The Daily Populous

Wednesday January 10th, 2018 morning edition

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Jack in the Box says it's considering swapping some cashiers with self-ordering kiosks and other tech as minimum wages increase.

"As we see the rising costs of labor, it just makes sense," Jack in the Box's CEO said.

ORLANDO, Florida — Jack in the Box says it is considering swapping some cashiers with robots as the minimum wage rises in California.

"As we see the rising costs of labor, it just makes sense" to consider adding new automated technology, CEO Leonard Comma said Tuesday at the ICR Conference.

But with minimum wages increasing, Jack in the Box is reconsidering the use of kiosks and other technology, Comma said.

Minimum wages areincreasing in 18 states in 2018, including California, where the West Coast-centric Jack in the Box is based.

McDonald's is adding kiosks to 2,500 stores, though it pledged not to replace cashiers with kiosks. »

I penned the suckiest movie ever – sorry!

Authored by nypost.com
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Actually, comparing it to a train wreck isn’t really fair to train wrecks, because people actually want to watch those.

Nonetheless, Karen called me a few days later asking if I’d be interested in turning any of L. Ron Hubbard’s books into movies.

I researched Scientology before signing on to the movie, to make sure I wasn’t making anything that would indoctrinate people. »

With ingestible pill, you can track fart development in real time on your phone

Authored by arstechnica.com
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The team developed an ingestible electronic capsule to monitor gas levels in the human gut.

When it’s paired with a pocket-sized receiver and a mobile phone app, the pill reports tail-wind conditions in real time as it passes from the stomach to the colon.

The researchers, led by Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh of RMIT University and Peter Gibson of Monash University, reported their invention Monday in Nature Electronics. »

No tracking, no revenue: Apple's privacy feature costs ad companies millions

Authored by theguardian.com
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Internet advertising firms are losing hundreds of millions of dollars following the introduction of a new privacy feature from Apple that prevents users from being tracked around the web.

With annual revenue in 2016 topping $730m, the overall cost of the privacy feature on just one company is likely to be in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

Dennis Buchheim, general manager of the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s Tech Lab, said that the feature would impact the industry widely. »