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1:53

LISTEN: Amazon Believes Robotics Could ‘Flatten’ Its...

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2025/10/28

Automating most company operations could prevent more than 600,000 new hires.

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1:49

LISTEN: Rivian Reportedly Laying Off 600 Workers

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2025/10/27

Electric vehicle maker Rivian plans to lay off approximately 4% of its workforce, according to the Wall Street Journal. The report stated that the development would impact over 600 employees. However, the company has not provided further details. The news comes after a WSJ report in September that Rivian would cut about 1.5% of its workforce. A company spokesperson said that the previous layoffs impacted the commercial team as the automaker worked to “improve operational efficiency” for its ...

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3:28

LISTEN: World’s Largest Playable Gaming Screen...

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2025/10/24

Some marketing efforts are just simple PR stunts, while others are truly revolutionary feats of engineering. But when a gamer and a hip-hop artist take to the skies to play a video game on a giant screen suspended from a helicopter while flying in a different helicopter, why can't both be true?

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2:07

LISTEN: Hypersonic Space Plane Promises Delivery in...

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2025/10/23

Even a fairly straightforward pizza delivery still requires at least 30 minutes to bake the pie, throw it in a car and drive it to your door. But Inversion, an aerospace and defense technology company, is raising the stakes by promising to deliver cargo from space to just about anywhere on Earth within one hour.

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2:09

LISTEN: SpaceX 'Behind' on Moon Mission, NASA to...

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2025/10/22

The goal of Project Artemis has been characterized as a journey to the Moon “for scientific discovery, technology advancement, and to learn how to live and work on another world as we prepare for human missions to Mars.”

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2:41

LISTEN: Eye Implant Paired with AR Glasses and AI to...

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2025/10/21

Researchers from University College London and Moorfields Eye Hospital recently announced the results of a trial for a new device that helps the blind not just see again, but read again. The Prima device is a novel wireless subretinal photovoltaic implant paired with specialized glasses that project near-infrared light to the implant, which acts like a miniature solar panel. The device is being developed by Science Corporation, which specializes in brain-computer interfaces and neural enginee...

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1:44

LISTEN: Battery Startup Launches Factory in Former...

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2025/10/16

The Austin American-Statesman reported that battery manufacturing startup Base Power moved into the newspaper’s former downtown Austin building. Founded in 2023, the startup makes residential batteries and plans to use the publication’s previous site temporarily.

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1:57

LISTEN: Former Ohio Paper Mill Repurposed to...

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2025/10/15

In the heart of Chillicothe, Ohio, a 175-year-old paper mill, long considered an unofficial symbol of the community, was forced to end production in August. Once a cornerstone of the town of 22,000, demand for the specialty paper it produced steadily declined, leading to its closure. First announced in April, the shutdown affected roughly 750 employees, who were notified months in advance. As Pixelle Specialty Solutions, the plant’s owner, prepared to relocate operations, workers were left fa...

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1:56

LISTEN: ABB to Sell Robotics Divison for $5.4 Billion

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2025/10/14

An engineering brand synonymous with bots will divest its robotics division. ABB has announced that it is selling this business to SoftBank – a Japanese financial holding company with a heavy emphasis in technology. SoftBank owns significant stakes in major companies like Nvidia and T-Mobile, and recent reports have suggested that the firm is carving out a strategic growth plan specific to AI. And that’s likely where ABB comes in.

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2:05

LISTEN: Ford Could Lose Up to $1 Billion as Plant...

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2025/10/13

The Ford F-150 has been a top-selling pickup truck in America for many years running, but a recent disaster at the plant of one of the automaker’s key suppliers speaks to the precarious nature of even the most valuable supply chains. On September 16th, a fire took place at the Oswego, New York factory of metal manufacturer Novelis – an event that reportedly leveled the plant’s hot mill, which is the facility’s primary aluminum sheet production area.

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1:32

LISTEN: Manufacturer Sues Automation Company Over...

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2025/10/10

The maker of windows and doors says that its equipment is more than two years overdue.

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1:55

LISTEN: Unmanned EV Drives Away After Accidental...

