JETLAG RADIO 865 | BENKYO RADIO 865

  • Apple's New 15-inch MacBook Air is the 'World's Thinnest' [Slashdot.org]

  • Chuck Todd to leave NBC’s “Meet the Press” in September [AXIOS] man, these dumbasses are really going to let Trump be President again just for TV ratings, that’s so fucked up.

  • Apple announces iOS 17 with Journal, Standby, FaceTime voicemail, more [TechMeme]

  • Where most of the world's glacial melt is happening [Quartz]

  • The “return to the office” won’t save the office [Vox]

  • Apple’s rumoured mixed reality headset may be the miracle the European XR industry needs [TheNextWeb]

  • How to Cook in Public Like a Decent Human Being [Eater]

  • Computer Freaks podcast [Inc.]

  • 8 climate-focused companies that are hiring for remote jobs right now [Fast Company]

  • 9 Ways to Harness Entrepreneurial Skills in Medicine [Entrepreneur]

  • Apple’s Mixed-Reality Headset, Vision Pro, Is Here [WIRED]

  • This Week in Tech 930 [TWIT]

  • New ways to customize Chrome on your desktop [Google Blog]

  • Large sequence models for software development activities [Google Research]

  • Egyptian Enigma: Joyce Mansour [Poetry Foundation]

  • Explore the sky’s Summer Triangle: This Week in Astronomy with Dave Eicher [Astronomy Magazine]

  • Welcome to SAP Experience Center Paris [SAP] #SAP

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 865 & BENKYO RADIO 865. I’ve heard a few good things about the Microsoft Surface Laptop 5, especially that it’s good for Q# Programming.

Until Next Time!

JETLAG RADIO 864 | BENKYO RADIO 864

  • Nvidia is not the only firm cashing in on the AI gold rush [The Economist]

  • Will drone cops make American policing safer or just more intrusive? [1843 magazine]

  • Ukraine war: Teens used to report Russian propaganda [BBC News] #Ukraine

  • Soon You Can Videoconference From Your Audi [Bloomberg]

  • Exclusive: US seeking explosives in Japan for Ukraine artillery shells [Reuters]

  • ‘Ultimate influencer’ Ronaldo’s mixed season in Saudi Arabia [AL-Jazeera News]

  • Life Along Israel’s Separation Wall [New Yorker]

  • Lisa’s Final Act: how Apple invented its future by burying its past [The Verge]

  • Mike Pence is a man without a constituency [Vox]

  • More SpaceX Starlink terminals will go to Ukraine following new order from Pentagon [TechCrunch]

  • A chatbot that asks questions could help you spot when it makes no sense [MIT Technology Review]

  • Putin is terrified of being assassinated and is refusing to travel abroad after a drone attack near his luxury home: reports [Insider]

  • #France2030 | Mettre l’innovation au cœur de la transmission des savoir-faire des métiers d'art, c’est l’objectif du projet Re-Source.

    ✅ France 2030 soutient ce programme afin de faire de ce secteur un atout stratégique pour notre pays. [LinkedIn] #Gouvernment

  • Elon Musk accused of insider trading in Dogecoin lawsuit [The Guardian] Elon could immediately redeem himself by sending that DOGECOIN rocket to the moon with a Dogecoin.

  • Democrats Want Trump? They’re Out of Their Minds. [New York Times]

  • Were You Sick But Didn't Have COVID? It Could Have Been This Virus. [Huffington Post]

  • Lordy, There Are Tapes — Trump’s fear of damaging press was so much greater than his fear of criminal accountability that he ended up making an incriminating recording. [The Atlantic]

  • Are Black And Hispanic Americans Abandoning Biden? [FiveThirtyEight] This article is depressing.

  • Opinion: Biden is delivering on his most far-fetched pledge: Compromise [The Washington Post]

  • Emmanuel Macron propose de garantir la sécurité de l’Ukraine, à défaut de l’intégrer au sein de l’OTAN [Le Monde]

  • How to prepare to thrive professionally in an AI-integrated workforce [Mashable]

  • Astronomers Discover Hundreds of Mysterious ‘Structures’ at the Center of Our Galaxy [VICE News] #Cybertron!?!

