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NASA Seeing if ‘Space Shotgun’ Could Save Earth
If movies like Deep Impact and its superior, Armageddon, have taught us anything, it is to be wary of massive pieces of space rock that threaten our very way of life. Luckily, people much brighter than the masses are paid to figure ...
Helicopter Maker Abandons New Factory
The company had planned to “conquer” the U.S. market. In early 2019, a Swiss helicopter manufacturer held a press conference to tout its plans to “conquer” the U.S. market from its new factory in southern Louisiana. Three years later, ...
Heroic Factory Worker Saved Lives in Deadly Tornado Aftermath
On the night of December 10th, the Mayfield Consumer Products candle plant in Mayfield, Kentucky was demolished by a tornado that reduced it to rubble. Eight workers lost their lives, but the death toll could have been higher if not for one man...
Engineer Arrested for Attempting to Sink Tycoon’s Yacht
If you’ve worked your way into becoming one of the top arms dealers in Russia, it’s probably fair to say you’ve made your share of enemies over the years.But it’s not always the ones you expect that you have to watch out for.Two...
Special Edition: Security Breach- Know Your Enemy
Inside BlackByte and Cobalt Strike, the ransomware group and post-exploitation tool used in a recent high-profile hack — and how both pose new risks to the industrial sector.While rogue individuals with an agenda and advanced cybersecur...
Ford Takes Name Tesla Tried to Use
Ford announced it would split its internal combustion and electric vehicle operations into individual businesses with the goal of...
Listen: World’s Largest Plane Destroyed in Russian Invasion
Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine has targeted major cities, military facilities and airports — including an airfield that was hosting the world’s largest aircraft.Ukraine’s state-run defense conglomerate reported Friday that Russian...
Listen: Surprise! Plant Slated for Closure Will Remain Open
Fall of 2020 may be remembered as a bit of a dark time. Many Americans were still being heavily impacted by coronavirus-related shutdowns of businesses and schools and vaccines were nowhere in sight. In the thick of it was the Fort Wayn...
Listen: Exclusive: When 3D Printing Will Move Past 'Pet Projects' in Auto Industry
Additive manufacturing and the auto industry have formed quite the partnership. From prototyping to auto racing to keeping companies afloat despite supply chain issues, the relationship is expected to grow.A 2019 report by Sma...
Listen: Grand Cherokees Get Stop Sale After Defective Electronics
Stellantis issued a temporary stop sale on some of its 2022 Jeep Grand Cherokee and Grand Cherokee L SUVs after owners complained their key fobs were losing connection to the vehicles and causing them to brick.The Drive
Listen: Companies Closing Facilities in Ukraine
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine brought troops, tanks and airstrikes, which led to civilians using trains and cars to flee to safety. Meanwhile,
Listen: Stellantis CEO Calls Out U.S. Plants for Absenteeism
Tavares called employees “the heart of Stellantis” and credited their “focus on execution and excellence” for the company’s record year. He even called the...
Listen: Virgin Hyperloop Abandons Passenger Travel
Virgin Group has always been ambitious. The multinational conglomerate recently went multi-planet when it began sending its first flights into space with its Virgin Galactic arm. But the company has also been making strides in developing innova...
Listen: Musk Company Hopes to Build Underground Transit System in Miami
In an exciting development, The Boring Company wants to make a 6.2-mile underground transit system in Miami. Business Insider report...
Listen: Engineer Guilty of Selling Secrets in Peanut Butter Sandwich
On Monday, a 43-year-old Navy nuclear engineer pleaded guilty to espionage-related crimes. Jonathan Toebbe was caught trying to provide design data for nuclear-powered warships to a foreign national. Toebbe was arrested i...
Listen: Execs Flee EV Startup
Automotive News is calling it a “talent drain,” as it revealed this week that more executives have left the EV startup, Canoo.Can...
Listen: DeLorean Plots an Electric Comeback
The DeLorean has certainly had an interesting life.What was once the epitome of futuristic car design ultimately became a piece of nostalgia following the DMC DeLorean’s key supporting role in the Back to the Future films.
Listen: New Jersey Intersection Named Worst Truck Bottleneck for 4th Straight Year
On Feb. 9, the American Transportation Research Institute released its annual list of America’s 100 most congested bottlenecks for trucks, and it makes the biggest instigator even more infamous.Using GPS data from over 1 million freight ...
Listen: New Postal Trucks Meet Gov’t Standard — by a Single Pound
Early last year, Wisconsin defense contractor Oshkosh Defense secured a multi-billion dollar contract to build the next gene...
Listen: Apple Pays Hacker Record Amount
While hackers have been described in numerous ways, they’re not always terrorists, thieves, criminals or heartless bastards, as one colleague refers to them.For example, there’s Ryan Pickren. He’s a cybersecurity Ph.D. student at Georgia...
Listen: Tesla Quietly Cut Steering Component to Reallocate Chips Amid Shortage
While nearly every automaker has struggled to maintain production after the pandemic-initiated chip shortage, there was one who stood out for having withstood the challenges more than effectively: Tesla.Breaking from the trend of languis...
Listen: Abandoned Foxconn Building Finds New Life
A relatively new building used by technology giant Foxconn is soon to be used for the food industry and create over 100 jobs in southeast Wisconsin.The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported Feb. 4 that natural food coloring maker Oterra ha...
Listen: Historic Bridge to Be Dismantled for Billionaire's Superyacht
It's always good policy to make sure that before you buy a new couch, double-check that it can fit in your doorway, or to measure to see if that new pickup can fit in your garage.Well, those sorts of problems don’t appear to matter if yo...
Listen: Chevy to End Production of America's Cheapest Car
The average price of a new vehicle in the U.S. continues to rise as automakers add more bells and whistles and – for many models – a larger, heavier footprint.Add to that a supply shortage that’s caused demand to exceed supply, and it’s ...
Listen: Verizon Engineer Dupes Grainger Out of Nearly $1M
In another example illustrating just how prevalent the threat of wire fraud is to manufacturing companies, a newly-reported case in Ohio involved a former Verizon employee duping a major industrial distributor out of nearly $1 million in fraudu...
