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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 a no-login application process position the platform as a specialized marketplace...

The man who built Apple’s stores doesn’t buy Silicon Valley’s bet on AI shopping

While Silicon Valley is spending billions to make AI agents shop for us, the man who pioneered Apple’s...

India forces caller-ID apps to feed spam reports to telcos

India has extended its anti-spam regime to require caller-ID and call-management apps to share users’ spam reports with...

From Faraday’s Spinning Disc to Home Standby Power: The Remarkable History of the Generator

The modern generator is one of those machines that most people notice only when it stops working—or when...

From Lime to Layers: How 1930s House Plaster Compares to Modern Times

Every home tells a story through its walls. The solid, cool touch of an older home feels different from the smooth, papered surfaces of...

Startup CEO Charlie Javice is reportedly angling for a Trump pardon

Charlie Javice, the convicted Frank founder, is reportedly seeking a presidential pardon, with her camp quietly courting people close to the Trump administration, according...

Jeff Bezos’s Prometheus raises $12B to build an ‘artificial general engineer’ for the physical world

Prometheus, the physical AI startup co-founded by Jeff Bezos and Vik Bajaj, the former co-founder of Verily, Google’s life sciences unit, announced it raised...

Mercor’s Brendan Foody calls out Sequoia over ‘dual-pricing’ valuation tricks

In recent days, founders and founders-turned-investors took to X to share horror stories about being mistreated by VCs. Their complaints ranged from VCs falling...

Reid Hoffman is leaving Microsoft’s board to go ‘founder mode’ with startup Manus

After a very profitable decade on Microsoft’s board, Reid Hoffman is stepping down, the company announced Thursday. Hoffman joined the board after Microsoft bought...

Squishmallows, dentures, and an ‘I Heart Hot Dads’ bag: Uber has found thousands of items left in robotaxis

For the past 10 years, Uber’s annual Lost & Found Index has provided a rather quirky anthropological snapshot of its riders — and even...