WIRED
What's the future for Western 'super apps'?
Super apps create a single interface to unify a broad ecosystem of services such as messaging, e-commerce, and transport. With consumers making all of their purchases within one walled garden, the user engagement and data benefits for the app owner are obvious and substantial. These apps have become a major part of the Chinese technology landscape, so we asked two leading experts: Could the concept successfully break through in Western markets?
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November - December 2024
WIRED
THE ULTRACOOL CASH GRABS OF BOOBI ALTHOFF
Now the Tik Tokker turned podcaster is out to prove her worth-by being herself.
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November - December 2024
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TOP INNOVATORS
10 BEYA SCIENCE SPECTRUM AWARDEES MAKING A HUGE IMPACT IN STEM
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Volume 48 Issue 3
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THE IMPORTANCE OF AI AND HBCUS
Inclusive AI Advancement: HBCUs' Role in Diversity, Ethics, Research, and Workforce Development
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BRIDGING THE DIGITAL DIVIDE
Demystifying the Metaverse: A Look at its Potential to Bridge the Digital Divide
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INNOVATION IN ACTION
Navy Leader Walt Davis Champions Vision, Adaptability, and Risk-Taking to Inspire Future Generations of Innovators
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REDEFINING YOURSELF
How Kindra Porter Uses Change to Drive Progress in Aerospace
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Preparing to take flight: Inspiring the next generation of pilots
BOEING AND NONPROFIT PARTNERS AWARD SCHOLARSHIPS FOR GREATER INCLUSION IN AVIATION
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ENGINEERING'S GRAND CHALLENGES & OPPORTUNITIES
From AI to Infrastructure: Shaping the Next Decade with Engineering Solutions
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LANNY SMOOT
Lanny Smoot is synonymous with creativity and innovation in theme park entertainment.
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REVOLUTIONIZING HEALTHCARE
The Transformative Impact of Medical Technology Health on Global
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PEOPLE & EVENTS
Autodesk has made a generous donation of $5 million to Howard University’s College of Engineering and Architecture (CEA), marking the largest philanthropic contribution in the college’s history.
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Volume 48 Issue 3
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ON CAMPUS
South Carolina State University (SC State) received an $8 million funding boost from the state to propel its STEM program and strengthen its partnership with neighboring universities, including the University of South Carolina and Clemson University.
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Volume 48 Issue 3
Popular Mechanics US
Chasing an Asteroid - How NASA defied incredible odds to get its asteroid-hunting osiris-rex mission off the ground and in the process upended what we know about our solar system.
Dante Lauretta sat in the backseat of a helicopter hovering high above a remote patch of Utah desert, waiting for a small, twinkling speck in the sky to plunge toward earth.If you didn't know better, you might think what was beginning to burn through the skies above the American southwest in the early hours of September 24, 2023, was a shooting star. But it wasn't a shooting star. Or a meteor. It was a dishwasher-size capsule filled with bits of ancient asteroid-priceless matter from the dawn of the solar system. In other words, it was a treasure chest moving at 27,000 miles per hour and sizzling at a temperature half that of the sun's surface.
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September - October 2024
Popular Mechanics US
Whether We Live in a Simulation - scientist Melvin Vopson, PhD, studies this exact thing- the possibility that the universe might indeed be a digital facsimile. And he claims to have evidence.
In the 1999 film the Matrix, Neo discovers A truth to end all truths-the universe is a simulation. While this premise provides fantastic sci-fi fodder, the idea isn't quite as relegated to the fiction section as one might expect. . In fact, University of Portsmouth scientist Melvin Vopson, PhD, studies this exact thing- the possibility that the universe might indeed be a digital facsimile. And he claims to have evidence.
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September - October 2024
Popular Mechanics US
Henrietta Lacks - It's not surprising that Henrietta Lacks-whose
It's not surprising that Henrietta Lacks-whose "immortal" HeLa cells were pivotal in developing treatments for diseases such as polio, HIV/AIDS, and COVID19-is referred to as "the mother of modern medicine." But Lacks's legacy is complicated due to the ethical concerns surrounding the use of her special cells. Lacks, who died of cancer at age 31 in 1951, was never aware that her cells led to significant medical advancements or that they had been taken without her consent. And even now, her strange case raises questions about the morally dubious methods through which we achieved unquestionably positive breakthroughs in medicine.
