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đź’ˇ The Best Inventions of 2025... and this century, according to TIME

📢 The Clios: a great showcase of the world's best advertising | 🤖 Google talks about AI's great potential in Europe in Its FORWARD Magazine | Recommended by: Casandra Vicente

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  • đź’ˇ The Best Inventions of 2025... and this century, according to TIME

  • 📢 The Clios: a great showcase of the world's best advertising

  • 🤖 Google talks about AI's great potential in Europe in Its FORWARD Magazine

  • ⏭️ In brief

  • 🤔 Express Quiz

  • đź’ˇRecommended by: Casandra Vicente

đź’ˇ The Best Inventions of 2025... and this century, according to TIME

Over the past 25 years, the editors of TIME magazine have selected the most impactful new products and ideas for their issue dedicated to the best inventions of the year.

The 2000 edition covered 35 inventions. This year's 2025 edition includes 300, the largest list to date.

To select the inventions, the magazine asked TIME editors and correspondents around the world to propose ideas, "paying special attention to growing fields, such as healthcare and artificial intelligence," and those proposals were evaluated based on various criteria, including originality, effectiveness, ambition, and impact.

Among the inventions selected this year, we can find everything from an AI detector for teachers to a humanoid robot that does household chores, as well as the world's largest roller coaster, among dozens of options.

Additionally, this year, TIME magazine also wanted to present the 25 inventions it considers most relevant from the first 25 years of this century, one per year. The list includes, for example, Apple's iPhone (2007), NASA's Curiosity Rover (2011 and 2012), coronavirus vaccines (2020), and the Las Vegas Sphere (2023), among other inventions that have defined this first quarter of the 21st century.

Selection of Images of the Best Inventions of This Century

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📢 The Clios: a great showcase of the world's best advertising

Founded in 1959, the Clio advertising awards were created to celebrate creative excellence in the world of advertising.

Each year, the Clio Awards recognize the best of global advertising and serve as inspiration for current and future creators.

In fact, the Clios' digital offering includes, in addition to the main website (Clios.com), two specific sites that are an essential reference for creatives, agencies, professionals, and advertising enthusiasts:

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🤖 Google talks about AI's great potential in Europe in Its FORWARD Magazine

Google has recently published the second issue of its European promotional magazine FORWARD, which features the cover title "AI's Great Potential in Europe".

FORWARD is a print magazine that Google launched in various European countries last year and can also be viewed as a digital replica—as it appears in the print edition—through the Issuu platform. So far, two issues have been published.

In this second issue, consisting of 36 pages, topics include "AI's great potential in Europe," what the foundations of innovation are, and what the most important milestones have been in the more than two decades that Google has been working with AI, including an interview with the Chief Operating Officer of Google DeepMind about the future of AI, among other matters.

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⏭️ In brief

  • The New York Times recently published this spectacular visual feature on how mathematics can be combined with some of Barcelona's most iconic buildings. Visit it with this free link courtesy of "Hoy en internet."  

🤔 Express Quiz

Blogs have been, and continue to be, a widely used format on the internet for sharing everything from personal stories to business updates. The first blog is considered to have been launched in 1994.

What was the first internet blog and who created it?

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The correct answer to last week's double quiz, in which we asked what internet service reached 100 million users the fastest and in how much time, was ChatGPT, which reached that number of users in just two months.

Name: Casandra Vicente  

Title: Entrepreneur & Ex-Google / CEO and Co-founder at Oshun  

Links: Oshun | Linkedin

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