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LISTEN: Colgate Testing New Toothpaste on Fake People
Digital twins are making an incredible impact on the manufacturing industry. By simulating the factory using real-time data from sensors and other IoT technology, manufacturers can iterate faster during the product design, improve efficiency, f...
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LISTEN: Honda, Nissan in Merger Talks
Honda and Nissan represent the second and third largest Japanese automobile companies – behind only Toyota in global sales volume. Still, Nissan has notably lost its footing in the past year. Last month, the automaker reported a net ear...
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LISTEN: Butterball to Close Arkansas Plant
According to estimates, Americans eat 46 million turkeys each year on Thanksgiving alone – about a fifth of the birds raised annually.But less than a week after the holiday wrapped this year, Butterball held a town hall meeting at its Jo...
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LISTEN: Stellantis Fined After Fatal Assembly Line Accident
OSHA concluded an inspection into a fatal accident at Stellantis’ Jeep Toledo Assembly Complex in Ohio and cited the automaker with a “serious” violation and a fine of $16,101.The incident took place in August when 53-year-old Antonio Ga...
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LISTEN: U.S.’s Tallest Skyscraper Would Be a 'Hazard' to Air Travel
Earlier this year, a real estate development group announced plans to build what will be the country’s tallest skyscraper in an unlikely location. But the project is now facing delays and warnings about its potential risks to air travel....
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LISTEN: Anduril, Archer to Make New Military Aircraft for Critical Defense Applications
Emerging American defense contractor Anduril and U.S.-based eVTOL startup Archer Aviation this morning announced an exclusive new partnership to jointly develop a hybrid VTOL aircraft for critical defense applications, targeting a potential pro...
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Carbon Monoxide Poisoning at Meatpacking Plant Leaves 11 Hospitalized
A carbon monoxide poisoning incident at a Utah meatpacking plant sent 11 people to the hospital. Salt Lake City television station KUTV
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LISTEN: Amazon Tests 15 Minute Delivery
The holiday season means a boost in orders for online e-commerce giants like Amazon, a firm that’s doing its best to maintain its Prime pledge of delivery within two or three days.It’s difficult to imagine that the company has ambitions...
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LISTEN: Stoli is Bankrupt and a Ransomware Attack May Be to Blame
Established in 1938, Stoli Vodka has long been a fixture on the liquor market, though it appears it will need more than its legacy to carry it into the next generation.Stoli Group has revealed that its U.S. subsidiaries, Stoli Group USA ...
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LISTEN: Electric Bus Co. Suspends Production at Brand New Plant
It was just July of last year when Illinois governor JB Pritzker cut the ribbon at the Lion Electric EV bus plant in Joliet.At the time, the company touted plans to produce 20,000 electric buses annually – claims that hit noticeable snag...
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LISTEN: Famed Workwear Maker Moving from Texas to California
A longtime manufacturer of workwear and other apparel is relocating its headquarters from Texas to California — reversing a highly publicized trend of companies moving in the opposite direction in recent years.The parent company of Dicki...
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LISTEN: Activists Rage After Coca-Cola Drastically Changes Plastic Pledge
In 2023, Coca-Cola was named the top plastic polluter in the world by environmental organization Break Free From Plastic.Unfortunately for Coke, this distinction wasn’t new; they’d earned the label for six years straight – one the group ...
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LISTEN: Cargill to Cut 8,000 Jobs
Cargill has revealed that it plans to cut 5% of its global workforce – most of which will take place in the coming year. It’s a move that will result in the elimination of some 8,000 jobs.
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LISTEN: Emergency Vehicle Lights Are Giving Driverless Cars 'Digital Seizures'
While driverless systems are often capable of reacting to scenarios more safely than a human driver would, sometimes the opposite is true – as evidenced by crashes over the years where a vehicle in autonomous mode has missed a seemingl...
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LISTEN: Explosion at General Motors Site Causes Damage to Homes
The Detroit Free Press reported that a tank used for storing an oil and brine solution exploded at General Moto...
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LISTEN: Caribbean Researchers Test-Drive a Seaweed-Powered Car
Although there appear to be few easy answers to the problem, researchers from the University of the West Indies believe one possible solution could be using sargassum to power cars.
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LISTEN: Gen Z in Manufacturing: Apprenticeships Need to Do More Than Just Pay for School
Welcome to another episode of Gen Z in Manufacturing, a podcast that asks young people about their journeys in manufacturing, how they intend to influence the industry a...
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LISTEN: FDA Accuses Toothpaste Maker of Bacteria-Tainted Water Supply, Mold
Tom’s of Maine is a personal care brand well known for its use of natural ingredients, though a recent FDA report has identified some very undesirable contents they say are in th...
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LISTEN: Nation’s Frozen Potato Producers Accused of Fixing Prices
The four companies that produce the overwhelming majority of the U.S.’s frozen potato products conspired to fix prices in recent years, according to a series of newly filed lawsuits.Five antitrust suits,
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LISTEN: Ford to Cut Bronco Production
In January, Ford announced that it would be cutting back on production of its EV pickup, the F-150 Lightning. But the automaker had a plan to make up some ground: a large group of workers from the Lightning plant would move to plants producing ...
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LISTEN: Thieves Make Off With $1 Million in Sammy Hagar & Guy Fieri's Tequila in Wild Heis
About two weeks ago, thieves targeted a major Santo Spirits shipment as it crossed the border into the United States. The tequila company is co-owned by celebrity chef Guy Fieri and musician Sammy Hagar.First reported by
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LISTEN: Hackers Steal MLB Player's Lamborghini By Rerouting Delivery
Last month, Colorado Rockies third baseman Kris Bryant awaited the imminent delivery of a $300,000 Lamborghini Huracan to his home in Las Vegas … but it never came.Bryant, who was having the vehicle transported for the offseason
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LISTEN: AI Taught to Hear Battery Fires Before They Start
NIST reported that these fires can produce a jet of flame that reaches up to 2,012° Fahrenheit, nearly the heat of a blowtorch, in approximately one second. This hazard differs from traditional residential fires that start more slowly, which al...
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LISTEN: Commercial Jet Flies Nearly 300 Hours with Tool Stuck in its Engine
Chalk this one up to either dumb luck or stupid-mistake resistance design, but a commercial jet just managed to fly the equivalent of almost two weeks with a tool stuck in one of its engines.A newly published report from the Australian T...
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LISTEN: Stanley Black and Decker Expects $200M Hit from Tariff Hikes
Stanley Black & Decker indicated in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that proposed increases in tariffs under the forthcoming Trump administration could affect its pre-tax operating income by some $200 million on an...
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