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The Palm Scan Dilemma: Convenience or Privacy In...

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2025/06/05

Welcome to One Minute Tech. Today: Why does Amazon want to scan your palm at the doctor’s office? Amazon One, the palm-recognition service you might’ve seen at Whole Foods or your local stadium, is heading for healthcare. Instead of swiping an insurance card or logging in on a touchscreen, patients could simply hover their hand over a scanner. Amazon says it “creates a palm signature—a set of points, lines and measurements, hashed into a mathematical representation.” No images are stored,

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Repeal by Paper Cut: How New Changes to Obamacare...

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2025/06/05

Welcome to Health Minute. Today, we’re looking at a new Congressional Budget Office report on the Republican bill that tweaks key parts of Obamacare. At first glance, these aren’t giant overhauls—they’re shorter enrollment windows, extra paperwork, formula tweaks—but together they would push about four million people off their plans over the next decade. As Audrey Morse Gasteier, director of Massachusetts’s state marketplace, puts it, “In many ways, it’s sort of repeal by paper cut.” And

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Are We Playing with Fire or Just Code: The Ethics of...

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2025/06/05

Welcome to Future Perfect. Today: are we torturing ChatGPT or Claude? A recent Vox article asks if these AI chatbots can suffer. The answer may surprise you. As the piece explains, these models are like “philosophical zombies,” able to process language without any inner experience. The sensations of pain, fear or hunger you see in their stories are “just that—simulations without any inner experience.” Neuroscientist Christof Koch argues they lack the integrated information necessary for

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The Friendship Puzzle: Why Quality Over Quantity...

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2025/06/05

Welcome back to Vox in a Minute. Today: do kids really need a best friend? Parents often worry that without a single, special pal, their child will miss out. But research suggests it’s not that simple. A study published in Child Development found that “kids who identified a best friend at ages ten to twelve reported lower levels of loneliness,” yet it also showed that “even children without a single closest pal benefit socially from multiple, supportive friendships.” Rather than a lone

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Celebrating 50 Years of Microsoft: A Journey Through...

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2025/06/05

Welcome to The Pragmatic Engineer. I’m your host, Gergely Orosz, and today we’re celebrating 50 years of Microsoft and developer tools with Scott Guthrie. Scott, who’s been at Microsoft for 28 years, takes us from the company’s earliest efforts—building BASIC interpreters and Visual Basic, “tools built to allow less technically savvy people to build things”—through the revolution of .NET and C#. We dig into why Visual Basic faced resistance despite “simplifying development,” how .NET

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Elevating the Workspace Adam Savage's Ultimate Custom...

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2025/06/05

Welcome to the Tested Podcast. I’m your host, and today we’re diving into Adam Savage’s latest shop upgrade. “It’s about time,” he says, after years of leaning on a vintage dining table as his main workbench. Adam realized the old table just didn’t cut it for the precision projects he has coming up, so he set out to build a new drafting table that better suits his needs and his space. This custom workbench is perfectly sized for Adam’s shop, and he didn’t stop at just another flat surface

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Unmasking the AI Mirage: The Human Behind the Screen

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2025/06/05

Welcome to TechFlash—today’s quick one-minute briefing. Imagine thinking you’re chatting with an advanced AI assistant, only to discover it’s a human being on the other end. That’s exactly what happened when an investigative report uncovered 700 engineers in India posing as AI. According to insiders, “clients were none the wiser,” believing every response came from cutting-edge machine learning. These engineers managed multiple chat sessions day and night, delivering “instantaneous”

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Revolutionizing Development: The Rise of Autonomous...

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2025/06/05

Welcome back to CodeCast. I’m your host, and today we’re diving into Martin Fowler’s exploration of autonomous coding agents. He starts by distinguishing supervised chat tools like GitHub Copilot from true “autonomous background coding agents” such as OpenAI Codex, which spin up their own environment and return a pull request. Fowler gave Codex a simple cosmetics task: “Improve the sophistication of the ‘category-to-human-readable’ logic so that labels appear as ‘Client Research’ and

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Defying Age: Why Your 30s Are the Perfect Time to...

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2025/06/05

Welcome back to Dev Journeys. Today, we’re debunking the biggest coding myth: “You’re too old to start at 30.” As Adam Lyttle puts it, “Your age—and life experience—might be your greatest advantage in becoming an independent developer.” Think about it: you’ve navigated dead-end jobs, paid off debt, and learned resilience along the way. Those real-world skills translate directly to building—and selling—apps. Adam went from frustration to a six-figure app business, simply by applying the

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Rethinking Hiring Criteria The Shift from Experience...

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2025/06/05

Hello everyone, and welcome back to One Minute Wisdom. Today we’re diving into a fresh perspective from Jason Fried. For decades, “years of experience” has been the gold-standard hiring requirement—but it’s a terrible one. As Jason points out, “Someone can do something for years and have nothing to show for it.” Instead, he urges us to seek people with “years of evidence.” What does that mean? Look for candidates who bring deep examples of work: piles of projects, case studies, an

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Apple's 2025 Design Awards Celebrating Real User...