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September - October 2024
Popular Mechanics US
Underwater UFOs - A retired U.S. Navy admiral believes that the government should look to the oceans to help solve a mystery in the skies.
A retired U.S. Navy admiral believes that the government should look to the oceans to help solve a mystery in the skies. Rear Admiral Timothy Gallaudet, former Oceanographer of the U.S. Navy, recently published a paper arguing that unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP, more commonly referred to as UFO) and unidentified submersible objects (USO) are linked, and should be studied further.
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September - October 2024
Popular Mechanics US
Synching Up Our Circadian Rhythms - If you've ever done any kind of long-distance travel, or just woken up feeling under-rested thanks to daylight saving time, you know how important your circadian clock is.
If you've ever done any kind of long-distance travel, or just woken up feeling under-rested thanks to daylight saving time, you know how important your circadian clock is. Like many things in your body, your circadian rhythm is more complicated than it might seem on the surface. Rather than being entirely brain-based, it's actually controlled by a collection of several circadian clocks (central and peripheral) that all work together to keep your gears turning like a well-oiled machine.
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September - October 2024
Popular Mechanics US
The Ancient Language of Easter Island - Today, humans inhabit- or have, at the very least, explored- pretty much every corner of the planet. But that immense proliferation of Homo sapiens across the globe was a slow process.
With the first humans leaving Africa between 60,000 and 120,000 years ago, the species slowly spread across the Earth over many millennia. And one of the last places these ancient humans made their way to was the southeastern Pacific island of Rapa Nui, known more broadly as Easter Island.Located 2,360 miles off the coast of Chile, Rapa Nui is one of the most isolated places in the world. Its native people, who are also named the Rapa Nui, first arrived on the island's shores between A.D. 1150 and 1280, and lived in isolation until the arrival of Dutch navigator Jacob Roggeveen in 1722.
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September - October 2024
Popular Mechanics US
SAVING THE SUGAR BUSH
A technological revolution has transformed the ancient tradition of sugar making-with big implications for local economies and ecosystems imperiled by climate change.
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September - October 2024
Popular Mechanics US
Upgrade Your Living Room With This DIY - MID-CENTURY COFFEE TABLE
This project is easy to build and customize to fit your space.
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September - October 2024
Popular Mechanics US
The Existence of Wigner Crystals
PHYSICISTS FROM PRINCETON UNIVERSITY have confirmed that electrons don't even need atoms in order to party together.
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September - October 2024
Popular Mechanics US
The Next Generation of RAM
YOUR COMPUTER WOULDN'T BE VERY useful without RAM, which is short for random access memory.
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September - October 2024
Popular Mechanics US
The End of the Maya Kingdom
A TEAM OF ARCHAEOLOGISTS DISCOVERED clues from between A.D. 733 and 881 that they say represent a key turning point in Maya rule-and a very public one at that.
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September - October 2024
Popular Mechanics US
SKINWALKER RANCH REVEALED
The 512-acre ranch has captivated real-estate tycoons, TV producers, and the U.S. government. What are they searching for?
10+ min |
September - October 2024
Popular Mechanics US
MANIPULATION AND MEDICAL ETHICS
The taking of cervical samples wasn't the only medical procedure of dubious consent in Lacks's story.
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September - October 2024
Popular Mechanics US
INDISPENSABLE LESSONS FROM A POP MECH LEGEND
With people moving around so much these days, it's perfectly natural to wonder how an editor can just come along and stick like a barnacle to the hull of Popular Mechanics, lasting for 35 years.
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September - October 2024
Popular Mechanics US
HOW TO FIX A DEAD WALL OUTLET
An outlet can lose power for any number of reasons. Here are a few of them-plus solutions.
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September - October 2024
The New Yorker
Sea Change- Mountains, oddly, are the reason most of us have learned to think of the level of the sea as a stable point, a baseline, an unmoving benchmark against which one might reasonably measure the height of great peaks.
In 2019, a plaque was erected to commemorate the first glacier in Iceland to shrink so much that it could no longer be considered a glacier. Like the tsunami stones of the past, the plaque carried a message for the future, a warning to believe in changes that might at first seem implausible. It also carried a recognition of responsibility. “In the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path,” the plaque reads. “This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it.”
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August 26, 2024
WIRED
Fantastic Plastic - a plastic bag might be the most overengineered object in history.
Stretchy seaweed. Reverse vending machines. QR-coded take-out boxes. To cure our addiction to disposable crap, we'll all need to get a little loony.
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