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Massachusetts startup Noble Carbon has built circuit breakers that dynamically adjust electricity flow to EV chargers, heat pumps, and induction stoves, letting homeowners avoid costly electrical panel upgrades. The company will present at TechCrunch Disrupt's Startup Battlefield in October as one of 200 competing startups, with 20 advancing to the main stage.
Chicago Fed President Austan Goolsbee said Monday that the central bank might need to accept higher unemployment as a cost of bringing down persistently high inflation. He noted that supply shocks create a short-term conflict between the Fed's dual goals of stable prices and maximum employment, forcing policymakers to prioritize one over the other.
Crock-Pot has teamed up with paint maker Valspar to release six new slow cooker colors, each paired with a corresponding house paint swatch for kitchen walls. The collaboration launches ahead of fall, traditionally slow cooker season, and is designed to let shoppers coordinate their kitchen decor directly around the appliance's color.
Krita, the open-source 2D painting application, remains a favored alternative to subscription-based tools like Photoshop for concept art, comics, and illustration work. It offers a robust brush engine, stylus support for tilt and rotation, HDR painting, texture wrap-around modes, and a timeline-based animation system with onion skinning and audio playback.
A massive wall mosaic and fresco discovered in the 1990s beneath Rome's Baths of Trajan have opened to public viewing for the first time. The mosaic, dubbed the 'Muse and the Philosopher,' spans 16 meters and rises 10 meters high, while the adjoining 'Painted City' fresco depicts a fortified port town seen from above. Officials say both works likely predate the baths themselves, originating in the Neronian or Flavian era of the first century.
Thieves broke into the Renoir Museum, the artist's former home on the French Riviera, and made off with two paintings valued at $10.5 million combined. The artworks remain missing, and investigators say the theft fits a pattern of recent high-profile art crimes targeting museums worldwide.
Autonomy, the car subscription startup that once pledged to buy 23,000 EVs, is now adding internal combustion engine vehicles for the first time. The company will offer gas-powered Ford models like the Mustang, F-150 and Bronco Sport, sourced from Galpin Motors, starting in California with plans to expand through dealer partners in other states.
Researchers report in Nature that an abandoned quarry in southwestern China contains fossils and artefacts showing Denisovans occupied the site for at least 30,000 years, possibly up to 120,000 years. The finds include bone tools resembling those made by Neanderthals and evidence that Denisovans hunted deer and other animals skillfully.
Brave released new benchmark data asserting its desktop browser consumes 44% less CPU, 28% less memory, and 10% less energy than Chrome, Edge, and Firefox, while loading full pages about 20% faster. The company attributes the gains largely to blocking ads, trackers, and analytics scripts that would otherwise generate extra background processing after the visible page content loads.
Researchers report that psilocybin, the psychoactive compound found in magic mushrooms, shows potential to protect cancer patients from developing long-term chronic pain. The finding points to a new therapeutic application for the psychedelic beyond its studied uses in mental health treatment.
A range of manufacturers are now designing pillows with unconventional shapes and materials, including ear cutouts, dual-chamber down fill, and marshmallow-like foam, aimed at solving individual sleep posture problems. The trend reflects growing consumer demand for personalized bedding solutions after common complaints like neck and shoulder pain during sleep.
A newly published Entrepreneur op-ed identifies five recurring operational strains that emerge as small businesses expand, drawing on a Federal Reserve Small Business Credit Survey and a Robert Half hiring survey. The piece argues these pressures—hiring shortfalls, slower customer response, cash flow constraints, breaking systems, and diluted culture—consistently surface once a company moves from a small team to a larger one. It frames these not as reasons to avoid growth but as predictable hurdles that leaders can prepare for in advance.