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July 28, 2026
Weekly Economic News Roundup and 6 AI facts
July 28, 2026
6 Facts: What It’s Nice To Know About AI

Although there are countless things we could learn about AI, through just six facts, we can learn some handy information.

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April 17, 2026
Weekly Economic News Roundup andWaymo autonomous vehicle
April 17, 2026
How Can an Auto Be Ethical?

For self-driving cars to become normal, we will need to build an infrastruce that welcomes them and also solve the trolley problem.

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April 3, 2026
Weekly Economic News Roundup and Chipotle automated food preparation
April 3, 2026
A Robot That Will Make You Go “Holy Guacamole”

Through its new Autocado, Chipotle's automated food preparation is supposed to improve the employee and customer experience.

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March 8, 2026
minimum wage hikes
March 8, 2026
How Robots Relate to the Minimum Wage

A a recent study reported employers' decisions when they had the choice between a higher minimum wage or labor-replacing capital.

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September 2, 2025
Anguila's AI url
September 2, 2025
Where the AI Domain Became a Moneymaker

Reflecting the benefits of standardization, the random assignment of a domain for the URL of a small island became a massive moneymaker.

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July 10, 2025
lWeekly Economic News Roundup and ength of the day and earth's rotation
July 10, 2025
Why Do We Need a Leap Second?

While we are just talking milliseconds, the earth's rotation changes the length of the day enough to need leap seconds.

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December 30, 2024
resounding economic numbers
December 30, 2024
Three Random (and Resounding) Numbers From 2024

Because we "treasure what we measure," Nvidia, South Korea, and the U.S. have three resounding economic numbers.

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November 17, 2024
AI productivity
November 17, 2024
When Your Date Is an AI Clone

With the cost of artificial intelligence ( AI ) skyrocketing as it even spreads to dating apps, we can ask if AI productivity will justify the massive spending.

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May 2, 2024
Weekly Economic News Roundup and chickens' welfare
May 2, 2024
What AI Says About a Cluck

Trying to decipher chickens' welfare, we can look to AI for harnessing massive amounts of cluck and squawk data.

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January 22, 2024
Weekly Economic News Roundup and lunar time
January 22, 2024
Why the Moon Race Reminds Us of Instacart

In a new moon race this year, five private companies' lunar landers were supposed to transport NASA devices to the moon.

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December 27, 2023
de minimis exemption
December 27, 2023
The Afterlife of All We Return

Accepted as a normal part of online shopping, our return behavior is easy for us but is much more complex for sellers.

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December 22, 2023
Sant's delivery schedule
December 22, 2023
Comparing Santa and Amazon

Comparing Santa and Amazon, we can use statistics that reveal equally amazing statistics about package volume.

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