Karen Alfaro

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April 2025

1. 26 April
2. For Centuries, People Thought Birds Flew to the Moon During Winter—Until an Arrow Shot in Africa Landed in Germany
3. U.S. Deserts Have 1,200 GW of Solar Power, Which Could Be Used for AI Development. The Technology Is Ready, but Tech Companies Are Hesitant
4. The New Version of Illiteracy Isn’t About Reading or Writing—It’s About Treating AI Like an Oracle, Not a Tool
5. 25 April
6. Don’t Tell Me Your Age—Tell Me Your Grip Strength: What Simple Signs Reveal About Aging
7. Funko Yourself: How to Use ChatGPT to Create a Funko Version of Yourself
8. The Death of the Pope Has Everyone Watching Conclave Again—Viewership Jumps 283%
9. Intel Turns Its Eyes to Meta to Stay Competitive. Its Strategy Involves Layoffs, More Office Days, and Middle Management
10. The U.S. Seems Determined to Break Up Its Monopolies. Google Is Its Primary Target
11. People Have Used Earth’s Magnetic Field as a Navigational Guide for Centuries. Researchers Want to Change That
12. 24 April
13. The iRobot Roomba Max 705 Is Ready to Conquer Homes With Pets Using One Major Weapon: Power
14. Desperate to Compete With ChatGPT, Google Has a Plan to Get Gemini Everywhere: Money
15. 23 April
16. In Response to Labor Shortages, Japan Takes an Unprecedented Step: Equal Pay for Women
17. ‘Ozempic Pills’ Are Just Around the Corner—And They’re Not From Ozempic’s Maker
18. 22 April
19. The U.S. Seemed Happy to Revive its Nuclear Industry. Now, Tariffs Have Created a Problem
20. If You Wondered How the U.S. Would Get Rare Earth Elements After China’s Ban, the Answer Is Hard Drives
21. Who Was the First Person in History That Appeared on Video? It Might Be a Pope
22. 21 April
23. Inside Shenzhen’s Counterfeit Market: China Plays in a Different League When It Comes to Knock-Offs
24. Only Five People in the World Have Seen This New Color. The Trick: Lasers on Their Retinas
25. Millionaires Have a New Obsession: Fed Up With Technology, They Want Homes That Are as ‘Dumb’ as Possible
26. ChatGPT Used to Be a Tool. Now That It Can Remember Your Conversations, It’ll Be Something More: A Relationship
27. Google Earth Update Reveals China’s New Naval Base and Its Six Nuclear Submarines
28. 20 April
29. We’ve Been Drugging Salmon With Cocaine and Anxiety Meds. It's Making Them Act a Little Weird
30. Japan Is Experiencing the Unthinkable in Its Most Emblematic Neighborhoods: The ‘Chinatownification’ of Anime and Video Games
31. 19 April
32. Olive Trees Are Known for Their Longevity. Some Could Be 4,000 Years Old
33. AI Is Also a Tool for Getting a Job: ‘No One Will Be Able to Know’
34. Protein Deficiency Is a Health Risk. Here Are the Key Symptoms to Watch For
35. 18 April
36. Drinking Too Much Alcohol Affects Your Brain. The Effects Aren’t Far From Those of a Brain Injury
37. The World’s Fastest Electric Car Looks Like Something Out of Batman’s Garage. Its Secret: It ‘Trains’ in a 19th-Century Tunnel
38. Thousands of Marine Ecosystems Depend on One Thing: Whale Pee and Poop
39. Some People Are Using OpenAI’s o3 and o4-mini to Find the Location of Photos. It’s a Privacy Nightmare
40. As Stock Markets Plunged and Gold Faltered, One Asset Held Its Own: Hermès Handbags
41. 17 April
42. New Fantastic Four Trailer Reveals More Than Visuals—It Hints at Marvel’s Plan to Escape the MCU Slump
43. The Webb Telescope Has Been Searching for Extraterrestrial Life for Years. It Has Just Detected the Strongest Signal Yet on the Exoplanet K2-18b
44. Another Blow to Google’s Empire: Judge Finds Part of Its Ad Business Illegal
45. o4-mini Is Much More Than Just Another AI Model. It’s OpenAI’s Tesla Model 3
46. The U.S. Wins: TSMC Will Produce Its Best Chips in Arizona, Though They Will Reportedly Be 30% More Expensive
47. 16 April
48. A New Android Feature Could Restart Your Phone Every Three Days—and That’s Good News
49. The U.S. Saw China’s Rare Earth Ban Coming. Now Its Plan B Is the Pacific Seabed
50. U.S. F-35 Fighter Jets and Ballistic Missiles Need the Key Component of a Magnet. The Problem: It’s ‘Made in China’
51. 15 April
52. 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
53. Elon Musk Fired Self-Drive Car Safety Experts—the Same People Who Were Supposed to Regulate Tesla’s Vehicles
54. China Has Done What Global Industry Feared Most: Blocked the Export of the Most Valuable Rare Earth Elements
55. A Minecraft Movie Is Such a Phenomenon That It’s Causing Riots in Theaters
56. 14 April
57. Get the Most Out of Your AirPods With These Simple Tips and Tricks
58. What Phone and Apps Bill Gates Uses: Microsoft Co-Founder Prefers Android and Devices With Innovative Formats
