in a Row and Faces Its Biggest Failures in Recent History
63. 06 March
64. Nothing Phone (3a) Pro Review: You Can’t Judge Something Only by Its Looks… Not Even This Nothing Phone
65. SpaceX Has Launched 8,000 Starlink Satellites in Just Five Years. This Is Why It’s Still Not Enough
66. How to Connect Bluetooth Headphones to Xbox One
67. The Voyager Probes Are Running Low on Plutonium 48 Years Later. NASA Has Just Taken Extreme Measures
68. Fitbit Ionic vs. Fitbit Versa: Which Smartwatch Is the Best Fit for You?
69. Meet Amira, an Unsettlingly Realistic Robot With Synthetic Skin That Reacts to Things Just Like You
70. 05 March
71. A Pakistani Astronaut on the Chinese Space Station Isn’t Just an Unexpected Sight. It’s China Aiming to Fill the Void Left by the U.S.
72. Netflix Doesn’t Care if You Cancel Your Subscription. Data Shows You’ll Most Likely Sign Up Again at Some Point
73. Mark Zuckerberg Celebrated His Wife’s Birthday in Style, With a $1.3 Million Rolex and a Sequined Jumpsuit
74. Eggs Are Getting So Expensive in the U.S. That Some Companies Have Found an Unusual Solution: Renting Out Chickens
75. Monopoly Keeps Evolving: The Latest Version of the Board Game Ditches Cash for a Mobile App
76. 04 March
77. Nvidia’s Graphics Cards Are the New iPhones. If You’re Looking for a Decent Model, You’ll Have to Spend $1,000
78. A Tesla Founder Wants to Give You Some Advice: Most EVs ‘Suck.’ This Is the Most Common Mistake in the Industry
79. Crypto Was Supposed to Be a Currency Independent From Government Control. The U.S. Just Killed the Idea
80. TSMC Finds a Way to Avoid U.S. Tariffs. It’s Going to Cost It $100 Billion
81. The Key to Longevity Lies Not in Our Genes but in Environmental Factors. The Good News Is That You Have the Power to Change Some of Them
82. Nothing Phone (3a) and Phone (3a) Pro: Say Hello to the Periscope Camera and One of the Most Intriguing AI Capabilities Ever
83. Anthropic Raises Another $3.5 Billion. It’s Exactly What It Needs to Survive in an Increasingly Competitive Market
84. 03 March
85. Lenovo Is Taking the Concept of a Foldable Screen Laptop to the Next Level With Its ThinkBook Flip AI PC Concept
86. Claude 3.7 Has Just Revived an Old Program From 1997. Will AI Models Be Able to Translate Projects Written in COBOL or FORTRAN?
87. Satellite Imagery Uncovers a Mysterious Complex in Neom. It’s So Opulent That It Can Only Belong to One Man
88. Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens Tried to Mate for Thousands of Years. Genetics Had Other Ideas
89. Lenovo Introduces a Solution to Limited Laptop Screen Space: Removable Magnetic Panels. We Tried Them Out
90. Lenovo Yoga Solar PC: Introducing the First Ultra-Thin Solar-Charged Laptop
91. Samsung Galaxy A56 5G: Artificial Intelligence Is Making Its Way Into Samsung’s New Mid-Range Phone
92. 02 March
93. Xi Jinping Has His Own Version of Air Force One. This Is How China Outpaced the U.S. With Its Presidential Aircraft
94. Congo Has Halted Its Cobalt Exports. This Is Good News for China But Not So Much for the Western Tech Industry
95. Japan’s Paradox: The Country Keeps Attracting Tourists, But Only 17% of Its Citizens Own a Passport
96. 01 March
97. It May Look Like Toothpaste, But It’s Actually Coffee in a Tube. This Is the Quick Caffeine Fix That You Can Even Spread on Toast

February 2025

1. 28 February
2. AI Is ‘Unstoppable’: Freepik’s CEO Discusses Artificial Intelligence, Rival Models, and the EU’s Limiting Approach to AI Regulation
3. With $28 Million in Profit, The Brutalist Is Already the Biggest Oscar Winner, Regardless of What Happens at the Awards
4. The World’s First All-Female Space Flight Took Place in 1963 in the USSR. Katy Perry Will Be on the Second
5. Xiaomi’s CEO Is Likely the New Richest Person in China. He Wants Nothing to Do With the Title
6. GPT-4.5 Is No Better Than Its Competitors in Nearly Any Aspect. It Proves That Traditional AI Models Are Making Little Progress
