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FLYING TO THE RESCUE

ENGINEERING A (BIO) DESIGN FOR LIFE • Designers aren’t just imagining a future where, say, fashion collaborates with bacteria, and cement is grown—their ideas are coming to a shop near you

THE WEB DETECTIVE ENSURING SECRETS STAY SAFE • Security researcher Bill Demirkapi found more than 15,000 hardcoded secrets and 66,000 vulnerable websites—all simply by searching overlooked data sources. Thankfully, he’s also one of the good guys.

UPLOADED TO HEAVEN BY THE POPE • In 2025, Carlo Acutis will officially become the patron saint of the internet. But can this millennial ‘Pope’s influencer’ really reconnect the Catholic Church with younger people?

SIGNING UP FOR A FULL-TERM CONTRACT • Surrogacy can be controversial and risky, but may offer the best route to parenthood for some

WAIT, GO BACK • To mature as programmers, newer generations need to take a lesson from Google’s programming language.

Readout • The world, quantified.

THE INSIDE SCOOP ON ICE CREAM MAKING • Mixing science and art, Tetra Pak’s design lab can make your chilly dreams come true

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EUROPE’S 100 HOTTEST STARTUPS • From AI to energy, medtech to paytech, upskilling to eco-audits and more, these are the innovators set to have an outsize impact across the globe.

LONDON

AMSTERDAM

BERLIN

DUBLIN

HELSINKI

LISBON

MADRID

PARIS

STOCKHOLM

ZURICH

EUROPE'S INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM CAN MAKE IT THE NEW PALO ALTO

FEATURES

ARIA • R&D in the UK: inside the government’s big gamble on building breakthroughs

THE ALTERNATE UNIVERSE OF MEREDITH WHITTAKER

BMW LEIPZIG • In its Leipzig factory, BMW’s production line combines robotics, chemistry, and emu feathers in a dizzying dance of automation.

THE TELEVISUAL HIJACKING OF ALFONSO CUARÓN

NATURE IN THE SPOTLIGHT

DO YOU REMEMBER YOUR FIRST BODY? • —@contemporaryreuben, via Instagram

Tectonic shifts • The world of payments is changing faster than ever

What’s the future for Western ‘super apps’? • Super apps create a single interface to unify a broad ecosystem of services such as messaging, e-commerce, and transport. With consumers making all of their purchases within one walled garden, the user engagement and data benefits for the app owner are obvious and substantial. These apps have become a major part of the Chinese technology landscape, so we asked two leading experts: Could the concept successfully break through in Western markets?

IDEAS BANK

“Conversational analytics” is the next frontier in payments • Conversational analytics is set to disrupt payments, and it may point to a future where AI agents work alongside treasurers

Can payments innovations fix supply chains? • Digitalizing logistics payments could banish pain-points and reveal new revenues

FEATURES

GAME ON • Payments innovations have shaped the evolution of video games. Now, the industry is leveling up once more

THE NEW FRAUD FRONTIERS • Cybercriminals are always evolving. A range of emerging innovations aim to neutralize the threats

HOW BIOMETRICS ARE TAKING ON DEEPFAKES

GOODBYE PASSWORDS, HELLO PASSKEYS?

CRYPTOGRAPHY THAT YOU DON’T HAVE TO DECRYPT

THE SYNTHETIC DATA REVOLUTION

THE PATH AHEAD – AND WHAT BUSINESSES NEED TO DO