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Myndlift: A startup to sharpen up

Video: Myndlift's app uses neurofeedback to help people focus in smartphone-addled daily life. Founder Aziz Kaadan tells us how it works, and how to succeed as the only Palestinian-founded startup in Tel Aviv

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From building your perfect country to preparing for doomsday

Favourited: Our roundup of the best stories of innovation from around the web

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Lost utopias: how the world imagined its future

A photographer documents the dramatic structures and relics of World's Fair sites

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10 science startups shaping tomorrow

The winners of the Hello Tomorrow Challenge present innovative solutions to problems from overfishing to energy storage to air quality

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'Every aspect of our lives will be transformed' – exploring the future of AI

Favourited: A new centre has opened to study the positive and negative implications of AI and ethical quandaries it poses

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Xavier Duportet: 'We want to inspire scientists to take risks'

The French geneticist discussed the antibiotic resistance crisis, generating big ideas at the Hello Tomorrow summit, and why the private sector will lead the next wave of scientific invention

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The Scottish village that bought its own harbour

Favourited: A short film about how a local community banded together to buy and rejuvenate Portpatrick harbour

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Dance moves: The first deejays

Charting periods of innovation in dance music: 1970s Jamaica rebels against dub with the freestyling deejays of dancehall, and pre-empts hip-hop