7. 27 February
8. Scientists Thought They Knew Why Mars Was Red. New Research Changes Everything
9. Putting Toilet Paper in the Fridge May Seem Weird. Believe It or Not, It Does Have Some Benefits
10. Should We Really Be Worried About the Cracks Forming in the Earth’s Crust?
11. Rumors About Meta’s Massive Data Centers Highlight One Issue: Big Tech Is Going All In on AI
12. Chinese Scientists Develop a Camera They Claim Can Identify Faces From Space
13. 26 February
14. OpenAI Has a Golden Chance to Outshine Its Competitors. All It Has to Do Is Launch an Unlimited, Ad-Supported Version of ChatGPT
15. Larry Ellison Wanted to Feed the World by Cultivating Lettuce on His Private Island. The Plan Isn’t Working Out as Planned
16. NASA’s Most Powerful Computer Has Detected Something Unusual: A Spiral Structure Surrounding the Solar System
17. Taiwan Detains a Ship After Another Undersea Cable Cut. The Issue: Only Chinese Citizens Were on Board
18. Google Challenges Microsoft With a New AI Coding Assistant. Its Star Feature: It Offers Much More Free Use Than GitHub Copilot
19. Mathematicians Took 300 Years to Prove Fermat’s Last Theorem. Computers Have Yet to Succeed
20. 25 February
21. We’ve Long Believed That Recycling Plastics Was Worth It. In the End, It Might Be Just a Myth
22. ‘Not Mission Critical’: The U.S. Is Reportedly Starting to Dismantle Its Electric Car Charging Network
23. Big Tech Has a Valid Reason for Investing Heavily in AI Right Now: They May Not Be Able to Do So in the Future
24. Japan Sounds the Alarm Bell Over China’s Dominance in Global Chip and Battery Production Thanks to Its Powerful Gallium Market
25. The Pentagon Releases a Photo Taken by Its Top-Secret Space Plane for the First Time. However, the Most Surprising Thing Isn’t the Photo
26. Alef Aeronautics Debuts a Flying Car That Can Actually Fly. The Problem: It’s More Like a Drone Than an Actual Car
27. The Webb Telescope Has Observed the Black Hole at the Center of the Milky Way and Discovered a Chaotic Light Show
28. 24 February
29. If You’ve Seen Those LinkedIn Mini-Games, You’re Not Alone: They’re Part of a Successful Strategy
30. A Startup Claims to Have a Solution That Could End China’s Monopoly on Rare Earth Elements: Hard Drives
31. Saudi Arabia Resumes Work on the World’s Tallest Skyscraper After a Seven-Year Delay. We’ll See How Long It Lasts
32. 23 February
33. The Hadfield Method: What an Astronaut’s Obsession With Failure Can Teach Us About Productivity
34. Scotland’s Bold Plan to Save Its Forests: Sending 167 Wolves to the Highlands to Control the Deer Population
35. The Price of Rice Has Dramatically Increased in Japan. It’s Prompted the Government to Implement Measures Typically Reserved for Natural Disasters
36. 22 February
37. The World’s Longest Sea Bridge Is in China and Features an Unusual Material: Bamboo
38. Ferdinand Porsche’s Grandson Has a Winding Road Leading to His Mansion. He’s Going to Build a Tunnel for Easier Access
39. There Was a Costly Culinary Trend During the Middle Ages That Would Make Food Inedible Today: Soaking Dishes in Spices
40. 21 February
41. Satellite Imagery Leaves No Doubt: The U.S. Has Restored the Pacific Base That Originally Dropped the Atomic Bombs Over Japan
42. The Atacama Desert Is One of the Driest Places on Earth. Despite This, Scientists Are Trying to Extract Water From Its Air
43. The Big Challenge Ahead for the Concorde’s Successor Is Dominating the Sonic Boom. Some Companies Say They’re Close
44. I’ve Tested Grok 3: It’s a Smart and Fast AI Model, but That’s No Longer Enough
45. Elon Musk Has a New Piece of Advice for President Trump: Deorbit the ISS Within Two Years
46. 20 February
47. Deep Research Isn’t Just a New AI Function. It’s the Beginning of the End for Intellectual Work as We Know It
48. China Has an Ambitious Plan to Surpass the West in Technology. These Are the 18 Companies It’s Selected to Carry It Out
49. 80 People Survived During a Recent Plane Crash: These Are the Three Reasons Why They’re Still Alive
50. A Man in Poland Reported a Tank That Had Fallen From the Sky. It Was Actually a SpaceX Rocket That Reentered Uncontrollably Over Europe
51. Astronomers Have Been Trying to Decipher a TV Signal Coming From the Sky for Five Years. The Mystery Is Finally Solved
