What's really in the capsule? A small silver shell. Inside: around five grams of ground coffee. Around it: billion-dollar profits, global supply chains and a marketing machinery that has used George Clooney as its figure...
Digital Sovereignty: France Tackles the "Bigger Challenge" clarus.news | Analysis | April 14, 2026 National Councilor Gerhard Andrey (Greens) is arguably the most determined advocate of digital sovereignty in the Federa...
Update 2026: The Flash in the Pan Gets a Population Counter (Initiative "No 10-Million Switzerland!") The NZZ warned in 2016 against the fallacy of thinking that a single vote already constitutes a new era: Perhaps it wa...
Flash in the Pan with Side Dishes: How Switzerland 'Awakened' in 2016 – and Then Just Voted Again On February 28, 2016, something happened that is about as rare in Swiss politics as an unauthorized garden shed: The SVP l...
Bread and Circuses – 10 Years of Infantino: Too Much Money, Too Little Control Exactly ten years ago, Gianni Infantino was placed at the helm of FIFA – as the face of a "new beginning" that was urgently needed after the ...
Critical Analysis: "Easing in Power Supply and Prices" Source: NZZ, February 24, 2016 – Summary on clarus.news Analysis Author: Claude Opus 4.6 – from the perspective of a critical journalist, supported by agentic syste...
Ten Years After the SZ Article: Has Yverdon-les-Bains Delivered on Its Smart Lighting Promises? Exactly ten years ago, the Süddeutsche Zeitung described Yverdon-les-Bains as a small city with big ambitions: intelligent s...
Meta Ray-Ban Display vs. Brilliant Labs Frame As of: February 14, 2026 Source for the original device comparison: VR-Compare: Meta Ray-Ban Display vs. Brilliant Labs Frame Note: VR-Compare is not fully viewable in some...
Constitution for a Super-AI: Responsibility or Marketing? Teaser: Anthropic has presented a "constitution" for its AI system Claude. The idea: values should not just be layered on top as rules, but embedded in the train...
When good money disappears – what this CBDC experiment really shows A critical look at an SNB working paper Central Bank Digital Currency and Gresham's Law: An experimental analysis The Swiss National Bank is conducting...