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The following is a guest post and opinion from Bobby Shell, Board of Directors & VP of Marketing at Voltage. AI is no longer just assisting humans—it’s making decisions, managing resources, and even spending money. But without instant, programmable payment rails, this new digital workforce is running on outdated infrastructure. Today’s AI systems are evolving […]
September 5, 2025 Ryan welcomes Jeffrey van Gogh, Director of Engineering, Android Developer Experience, at Google and board member of the Kotlin Foundation. They discuss the evolution of the Kotlin language from JVM to multiplatform, how their governance board works with the community to stop breaking changes, and the intricacies of Kotlin’s multiplatform capabilities beyond […]
The Wall Street Journal says the middle class is getting pessimistic about the economy: The middle class–generally considered to include households making roughly $53,000 to $161,000 a year–is playing an outsize role in that waning optimism. After months of tracking high-income earners’ increasing confidence about the economy, households making between $50,000 and $100,000 made an […]
Achieving a research-level understanding of most topics is like climbing a mountain. Aspiring researchers must struggle to understand vast bodies of work that came before them, to learn techniques, and to gain intuition. Upon reaching the top, the new researcher begins doing novel work, throwing new stones onto the top of the mountain and making […]
Nvidia recently beat expectations for earnings, yet again. Nvidia (NVDA -2.78%) is the most valuable company in the world, with a market cap of around $4.1 trillion. Every time it faces adversity, the stock finds a way to go higher. Early this year, investors were rattled by news of a budget-friendly AI model, DeepSeek R1, […]
An Amazon Echo owner has taken to social media to complain about their smart speakers, saying that the hardware is using too much data even when it’s mostly unused. Dave W. Plummer, who helped develop the Windows Task Manager and ported Space Cadet Pinball to Windows, posted on X saying that his two Amazon Echo […]
2. Inflation and Recession Risk According to the Walters Kluwer Blue Chip Economic Indicator Survey, economists see a 72% chance of meaningful inflation returning within the next 6 months and a 47% chance of recession in the next 12. In other words: Stagflation slow growth plus high inflation is back on the table. 3. The […]
from the who-needs-to-see-the-big-dipper-anyway dept For years, scientific researchers have warned that Elon Musk’s Starlink low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite broadband constellations are harming scientific research. Simply put, the light pollution Musk claimed would never happen in the first place is making it far more difficult to study the night sky, a problem researchers say can be mitigated somewhat but […]