  • Is Bluesky Billionaire-Proof? [The Intercept_]

  • Wildlife crime is a national security issue. DHS is on the case. [National Geographic]

  • A massive dictation event takes over the iconic Champs-Élysées in Paris [NPR]

  • An experience for all: Sacramento area performing arts venues find new ways to take patrons with disabilities on the stage’s journey [CapRadioNews]

  • Sombres dessous du football belge [Le Monde diplomatique]

  • The Battle for Eurasia — China, Russia, and their autocratic friends are leading another epic clash over the world’s largest landmass. [Foreign Policy]

  • An Unwinnable War — Washington Needs an Endgame in Ukraine [Foreign Affairs] #NobodyWantsMAD

  • Thailand Edges Closer to New Government in Break With Recent Past [The Diplomat]

  • Data Compression Drives the Internet. Here’s How It Works. [Quanta Magazine]

  • Voici une démonstration d'un câble pour les solénoïdes de cible et de capture du collisionneur de muons, le premier aimant de la chaîne de production de faisceaux de muons, qui capturera les muons positifs et négatifs produits par le faisceau de protons frappant la cible. [CERN_FR]

  • NASA, SpaceX Launch Solar Arrays, Cargo to Space Station [NASA]

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What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 864 & BENKYO RADIO 864. Here’s a lecture on Q# Programming by Future Tech from Johnny Hooyberghs.

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JETLAG RADIO 863 | BENKYO RADIO 863

  • New Report Says American Government Agencies Are Using Malware Similar To Banned Pegasus Spyware [Slashdot.org]

  • FDA approves 2nd U.S. RSV vaccine [AXIOS]

  • Amazon Turns to AI to Weed Out Damaged Goods — Company expects artificial intelligence to reduce the number of damaged items moving through fulfillment centers and to speed up deliveries [TechMeme]

  • To attract parents back to the workforce, companies are paying cash [Quartz]

  • Do we really need an app for everything? [Vox]

  • This building in Amsterdam is almost 100% reusable [TheNextWeb]

  • Go Ahead and Make Your AI Recipe. It Won’t Be Good. [Eater]

  • 3 Tips for Adapting to the Post-Pandemic Culture Shock at WorkThe authors of a new book, 'Culture Shock,' from Gallup provide data-backed recommendations for companies creating their new work 'normal.' [Inc.]

  • How companies stopped worrying and are giving workers the hybrid workplace they want [Fast Company]

  • How to Learn French in Seven Hours (and other stories about Jazz) [Medium]

  • The Government Says UFOs Are Real — And Fighter Pilots Want You to Help Look for Them (For Real) [Entrepreneur]

  • An Eating Disorder Chatbot Is Suspended for Giving Harmful Advice [WIRED]

  • This Week in Google 718 [TWIT]

  • Connect on the go and learn new skills with new Android features [Google Blog]

  • Large sequence models for software development activities [Google Research]

  • At a Slight Angle to the Universe [Poetry Foundation]

  • Astronomers detected two major targets with a single telescope – a mysterious signal and its source galaxy [Astronomy Magazine]

  • How Tech Helps Holt Renfrew Better Track Sustainability Efforts [SAP] #SAP

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 863 & BENKYO RADIO 863. There’s a new Peter Crouch documentary. Ought to be interesting!

Until Next Time!

JETLAG RADIO 862 | BENKYO RADIO 862

  • How to make the re-election of Recep Tayyip Erdogan less bad news [The Economist] #Turkey

  • The second world war turned Okinawa into a graveyard. Now it’s in China’s sights [1843 magazine]

  • Erdogan’s presidential win in Turkey shows just how much power he already had [The Economist Podcasts]

  • EIU’s core forecast is for a last-minute compromise between Democrats and Republicans before the default deadline. Learn more in EIU’s latest article: [The EIU]

  • UFOs: Five revelations from Nasa's public meeting [BBC News]

  • Apple Tests New High-End Macs With M2 Max and M2 Ultra Chips Ahead of WWDC [Bloomberg] still waiting for Apple M3 + BMW M3 combo, let’s go

  • US announces $46 million in funds to eight nuclear fusion companies [Reuters]

  • Arab states cannot whitewash Syria’s human rights record [AL-Jazeera News] #Syria

  • The Case That Being Poor and Black is Bad for Your Health [The New Yorker] #BLM #BlackLivesMatter

  • Computex 2023: all the news from Taiwan’s big PC show [The Verge]

  • UN numbers say meat is bad for the climate. The reality is worse. [Vox] #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #CowFarts

  • The Linux Foundation Europe launches RISE, the RISC-V Software Ecosystem project [TechCrunch] #Linux

  • IBM wants to build a 100,000-qubit quantum computer [MIT Technology Review]

  • The 10 best cities to become a homeowner, where houses are affordable relative to incomes and property values tend to go up [Insider]

  • 🤲 Rennes Ville et Métropole fait de la transformation écologique et sociale le cœur de son action de développement économique.

