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What Workplace Injuries Really Cost Your Business (It’s More Than You Think)

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways The highest costs of workplace injuries are often indirect — not medical bills or insurance claims, but lost productivity, higher premiums, hiring and training replacements and operational disruptions. Workplace injuries can damage company culture and reputation. Safety incidents can lower employee morale, increase turnover and

World Cup final is already the biggest ever prediction market as Kalshi bets top $1.27 billion—with Spain favored to beat Argentina

The World Cup is driving record-breaking activity on prediction markets, with popular platforms Kalshi and Polymarket reporting their highest trading volumes to date. Just days ahead of Sunday’s final, the Argentina–Spain contract has become the single largest market in the platforms’ history, while overall World Cup trading has outpaced other major sports-related contracts. According to

The AI Gold Rush Is Driving an Energy Crisis. Here’s What Every Business Needs to Know.

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways AI is consuming more power than most businesses realize. A standard enterprise server rack draws roughly 5-10 kilowatts. An AI-optimized rack running GPU clusters can pull 40-100 kilowatts or more. Energy costs flow downstream, and so do supply chain constraints. For any business that relies

Intuitive Machines-2 Lifts Off

Science & Nature A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C lunar lander (IM-2) soars upward after liftoff from Launch Complex 39A at...

How to make washing machines shed less microplastics

Science & Nature Studies suggest a typical load of laundry can release thousands or even millions of fibers. DepositPhotosSimple filters could help remove microfiber...

The AI machines are coming for thought work, and other TC news

Welcome back to The TechCrunch Podcast, where we break down the biggest stories in tech with the people who covered them. The internet is always changing, but something about generative AI feels different. With the advent of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, the machines are evolving beyond remix and delivery machines to become the content creators themselves. In

Musicians, Machines, and the AI-Powered Future of Sound

Last November, at the Stockholm University of the Arts, a human and an AI made music together. The performance began with musician David Dolan playing a grand piano into a microphone. As he played, a computer system, designed and overseen by composer and Kingston University researcher Oded Ben-Tal, “listened” to the piece, extracting data on

The massive machines removing carbon from Earth’s atmosphere | Jan Wurzbacher

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The future of machines that move like animals | Robert Katzschmann

Imagine a boat that propels by moving its "tail" from side to side, just like a fish. That's the kind of machine that TED Fellow Robert Katzschmann's lab builds: soft-bodied robots that imitate natural movements with artificial, silent muscles. He lays out his vision for machines that take on mesmerizing new forms...

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What Workplace Injuries Really Cost Your Business (It’s More Than You Think)

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways The highest costs of workplace injuries are often indirect — not medical bills or insurance claims, but lost productivity, higher premiums, hiring and training replacements and operational disruptions. Workplace injuries can damage company culture and reputation. Safety incidents can lower employee morale, increase turnover and

World Cup final is already the biggest ever prediction market as Kalshi bets top $1.27 billion—with Spain favored to beat Argentina

The World Cup is driving record-breaking activity on prediction markets, with popular platforms Kalshi and Polymarket reporting their highest trading volumes to date. Just days ahead of Sunday’s final, the Argentina–Spain contract has become the single largest market in the platforms’ history, while overall World Cup trading has outpaced other major sports-related contracts. According to

The AI Gold Rush Is Driving an Energy Crisis. Here’s What Every Business Needs to Know.

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways AI is consuming more power than most businesses realize. A standard enterprise server rack draws roughly 5-10 kilowatts. An AI-optimized rack running GPU clusters can pull 40-100 kilowatts or more. Energy costs flow downstream, and so do supply chain constraints. For any business that relies

Amazon just beat Starlink to a market Musk can’t crack

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She Retired From Engineering at 58 and Turned Her Creative Hobby Into a Business. It’s Made Tens of Thousands of Dollars: ‘No Regrets.’

Key Takeaways Hudick began to explore her passion for design at a jewelry-making class in 2006. She honed her craft over the years, and friends suggested she start to sell her pieces. Now retired as an engineer, she’s focusing on the business and teaching workshops. In 2024, Anna Hudick, then 58 years old, retired from