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Forget the Apple tax, this is the AI tax
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- June 28, 2026
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Apple’s decision to raise prices in response to memory cost increases is not unique to the company. If Apple has to do it, everyone else will as well. Apple announced stiff price increases Thursday — up to 25% in some cases — that extended across most products, including refurbished Macs and iPads (which saw prices increase up to […]
High costs, slow returns: The brutal truths of running a gym in Singapore
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- June 28, 2026
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Thinking of opening a gym? Don’t expect quick money. Running a gym in Singapore is not cheap. When Vulcan Post spoke to Ryan Cheal, Group Chief Operating Officer of Inspire Brands Asia—the exclusive regional master franchisee of Anytime Fitness (AF)—in Jan 2026, he shared that it takes up to US$450,000 to become a franchisee of an […]
Open-source tool pxpipe hides text in PNGs to cut Claude Code and Fable 5 token costs up to 70%
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- July 5, 2026
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The open-source tool pxpipe converts long text prompts for Claude Code into compact PNGs, exploiting the fact that Anthropic charges for images by pixel size, not text content. Developer Steven Chong reports cost savings of 59 to 70 percent, at the price of accuracy and speed. The article Open-source tool pxpipe hides text in PNGs […]