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@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-15 04:30:34

A look at iRobot, founded in 1990, and its slow collapse after regulatory pressure killed Amazon's $1.7B acquisition in 2024, and the rising Chinese competition (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/14/how-irobot-lost-its-way-home/

How iRobot lost its way home | TechCrunch
iRobot survived three decades of competition, but couldn't survive European regulators killing its Amazon buyout. Now it's being taken over by its own supplier in bankruptcy court.

@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy
2025-12-06 21:07:19

Confirmed: Another big jump in atmospheric CO2, (still) measured at Mauna Loa: the November average was ~426.5 ppm, that's 2.6 ppm higher than last year!

November 2025: 426.46 ppm
November 2024: 423.85 ppm
Plus graph showing increase of 15 ppm within 6 years.

@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2025-11-06 14:51:14

Cowboys DE Marshawn Kneeland died Thursday, team announces https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6783787/2025/11/06/marshawn-kneeland-dead-cowboys/

Cowboys DE Marshawn Kneeland died Thursday, team announces
Kneeland, 24, was in his second season with the team after being drafted in the second round of the 2024 NFL Draft.

@cdarwin@c.im
2025-11-05 21:14:54

Bucks County PA went just barely for Trump in 2024,
It's not exactly the kind of place where you'd expect this sort of very-online-leftist messaging to work as an attack.
But it does now! The normies are being radicalized against ICE.🙏
https://bsky.app/profile/kombiz.bsky.s

Kombiz Lavasany (@kombiz.bsky.social)
ICE-loving sheriff loses his election in Bucks County, PA, to a young progressive candidate. Apparently, people really don't like it when their neighbors get kidnapped and disappear. https://buckscountybeacon.com/2025/11/bucks-countys-ice-loving-maga-sheriff-fred-harran-got-what-he-deserved-a-pink-slip-from-voters-on-election-night/

@hanno@mastodon.social
2025-11-06 09:56:00

Is Enerkem's Waste Gasification technology a Failure or a promising Climate Solution?🗑️💨♨️🏭
Gasification of waste and biomass🪵 could be an enormously helpful tool to make valuable circular or renewable chemicals. Yet, the list of failed gasification projects is long.
Enerkem looked like it had finally unlocked successful waste gasification, with the world's only waste-to-Methanol/Ethanol plant operating in Edmonton, Canada🇨🇦, since 2014. But in early 2024, it was shut down.…

Is Enerkem's Waste Gasification technology a Failure or a promising Climate Solution?
Repsol wants to build a waste gasification plant to make circular and biogenic Methanol in Spain. The Ecoplanta project will use a technology that previously failed to deliver on its promises in Canada.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-11-06 11:35:59

Research: US companies announced 153,074 job cuts in October, the most in 20 years and up 3x on October 2024, as AI reshapes industries and cost-cutting rises (Julia Fanzeres/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20