    👥 Son objectif : inciter les entreprises à être actrices de leur transformation écologique et sociale, qu’elle que soit leur taille ou leur secteur d’activité.

    MEDEF 35 | Mouvement des entreprises de France Ille-et-Vilaine | Le Poool | Région Bretagne [LinkedIn]

  • Bruce Springsteen review – after half a century, still having the time of his life [The Guardian]

  • Why Are Remote Corporate Workers Having More Fun? Co-Working Spaces. [New York Times]

  • 3 Slack Habits That Stress Out Co-Workers The Most [Huffington Post]

  • Near Darwin — A poem for Wednesday [The Atlantic]

  • The Rise, Fall And Potential Resurrection Of Ron DeSantis [FiveThirtyEight]

  • Amazon workers walk out amid layoffs, citing concerns for climate [The Washington Post]

  • Après la démission de Patrick Cohen de Radio France, Sibyle Veil peine à rassurer les salariés de Franceinfo [Le Monde]

  • Feeling an existential crisis brewing? Here are 3 ways to cope. [Mashable]

  • Mysterious Metallic Orbs Flying ‘All Over the World,' Pentagon Says at NASA UFO Panel [VICE News]

  • Atlanta Police Arrest Organizers of Bail Fund for Cop City Protesters [The Intercept_]

  • Every season actually begins twice—here’s why [Nat Geo]

  • He was expelled after he refused to cut his afro. 57 years later, he got his degree [NPR]

  • California Senate approves bill to limit police stops for headlights, expired registration [CapRadioNews]

  • Mai 2023 en perspective [Le Monde diplomatique]

  • How Kyiv Is Wooing the Global South [Foreign Policy] #Ukraine

  • Can the Two-State Solution Be Saved? [Foreign Affairs]

  • Japan Launches Landmark Immigration Schemes to Compete for Global Talent [The Diplomat]

  • The Physicist Who Glues Together Universes [Quanta Magazine]

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What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 862 & BENKYO RADIO 862. Interesting developments in the NBA Finals. The Denver Nuggets against the Miami Heat? I had no idea Denver was this strong this year, and great to see Kevin Love in the NBA Finals, awesome news for Mental Health.

Until Next Time!

JETLAG RADIO 861 | BENKYO RADIO 861

  • Japan Will Try to Beam Solar Power from Space by 2025 [Slashdot.org]

  • Turkey's President Erdoğan wins re-election [AXIOS]

  • A New York lawyer faces sanctions for using ChatGPT to write his legal brief that had “bogus judicial decisions, with bogus quotes and bogus internal citations” [TechMeme]

  • All the reasons AI may have rejected your job application [Quartz] AI is known to reject forms based on non-white names on job applications. #discrimination

  • Microsoft’s big video game merger just got an extra life [Vox]

  • BMW’s new electric 5 Series lets you play games while charging the car [TheNextWeb]

  • For Hetty Lui McKinnon, ‘Salads Are Very Much My Soul Food’ [Eater]

  • Summer Workers Could Still Be ScarceDespite a rebound in labor supply, employers such as restaurants, pool clubs, and camps are still trying to increase headcounts for the summer season. They may need to get creative. [Inc.]

  • This Gen Z student is using human-centered design to combat the fentanyl crisis [Fast Company]

  • Everyone's Over Remote Work Except For the Workers Themselves [Medium]

  • Grow Your Skillset with This Massive Online Learning Platform [Entrepreneur]

  • The 21 Best Memorial Day Tech Deals [WIRED]

  • This Week in Tech 929 [TWIT]

  • What’s ahead for Bard: More global, more visual, more integrated [Google Blog]

  • Foundation models for reasoning on charts [Google Research]

  • Negative Money [Poetry Foundation]

  • What are dark nebulae? This Week in Astronomy with Dave Eicher [Astronomy Magazine]

  • SAP for Energy & Utilities: Discover Smart and Sustainable Cloud Solution [SAP] #SAP

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 861 & BENKYO RADIO 861. Here is a track premiere on (French) Radio FG by Sander Van Doorn, one of my favorite DJs from Holland. You can listen to this radio live on Deezer. It’s like the French Spotify.

