Technology

Machine Assembly in America: From Historic Factories to Smart Manufacturing

Technology & Manufacturing News | Special report for City-Paper.com The big story: Explore the history of machine assembly, factory tools, assembly-line innovations, modern robotics, machine assembler salary trends, job openings...

START-UPS IN THE SPOTLIGHT: 1st Edition

ElectricMotorShopJobs.com Targets America's Skilled-Trades Shortage with Specialized Electromechanical Job Board Four-plus years of niche recruiting, premium industrial domains and...

Anthropic can’t reliably control its AI agents. It’s cutting off its internal evals from the live internet instead

Anthropic said its models exploited websites on the internet, including some run by U.S. government agencies, and it...

Damascening: The Lost-Looking Metal Art That Still Turns Steel Into Jewelry

By Gracus Bloom — City-Paper Automotive, Arts & Industry Desk There is something almost magical about damascening. Take a piece...

Federal judge calls Flock ‘indiscriminate mass surveillance’

A federal judge ruled this week that a Tulsa, Oklahoma sheriff’s deputy violated a woman’s Fourth Amendment rights...

THE GEARBOX: The Revolutionary Power Expander That Helped Move Mankind Forward

By Gracus Bloom | Industrial Technology News There is a wonderfully misleading phrase sometimes used to describe a gearbox: a “power expander.” A gearbox does not...

Star Metal: When Ancient People Worked Metal From the Stars

By Gracus Bloom | Historical Science & Archaeology Long before modern metallurgy gave humanity steel mills, electric furnaces and precision machining, ancient craftspeople were already...

Passwords to Passkeys: Why the Internet Is Trying to Change How We Log In

By Gracus Bloom | IT News For decades, the password has been the little gatekeeper standing between people and their online accounts. We have typed...

Google releases Gemini 4 Argon, called its most powerful model yet

Google parent company Alphabet has launched Gemini 4 Argon, a new AI model built to handle a variety of tasks such as coding, research,...

Cars of Today or Cars of Tomorrow: The Bold Concept Cars of the 1950s

By Editor: Gracus Bloom, City-Paper.com In the aftermath of World War II, Europe didn’t just rebuild—it reimagined. By the 1950s, a wave of optimism and...