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2025/10/09

The owner, identified as Li Xiaoshuang, parked his SU7 outside of a store, and what happened next was captured on a surveillance camera: while Li and another person conducted some business in the store, the blue vehicle began to drive away. Aware within moments, Li rushed outside to chase down the vehicle, which was reportedly stopped before any damage was done to people or surroundings.

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3:01

LISTEN: Jaguar Land Rover Restarts Production;...

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2025/10/08

Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has restarted manufacturing and is working with suppliers to keep them in business as the U.K. automaker works to recover from a cyberattack that crippled production for more than a month. The company announced that its phased manufacturing restart will begin Wednesday, when a pair of plants in the West Midlands — the Electric Propulsion Manufacturing Center, where JLR builds engines, and the Battery Assembly Center — come back online. Employees will also return to wor...

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1:49

LISTEN: EV Prototype Explodes, Damages Company HQ

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2025/10/07

Another day, another update on fledgling electric carmaker, Faraday Future. Recent reports point to an incident in a satellite building to the company’s Los Angeles headquarters, in which a vehicle prototype allegedly caught fire. https://www.ien.com/safety/video/22951814/ev-prototype-explodes-damages-company-hq

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1:34

LISTEN: Forklift Companies Charged With Dodging...

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2025/10/06

A federal grand jury charged two Colorado companies and some of their executives with conspiring to avoid paying tariffs on forklifts imported from China into the U.S. Court documents accused the companies, Octane Forklifts, Inc. and Endless Sales, Inc., which does business as Discount Forklifts, of selling the machines to federal government agencies as “Made in America,” disguising their Chinese origin. Individuals mentioned in the indictment include current executives Brian Firkins a...

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1:32

LISTEN: Ag Equipment Maker, Citing Tariffs, to Shift...

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2025/10/03

A manufacturer of agricultural equipment is citing tariffs in its decisions about its operations in the U.S. But rather than expanding its U.S. production, it will instead shift some work overseas.

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1:47

LISTEN: BlueOval Accused of Making Employees Work Off...

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2025/10/02

A former production operator and production technician filed a lawsuit against electric vehicle battery maker BlueOval SK, a joint venture created by Ford and Korean manufacturer SK On. The lead plaintiffs, Sean O’Brien and Randall Moore, allege that the company violated the Fair Labor Standards Act and Kentucky Wage and Hour Laws, Western Kentucky University Public Radio reported.

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2:17

LISTEN: 50-Year-Old Skateboarding Legend Hits 65 MPH...

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2025/10/01

Sandro Dias is a 50-year-old Brazilian skateboarding legend; he's a six-time vert world champion. Well, he recently made history once again when he dropped in from the curved facade of a 22-story building in Brazil. Until now, the Centro Administrativo Fernando Ferrari (CAFF) building in Porto Alegre, standing 88.91 meters high, has been a white whale in the skateboarding community, which has dubbed the unique structure the "ultimate skate ramp." — Dias himself says he has dreamed of ri...

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17:40

LISTEN: Gen Z in Manufacturing: Creating a Startup...

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2025/09/30

For this episode, I welcome Marco Ristano, a 28-year-old senior industrial engineering and planning specialist at machinery manufacturer Caracol. Ristano joined Caracol after a contact in the investment sector recommended the company. After nearly four years with the company, his duties include collecting and analyzing data, interaction with a range of teams, troubleshooting analysis and digitalization and management of internal information flows. Ristano hopes to grow into a strategic role w...

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2:19

LISTEN: Former Employee at DVD Maker Gets Nearly 5...

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2025/09/16

Last Thursday, a former employee of a multinational DVD and Blu-ray manufacturer and distributor was sentenced to 57 months in prison, nearly five years, for stealing DVDs and Blu-rays of "blockbuster movies" and selling them before their release dates. According to the Justice Department, 38-year-old Steven R. Hale of Memphis, Tennessee, worked for the DVD manufacturer. From February 2021 to March 2022, Hale stole more than 1,000 discs that were being prepped for commercial distributio...

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