🎯 Joe Biden: My Plan for Fighting Inflation

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Joe Biden: My Plan for Fighting Inflation. The global economy faces serious challenges. Inflation is elevated, exacerbated by Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine. Energy markets are in turmoil. Supply chains that haven't fully healed are causing shortages and price hikes. Americans are anxious. (Joseph R. Biden Jr. / Wall Street Journal)

Steve Inskeep @NPRinskeep

In a WSJ op-ed, Biden asserts “the job market is the strongest since the post-World War II era” and adds that “the U.S. economy may grow faster this year than China’s economy for the first time since 1976.” on.wsj.com/3M2UEix

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DeLorean offers a first look at its gull-winged Alpha 5 EV revival. DeLorean Motor Company has revealed the first images of the Alpha 5 electric vehicle (EV), the brand's attempt at resurrecting the DeLorean name in an all-electric form. Staying true to the classic ‘80s-era DeLorean known for its appearance… (Emma Roth / The Verge)

Fernando Barbella @FLBarbella

#cars #design Well, @deloreanmotorco revealed the first images of the Alpha 5 electric vehicle, the brand’s attempt at resurrecting the #DeLorean name in an all-electric form. theverge.com/2022/5/30/2314…

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How censoring China's open-source coders might backfire. “Code review in OSS is about improving the code quality and building trust between developers. Adding politics to the code review will hurt both, and eventually roll back the open-source movement in China,” says Han Xiao, the… (Zeyi Yang via MIT Technology Review)

Zeyi Yang 杨泽毅 @ZeyiYang

My latest: Code was supposed to be apolitical, but all open-source code on Gitee, China's answer to reduce its dependence on Microsoft-owned GitHub, now needs to be manually reviewed. And the developers' community does not like that. @techreview

technologyreview.comHow censoring China’s open-source coders might backfireMany suspect the Chinese state has forced Gitee, the Chinese competitor to GitHub, to censor open-source code in a move developers worry could obstruct innovation.

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U.S. Retakes Top Spot in Supercomputer Race. The United States has regained a coveted speed crown in computing with a powerful new supercomputer in Tennessee, a milestone for the technology that plays a major role in science, medicine and other fields. Frontier, the name of the massive… (Don Clark / The New York Times)

John Preskill @preskill

"Frontier, the ... massive machine at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, was declared on Monday to be the first to demonstrate ... [a billion billion] operations per second in a set of standard tests used by researchers to rank supercomputers."

nytimes.comU.S. Retakes Top Spot in Supercomputer RaceA massive machine in Tennessee has been deemed the world’s speediest. Experts say two supercomputers in China may be faster, but the country didn’t participate in the rankings.

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Remembering Apple's Newton, 30 years on. Thirty years ago, on May 29, 1992, Apple announced its most groundbreaking and revolutionary product yet, the Newton MessagePad. It was released to great fanfare a year later, but as a product, it could only be described as a flop. Widely mocked in… (Jeremy Reimer / Ars Technica)

David Dunham @radiofreelunch

“Some features were ahead of their time. For example, the Newton came with support for reading ebooks a full fourteen years before the launch of Amazon’s Kindle store.” That’s the part Scott Shwarts and I worked on! arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/0… #Newton

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