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Sustainable by default
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The dilemma of future sports regulation
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Spain has proven to be far from immune to the populist wave sweeping across Europe
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Is TikTok a vector for Chinese ideals?
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To measure someone is to know someone
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The social promise of augmented reality
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Can’t live with social media, can’t live without it
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The Arctic through the eyes of Greenland
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Sustainable minerals for sustainable technology
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Got milk?
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Africa is set to become world’s largest free trade area
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Illegal streaming holds the media industry in check
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Contemporary spirituality is all about the self
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The Dragon and the Elephant in the 21st century
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The Africa Stack
The African continent might be leapfrogging into the digital economy
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Can algorithms be neutral?
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Where architecture and IT meet
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21st century Luddites target self-driving cars
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Scaling bitcoin with the lightning network
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The future of Europe from an Asian perspective
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The evolving landscape of consumer trust
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Populism and the shifting climate change debate
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Geopolitics of aid and development cooperation
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Particularly deadly matter
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The VAR system and the datafication of everyday life
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Facebook’s strategy for a decentralized future
Will Facebook orchestrate its own disruption?
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Slowing down fast fashion
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Sports wearables: When the amateur goes pro
The widespread use of performance-tracking technologies has changed the practice of sports
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Feeding the dragon
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Inequality in the Fourth Industrial Revolution
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Who has to pay the costs of climate change?
Issuing appeals for hundreds of millions in emergency funding to help victims of climate change might soon be a standard procedure.
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"Creative" AI is recreating the creative industry
In the past few months, creative AI systems such as DALL-E and Midjourney have taken the internet by storm with their “artistic” creations.
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To cyberspace and beyond
How the cyborg movies of the ‘90s made us fantasize about mind uploading, sentient AI and immortality.
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How will the metaverse and web3 influence social media?
Brace yourself, the 2D newsfeeds gracing our screens might soon be part of internet history.
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Geopolitical nonalignment in the 21st century
Escalating tensions in Taiwan and Ukraine are pressuring the world to choose an alignment, yet many nations refuse to choose sides.
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The fragmentation of social media
When Kylie Jenner and Kim Kardashian are starting to revolt, you know Instagram is getting into trouble...
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The early days of cyberpunk
As man becomes machine and machine becomes man.
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The return of industrial policy
The Dutch government is rethinking industrial policy—more coordination is on the horizon.
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AI regulations may see a Beijing effect
Is Europe too late to cause a Brussels effect on AI technology?
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When the selfie becomes an avatar
How Instagram is preparing itself for the metaverse
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