52. A Small Village in China Was Marketed to Tourists as a Snowy Paradise. It Was Actually Covered in Cotton Wool
53. 19 February
54. Grok 3: How to Access and Try Out Elon Musk’s AI Model
55. The First Image of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey Leaves No Doubt: The Director Has Once Again Jumped Into a New Genre
56. X-Ray Telescopes Reveal an Inconceivable Object: A Superstructure That Spans More Than a Billion Light-Years
57. Young Programmers No Longer Know How to Code: AI Is to Coding What Calculators Were to Math Decades Ago
58. The U.S. Government Reportedly Awarded Tesla a $400 Million Contract. It’s Had to Make Some Changes
59. Humane’s AI Pin Is the First Major Fiasco in the AI Era. HP Has Just Put the Final Nail in Its Coffin
60. 18 February
61. Samsung Galaxy S25 Review: Despite Its Compact Size, It Feels Much Bigger Than It Looks
62. The U.S. Wants to Lead the AI Race at Any Cost. The Problem: 38% of Its AI Experts Are Trained in China
63. Ford Produced Four RS200 S Models in Ferrari Red in 1984. Today, They Cost as Much as a Real Ferrari
64. WinRAR Finally Accepts a Harsh Reality: When Most Users Don’t Pay for Your Software, Sell Them Bags and Jackets Instead
65. 17 February
66. The Mojave Desert Has Housed the World’s Largest Solar Thermal Power Plant for More Than a Decade. It’s Going to Close After Frying Birds to Death
67. I Switched to a Garmin After Almost a Decade With the Apple Watch. Now I Know What I’ve Been Missing
68. If You Ever Get Swallowed by a Whale, Don’t Panic. Scientists Say There’s No Reason to Be Afraid
69. This Is Silver Bullet, an Ultra-Secure Aircraft Pod That the Air Force Often Uses Instead of the ‘Doomsday Plane’
70. 16 February
71. The Czech Republic Had Delayed the Construction of a Costly Dam for Years. In the End, Beavers Built It on Their Own
72. The New Space Race Has Created Junk That Acts Like a Boomerang. It’s Also Raised the Risk of Colliding With Aircraft
73. China Identifies a Strategic Advantage to Win the Aircraft Carrier Race Against the U.S.: A ‘Bubble’ in Its Defense
74. 15 February
75. Communicating With Your Cat Has Never Been Easy. A Study Claims to Have Found the Key: Blinking
76. If You Always Brush Your Teeth After Eating, We Have Bad News: Scientists Say You’re Doing It Wrong
77. China Has Been Claiming These Japanese Islands as Its Own for 130 Years. It’s Now Decided to Surround Them With Buoys
78. Everyone Wears Masks in Japan This Time of Year. The Reason Dates Back to World War II
79. 14 February
80. New Evidence Suggests ‘Dark Forces’ Can Deform Atomic Nuclei
81. ARM Is Off to a Good Start in Its Goal to Sell Its Own Chips: It’s Already Secured Meta as Its First Customer
82. Bill Gates Gave Up 8.75% of Microsoft to Recruit His Friend Steve Ballmer in 1980. Today, Ballmer Is Richer Than Gates
83. 13 February
84. DeepSeek’s Founder Has Become One of the Richest People in Asia, but There’s a Catch. It Depends on Who You Ask
85. Elon Musk Has Set Another Record With His Wealth in 2025: He Just Lost $40.9 Billion in One Week Because of Tesla
86. Ford Has Burned Through $2 Billion and Says the Reason Is Clear: China Is 10 Years Ahead in Electric Cars
87. Scientists Develop a New Type of Plastic That’s as Durable as Traditional Plastics. The Difference: It’s Recyclable
88. Astronomers Keep Proving Einstein Right 110 Years Later: The Euclid Telescope Has Discovered a Ring in Spacetime
89. 12 February
90. Unpacking DeepSeek: This Is How the Company Generates Revenue and the Role of the Chinese Government in the AI Model
91. Microsoft Canceled Plans to Build HoloLens for the Military, but the Idea’s Not Dead Yet. The Founder of Oculus Is Taking Over the Project
92. Eureka: This Table Breaks Down the Principles of Metal Compatibility in a Way That’s Easy to Understand
93. Currently, All U.S. Phones Can Connect to Starlink Satellites for Free. This Will Change in July
94. Venice Introduced an Entry Fee to Reduce Mass Tourism. It Worked So Well That The City Will Double Its Price
95. 11 February
96. Apple’s Paradox: The World’s Most Valuable Company Has No Interest in the Data Center Boom
97. How to Completely Turn the Power Off on an Android and iPhone Phone
98. Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra Review: The Newest Contender for the Crown of the High-End Android Market Is Here. It’s Packed With AI
