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Success doesn’t always smell sweet.For Daniel Thom, 31, owner and operator of Bay Area Sanitation, success means having nearly 2,000 portable toilets at events and work sites throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. Tom’s company is responsible for the rental and maintenance of these toilets, including weekly cleaning, restocking, and emptying up to 60 gallons of waste from each unit with one of the Bay Area Sanitation Department’s 12 vacuum pump trucks.”When I tell people I run a porta-potty business, I get some pretty nasty looks,” Tom says. “But once you explain the business model and revenue to them, they…

Washington DC, London — US President Donald Trump praised British troops on Saturday, following continued outrage over comments he made this week that downplayed the sacrifices of NATO troops in Afghanistan. “Our great and brave British soldiers will always be with the United States of America!” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “457 people died in Afghanistan, many seriously wounded, but they were some of the greatest warriors of all,” he continued. “It is a bond too strong to ever be broken. With an extraordinary heart and soul, the British Army is second to none (except the US!). We love you…

Cristian Romero’s 90th-minute equaliser, under pressure from Tottenham manager Thomas Frank, spared second-placed Burnley an embarrassing defeat and the defender’s header sealed a 2-2 draw.However, as the final whistle blew at Turf Moor, the visitors were booed as Spurs continued to put pressure on Frank, who had won just two of their last 14 league games. Frank’s side were unable to build on the momentum of Tuesday’s home win against Borussia Dortmund in the Champions League, leaving them winless in the Premier League in 2026. Tottenham are currently eight points above the drop zone in 13th place and have a…

At times this week at the World Economic Forum, Davos appeared to be turning into a powerhouse technology conference, with Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and more industry executives taking to the stage. Unsurprisingly, the biggest topic was AI, with CEOs laying out their vision for the technology’s transformative potential, while also acknowledging continued concerns that AI is inflating a giant bubble. Amid these big predictions, they sometimes found time to attack competitors and even their ostensible partners. On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, I chatted with…

Fiordaliso | Moments | Getty ImagesOver the past few years, Emma Coville, a trauma counselor in Denver, has started noticing a new theme emerging from her patients: artificial intelligence. “We’ve had clients lose their jobs because of AI, and that’s something we handled in our sessions,” Coville said. They often express “shock, disbelief, and fear that their skills are no longer needed and that they are navigating a changing career landscape,” she said. Other therapists also said the technology bothers their patients. “The thing I hear most often is the fear of becoming obsolete,” says Harvey Lieberman, a clinical psychologist…

Liverpool’s unbeaten run ended as Bournemouth won a dramatic 3-2 with Amin Adli scoring the winning goal in stoppage time.Arne Slott’s team were undefeated in 13 competitive games, but were slightly behind in the Premier League after drawing four games in a row, but were defeated by Adli’s last-ditch effort as they fought back from a 2-0 deficit. Virgil van Dijk’s haphazard defending gave Evanilson the lead, then Alex Jimenez doubled the lead, with just 10 men on the pitch at the time of the goal as Liverpool scrambled to replace the injured Joe Gomez. Use Chrome Browser for a…

About 10 years ago, Andy Hill was looking for a change. Hill, now 44, was feeling burnt out from her job in corporate event marketing. When Hill was in her 20s, she enjoyed frequent trips and weekend events, but once she got married and started a family, those gigs began to lose their luster.In 2016, Hill began a side gig hosting the podcast “Marriage Kids and Money,” where he and guests discussed their travel and family finance stories. Around this time, he became interested in FIRE, which stands for “Financial Independence, Early Retirement.”This strategy typically involves saving a high percentage…

Big tech companies and emerging startups want to use generative AI to build software and hardware for kids. Many of these experiences are limited to text or audio, which children may not find appealing. Three former Google employees hope to overcome that hurdle with Sparkli, an interactive app powered by generative AI. Sparkli was founded last year by Lax Poojary, Lucie Marchand, and Myn Kang. As parents, Poojary and Kang were unable to satisfy their children’s curiosity or provide engaging answers to their questions. “Understandably, kids are very curious, and my son asked me questions about how cars work and…

View of pipelines at the Zueitina oil terminal west of Benghazi, Libya, February 3, 2020. Photographed on February 3, 2020. Essam Omran Alfetri | ReutersLibya is scheduled to sign a 25-year oil development agreement with France on Saturday. total energy and based in the US conocophilipsPrime Minister Abdulhamid al-Dbeibah said more than $20 billion of foreign financial investment was involved.The deal, signed through Waha Oil Company, aims to increase production capacity by up to 850,000 barrels per day and is expected to generate net proceeds of more than $376 billion, Dbeibah said in a post on X.Waha officials said the…

Story in developmentStories under development, Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said a 37-year-old man was shot multiple times and died at a hospital.A U.S. federal agent has shot and killed another person during an immigration crackdown in Minneapolis, authorities said.Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said at a news conference Saturday that a 37-year-old man, whose identity has not yet been released, suffered multiple gunshot wounds and died at a hospital.O’Hara told reporters the man lived in Minneapolis and was a U.S. citizen.”What we are asking today is that the federal agencies operating in our cities operate with the same discipline,…