Intersections

Toyota set to launch world’s first robot city at Japan’s Mount Fuji base in 2025 (Interesting Engineering)

At the foot of Mount Fuji, Japan has launched one of its most ambitious technological experiments, known as Woven City, a fully connected, self-contained...

Science in Action: Biosensing for Food Safety (Lakshmy Ramakrishnan – Observer Research Foundation)

The availability of safe food is crucial for maintaining both nutritional well-being and overall health security. Estimates indicate that 1 in 10 people fall...

AI for Safer Food: Promise and Challenges (Basu Chandola – Observer Research Foundation)

Access to safe, nutritious, and affordable food is essential to achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development—especially its objective to ‘end hunger, achieve food...

Global Health Diplomacy: Navigating Politics and Security (Lakshmy Ramakrishnan, Nimisha Chadha – Observer Research Foundation)

Health policy is classically associated with the allocation of resources for healthcare services and the affordability and effectiveness of interventions, and is thereby confined...

FTC chair implores Congress to strengthen children’s online privacy protection law (Suzanne Smalley – The Record)

Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Andrew Ferguson on Wednesday said that under his tenure the agency will “aggressively” enforce a newly formalized and tougher...

New York Times partners with Amazon on AI integration (DigWatch)

The New York Times Company and Amazon have signed a multi-year licensing agreement that will allow Amazon to integrate editorial content from The New...

EU says US tech firms censor more (DigWatch)

Far more online content is removed under US tech firms’ terms and conditions than under the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA), according to Tech...

Digital Democracy in a Divided Global Landscape (Steven Feldstein – Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)

A global shift is taking place. Leaders recognize that tech innovation equals power, and they are marshaling their resources accordingly. Countries are working to...

Democratic by Design: Implementing and Innovating Democracy-Affirming Technologies (Caitlin Goldenberg Adrienne Goldstein Sharinee Jagtiani Lindsay Gorman – German Marshall Fund of the United States)

The emergence of critical new technologies, from quantum information tools to Artificial Intelligence (AI), has ushered in a new digital era. While these technologies...

Latest articles