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“The answer is the fridge! A fridge can tell me how people behave once they have some extra #money — before they even know it themselves.” Forget the S&P500. Look at the ice cream. Tassos Stassopoulos, founder and managing partner of Trinetra Investment Management LLP, a London-based #investment firm, visits homes around the world to see where diets — and #economies — will go next. Does the humble fridge offer a window into the 21st-century soul? Have your say in the comments.

Andreessen Horowitz is betting the house on crypto. (Yes, really.) This spring, the VC firm schooled a new batch of founders that it hopes can prove the technology is good for more than scams and speculation. 

A hot ocean provides the energy hurricanes need to grow—and can limit the cooling that happens in their wake, making it likelier that the storms that follow will be powerful ones.

A new type of driver’s license will be required to board flights in the United States next year. Here’s how to update your license to the new Real ID standard before it’s too late.

TikTok’s latest trend involves videos of people traveling back in time to interrupt the viral memes of yore. The results are uncanny.

Proton is adding an end-to-end encrypted documents editor to its privacy tools, boosting its competition with Google’s suite of productivity apps.

The Labour Party, which is leading in UK election polls, has proposed making it easier for companies to build new server farms—risking a new type of conflict in communities across the country.

More than 30 million Brits have the NHS app. This represents an opportunity to transform the health service, which shadow health secretary Wes Streeting calls “an analog system in a digital age.”

By shifting regulatory power away from government agencies and to the courts, recent SCOTUS rulings may be a boon for a tech industry under fire.

Google's Search's #AI is prioritizing sites that plagiarize news instead of original #news sources. A dive into the mess with Reece Rogers: