“The first mostly non-human-run McDonald’s is open for business just outside Fort Worth, Texas,” reports the Guardian. CNN calls it “an almost fully-automated restaurant,” noting there’s just one self-service kiosk (with a credit card reader) for ordering food. McDonalds tells CNN there’s “some interaction between customers and the restaurant team” Read more…
Israeli researchers say they have developed gene-edited hens that lay eggs from which only female chicks hatch. The breakthrough could prevent the slaughter of billions of male chickens each year, which are culled because they don’t lay eggs. The female chicks, and the eggs they lay when they mature, have Read more…
What if the U.S. placed a tax on robots? The concept has been publicly discussed by policy analysts, scholars, and Bill Gates (who favors the notion). Because robots can replace jobs, the idea goes, a stiff tax on them would give firms incentive to help retain workers, while also compensating Read more…
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The Indian central bank’s governor said on Wednesday that it’s not at war with crypto, but asserted that cryptocurrencies have no underlying fundamentals and their usage should be prohibited. RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das told a room packed with banking executives and lawmakers that crypto has a huge inherent risk to Read more…
Karl Sebastian Greenwood, co-founder of sham “Bitcoin-killer” OneCoin, pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal court to charges of conspiring to defraud investors and to launder money. “Greenwood was arrested in Thailand in July 2018 and subsequently extradited to the US,” reports The Register. “OneCoin’s other co-founder, ‘Cryptoqueen’ Ruja Ignatova (Dr. Ruja Read more…
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