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Mind the Gap: Nobody Bothered To Update The Fridges
Mind the Gap: Nobody Bothered To Update The Fridges
[serious] A night-shift manager at an Intermarché supermarket outside Lyon walks in Tuesday morning and the first thing she notices is the smell. The deli case reads twenty-two degrees Celsius. The freezer aisle is dripping. [concerned] Seven hundred stores. All at once. Refrigerators — the things we literally never think about — hacked, cranked to max heat. Food spoiled, and in some cases... fire...
In today's episode, Alex and Maya explore
15 Oct 2026
Mind the Gap: The Robot Hand Problem
Mind the Gap: The Robot Hand Problem
[curious] Picture this. Elon Musk is standing on stage at a Tesla robotics demo, holding up a mechanical hand — five articulated fingers, twenty-seven degrees of freedom — and he says, out loud, to a room full of engineers... [amused] Let me guess. 'It's the hardest thing we've ever done'?...
In today's episode, Alex and Maya explore how Toronto's economy, AI's rapid evolution, and behavioural science intersect — and what it all means for how we live and wo
14 Oct 2026
Mind the Gap: The Chip That Learned To See
Mind the Gap: The Chip That Learned To See
[whispering] Picture this. A woman in a clinic — she has Stargardt disease, which means the center of her vision has been dissolving since she was a teenager. She hasn't seen a face clearly in years. [serious] And yesterday, at TechCrunch Disrupt, Max Hodak — the former co-founder of Neuralink — stood on stage and described the moment his company, Science Corporation, switched on a chip they'd imp...
In today's episode, Alex and Maya explore how Toron
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