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Tuesday, November 4, 2025
TopicWorld Economic Forum

Topic: World Economic Forum

Cybersecurity threats in metaverse are harder to detect. Here’s how to protect yourself

Research and standardisation efforts must cover cybersecurity threats, and the physical and emotional damage to people that may result from metaverse technology.

Flexible batteries to sensors your plants can ‘wear’ — WEF’s top 10 emerging technologies for 2023

Report by World Economic Forum & Frontiers Media lists breakthrough technologies with the greatest potential to make a positive impact on the world in the next three to five years.

How online learning & work from home can level the playing field for women

In emerging markets, 45% of women and 60% of women caregivers say they would have had to stop or postpone their studies if online learning was not an option.

Over 3 billion people will live in overcrowded slums by 2050. Urban poverty a global challenge

Globally, 1.6 billion people do not have access to adequate housing and this number is expected to grow to 2 billion by 2030.

Most infectious diseases in humans have animal origins. Active monitoring can stop outbreaks

Given that the next potential pandemic will likely originate from animals, it’s important to understand how and why it occurs.

Tokyo is seeing once-in-a-century urban development plans. The factors behind it

High-rise buildings, new transport links, and disaster management plans are coming up in Tokyo. There are several reasons for the dizzying growth.

Can artificial intelligence really support human creativity? What a US study says

As AI gets more intelligent, it becomes more helpful and distracting, potentially inhibiting human creativity.

Fight against poverty, climate change is not isolated. Protect the poor with energy taxes

216 million climate refugees are expected to be displaced in six world regions. The top three are sub-Saharan Africa, East Asia and the Pacific, and South Asia.

Manufacturing sector realises AI potential but overcoming these 6 adoption barriers is key

A report found out that AI could unlock more than $13 trillion in the global economy. And manufacturers are aware of the value-creation potential of AI.

Why world needs ‘language coding’ to evolve

Internationally recognised codes representing each language, language family & dialect help country systems and organisations correctly identify & manage data.

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Pakistan can’t bomb or bargain its way out of the TTP-TLP mess

Among the many problems Pakistan is currently dealing with, the TLP and TTP offer two varying dimensions of the same one.

Denied RBI licence to operate, Fadnavis govt scraps Maharashtra’s asset reconstruction firm

Maha ARC was set up to restructure distressed institutions linked to state government, but officials said the company would have been most useful for reconstructing and selling off sick cooperatives.

‘Can’t really win you wars’: What IAF chief said on drones, manned aircraft & Ops Sindoor

At defence conclave, Air Chief Marshal A.P. Singh says conflict needs all kinds of weapons, not just the long-range ones, as a paracetamol cannot cure all ailments.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.