A sleeve, a collar, soles, or laces — these elements of your wardrobe vary and define your style. But it takes many steps to get them from a factory into your closet.
How does something like a t-shirt become a finished product?
About 97 percent of clothing and footwear in the U.S. is imported, according to the American Apparel and Footwear Association. Those imports are mostly from Asian countries including China, Vietnam, Bangladesh, and India.
We unpack it in this installment of our series, "How Did This Get Here," where we follow the supply chains and costs associated with some of your favorite products.
Dave Portnoy, Barstool Sports founder aka stoolpresidente, joins CoinDesk to give his review on digital assets with a focus on the memecoins gamble. Plus, Portnoy reveals the best pizza spot in Toronto ahead of Consensus 2025.
Dave Portnoy will be joining CoinDesk at Consensus 2025 in Toronto from May 14-16. Get your tickets here: https://consensus2025.coindesk.com/
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Thousands queue to see Pope Francis lying in state in St Peter's Basilica. His body remains there until his funeral. Also: the EU hands Apple and Meta hefty fines under digital competition laws, and 20 years of YouTube.
Journalist Jonathan Foreman joins the podcast today for a deep look at his seminal May 2025 COMMENTARY lead article, "The Untold Story of How Israel Failed on October 7." We also begin by discussing the belly-up nature of the Trump "I'll end the Russia-Ukraine war in a day" fantasy. Give a listen.
The stock market is open with wind at its back. The Dow is up 2.8%, the S&P 500 is up 3.3%, and the Nasdaq is 4.1%. Market participants attribute this to President Doanld Trump saying he's not going to fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. What should we make of this all? Also on the show: a look at Tesla stock movements and an idea to spur spending among China's retirees.
By May 7, all U.S. citizens are supposed to have their federally required “Real ID” so that they can travel by air or enter a federal building. But what about using them to register to vote to ensure they are legally present in the country and eligible to vote in our elections?
The SAVE Act, introduced by Republican Texas Rep. (and University of Virginia alumnus) Chip Roy, recently passed the U.S. House of Representatives and now is awaiting action in the Senate. The SAVE Act, among other things, would require proof of citizenship for voter registration in federal elections and strengthen verification processes to ensure voter rolls only contained eligible citizen voters.
The Daily Signal sat down with former Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security, former Virginia Attorney General, and current National Chairman of the Election Transparency Initiative Ken Cuccinelli to talk about the bill’s likelihood of making it to President Donald Trump’s desk.
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Dylan Patel is the founder and CEO of SemiAnalysis. He joins Big Technology Podcast to explain how generative AI work, explaining the inner workings of tokens, pre-training, fine-tuning, open source, and reasoning. We also cover DeepSeek’s efficiency breakthrough, the race to build colossal AI data centers, and what GPT-5’s hybrid training approach could unlock. Hit play for a masterclass you’ll want to send to every friend puzzled (or excited) about the future of AI.
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Today we’re talking Pope and the odds for each of the contenders. If you want a quick way to catch up with who the choices might be and what they represent politically, please tune in! Who is the continuation candidate? Who is the lib? And who is the arch right winger who only talks like an Elon Musk reply guy?
And we talk a bit about the Trump coalition and whether or not it might be feeling a bit shaky after all this chaos. Enjoy!
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Why were Tunisian opposition figures jailed on terror and conspiracy charges ?
Are new cybersecurity laws in Zambia really aimed at quashing political dissent ?
And Pope Francis remembered by someone who knew him
Presenter: Charles Gitonga
Producers: Frenny Jowi in Nairobi with Tom Kavanagh, Victor Sylver, Yvette Twagiramariya and Bella Hassan in London
Technical Producer: Philip Bull
Senior Producer: Paul Bakibinga
Editors: Andre Lombard and Alice Muthengi
Matt and Amine, co-founders of Arch Network, discuss their recent $13M Series A led by Pantera Capital, how their technology enhances Bitcoin programmability, and their unique approaches to virtual machine architecture and validator consensus.
Matt and Amine, co-founders of Arch Network, join us to talk about their recent $13M Series A funding round led by Pantera Capital. They explain how Arch differentiates itself from other Bitcoin L2s by enabling programmability on Bitcoin with their custom VM and FROST/ROAST threshold signature schemes. The founders discuss their approach to solving Bitcoin's programming limitations, creating a dynamic validator system that can scale over time, and building applications like DEXs and prediction markets directly on Bitcoin. They also share insights from their testnet phase and outline their roadmap toward mainnet launch.
- Aims for instant finality vs Bitcoin's 10 minutes
- Uses transaction dependency graph for rollbacks
- Mainnet launch expected around June/July 2025
Timestamps:
00:00 Start
00:35 Pantera Capital raise
01:57 Building Arch last 2 yrs
04:04 VC finally funding BTC dev
07:37 Arch ecosystem
09:07 Arch dev verticals
13:25 Distributed validator set
15:04 Arch ad read
15:36 Arch Virtual Machine
17:33 Developer adoption new VM
20:19 Builder reception
21:50 Testnet learnings
24:26 Under the hood of Arch
25:51 Bitcoin MEV
29:05 Apps for Arch
31:14 Migrating L1 assets to Arch
33:27 Wen Arch token
35:09 The future
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