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09/17/2026

Do you know who is spending the most money on R&D? The truth is the top 9 tech companies, excluding Amazon, are spending almost 3 times more on research and development than the top 10 Pharma companies according to R&D World

In 2025, nine technology companies, excluding Amazon, spent roughly $283 billion on R&D, more than twice the $124.7 billion spent by pharma’s top 10.

09/10/2026

Did you know that Australia is the safest place on earth in the event of a global calamity?

Researchers have worked out the safest, most resilient country to be in during an apocalyptic event.

09/10/2026

Has your firm experienced this phenomenon when recruiting (i.e. it's getting harder and harder to convince job applicants to change jobs)?

The country is adding around 80,000 new jobs a month, an improvement from last year, but workers are still wary of job hopping.

09/06/2026

Musk is engineering NOVEL recruiting techniques: Musk’s tunnel-digging startup, the Boring Company, has told some investors in its latest funding round that they need to help recruit Boring employees or assist in making introductions to officials in localities where the company might build tunnels: https://www.wsj.com/tech/musks-boring-co-pushes-investors-for-recruiting-business-help-6cff1c78?mod=djemTECH

The company has provided investors with descriptions of employee positions it’s seeking to fill. If investors fail to find viable candidates, the company has said it can buy back some of its shares.

The stipulation demonstrates the pull that Musk has. Many private-market investors view investments in Musk’s orbit—which also include Tesla and SpaceX—as sure things and are willing to go to great lengths to participate in funding rounds.

The Boring Company, which builds machines that it claims can dig underground more cheaply than traditional construction firms, recently closed an investment round that values the company at around $20 billion.

Spun off from SpaceX in 2018, the company owns a transportation network under the Las Vegas Strip and has new projects under development in Nashville and Dubai.

Billionaire’s tunneling startup makes unusual demands of backers to participate in latest funding round.

09/06/2026

AI Chip Diplomacy: The U.S. has a new tool of diplomacy: AI chips. When fragile peace talks between Armenia and Azerbaijan looked in danger of collapsing last year, American negotiators used the promise of access to Nvidia’s artificial-intelligence chips to help secure a preliminary peace deal. The agreement was meant to end more than 35 years of conflict between the two countries. Now, a massive Armenian data-center project is expected to eventually house 70,000 of Nvidia’s latest AI servers. Robbie Whelan details one of the most striking examples yet of what U.S. officials are calling “chip diplomacy.”

Negotiators offered access to advanced AI hardware to help secure a preliminary agreement last year to end decades of conflict, the latest example of chip diplomacy.

09/05/2026

An Architectural and civil engineering masterpiece: The Romans are well known for their aqueducts, which brought water to their cities and settlements. The aqueducts also lasted a long time; their remains are some of the most prominent Roman architectural finds visible today. So how did the Romans build such large and long-lasting aqueducts?

The ancient Romans are well known for their aqueducts. But how did they build these impressive structures?

09/05/2026

Various traditional Russian allies like India and Kazakhstan are now telling Putin, "Enough is enough" in his war in Ukraine! Historically, they would keep their 'mouths shut', but they understand that there is NO LOGICAL REASON FOR THIS WAR!

The leaders of India and Kazakhstan recently made unusually direct remarks to the Russian president about ending the war.

09/05/2026

During the 1980's the Godfather of artificial intelligence, Geoffrey Hinton, left his well-funded post at Carnegie Mellon University and took his 'game' to Toronto to launch a little-studied area of machine learning research at the University of Toronto. Now, as a result, Toronto boasts the world’s third best tech talent market behind ONLY San Francisco and Seattle (but ahead of New York City) according to an annual analysis by commercial real estate firm CBRE!

Geoffrey Hinton, a Nobel Prize-winning computer scientist, took a leap in the 1980s — leaving a well-funded post at Carnegie Mellon University to pursue a little-studied area of machine learning research at the University of Toronto.

09/04/2026

Here's my critiqu of today's BLS (Bureau of Labor Statistics) Jobs Numbers
1. 162,000 non-farm jobs were created in in August.
2. 13.1 million (-400,000 versus last month) = 7 mil. (+100,000 versus last mont) Unemployed + 4.4 mil. (-400,000 versus last month) Involuntarily working part-time + 1.7 mil (-100,000 versus last month) are not even counted = 13.1 million workers (-400,000 versus last month) who are either unemployed or underemployed!
3. The broad measure of unemployment and underemployment (also known as U6) that includes Americans stuck in part-time jobs or too discouraged to look for work is at 7.9% = about 1 in 13 persons you meet!
4. BLS said that the National Unemployment rate stayed the same in August at 4.1%
5. Illinois unemployment fell .2% to 4.9% in July (latest figures).
6. The labor participation rose .2% to 61.6%.
7. Average hourly earnings Gained 10 cents to $37.75 in August.
8. The average work week rose .1 hours to 34.4 hours in August.
9. The JOB GAINS were in a) Health care ONLY adding 13,000 jobs, BELOW the pace of the pace of the last 12 months of 32,000 jobs created per month b) Food & Drinking Places added 59,000 new jobs c) Local Government Education added 42,000 new jobs d) Manufacturingcontinued its upward pace and added 16,000 new jobs and e) Construction added 22,000 jobs.
10. The sector with the biggest losses was Information, which lost 23,000 jobs in August!

09/04/2026

Will future your kid's foods like an apple be as nutritious? It appears that research predicts that climate change will render foods like your current apple less nutritious for future generations.

Almost every aspect of our food system will be transformed by climate change.