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The Robot Pharmacist Is Here to Fill Your Prescription
Robotics

The Robot Pharmacist Is Here to Fill Your Prescription

A new machine can fill a bottle of pills every 30 seconds, no human required. The pharmacy is broken. The robot is the fix — and the threat.

By K. Denise Washington
Jun 30, 20265 min
Visa and Mastercard Are Building Their Own Digital Dollar
Finance

Visa and Mastercard Are Building Their Own Digital Dollar

This isn't another crypto project. It's the old guard of payments forming a cartel to build a rival to USDC. The implications for Circle are immediate and the implications for a decentralized future are worse.

By K. Denise Washington
Jun 30, 20265 min
The Kremlin's Last Good Option: Tell Citizens to Ditch Their iPhones
Personal

The Kremlin's Last Good Option: Tell Citizens to Ditch Their iPhones

Russia wanted a closed, state-controlled internet. It just found out Apple controls the doors. Now the Kremlin's only move is to tell its people to buy an Android.

By K. Denise Washington
Jun 28, 20266 min

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Modular Synthesis Now Runs in a Browser Tab
Music

Modular Synthesis Now Runs in a Browser Tab

Modular synthesis used to mean a wall of cables. Developer Stretta's Smol Sequencer puts a generative music environment in your browser for free, and your entire patch is just a URL.

By K. Denise Washington
Jun 28, 20266 min
The NYT Says Microsoft Built a Copyright-Infringement Machine
Legal

The NYT Says Microsoft Built a Copyright-Infringement Machine

The Gray Lady isn't just suing OpenAI for scraping articles. The new claim is that Microsoft built a bespoke supercomputer specifically to steal them. The trillion-dollar question is whether the courts will agree.

By K. Denise Washington
Jun 28, 20266 min
Stark Varg Is Now Upgrading Riders Over the Air
Automotive

Stark Varg Is Now Upgrading Riders Over the Air

Stark Future just pushed a software update that adds traction control to its monster Varg dirt bikes. Hardware is no longer the whole story; the real performance is in the code.

By K. Denise Washington
Jun 28, 20266 min
Your First Humanoid Robot Has No Standardized Safety Test
Robotics

Your First Humanoid Robot Has No Standardized Safety Test

You can buy a humanoid robot capable of autonomous decisions right now. The problem isn't that it's not smart enough. It's that we have no idea how to prove it's safe.

By K. Denise Washington
Jun 27, 20265 min
The UK Is Stress-Testing Its Banks for Climate Collapse
Finance

The UK Is Stress-Testing Its Banks for Climate Collapse

Standard financial models assume the weather is predictable. A UK regulator is finally testing a system that knows it isn't, and the results could re-price entire economies overnight.

By K. Denise Washington
Jun 27, 20264 min
The Plan to Kill Web Scraping Is Coming From Inside the House
Generative

The Plan to Kill Web Scraping Is Coming From Inside the House

The IETF, the internet's own standards body, is debating proposals to cryptographically authenticate bots. It sounds like security, but it's a plan to build tollbooths on the open web.

By K. Denise Washington
Jun 27, 20265 min