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Digg lays off staff and shuts down app as company retools

Digg — Kevin Rose’s reboot of his once-popular link-sharing site — is laying off a sizable portion of its staff, the company announced on Friday. The startup is not...

Spinning Innovation: How Barlow’s Wheel Inspires Today’s Electromechanics

Electric motors are at the heart of modern industry, powering everything from household appliances to industrial machinery. But...

In a vote of confidence for Meta’s Threads, Kalshi adds sharing feature

Prediction market Kalshi is making it easier for its users to have conversations on Meta’s social network Threads....

AutobodyShopJobs.com Launches Niche Job Board for Autobody and Metal Finishing Professionals

Specialized platform connects shops with skilled finisher technicians across the U.S., offering affordable, targeted job postings. Los Angeles, CA...

Grammarly’s ‘expert review’ is just missing the actual experts

A recently-added feature in Grammarly purports to improve users’ writing with help from the world’s great writers and...

California Governor Newsom signs landmark AI safety bill SB 53

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed SB 53, a first-in-the-nation bill that sets new transparency requirements on large AI companies. SB 53, which passed the state legislature two weeks ago, requires large...

Department of Energy cancels $7.5B of clean energy projects in mostly blue states

The Department of Energy said Wednesday night it was canceling 321 awards worth $7.56 billion that were largely focused on clean energy. The agency...

Waffles eat Bluesky | TechCrunch

For the past few days, my Bluesky feed has been increasingly filled with mysterious posts about waffles. The back-and-forth seems to have started with a...

Here’s what it’s really like to appear on billionaire VC Tim Draper’s ‘Meet the Drapers’ pitch show

There was barely a breeze on the roof of the MCM studios building in Manhattan last week as six entrepreneurs graced a stage to...

EVs take a backseat in Stellantis’ $13B U.S. investment plan

Stellantis, the international automaker that owns Chrysler, Jeep, and Ram, said it will invest $13 billion to beef up its U.S. manufacturing over the...

Rainbow-on-a-chip’ could help keep AI energy demands in check — and it was created by accident

A lab accident has led engineers to build a chip that fires a rainbow of powerful laser beams — and it could help data...