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Where’s the Humanity? Why Job Seekers Say Hiring Is “Broken”
After getting a layoff notice in May, engineer Todd Hendricks, 46, started his job search. One Friday, he signed on to Zoom for the coding round of a multistep interview process and waited for someone to appear. No one did. He reached out to the recruiter and heard nothing back. The next Monday, an…
Silicon Valley threw a hot robot party, and the clankers were M.I.A.
At a sold-out conference in San Francisco for people who build robots, the robots were surprisingly hard to find. This week, 1,500 robotics investors, founders, and engineers packed a cavernous former Army warehouse at Fort Mason, overlooking San Francisco Bay and the Golden Gate Bridge. They came…
Next-day shipping is old news. Now, it’s all about hours — or minutes
US shoppers want their stuff faster, and more retailers are responding with delivery options that would have been almost unthinkable a few years ago. Comments this week from Target, Walmart, and Home Depot show that a new benchmark of three hours or less is emerging for customers willing to pay an…
Taylor Sheridan says he wanted to retire after ‘Yellowstone,’ but he needed money for his $330 million ranch
“Yellowstone” creator Taylor Sheridan said buying a $330 million ranch kept him from retiring. On Tuesday’s episode of the “Rodeo Time” podcast hosted by Dale Brisby, Sheridan said his purchase of the Four Sixes Ranch prompted him to sign a deal with Paramount and continue working. “I was set up to…
Hyundai’s growth is pushing Genesis’ US production back to Korea
Genesis, Hyundai Motor Group’s luxury brand, is putting its US manufacturing footprint temporarily on hold to make room for its parent company, Business Insider confirmed on Thursday. Ted Mengiste, chief operating officer of Genesis Motor North America, said in an interview that Hyundai is moving…
An Apache and Black Hawk drill in Taiwan shows how Ukraine’s drones are changing helicopter warfare
TAIPEI — A helicopter hot-refueling drill in Taiwan’s landmark military exercise shows how the island is preparing for drone threats when its choppers fly in and out of vulnerable forward positions, a danger repeatedly demonstrated in Ukraine. Counter-drone ground teams, crouching amid the grass…
His robotics company IPO’d this week. He still thinks a humanoid breakthrough will take years.
Even one of robotics’ biggest names says that a major breakthrough for the industry may take up to a decade. During a keynote speech at the 2026 World Robot Conference in Beijing on Thursday, Unitree Robotics CEO Wang Xingxing said that the industry’s breakthrough will come only when a robot can…
Mark Zuckerberg is king… of an Irish castle near a Meta office
Mark Zuckerberg has a hot new — but also 200-year-old — pad in Ireland. The billionaire CEO of Meta and his wife, Priscilla Chan, have purchased a nearly Gothic property called Strancally Castle in Waterford County, Ireland. The property is located about 140 miles south of the company’s…
Gwyneth Paltrow is going full meme over that ‘private, off-the-record al-fresco dinner’
Gwyneth Paltrow has a response for critics of her dinner party for Sam Altman: more invitations. The Goop founder posted a series of spoof invitations to Instagram on Thursday, just days after Puck reported she was planning a “private, off-the-record al fresco dinner” at her home in honor of the…
I left my job and became a stay-at-home mom. Starting over as an intern at 31 felt strange, but paid off.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Mounika Chinnam, 33, who lives in Andhra Pradesh, India and took a seven-year career break. The following has been edited for length and clarity. I got my first tech job when I was 23, writing code for a research and development company. I had a…