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2025/06/05

Welcome back to TechCrunch Daily. I’m your host, and today we’re talking Apple’s 2025 Design Awards winners, announced just days before WWDC. This year’s winners and finalists mostly include indie apps and startups, and contrary to the trend everywhere else, generative AI apps are noticeably missing from the list. As TechCrunch notes, “This is the second year in a row Apple has skipped AI-centric apps for its awards.” Instead, Apple focused on real user experiences, naming 12 winners—one

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Elon Musk's Political Reality Check: The Price of...

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2025/06/05

Welcome back to Tech Minute. Today we’re talking about Elon Musk’s latest political wake-up call: discovering that “you can buy him, but he won’t stay bought.” Once wielding near-absolute power over federal IT, Musk is now reduced to begging his followers on X to call senators and vote down Trump’s so-called “Big Beautiful Bill.” His gripe? A cut to the EV tax credit that hurts Tesla sales—and maybe a bruised ego over losing his unpaid White House advisor role. Musk’s bulldozer tactics made

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Embracing Change: Lessons from a Stressful Move

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2025/06/05

Welcome to the show. I’m your host. Today’s story comes from The Verge: “What I Learned When I Helped My Mother Move.” Moving is stressful. As the author says, “It’s not you—it’s the process.” There are inspections, negotiations, stacks of paperwork. Treat it like a research project: read guides, track details in Notion or a spreadsheet. When hiring help, trust your gut. One lawyer told her, “Just sign it,” without reading? Big red flag. Expect bumps in the road. When a sale fell through,

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Unlocking Productivity with LG's Revolutionary...

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2025/06/05

Welcome back to Tech Briefing. Today we’re spotlighting LG’s brand-new UltraFine 40WT95UF, a 40-inch, 21:9 ultrawide monitor built for serious data crunchers. Boasting a 5,120 by 2,160 resolution and a 120Hz refresh rate with AMD FreeSync Premium, it promises smooth visuals whether you’re poring over spreadsheets or trading stocks. LG says it’s designed to “meet the needs of data-intensive industries such as finance and IT,” and its extra-wide screen makes juggling multiple apps a breeze

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Faith and Resistance: Bishop Barber's Bold Stand...

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2025/06/05

Video circulating on WRAL shows the moments before Bishop Reverend William Barber’s arrest at the U.S. Capitol this past Monday. Officers warned advocates they would face arrest if they remained in the Capitol Rotunda. Barber joined fellow clergy and activists protesting what they called the Trump administration’s “Big Beautiful Bill.” He has dubbed the proposal a “big ugly deadly budget bill,” arguing it would harm millions of Americans. In a recent Facebook post, Barber wrote, “In growing

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The Ultimate Gaming Experience: Why the 8BitDo...

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2025/06/05

Welcome back to the Tech Minute podcast. Today we’re talking about Sean Hollister’s favorite gadget: the 8BitDo Ultimate Bluetooth Controller. As Sean puts it, “It’s the single best wireless controller I’ve ever used.” He was skeptical at first—“How could it be the ‘ultimate’ controller if it only supports a single Bluetooth device at a time?”—but he quickly changed his mind. What makes it stand out? A rock-solid 2.4GHz wireless link that beats even Microsoft’s Xbox 360 receiver,

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Navigating the Negotiation Maze: Trump's Tensions...

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2025/06/05

Welcome to DealBook Daily. I’m your host, and today we’re talking about President Trump’s growing frustrations with China negotiations. On Truth Social this week, he wrote, “I like President XI of China, always have, and always will. But he is VERY TOUGH, AND EXTREMELY HARD TO MAKE A DEAL WITH!!!” Behind the scenes, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent admits talks have become “a bit stalled.” Meanwhile, the U.S. has doubled its tariffs on steel and aluminum to 50 percent, even as China

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Investigating the Shadows: Trump's Call for Scrutiny...

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2025/06/05

Welcome to Political Pulse, I’m your host. Here’s your latest briefing: President Trump has ordered his White House counsel and the attorney general to investigate former President Joe Biden and his aides. The executive order instructs federal lawyers to examine whether some of Mr. Biden’s presidential actions were legally invalid because his staff “enacted those policies without his knowledge.” This directive comes after Mr. Trump shared a social media post suggesting Mr. Biden was

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Resilient Savers: How American Workers Are Defying...

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2025/06/05

Today on Finance Focus: Fidelity’s latest data shows that despite a 3% drop in average 401(k) balances to $127,100 in the first quarter of 2025—a decline mirroring the S&P 500’s 4.3% dip—American workers aren’t shying away from contributions. They boosted their average savings rate to a record 14.3%, with 17.4% of participants increasing their contribution rates during the quarter. As Fidelity puts it, “The commitment to retirement saving remains strong,” highlighting what it calls

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Harnessing Anxiety: The Surprising Fuel Behind Jensen...

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2025/06/05

Welcome back to Tech Minute. Today we’re talking about Nvidia’s co-founder and CEO, Jensen Huang, and the unusual fuel behind his success. According to biographer Stephen Witt, Huang isn’t driven by sunshine and rainbows but by anxiety and self-doubt. “He’s almost totally driven by negative emotions,” Witt says. “This is his gasoline, [and it’s] what makes him go is this anxiety.” Despite presiding over a company now valued at more than $3.3 trillion, Huang fears Nvidia could collapse at

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