Series context: This is Part 7 of the E-commerce Order Allocation series. The distance matrix built here feeds directly into the OR-Tools VRP solver in Part 6.
Answer-first: For 1 warehouse + 100 delivery stops, you need 10,201 pairwise distances. Self-hosting GraphHopper or OSRM on a $20/month VPS delivers…
Noah and Ari recap Week 1 of the 2026 FIFA World Cup: Seattle's case as a top host city, plus the latest Seattle Sounders training updates
Everything ran green for ninety days.
Then one Tuesday the lead dashboard was empty, and the first person to notice was the sales lead at nine in the morning, wondering where the overnight leads went.
The flow logic was fine. It had not changed. Nothing in the workflow was broken.
A credential rotated, and the workflow had no idea.
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As announced in this blog post on June 18, 2026, Gemini CLI and Gemini Code Assist IDE extensions will stop serving requests for Google AI Pro and Ultra, as well as those using it free of charge using Gemini Code Assist for individuals. Google is unifying its AI terminal tools by transitioning the community-focused Gemini CLI into Antigravity CLI, a new agent-first platform built for complex,…
Apple execs are now acknowledging the company is going to need to raises prices to cope with higher component costs, particularly memory. Apple has been battling to avoid doing so, but warned this week that those efforts are “unsustainable.”
The price pressure is being felt across the tech industry. Omdia predicts the average selling price (ASP) of smartphones globally will increase by around…
So IFTTT shipped MCP support. That means you can control your automations, list applets, edit triggers, run queries... all through the Model Context Protocol. In theory, any MCP-capable AI assistant can now talk directly to IFTTT.
In practice? Not quite.
Right now, IFTTT officially supports only Claude and ChatGPT as AI assistant integrations. You go to Settings → Connectors in Claude, or…
As South Africa marked the 50th anniversary of the Soweto Uprising this Youth Day, PURA Beverage Co joined community members in Soweto for the Freedom Ride, a cycling event that brought together nearly 100 riders to commemorate the day.
Led by a convoy of PURA vans, cyclists travelled a 10-kilometre route through Soweto, passing landmarks including Vilakazi Street. Riders ranged from…
Shawn Layden, que fue un importante directivo de PlayStation, ha cargado contra XBOX y las últimas decisiones que podrían traer cierres de estudios y despidos.
Microsoft está en plena transformación de XBOX, y se prevén cierre de estudios, despidos o venta de equipos. Shawn Layden, que fue jefe de PlayStation Studios, se ha pronunciado sobre la situación.
Layden ha sido crítico con XBOX…
From the archives: How mainstream economics is driving the climate disaster
Lobbing Scorchers’ Noah Riffe welcomes a very special guest to the show: Congressman Adam Smith of Washington's 9th District, ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee, for an interview covering soccer, immigration policy, the U.S. war with Iran, and the future of American soccer development. Smith shares stories from attending the first-ever event at the Kingdome (Sounders versus the…
Beth Tschida, who became Jamf CEO in May after serving as CTO and as interim CEO, is the first woman to lead the company in its near 25-year history. I spoke with her this week at the London Jamf Nation event, where the company introduced its new AI Governance solution.
“It’s been a great privilege and an adjustment,” she said. “Jamf has always been a…
by Blake HC Mihm | We’re all just doing our best.
Welcome to the one hundred sixty-eighth edition of the Japan FinTech Observer. This week, we are excited to have new subscribers join us from BlackRock, DZ BANK AG, the Kazakhstan Stock Exchange, Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, and Rakuten, among others 🙏
The Bank of Japan concluded its June Monetary Policy Meeting today (June 16). Please allow me to quote UBS' Chief Economist Paul Donovan: "As…
Most AI initiatives in communications do not fail because the tools fail. They fade because nobody owned the change. This final article in the series is about the difference between a clever pilot and a capability that lasts.
_This story was originally published by Uncloseted Media, an LGBTQ focused investigative news outlet._
Julius Shan remembers sitting at his desk last August and opening an email that caught him by surprise: “Please find attached the memo terminating your employment with Microsoft, effective immediately.”
“It was kind of a shock, but it was also kind of a relief to be fired,” he told…
Europe’s evangelistic approach to insisting Apple open up personal data to competing AI services is hurting Apple users in the region. More than that, it also places its entire business sector at risk, and a newly-published Jamf survey suggests why.
Announced at WWDC 2026, Apple Intelligence/Siri AI relies on personal, contextual data to run. Europe wants that same information to be made…
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CocoaRadar Dutch Week: Amsterdam is the world's largest cocoa port, though most locals have no idea. Over coffee with two veteran traders and a deep dive into the data, I ask one question: with things getting more complicated and expensive, will the Port still be relevant in the future?
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Shamrock Rovers defender Pico Lopes and his Cape Verde teammates will face Spain, Uruguay and Saudi Arabia in Group H.
The U.S. government made Anthropic pull its two most capable AI models over a narrow jailbreak that defenders use daily. Who can switch off a model used by millions, and on what evidence, should not sit inside a Cabinet that is also the company's antagonist.
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Apple’s executives have been taking questions, hosting seminars, seemingly working around the clock to stress one very important thing: Apple is not using a white label version of Google Gemini to make Siri AI happen. They just pooled resources to get there.
The new Siri AI is faster, more accurate, offers powerful contextual capabilities and shows how Apple has leap-frogged into a good peer…
Thursday marked a landmark day for grassroots football in Soweto as Hisense South Africa officially launched the development of a new community soccer pitch, using the moment to send a powerful message of support from the community to Bafana Bafana.
Held at the iconic Soweto Towers, the event marked the beginning of a long-term project that will create a safe, inspiring and purpose-built…
As South Africa marks Youth Month, the conversation around young people’s futures must move beyond opportunities alone to the systems, skills, and support needed to help them build sustainable careers. In sectors such as logistics and supply chain, this means creating clearer pathways between potential and participation, ensuring that young people are equipped not only to enter the world of…
Yazi's WhatsApp-based research uncovers widespread financial sacrifice, borrowing and loss-chasing behaviours among South African online gamblers
A new national study conducted by local research technology company Yazi has revealed concerning insights into the realities of online gambling in South Africa, uncovering a pattern of financial sacrifice, informal borrowing and loss-chasing…
Under-the-hood AI changes and efficiency improvements at the OS layer across Apple’s platforms are certainly the highlights at WWDC 2026. But there have also been significant changes IT admins will need to prepare for, particularly around Declarative Device Management (DDM).
Apple warned us this was coming, but macOS 27 will not support Intel at all. The company…
How certain species became a scapegoat for capitalism
Apple Silicon Macs fail at less than half the rate of Intel Macs, dramatically reducing the platform’s already industry-leading total cost of ownership (TCO), according to data revealed by London, UK-based Apple reseller Hoxton Macs.
While it’s true the data is based on a relatively small sample group, it does seem to reflect what the industry in general sees.
by Sheri Venema | Not-so-young love.