Until Next Time!

JETLAG RADIO 860 | BENKYO RADIO 860

  • Recommended DJ Software Versions for Beatport Streaming [beatportal]

  • Getting started with FL Studio 21: everything you need to know [Computer Music]

  • Dr. Sample becomes Mr. Sample as Blezz Beats recreates the 'holy grail of lo-fi beatmaking' in a sampler plugin [Future Music]

  • London Grammar Announce Remix Project Launching on Ministry of Sound [Mixmag]

  • Swedish House Mafia close the ‘Paradise Again’ era with ‘Chapter 2: Mafia’ introduction, ‘See The Light’ [Dancing Astronaut]

  • Watch the full Subtronics b2b with John Summit from EDC 2023 [Your EDM]

  • Watch Surreal Footage from Carl Cox’s Historic DJ Set at the Great Pyramids [EDM]

  • Tiësto Strikes Gold With His Highly Anticipated Album “Drive” [EDM Sauce]

  • "L.A. Coliseum draws 46,000 as the supergroup scores the biggest ticketed global headliner dance event of 2022". [Billboard]

  • Introducing Three New TAG Heuer Monaco Skeleton Dials [HODINKEE]

  • Neuroscientist David Eagleman — Exploring Consciousness, Sensory Augmentation, The Lazy Susan Method of Extraordinary Productivity, Dreaming, Improving Hearing with a Wristband, Synesthesia, Stretching Time with Novelty, Lessons from Titans of Science, and Much More (#674) [Tim Ferriss]

  • It’s Time for Change | Gary Vaynerchuk Original Film [GaryVee]

  • G7 countries must commit to safeguarding humanitarian assistance [MSF]

  • How to get more bang for the buck in Western defence budgets [The Economist]

  • Meet the hype-man for Binyamin Netanyahu’s controversial reforms [1843 magazine] #SayNoToFarRightInIsrael

  • US debt ceiling talks continue with new 5 June deadline [BBC News]

  • NATO struggles in the shadows to find new leader [Reuters]

  • People celebrate as Erdogan declares victory [AL-Jazeera News]

  • Tom Hanks on the Rewards and “Vicious Reality” of Making Movies [The New Yorker]

  • Walmart’s 4K Google TV box is the best $20 deal in streaming [The Verge]

  • The two men who derailed Sudan’s revolution [Vox]

  • Ford EVs will have Tesla DNA and Waymo’s robotaxis are coming to Uber [TechCrunch]

  • IBM wants to build a 100,000-qubit quantum computer [MIT Technology Review]

  • A family thought they were adopting a 6-year-old girl. Now they claim she's an adult con artist. [Insider]

  • Gig work used to just be a way to make extra cash, but with the rise of task-based apps, many associate it with low pay, no benefits and inflexibility, The New York Times writes. Somewhere between 10 to 15% of Americans workers have a side job, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and the National Tax Journal. And while some states like California, Massachusetts and Washington have passed laws to ensure workers' rights on apps like Uber and Lyft, Minnesota's recent attempt was vetoed by Gov. Tim Walz, saying it was "not the right bill to achieve these goals." [LinkedIn]

  • Vacant skyscrapers, empty trains: can San Francisco once again reinvent itself? [The Guardian]

  • They Knew Little About Oysters. Now They Have a Farm With 2 Million. [The New York Times]

  • Billie Eilish Fires Back At ‘Women Hating Weirdos’ For Calling Her A ‘Sellout’ Over Her Changing Style [Huffington Post] #Ehler-Danlos-Syndrome #Zebra

  • Life Is About to Come With Subtitles [The Atlantic]

  • Over 100 Anti-LGBTQ+ Laws Passed In The Last Five Years — Half Of Them This Year [FiveThirtyEight] this is scary for LGBTQIA+ people.