99. Sam Altman Had a Plan to Turn OpenAI Into a For-Profit Organization. Elon Musk’s Massive Bid Complicates Things
100. Authorities Prevented This Man From Searching Through the Trash for His Lost Bitcoin for Years. He Has a New Idea: Buying the Landfill
101. 10 February
102. Thermal Clothing Faces New Competition: A Fabric That Warms the Body Instead of Just Protecting You From the Cold
103. Apple Breaks Its Golden Rule and Shows Off One of Its Secret Projects Before Its Official Launch
104. The Glass of Wine Before Bed to Help You Sleep Has a Very High Price That Goes Far Beyond Empty Calories
105. Boeing Warns Its Employees to Prepare for a Potential Crisis: The Cancellation of NASA’s SLS Rocket
106. Bill Gates and Other Billionaires Are Embracing a Growing Trend: Choosing Not to Leave Their Entire Fortunes to Their Children
107. 09 February
108. Employees Value Remote Work So Much That They’d Accept a Pay Cut of 25% to Keep Working From Home
109. Radiation Hasn’t Created a Superhero, But It’s Bestowed Unexpected ‘Healing’ Powers on a Common Material: Concrete
110. The Ultimate Productivity Trick Is a Simple Yet Effective Method: The 2-Minute Rule
111. 08 February
112. How to Change the Battery on Your AirTag
113. Sugar Has Long Been the Main Ingredient in Soft Drinks. It’s Also Contributed to a Silent Pandemic
114. South Korea’s Population Is Aging So Rapidly That It’s Sparked a New Debate: What Does the Term ‘Old Person’ Mean Now?
115. 07 February
116. Plex vs. Emby: Which Home Media Server Is the Best Fit for You?
117. New Meta Emails Reveal That the Company Downloaded 81.7 TB of Copyrighted Books via BitTorrent to Train Its AI Models
118. How to Retrieve Deleted Files From an Android Device
119. Scientists Debunk a Popular Productivity Mantra: Cold Showers in the Morning Are as Useless as Getting Up Early
120. How to Read a PDF on Kindle
121. How to Create a Windows 11 Bootable USB Drive
122. The War in Ukraine Is Becoming Unhinged: Drones Are Now Targeting Other Drones With Drones
123. 06 February
124. Plex vs. Jellyfin: Which Home Media Server Is the Best Fit for You?
125. You’d Need to Detonate the Earth’s Nuclear Arsenal 130 Times to Release the Same Amount of Energy That Created the Moon’s Great Canyons
126. Elon Musk Admits He Was Wrong: Nine Years Later, Tesla Is Still Far From Fulfilling One of Its Major Self-Driving Car Promises
127. 05 February
128. The Future of Temu and Shein in the U.S. Faces Two Main Problems: Tariffs and ‘De Minimis’
129. Elon Musk Isn’t Just Influencing NASA. He’s Starting to Dominate It
130. How to Use DeepSeek: 36 Features and Tricks to Get the Most Out of This AI Model
131. The Health Benefits of Omega-3 Are Well-Known. Scientists Now Claim That It Also Has Rejuvenating Effects
132. Russia, China, and North Korea Own Hypersonic Weapons. To Defend Itself, the U.S. Wants to Build Its Own ‘Iron Dome’
133. 04 February
134. Perovskite Solar Panels Were Wasting 97% of Energy They Captured in 2009. Now They’re Ready to Dominate the Industry
135. We Made a Complete List of All OpenAI’s Models to Try to Understand Their Names. It’s Hopeless
136. China Has Simulated a Battle Involving Its Type 055 Destroyer Against Eight Navy Destroyers East of Taiwan. The U.S. Should Be Concerned
137. Generation Z Is Presenting a Challenge for Companies: 95% of Young People Find Ways to Leave the Workplace Early
138. Opera Launches Opera Air, a Browser Designed to Focus on Your Mental Well-Being Rather Than Performance or Productivity
139. 03 February
140. An Amateur Fossil Hunter Stumbled Upon a Wonderfully Weird Discovery: Fossilized Vomit From the Age of Dinosaurs
141. Faced With the Rise of DeepSeek, Sam Altman Admits His Vision About Open Source Was Wrong
142. U.S. Air Traffic Control Systems Are Outdated and Some Parts Are Impossible to Obtain, Report Says
143. One Secret to DeepSeek’s Success: It Only Recruits Chinese Talent and Offers Salaries Exceeding $1.3 Million
144. Nepal Is Using Plastic Trash to Build Its Roads. The Goal: Becoming More Sustainable
145. 02 February
146. Jeff Bezos Is Strict About His Meeting Schedule: He Doesn’t Hold Meetings Before 10 a.m. or After 5 p.m.
147. Android 14 Easter Egg: Here’s What It Is and How to Find It