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ARC Reads: May 2024 Edition

This Month: Embracing Business Practices That Actually Improve the World, 10 Breakthrough Technologies in 2024, Should you Take Vitamin D? Here's the Science, Preventing Ransomware Attacks at Scale & More

In this May edition of ARC Reads we continue to share the latest tech and business articles that have piqued our interest.

What We're Reading This Month

Embracing Business Practices That Actually Improve the World - At the COP28 conference late last year, regeneration emerged as a focus for business leaders. Regenerative businesses aim to improve ecosystems and communities, rather than simply minimize harm to them. It’s no wonder it’s a hot topic — the science is screaming at us that the track we’re on is not good enough to prevent further catastrophic effects from climate change. According to the Stockholm Resilience Centre, we’ve already crossed six of the nine planetary boundaries, “processes that are critical for maintaining the stability and resilience of [the] Earth system as a whole.”

10 Breakthrough Technologies in 2024 - Every year, we look for promising technologies poised to have a real impact on the world. Here are the advances that we think matter most right now.

Should you take vitamin D? Here’s the science - Some people take too much, and too many get too little. Experts explain who needs D supplements, and why.  Nutritional science is supposed to chart a course to our healthier selves. But contradictory scientific results and interpretations can muddy the waters — and few nutrients have recently demonstrated that more clearly than vitamin D.  More here.

What happens after your country runs on 99 percent renewable electricity? - Switch to renewable energy. Stop deforestation. Restore ecosystems. They’re lofty goals that more and more corporations and governments are setting for themselves. If it seems too ambitious, just look to Costa Rica. It’s the first tropical country to have reversed deforestation, and it generates nearly 100 percent of its electricity from renewable sources of energy. Article here.  

Preventing Ransomware Attacks at Scale - Ransomware attacks — like the one on Change Healthcare — continue to cause major turmoil. But they are not inevitable. Software manufacturers can build products that are resilient against the most common classes of cyberattacks leveraged by ransomware gangs.

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ARC Reads: May 2024 Edition

This Month: Embracing Business Practices That Actually Improve the World, 10 Breakthrough Technologies in 2024, Should you Take Vitamin D? Here's the Science, Preventing Ransomware Attacks at Scale & More

In this May edition of ARC Reads we continue to share the latest tech and business articles that have piqued our interest.

What We're Reading This Month

Embracing Business Practices That Actually Improve the World - At the COP28 conference late last year, regeneration emerged as a focus for business leaders. Regenerative businesses aim to improve ecosystems and communities, rather than simply minimize harm to them. It’s no wonder it’s a hot topic — the science is screaming at us that the track we’re on is not good enough to prevent further catastrophic effects from climate change. According to the Stockholm Resilience Centre, we’ve already crossed six of the nine planetary boundaries, “processes that are critical for maintaining the stability and resilience of [the] Earth system as a whole.”

10 Breakthrough Technologies in 2024 - Every year, we look for promising technologies poised to have a real impact on the world. Here are the advances that we think matter most right now.

Should you take vitamin D? Here’s the science - Some people take too much, and too many get too little. Experts explain who needs D supplements, and why.  Nutritional science is supposed to chart a course to our healthier selves. But contradictory scientific results and interpretations can muddy the waters — and few nutrients have recently demonstrated that more clearly than vitamin D.  More here.

What happens after your country runs on 99 percent renewable electricity? - Switch to renewable energy. Stop deforestation. Restore ecosystems. They’re lofty goals that more and more corporations and governments are setting for themselves. If it seems too ambitious, just look to Costa Rica. It’s the first tropical country to have reversed deforestation, and it generates nearly 100 percent of its electricity from renewable sources of energy. Article here.  

Preventing Ransomware Attacks at Scale - Ransomware attacks — like the one on Change Healthcare — continue to cause major turmoil. But they are not inevitable. Software manufacturers can build products that are resilient against the most common classes of cyberattacks leveraged by ransomware gangs.

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