On this week’s “Marketplace Tech Bytes: Week in Review,” Marketplace’s Nova Safo and Paresh Dave, senior writer at WIRED, discuss Amazon releasing its 1 millionth robot at one of its warehouses. Plus, lawmakers contended with provisions dealing with artificial intelligence and renewable energy in that big tax and spending bill, recently passed by Congress, that consumed Washington this week.
The Daily - How The Megabill Will Change America
After months of debate, weeks of tense negotiations and 24 hours of Republican arm-twisting, President Trump has muscled his giant domestic-policy bill through both chambers of Congress.
It’s a major legislative victory for the president that paves the way for much of his second-term agenda, and it will have profound impacts across the country.
The Times journalists Tony Romm, Andrew Duehren and Margot Sanger-Katz discuss what the legislation changes, and those whose lives it will change the most.
Guest:
- Tony Romm, a reporter covering economic policy and the Trump administration for The New York Times, based in Washington.
- Andrew Duehren, who writes about tax policy for The New York Times from Washington.
- Margot Sanger-Katz, a reporter for The New York Times who covers health care policy and government spending.
Background reading:
- Trump’s policy bill cleared Congress after House Republicans quelled revolt from some of their members.
- Our reporters answered nine questions about the bill, including who benefits and who gets hurt.
- See how the bill could affect your taxes, health care and other finances.
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NPR's Book of the Day - Kevin Kwan explores race and identity in ‘Sex and Vanity’ and ‘Lies and Weddings’
Today's encore episode features two interviews with Kevin Kwan, author of the Crazy Rich Asians series. First, former NPR host Lulu Garcia-Navarro spoke to the writer in 2020 about Sex and Vanity, exploring identity through the lens of a biracial character and setting a new trilogy between Europe and the U.S. Then, Here & Now's Robin Young asks Kwan about his newest novel, Lies and Weddings, and his thoughts on the fascination with wealth and power in literature.
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The Intelligence from The Economist - Oh Keir! Labour’s torrid first year
After a landslide victory and promises for radical renewal, Britain’s Labour government is failing in policy and popularity. Our correspondents explain why. Nearly a year after the despotic prime minister of Bangladesh fled, an interview with its new leader on the country’s complex challenges. And why other carmakers struggle to catch up with Ferrari.
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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - The Terrifying Tale of Aum Shinrikyo, Chapter Two: “Save The World By Ending It”
As the Aum Shinrikyo movements gains national, then global, attention, the founder Shoko Asahara begins to move his followers in a darker direction. Convinced that the world can only truly be saved through mass casualty events, Asahara first predicts massive disasters -- and then orders his followers to create these events themselves. In chapter two of this strange two-part series, Ben and Matt learn how Aum committed multiple acts of terror, murder, extortion and fraud leading up to their infamous sarin attacks on the Tokyo subway... and what happened to the cult in the aftermath.
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Alabama
- GOP House members for AL all vote in favor of passing the Big Beautiful Bill
- AL Supreme Court rules in favor of police immunity in Selma lawsuit
- Homewood Council member and mayoral candidate call on ALEA to release body camera footage to family of Jabari Peoples
- The mayor of Five Points, Jeff Monroe, to run for House District 37 seat
- Former president of AL Baptist Children's Home, Paul Miller, dies at age of 83
- AG Marshall praises 1819 News for coverage of legal fight over VCAP law
National
- SCOTUS to consider state laws that ban transgender athletes in female sports
- Dept. of Labor reports 147K new jobs on payroll for month of June
- Paramount and CBS to settle with Trump over deceptive editing of interview
- EPA director places 144 employees on leave for undermining Trump agenda
- Border czar Homan says BBB will help greatly in deportation efforts
- House Speaker delivers victory speech after House passes Big Beautiful Bill right before July 4th
Money Girl - Should My First Home Be an Investment Property?
Laura answers a listener's question about the pros and cons of buying a rental property before a first home.
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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Chinese Communist Revolution
The 19th Century wasn’t a good one for China. It was marked by the nation being taken advantage of by foreign powers and the signing of lopsided treaties.
The 20th Century started out promising, but eventually devolved into a series of warlords and a civil war between two major forces for control of the country, on top of the Japanese occupation of most of the country.
When the dust settled in 1949, the victors were the Communists. China and the world haven’t been the same since.
Learn more about the Chinese Communist Revolution, why it happened, and how the Communists won on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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Unexpected Elements - Cargo ships, chemical spills and caribou
The X-Press Pearl shipping disaster takes us on a voyage through shipping-related science.
First, we learn about how pollution from the X-Press Pearl explosion impacted the foundation of the marine food web – plankton. We also hear about an innovative system that can help slash the shipping industry’s greenhouse gas emissions.
And we take a short trip in a time-machine back to the Stone Age, where biological anthropologist Professor Yousuke Kaifu from the University of Tokyo explains what it takes to recreate a Palaeolithic voyage from Taiwan to the Ryukyu Archipelago.
We also look at how artificial intelligence could help Canadian caribou cross sea ice, the science of lightning and thunder, and the tricky disputes around shipwrecks and treasure.
All that, plus many more Unexpected Elements. Presenter: Marnie Chesterton, with Meral Jamal and Godfred Boafo Producer: Alice Lipscombe-Southwell, Minnie Harrop and Imaan Moin
CoinDesk Podcast Network - THE MINING POD: ASIC Market Update, Hut 8 / American Bitcoin Business Updates, Tether’s New Mining Venture, 50 EH/s Club
For this week’s news roundup, we cover trends in the ASIC market, a series of business updates from Hut 8, and Tether’s latest mining venture.
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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Colin and Matt are joined by Ethan Vera, the COO of Luxor Technology, to talk about Hut 8's 205 MW Vega facility and its 310 MW deal to deliver electricity to Ontario. Plus, American Bitcoin's $220 million fundraise, an ASIC market update, Tether's surprise mining expansion into Brazil, and how just four public companies now control nearly a quarter of Bitcoin's total hash rate.
**Notes:**
• Difficulty dropped 7.48% after US heat wave
• American Bitcoin raised $220M private placement
• Hut 8 secured 310MW deal with Ontario to supply electricity via natural gas plant
• Four miners control 200+ exahashes (~20% network)
• ASIC prices are decoupling from hashprice movements
• Tether goes in on mining venture in Brazil
Timestamps:
00:00 Start
02:00 Difficulty Report by Luxor
05:32 Hut 8 energizes Vega
06:22 Hut 8 310 MW electricity deal in Ontario
13:57 American Bitcoin raises $220M
18:22 ASIC market update with Ethan
26:33 Antminer S23 market
31:07 China ban reverse rumors
32:09 Tether in Brazil
38:20 50 EH/s club
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