The death of the $8 coffee! As pricey Starbucks scales back, $2 java jolts from Chinese coffee giants are the hot new NYC way to wake up

New Yorkers tired of being overcharged for coffee are turning away from Starbucks and other increasingly pricey shops — ...
The Manila Times

The many dimensions of Raffi Kasparian

Few artists can speak with equal fluency about Chopin and polyhedra, about concert halls and computer code. Raffi Kasparian has built a life at the intersection of music and mathematics — a concert ...
Joy of Android

GitHub Games and the Open Approach to Game Development

GitHub games are open-source projects for testing gameplay ideas, sharing code, and collaborating publicly outside ...
Live Bitcoin News

Cardano Rosetta Java v2.1.0: Governance Just Got Real

Cardano Rosetta Java v2.1.0 is live with full Conway-era governance support, SPO Voting, DRep Delegation, and CIP-129 across all endpoints.
InfoQ

OpenAI Codex-Spark Achieves Ultra-Fast Coding Speeds on Cerebras Hardware

In a major shift in its hardware strategy, OpenAI launched GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark, its first production AI model deployed on ...
InfoQ

Vercel Releases React Best Practices Skill with 40+ Performance Rules for AI Agents

Vercel has launched "react-best-practices," an open-source repository featuring 40+ performance optimization rules for React and Next.js apps. Tailored for AI coding agents yet valuable for developers ...
NPR

Code Switch

What's CODE SWITCH? It's the fearless conversations about race that you've been waiting for. Hosted by journalists of color, our podcast tackles the subject of race with empathy and humor. We explore ...