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Seventy-five years ago this week, Jay Forrester filed the patent that would become the foundation of modern computer memory. His Magnetic Core Memory, developed out of MIT's Project Whirlwind, was eventually granted as a United States patent in February of nineteen fifty-six. Before Forrester's invention, reliable, fast memory was the bottleneck strangling early computing — his work cracked that problem open and set the stage for everything that followed.
Shifting to a policy story with real consequences, the UK's Government Digital Service has entered the debate over the National Health Service's quiet retreat from open source software. The NHS had been moving toward proprietary systems, and GDS is pushing back, arguing that transparency and shared infrastructure matter especially in public health technology. It's a tension playing out in governments worldwide — between the convenience of vendor contracts and the long-term value of software you actually control.
And at the drive-thru, artificial intelligence is no longer a novelty. McDonald's was among the first major chains to experiment with AI chatbots taking orders back in twenty twenty-one, and according to a new analysis from The Verge, that was just the opening move. The technology is now spreading across the fast food industry in ways that touch hiring, operations, and how millions of people interact with a brand every single day.
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