Friday, June 26, 2026

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In 1981, two researchers proposed that burnout is not simple tiredness but three separate collapses

In 1981, two psychologists published a short paper in the Journal of Organizational Behavior that quietly influences how a lot of us talk about being worn down by work. Christina Maslach and Susan E. Jackson introduced something they called the...

People who spend their Sunday rebuilding their task system instead of doing the tasks aren’t procrastinating, many are trying to feel in control of...

It is 3:47 on a Sunday afternoon and Maya is in a new database. She has been in it for an hour and forty minutes. The old one, which she rebuilt in September, had grown a kind of digital...

Xcimer just turned on the largest privately owned laser in the world — and the real story isn’t the kilojoules, it’s who gets to...

Fusion startup Xcimer Energy has activated Phoenix, a krypton-fluoride excimer laser system the company describes as the largest privately owned laser in the world. The system is a deliberate step toward a commercial laser-fusion power plant the company hopes...

Labor cans $15 million Startup Year scheme after just 8 uni students take on 2000 loans

In the Senate Estimates on Friday, Department of Education officials revealed a handful of students accessed the program. According to Innovation Aus, $80,000 in funding was released before it was discontinued in last month’s federal budget. The Startup Year scheme...

The dark side of startup success nobody warns founders about

This is the paradox that haunts modern entrepreneurs. You played by the rulebook: work hard, scale fast, push through the obstacles, and eventually, you will arrive. And it worked. But the same system that crowned you is now the...

Nine walks away from its $49 million digital media investment, Pedestrian, handing it to Richard White’s Vinyl

Vinyl (ASX:VNL) is acquiring 100% of Pedestrian Group from Nine Digital for “nominal consideration” with no other cash, debt, scrip or ongoing royalties involved. The embattled TV and publishing empire (ASX: NEC), which has fallen from a $4 billion valuation...

The colleague who stays composed during a layoff round and only falls apart in the parking lot isn’t unusually professional, they learned somewhere that...

The pattern is familiar to anyone who has watched a layoff round move through a company. Someone gets the news in a glass-walled conference room, nods, shakes a hand, walks back to their desk, packs a box with the...

A 38-metre laser came online in Denver this week claiming a world record, but what Xcimer is actually doing is pointing forty years of...

Fusion startup Xcimer Energy reportedly activated its Phoenix laser system in Denver, claiming the title of the world’s largest privately owned laser. The 38-metre-long machine is described as a deliberate step toward a commercial fusion power plant the company...

One World Lithium Taps UBC Team to Advance Local Cleantech Innovation

One World Lithium is developing proprietary extraction technologies and pursuing strategic partnerships to commercialize lower-impact, scalable production from brines and clay slurries. Unlike traditional methods that tend to produce intermediates requiring additional downstream chemical processing, the Canadian firm’s objective is...

UBC’s HATCH Graduates Six High-Impact Startups

UBC’s HATCH Venture Builder is celebrating the graduation of six research-based startups, highlighting the depth and diversity of venture creation emerging from the university’s innovation ecosystem. The accelerator, which supports established UBC research-based spin-off companies, celebrated the graduating ventures on...
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Apple just jacked up Macbook prices by 20% – so here’s where you can still find a bargain

The SKUs hardest hit by the almost-20% rise across Apple’s Mac and iPad ranges, with the tech giant saying...
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