Author: Ken Roberts

  • The Dollar Dips—and Everyone Starts Sweating

    Trade war chatter is back on the table. With new tariffs hitting China, Canada, and Mexico, the U.S. dollar just dropped to a three-month low, and the S&P gave back every gain it made since the election. Global markets? Not happy. If you’re running tech on imported hardware—or using vendors who are—you’re going to feel…

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  • Layoffs Are the New “Strategy”—And It’s Getting Old

    nother day, another dozen layoff memos. Meta, Microsoft, Stripe, Wayfair, Starbucks, CNN… the list keeps growing. The reasons? “Restructuring,” “strategic alignment,” or the classic: “efficiency through AI.” Let’s cut the corporate-speak. What’s happening is consolidation. These companies are swapping people for platforms, and spinning it as innovation. But real innovation doesn’t leave thousands jobless without…

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  • The AI Action Summit—Big Ideas, Bigger Problems

    Macron and Modi just wrapped the AI Action Summit in Paris. Compared to the UK’s safety-focused gathering last year, this one was all about cash: jobs, investments, GDP. Europe’s throwing €200B into InvestAI, and France is claiming €110B more. That’s a lot of Euros. But here’s the thing: none of this means anything without regulation…

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  • Blue Origin’s Lunar Gravity Test Is a Quiet Breakthrough

    Blue Origin pulled off a sneaky-big win with the NS-29 mission. No crew, no flashy livestream—but inside that capsule? NASA was simulating lunar gravity by spinning it mid-flight. It’s not flashy, but it’s critical. Why? Because if we’re serious about putting people on the moon long-term, we need to know how water flows, bubbles form,…

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  • Switch 2 Is Coming—And Nintendo Might Outsmart the Market Again

    Nintendo finally confirmed it. The Switch 2 is real, it’s coming this year, and it’s not trying to be a PS5. It’s sticking with that hybrid handheld model—and doing it smarter. Bigger screen, Wi-Fi 6, USB-C, and yes, backward compatibility. For all the buzz about raw specs, Nintendo is playing the long game: community, accessibility,…

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  • TSMC’s AI Chip Boom—And Why It Should Make You Nervous

    TSMC just posted monster gains—revenue up 39% in the first two months of 2025, driven by sky-high demand for AI chips. They’re also dropping $100 billion more into their Arizona expansion. That’s right, Brother—$165B total, right here in our own desert backyard. Now, as a longtime Arizona tech guy, I should be cheering. But let’s…

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