Blockchain. Crypto. It's happening to investments, currency, food trucks. Yes, payments are possible

with crypto now. But it's not just happening to tortilla chips. Also, microchips. You can trade

tokenized real world and digital assets. So it's happening to assets, trading, industries,

economies, and pretty much everything else. And it's happening with Ripple.

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Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

Britain has some of the world's top AI talent, but it's been slower to develop the ultra-fast machines those engineers need. Now our correspondent visits a car park in Bristol

to see Britain's newest and biggest supercomputer.

And we hear a lot about growing Chinese influence in Mexico.

Though that's true when it comes to economic ties,

in cultural terms, it's Japan and South Korea that have caught the imagination of ordinary Mexicans.

But first, last week, America's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was thrown into chaos after the White House said its boss, Dr. Susan Menares, had been fired less than a month into the

job.

The secretary asked her to resign.

She said she would, and then she said she wouldn't.

So the president fired her, which he has every right to do.

Her failing was apparently that she didn't back the administration's policy on vaccines.

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