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Are Racial Gaps Wider Among STEM Immigrants?
For decades, the United States has attracted students and employees from across the globe aiming to pursue careers in engineering and other STEM disciplines. Foreign-born individuals are a significant part of the U.S. workforce. In recent years, many policymakers...
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Why Cartken pivoted its focus from last-mile delivery to industrial robots | TechCrunch
Autonomous robotics startup Cartken, known for its four-wheeled robots that deliver food on college campuses and through Tokyo’s bustling streets, has found a new area of focus: industrials. Cartken co-founder and CEO Christian Bersch told TechCrunch that applying its delivery...
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Tesla loses its charm for India’s loyalists — even as Musk finally delivers | TechCrunch
Tesla opened the doors to its first showroom in India this week, and among the first visitors was Vishal Gondal — a longtime Tesla and Elon Musk loyalist who pre-booked a Model 3 in April 2016, just hours after...
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Jack Dorsey Pumps $10M Into a Nonprofit Focused on Open Source Social Media – Slashdot
Twitter co-founder/Block CEO Jack Dorsey isn't just vibe coding new apps like Bitchat and Sun Day. He's also "invested $10 million in an effort to fund experimental open source projects and other tools that could...
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Astronomer CEO resigns following Coldplay concert scandal | TechCrunch
Andy Byron, the startup executive at the center of an extraordinary social media furor, has resigned as CEO of data operations startup Astronomer. Byron, who is married, was captured on a Coldplay concert “kiss cam” with his arms around the...
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Why a Y Combinator startup tackling AI agents for Windows gave up and pivoted | TechCrunch
A startup called Pig.dev that participated in Y Combinator’s Winter 2025 batch was working on a potential revolutionary idea: AI agentic tech to control a Microsoft Windows desktop.But in May, the founder announced he was abandoning the tech and...
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Apple Sues the YouTuber Who Leaked iOS 26
Leaks are a constant part of big product news cycles, particularly for companies like Apple. Online soothsayers like Jon Prosser and Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman have long predicted the content of upcoming Apple announcements, citing anonymous sources from within the...
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Ranching and farming have eroded almost all the soil in the Alps
Rapid erosion due to human activity, such as grazing livestock and farming, has stripped the Alps of almost all...
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Laws of quantum physics may rule out a universe that came before ours
Could our universe be expanding and shrinking back into a tiny point, reliving a kind of big bang over...
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Obesity may come in 11 different types, each with their own cause
It turns out that obesity may be much more complicated than we thought, with the condition potentially existing in...
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Canadian wildfires prompt New York air quality alert
An air quality health advisory has been issued for New York City and its surrounding areas because of smoke...