  • Police agencies are desperate to hire. But they say few want the job. [The Washington Post]

  • La semaine de quatre jours comme solution à la pénurie de main-d’œuvre en Europe, selon le commissaire européen à l’emploi [Le Monde]

  • Arnold Schwarzenegger is back in the 90s inspired series 'FUBAR' [Mashable]

  • Scientists Discover Time When Our Laws of Physics Didn't Apply, And We Exist Because of It [VICE News]

  • Jamie Raskin and Rachel Maddow, Brought to You by Peter Thiel and Lockheed Martin [The Intercept_]

  • 25 essential drives for a U.S. road trip [National Geographic]

  • Doc Todd, a rapper who helped other veterans feel 'Not Alone,' dies at 38 [NPR]

  • Post #265 by Motivation is The Fuel [Instagram] #SuicidePrevention #MensHealth

  • Sacramento 2024 mayor election: Steinberg announces he won’t run [CapRadioNews]

  • Énergie, conflits, illusions, solutions [Le Monde diplomatique]

  • A Day Inside Putin’s Surreal Television Empire — How the nonstop blare of Russian state media fuels the war effort—and blurs reality. [Foreign Policy] #Ukraine

  • A Nuclear Collision Course in South Asia — The Budding Arms Race Among China, India, and Pakistan [Foreign Affairs]

  • Why Does the G7 Need India? [The Diplomat]

  • The Physicist Who Glues Together Universes [Quanta Magazine]

  • #ThrowbackThursday à l'expérience CRIS en 2021, qui fait partie de l'installation @ISOLDEatCERN. Elle permet d'étudier les propriétés de l'état fondamental des noyaux exotiques. Un faisceau de protons du PS Booster permettra l'étude d'isotopes radioactifs pendant #LHCRun3. [CERN_FR]

  • Asian American and Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander Heritage [NASA]

  • Opinion editorial by Secretary General Jürgen Stock [INTERPOL]

  • 5,000 Selected for Master Sergeant, But Promotion Rate Remains Low [Air and Space Forces Magazine]

  • Type R Only! 400 R-spec Hondas Gather in Japan [SUPER STREET on MOTORTREND]

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 860 & BENKYO RADIO 860. We’re already in the late-month of May, and MF GHOST is nowhere to be found! What’s going on? It was supposed to be released for 2023! Let’s go Crunchyroll!

Until Next Time!

JETLAG RADIO 859 | BENKYO RADIO 859

  • Microsoft Warns That China Hackers Attacked US Infrastructure [Slashdot.org]

  • 3 former Mississippi officers indicted in custody death of Black man [AXIOS]

  • Sony’s new Q handheld is official: 8-inch screen, streams PS5 games / Sony’s “Project Q” portable device is coming later this year to Remote Play games from your PlayStation 5 over Wi-Fi. [TechMeme]

  • It took just two mass shootings for Serbia to impose gun controls [Quartz]

  • Do Americans really want “unbiased” news? [Vox]

  • Improbable launches new metaverse think tank amid strategic pivot [TheNextWeb]

  • How to Picnic in Your Car Like a Pro [Eater]

  • The SoulCycle Founders Take on New Challenge: The Loneliness Epidemic [Inc.]

  • This California ghost town just sold for $22.5 million. But the buyer is a mystery [Fast Company]

  • Bipolar Depression Is a Gut-Punching Bully You Can Beat [Medium]

  • The New BMW Allows You to Change Lanes Only Using Your Eyes [Entrepreneur]

  • Chinese Labs Are Selling Fentanyl Ingredients for Millions in Crypto [WIRED]

  • TWiT News 393 [TWIT]

  • Express yourself on Android, with help from AI [Google Blog]

  • LayerNAS: Neural architecture search in polynomial complexity [Google Research]

  • Without a Star, Keeping [Poetry Foundation]

  • What are dark nebulae? This Week in Astronomy with Dave Eicher [Astronomy Magazine]

  • Transforming Employee Data with SAP Success Factors | Power International Holding Success Story [SAP] #SAP

What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 859 & BENKYO RADIO 859. Here is a video from Citroen (French Car Manufacturer).

Until Next Time!

JETLAG RADIO 858 | BENKYO RADIO 858

  • Who are the pro-Ukrainian militias raiding Russia’s Belgorod region? [The Economist]

  • What Greece’s election results say about the country’s turnaround [The Economist Podcasts]

  • Tina Turner: Music legend dies at 83 [BBC World]

  • How Japan Is Reckoning With an Increasingly Tense Neighborhood [Bloomberg]

  • NASA spacecraft documents how Jupiter's lightning resembles Earth's [Reuters]

  • Not your grandfather’s cold war [AL-Jazeera News]

  • The Best Books We’ve Read in 2023 So Far [The New Yorker]

