Monday, September 7, 2026

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Veteran agtech Farmbot digs up $22 million Series B for US push

The round for the farmland remote water and asset monitoring platform for livestock farms was led by Lewis & Clark Partners, with participation from Fulcrum Global Capital, Builders VC, Level VC, Meat & Livestock Australia’s Cultiv8 Livestock Technology Fund,...

6 startups score $13.5 million from biotech grants fund CUREator+

The six, from three state, are: Aleris Therapeutics (Vic), Frontier Inflammasome Therapeutics (Qld), Luma Bio (Vic), Navier Medical (WA), Neurotologix (WA) and WeGuide (Vic). They span inflammatory disease, cancer, cardiovascular disease, neurological disorders and AI-enabled digital health.  CUREator+, run...

Sylvester Stallone asked Queen for “Another One Bites the Dust” as the Rocky III theme and was turned down — so he called an...

In early 1982, a struggling Chicago rock band received the strangest voicemail in music history. Jim Peterik of Survivor came home, saw the blinking light on his answering machine — still a novelty back then — and pressed play. “Hey,...

Why founders have a problem taking action – and how to get over it

People are good at diagnosing what’s wrong. They’re not great at following through and fixing it. They say things like: “I think I need to ask my cofounder to step down.” “I know this sales hire isn’t working.” “That person is underperforming, and...

“Donnie Darko” was rejected by every major distributor, then released just six weeks after 9/11 with a jet engine crashing into a teenager’s bedroom...

Some movies are ahead of their time. “Donnie Darko” managed something stranger: it arrived at precisely the worst moment in modern history for its own plot. Richard Kelly’s debut — a moody, time-bending story about a troubled teenager, a six-foot...

The advice to make a vision board in tough times runs into an awkward finding: research shows that vividly fantasising about a desired future...

The vision board is a fixture of wellness advice: a collage of the life you want, the house, the trip, the toned body, the corner office, pinned up where you will see it and, the theory goes, drawn steadily...

Researchers studied more than 34,000 elite performers across sport, science, music and chess and found something striking: the children who excelled fastest tended to...

Talent systems are built to notice speed. The child winning early is selected, funded and given more specialised practice. The slower child is easier to overlook, even when that slower development may be part of the path that eventually...

Shift Awards PhyCo $25K to Replace Plastics in Food Supply Chains

Victoria-based Shift Technologies this month awarded its 2026 Shift Impact Grant Recipient to PhyCo Technologies. Shift, which last year launched a completely customizable browsing experience, awarded its second annual $25,000 Impact Grant to PhyCo, a marine biotech company turning seaweed into...

ZEIC Report Recognizes Local Startups as ‘Notable Stars’ in Clean Energy Transition

Vancouver is “something of a curiosity in the energy transition,” concludes a new report. The report, “From Strength to Scale: How Metro Vancouver Can Capture Economic Opportunity in the Global Energy Transition,” hails from The Zero Emissions Innovation Centre, a...

Psychologists say forming your deepest bond with an animal instead of a person isn’t a failure to connect — it’s often the nervous system...

They usually confess it half-joking, braced for the reaction: “Honestly? I like her more than most people.” The her is a dog, or a cat, or a horse. And the confession is true in a way the joke is built...
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A new study suggests the person who left your message unanswered tends to feel worse about it than you imagine, and worse still when...

“What do you think of this?” That is the last message in one version of an experiment funded by the...
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