59. For Years, We’ve Waited for Hours at Airports. TikTok’s ‘Airport Theory’ Says That’s a Mistake
60. After Betting on Space, Jeff Bezos Is Now Investing in Elon Musk’s Other Obsession: EVs
61. 13 April
62. Google DeepMind Has Made the Dream of Some Employees a Reality: Getting Paid Without Working
63. Duolingo and Your Favorite Supermarket Have the Key to Boosting Your Motivation: The Goal Gradient Effect
64. Gemini Live Lets Your Phone See—And It’s Both Fascinating and Creepy. Here’s My Experience
65. Scientists Developed 200 Sorghum Varieties, a Little-Known Grain That Withstands Drier Conditions
66. 12 April
67. Coffee Doesn’t Contain Cholesterol, but It Can Increase It. Researchers Discover the Best Brew to Lower the Risk
68. We Don’t Need More Productivity Methods. We Need a Purpose
69. Shopify’s CEO Has a Clear Message: ‘Using AI Effectively Is Now a Fundamental Expectation of Everyone’ at His Company
70. Researchers Thought They Had Solved the Mystery of the Giant Paleozoic ‘Trees.’ They Couldn’t Have Been More Wrong
71. 11 April
72. Why the U.S. Wants Greenland: Tech Billionaires See a Libertarian Utopia in the Arctic
73. Amid the Tariff Storm, the U.S. Quietly Passed Its First Crypto Law
74. 10 April
75. Canva’s New Visual Suite 2.0 Isn’t Just Another Push Into Photoshop Territory—It’s a Direct Shot at Google and Microsoft
76. This Nuclear Reactor Is Unlike Any Other. It Was Designed Specifically for Data Centers
77. The U.S. Threatens TSMC With Up to 100% Tariffs if It Doesn’t Build Its Chip Fabs in Arizona
78. 09 April
79. Twenty-three Years Later, SpaceX Wins Its Most Brutal Battle Yet: Becoming the Leading U.S. Military Launcher
80. U.S. Tariffs Are Already Affecting Two Companies That Are the Backbone of Taiwan’s Economy: TSMC and Foxconn
81. The U.S. Has Detected a Strange Object in Space and Located the Source That Released It: Russia
82. U.S. Tariffs Are a Tech Industry Wrecking Ball. The Exception: Chinese Phones
83. 08 April
84. China Responds to the U.S. by Putting the Global Chip Industry on the Ropes. Here’s Its Strategy
85. 07 April
86. Apple’s Big Opportunity Is to Use Tariffs to Fulfill a Long-Held Desire: The Subscription iPhone
87. The Obsession for Studio Ghibli-Style Images May Have Forced OpenAI to Take an Unprecedented Step: Adding a Watermark
88. Making the 256 GB iPhone 16 Pro in China Costs About $550. The New Tariffs Will Push That Price Up to $850
89. 06 April
90. For 60,000 Years, a Tribe Has Been Isolated on Their Island. A New Threat Has Put Them in Danger: Influencers
91. 500 Million Years of Evolution Separate Us From Starfish. However, the Hormones That Regulate Our Appetite Haven’t Changed Much
92. People Have Wondered for Years if Going Barefoot on Long Flights Is a Good Idea. Airlines Are Clear About It
93. 05 April
94. Exploring Spotify’s Financial ‘Miracle’: This Is How the Company Reported a Profit After 18 Years of Losses
95. Solo Dining Is No Longer Taboo: Why More People Are Eating Alone
96. Billionaire Mark Cuban Has a Piece of Advice for Gen Z: ‘You Have to Learn About AI’
97. 04 April
98. Why Greenland Is So Important: The Key Is the GIUK Gap, Which Gives China and Russia Access to the Eastern U.S.
99. Nintendo Delays Switch 2 Preorders. Trump’s Tariffs Begin to Impact the Video Game Industry
100. With a 54% Tariff and a $2,300 iPhone, There’s No Easy Way Out for Apple
101. China Responds to U.S. Tariffs by Attacking One of Its Vulnerabilities: Rare Earth Elements
102. 03 April
103. U.S. Tariffs Threaten a Gigantic Domino Effect on the Global Economy. The First Domino Is Big Tech
104. The U.S. Social Security Code Base Is at Risk: Elon Musk Wants to Replace It Using AI
105. Trump Has Imposed New Tariffs on Almost the Entire Planet. There Are Two Exceptions: Russia and North Korea
106. Nintendo Switch 2, First Impressions: This New Console Is Here to Shake Up the Video Game Industry
107. 02 April
108. It May Seem Worrying That an AI Model Would Get Stuck Playing a Video Game as Simple as Pokémon. It’s Not at All
109. New Nintendo Switch 2: Nintendo’s Latest Console Is Bigger, More Powerful, and Ready to Win
110. New Samsung Galaxy Tab S10 FE and Galaxy Tab S10 FE+: These New Models Prove That Tablets Are More Alive Than Ever
111. 01 April
112. Neom Was Saudi Arabia’s Dream to Get Rid of Oil. The Low Price of Black Gold Is Proving to Be Its Worst Nightmare
113. Kids in Sweden Are Imitating Elon Musk’s Controversial Gesture. The Problem Is That Far-Right Groups Are Recruiting Them
114. 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