  • Sony’s new Q handheld is official: 8-inch screen, streams PS5 games / Sony’s “Project Q” portable device is coming later this year to Remote Play games from your PlayStation 5 over Wi-Fi. [The Verge]

  • There’s no scenario where a debt ceiling breach is fine [Vox]

  • Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 features Miles with web wings and Peter in symbiote suit [TechCrunch]

  • I ordered a bubble tea by drone in Shenzhen [MIT Technology Review]

  • Bill Gates says an under-the-radar startup could be the biggest winner in the AI. Check out its free app, and you'll see why. [Insider]

  • It really sucks when you’re smarter than the boss. Here are 4 ways to make it work [Fast Company]

  • #France2030 I L’objectif du plan « Innovation santé 2030 » ? 🔬Faire rayonner l’excellence de la recherche française au niveau mondial. 🇫🇷🌎Découvrez la stratégie pour renforcer notre recherche médicale : https://lnkd.in/eP2_Tx6S [LinkedIn]

  • Rapper Fetty Wap sentenced to six years in prison for drug trafficking [The Guardian]

  • ‘Never a Reason to Take Off Your Socks’: A Flight Attendant’s 12 Etiquette Rules [New York Times]

  • How To Help Your Kids Learn To Speak Multiple Languages [Huffington Post]

  • The First Social-Media Babies Are Growing Up—And They’re Horrified — How would you feel if millions of people watched your childhood tantrums? [The Atlantic]

  • Biden to pick history-making general as next head of Joint Chiefs [FiveThirtyEight]

  • Rioter pictured with foot on desk in speaker’s offices gets 4½ years [The Washington Post]

  • Guerre en Ukraine : sur le front de Kherson, des opérations de reconnaissance et de diversion dans l’attente de la contre-offensive [Le Monde] #Ukraine

  • Microsoft VP Yusuf Mehdi sheds light on the Bing/Google rivalry [Mashable]

  • Drivers Sue Amazon Over 'Inhumane' Conditions, Having to Pee in Bottles [VICE News]

  • U.S. Blamed the Press for Military Looting in Cambodia — Any theft “was done by civilian reporters in their wandering about the village,” according to a previously unrevealed Army investigation. [The Intercept_]

  • Are you a stress eater? Here’s how to retrain your brain. [National Geographic]

  • What are realistic expectations for Ukraine's military offensive? [NPR] #Ukraine

  • Officials warn residents to stay out of California’s faster, colder river waters [CapRadioNews]

  • Poutine, les juges et la bombe [Le Monde diplomatique]

  • 4 Ways U.S. Support for Ukraine Helps Defend Taiwan [Foreign Policy] #Ukraine

  • The Myth of Multipolarity — American Power’s Staying Power [Foreign Affairs]

  • Japan Ground Self-Defense Force to Provide Ukraine With 100 Transport Vehicles [The Diplomat]

  • Is It Real or Imagined? How Your Brain Tells the Difference. [Quanta Magazine]

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What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 858 & BENKYO RADIO 858. Les Grosses Tetes is a very popular radio show in France. It’s French Humor, so if you don’t know French Culture, it won’t make much sense to you. Look it up on Apple Music and Spotify.

Until Next Time!

JETLAG RADIO 856 | BENKYO RADIO 856

  • What would humans do in a world of super-AI? [The Economist]

  • Fentanyl, guns and avocados: how Mexico’s drug cartels are expanding [The Economist Podcasts]

  • The Dutch solution to busyness that captivated the world [BBC Travel]

  • There’s Still Scary Stuff in Sunscreen [Bloomberg]

  • Exclusive: Russian hypersonic scientist accused of betraying secrets to China [Reuters]

  • 'With no savings, I am worried' — An Uber driver in Delhi struggles with 18-hour work days and high costs. [AL-Jazeera News]

  • Two Weeks at the Front in Ukraine [New Yorker]

  • I tried the AI novel-writing tool everyone hates, and it’s better than I expected [The Verge]

  • Volcanoes have erupted in Mexico and Italy. Here are 7 things to know about volcanoes. [Vox]

  • Microsoft launches Fabric, a new end-to-end data and analytics platform [TechCrunch]

  • Everything you need to know about the wild world of alternative jet fuels [MIT Technology Review]

  • $20,000 doesn't go nearly as far as it used to for a car [Insider]

