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Happy Tuesday, Future Party. There have been plenty of headlines over the years about how social media is addictive, but did you know that scrolling also makes you sweat? Researchers out of Durham University found that, when scrolling social media for 15 minutes, users’ hearts slowed down, and they started to sweat more. When they finally broke away from their feeds, their heart rates went up, and yes, they needed to reapply deodorant… a bit similar to an addict going through withdrawal. Imagine that.
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(Twitter)– SupermanGoogle – Luke Combs
Reddit – Wheel of Fortune
Letterboxd – Heretic
Spotify – “Damn Right”
Nokia’s 4G Cell Network Lands On The Moon… Kind Of
Nokia sent the first 4G network system aboard Intuitive Machines’ Athena lander, which touched down on the Moon on March 6th.
The Big Picture: Putting a working cell network on the Moon would be a game-changer for astronauts and future lunar colonies.
Behind the Connection: Although Athena fell over on its side and lost power sooner than expected — cutting Nokia’s full deployment of the tech short — it still managed to prove that it worked.
Even though it was only online for 25 minutes, Nokia’s “Network in a Box” (NIB) successfully turned on, received commands, and transmitted data to Intuitive Machines’ ground station on Earth.
If Athena hadn’t fallen over, connected rovers would have traversed the lunar service for 1.2 miles (the farthest distance for the broadband connectivity) and then made a cellular call back to Earth — the first interplanetary call.
Even if Athena didn’t fall over, the systems were only designed to last nine days, when lunar night would have struck, dropping the temperature to -208 degrees Fahrenheit — Nokia’s device can’t withstand that temperature yet, but it will for the Artemis mission.
The Future: The plan is for the adventurers aboard NASA’s Artemis III mission in 2027 to be outfitted with internet-connected Axios spacesuits, capable of transmitting first-person POV HD video back to Earth. While astronauts are eager to use the tech to chat with experts on the ground instead of mastering everything themselves, don’t be surprised if public feeds become some of YouTube’s most viral content of the year.
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The Paint That Can Turn Your House Into A Climate Chameleon
Industrial designer Joe Doucet has developed a paint for structures that changes color when the temperature outside changes to either retain or reflect the sun’s heat.
Why It Hits: Homebuilders, commercial designers, and municipal governments have been exploring ways to use paints to reduce surface temperatures of buildings and streets and curb the “heat island effect” in dense urban areas. Doucet’s invention could bring this power to homeowners and landlords with a creative twist.
Behind the Shades: Do you need a fresh coat of “climate-adaptive” paint?
The patent-pending paint changes the facade of a building to black when the outside temperature goes below 77 degrees Fahrenheit and turns white when it goes above that temperature.
The paint can also be mixed with other tints. So, adding blue would change that black-and-white paradigm to different shades of blue.
Although Doucet says the paint will likely cost up to five times as much as a regular can of paint, it’s estimated to save consumers an average of 20%-30% in energy costs — not a bad trade-off.
Final Coat: The paint took two years to develop (and over 100 attempts) and is a mix between typical latex house paint and a proprietary formula. Doucet tested it by building two identical scale models of a home he was designing, painting one white and the other black when deciding which color to use. He found a double-digit difference in the indoor temperatures of each structure, which kicked off the changing-color paint idea.
Doucet stressed to Fast Company that he had no plans to start a paint company but instead hoped to license the formula to paint manufacturers — which could spark a feeding frenzy for the rights. This could get messy.
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DEEP DIVES
Read: NYT chats with Lady Gaga about her full-throated return to pop stardom with her new album, MAYHEM.
Watch: Chinese EV company Xpeng Aeroht unveiled the first electric van with a little, human-piloted helicopter built in (truly wild).
Explore: The Upshot uses charts to explore how society has changed in the five years since COVID.
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QUICK HITS
→ Entertainment / Media
🏈 Buffalo Bills QB Josh Allen signed a $330 million five-year contract extension, with $250 million guaranteed — the most in NFL history.
📺 Paramount’s #1 priority — other than ensuring the Skydance merger gets government approval — is updating its streaming technology.
🗳️ Lionsgate shareholders will finally get the chance to vote on the split between Lionsgate Studios and Starz on April 23rd.
→ Technology
💸 Saudi Arabia’s Neom smart city is way over budget and schedule — it could cost a total of $8.8 trillion and take 55 years to build.
🧠 Neuralink has applied to trademark the terms “telepathy” and “telekinesis”… just in case you wanted to know where things are headed.
📱 Apple has delayed its “more personalized” Siri update after running into concerns.
→ Creator Economy
🧐 President Donald Trump claims that he’s negotiating with “four different firms” about a TikTok takeover.
💻 Surf, Flipboard’s new social-web browser, has inked a deal with Bluesky.
🤨 After X experienced widespread outages yesterday, owner Elon Musk said that it’d been hit with a “massive cyberattack.”
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Today’s email was written by David Vendrell.
Edited by Nick Comney. Copy edited by Kait Cunniff.
Published by Darline Salazar.