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Interesting Things I Read This Week

Battery chemistry & storage

Nov 7 •

October 2025

Weekly Tech Digest: October 17, 2025

Oct 17 •

Edge Signal: Weekly Tech Digest: October 10, 2025

The big theme this week has been the physical manifestation of AI.

Oct 11 •

The $457 Billion Mirage: Why the Satellite Boom Won’t Connect the Poor — and What Will

Everyone loves a space story.

Oct 5 •

September 2025

Five Breakthroughs Transforming Emerging Market Cities

From e-buses to wetlands, a new playbook is emerging across Asia and Africa.

Sep 19 •

August 2025

Edge Signals August 22, 2025: The City AI Readiness Ladder

Cities are being pitched AI solutions for everything from floods to finance.

Aug 22 •

Edge Signals – Weekly Brief Edition · 1 Aug 2025

From Space Pixels to Street-Level Action: GeoAI’s Planetary Intelligence Unleashed

Aug 1 •

July 2025

Edge Signals: This Week’s Reading (& Listening) Shelf in Tech, Policy & Leadership

Article – “Making AI Track the City’s Hottest Blocks” (Axios Boston)

Jul 18 •

Edge Signals: This Week’s Reading (& Listening) Shelf in Tech, Policy & Leadership

“Why Big Tech is threatened by a global push for data sovereignty” – Rest of World (9 Jul 2025) A crisp look at how Indonesia, Nigeria, and Brazil are…

Jul 11 •

June 2025

Invisible Infrastructure: Why the Next Wave of Urban Climate Finance Must Be Digital

From Nairobi to Nagpur, the world is waking up to the staggering cost of climate-resilient urbanization: $256–821 billion per year through 2050.

Jun 29 •

Summer 2025 Book Recommendations

These are books I read recently and not necessarily published in 2025.

Jun 22 •

Understanding the Nuclear Renaissance

🚦 The World Bank’s new energy policy includes nuclear energy.

Jun 13 •

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