  • According to 550+ business leaders, three of the top five fastest-growing skills in the past five years were data skills.👇 — Uncover the full insights—including the transformative impact of data literacy, how to build a data program from scratch, and how to integrate AI into your business—in our State of Data Literacy Report 2023. — Download here ➡️ https://bit.ly/3kdBIWk [LinkedIn] #DataCamp

  • OpenAI leaders call for regulation to prevent AI destroying humanity [The Guardian]

  • America’s Semiconductor Boom Faces a Challenge: Not Enough Workers [New York Times]

  • Jimmy Carter, 3 Months Into Hospice, Is Aware Of Tributes, Enjoying Ice Cream [Huffington Post]

  • 20 Books to Get Lost in This Summer [The Atlantic]

  • Which News Outlets Do Americans Trust? [FiveThirtyEight]

  • Workers want a four-day week. Why hasn’t it happened? [The Washington Post]

  • Drug trafficking in France: Perpetrators and victims of violence are increasingly younger [Le Monde]

  • Microsoft is bringing AI Copilot features to Edge [Mashable]

  • Black Holes Might Really Be Giant Structures Made of Spacetime, Physicists Propose [Motherboard, Tech by VICE]

  • Notorious 1973 Attack Killed Many More Than Previously Known — Long-buried documents indicate that the true number of civilian casualties in the bombing of Neak Luong may have been nearly twice the official tally. [The Intercept_]

  • Behold the surreal magic and mystery of slime molds [National Geographic]

  • He visited the U.S. for his daughter's wedding — and left with a $42,000 medical bill [NPR]

  • How California public transit is pleading for state aid [CapRadioNews]

  • Le rêve progressiste, et libre-échangiste, de la gauche latina [Le Monde diplomatique]

  • A German-U.K. Defense Deal Can Strengthen NATO [Foreign Policy]

  • Assad Comes in From the Cold — His Rehabilitation Will Only Encourage More Brutality in Syria and Elsewhere [Foreign Affairs]

  • Okinawans March for Peace as Japan Beefs Up US Military Alliance [The Diplomat]

  • Math Patterns That Go On Forever but Never Repeat [Quanta Magazine]

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What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 856 & BENKYO RADIO 856. There was a new keynote from Satya Nadella at Microsoft Build 2023. While I could not afford a new MacBook Pro (got a new Mac Mini, it’s nice but not portable), I seriously need a new Microsoft Surface Book laptop for Q# Programming. Got some recommendations? Please let me know.

Until Next Time!

JETLAG RADIO 855 | BENKYO RADIO 855

  • 28 Years Later, Windows Finally Supports RAR Files [Slashdot.org]

  • What Jack Smith knows [AXIOS]

  • Microsoft Build brings AI tools to the forefront for developers [TechMeme]

  • Starbucks and Unilever are sourcing tea from plantations linked to rights abuse [Quartz]

  • The “return to the office” won’t save the office [Vox]

  • Electric hypercar Rimac Nevera smashes 23 performance records in a single day [TheNextWeb]

  • With His New Show, Masaharu Morimoto Wants to Break the Rules of the Sushi Bar [Eater]

  • 3 Years After George Floyd, Has Anything Changed for Black Founders?Promises, commitments, and pledges abounded in the wake of George Floyd's murder. Now, three years later, Black founders reflect on the changes they've witnessed--and those they've had to drive themselves. [Inc.]

  • Honolulu is suing Big Oil over climate change—and it just got a major boost from the U.S. Supreme Court [Fast Company]

  • The Real Reason Japanese People Apologize Frequently [Medium]

  • How Amplified Marketing Can Maximize Creativity and Drive Results [Entrepreneur]

  • Generative AI Podcasts Are Here. Prepare to be Bored [WIRED]

  • MacBreak Weekly 871 [TWIT]

  • Introducing a new era of AI-powered ads with Google [Google Blog]

  • Larger language models do in-context learning differently [Google Research]

  • House Within a House [Poetry Foundation]

  • How do we draw alien planets? [Astronomy Magazine]

  • Design for a Circular Economy – openSAP FREE Course (Teaser) [SAP] #SAP

    What’s up, everybody! Here are JETLAG RADIO 855 & BENKYO RADIO 855. As you may have heard, due to the extremely long elongation of the unwilling of hiring due to discrimination against Mental Health, I am looking at other fields, including “Le Service Public” in France. Here’s a description of what that means. Yes, it’s in French.

Until Next Time!