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Blockchain technology can help decentralize the US energy grid — VC

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Making the US energy grid more resistant to shocks and maximizing grid uptime is central to the Trump administration’s AI strategy. Blockchain technology can help modernize the US electrical grid by marshaling human labor and stranded resources to create decentralized energy infrastructure, according to Cosmo Jiang, a general partner at venture capital firm Pantera. “All of civilization from the beginning of time has been built on the coordination of incentives, and blockchain is just a new way to incentivize people in a decentralized way that wasn’t possible before,” Jiang told Cointelegraph in an interview. The VC explained that companies in the gig economy have devised ways of allowing people to monetize their free time and resources outside of their normal working hours through freelance commitments. Blockchain can tap into this by coordinating unused infrastructure, labor, and...
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Big 6 Tech Net Income Heading to Over $1 Trillion Combined

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Home » Artificial intelligence » Big 6 Tech Net Income Heading to Over $1 Trillion CombinedGoogle and Microsoft have both gone over $100 billion in annual net income. The big technology companies are growing by as much as 20-25% each year. Their combined annual net income is already over $500 billion. By 2027, they will have combined net income over $700 billion and should reach over $1 trillion combined net income by 2029. This insane net income money printing is despite huge capex and research spending on AI and other investments. Brian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked #1 Science News Blog. It covers many disruptive technology and trends including Space,...
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Critics of de-extinction research hit by mystery smear campaign

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Vincent Lynch (left) and Nic Rawlence have been targeted by negative articles Berlin Communications/Ken MillerAcademics who have questioned the validity of efforts to “de-extinct” animals like the woolly mammoth and the dire wolf have complained of an apparent campaign to discredit them. They believe the attacks are intended to deter criticism of de-extinction projects, a controversial research area attracting considerable attention from the media and investors. Biotech company Colossal Biosciences has, over several years, announced efforts to recreate animals including the woolly mammoth, thylacine, dire wolf and giant moa bird. All these are extinct, but the company aims to modify the genomes of related creatures still living today to bring them back. Many scientists have said this can only lead to animals with partially modified genomes, not true recreations. Vincent Lynch at the University...
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The best new science fiction books of August 2025

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In The End of the World As We Know It, other writers are telling stories set in the post-apocalyptic world of Stephen King’s The Stand Ulf Andersen/Getty ImagesOne of my most anticipated books of the year is out this month: a collection of short stories set in the post-apocalyptic devastation of Stephen King’s The Stand. I love a good end-times story, and King did it so well in this doorstopper of a book, first published in 1978. How will the writers he has invited to develop his “world” fare? Suitably depressed by these visions of the future, I’m then planning to pick myself up with New Scientist columnist Annalee Newitz’s cosier take, Automatic Noodlewhich comes complete with jolly robots and cooking. From thrillers (Artificial Wisdom) to more literary takes (Helm), Star Wars to the latest from...
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