Posts by Liam Redmond
Man Makes Money Scratching Other People’s Itches: Inside China’s Bizarre New Service Business
A 32-year-old Chinese entrepreneur has turned one of the simplest everyday comforts into a paid service by scratching an itch that is reportedly generating about 100,000 yuan, or roughly ₹14 lakh, in gross monthly revenue from two outlets in Shenzhen. Zhang Xiaoqiao launched the business under the brand Suma, charging customers 300 yuan (about ₹4,200)…
Read MoreAgentic Commerce: 5 Ways to Get Picked by AI Agents
Shopping agents stopped being a demo this year, and Google now completes checkout on merchant sites for shoppers through Search, AI Mode and Gemini. A buyer sets size, color and a price ceiling, then confirms once, and Google fills the cart and pays. Agentic commerce changes who you are selling to. Your next customer may…
Read MoreKristi Noem offers cringeworthy take on Markwayne Mullin’s emergency landing in a Coast Guard plane
WASHINGTON — Kristi Noem found a way to make a near-plane crash about herself. The former Department of Homeland Security secretary, nicknamed “ICE Barbie,” weighed in on her successor, Markwayne Mullin, having to make an emergency landing at Reagan National Airport on Wednesday — with a single working engine on his Coast Guard plane and a…
Read MoreEl Niño Warning: Why the Emerging Climate Pattern Could Bring Extreme Weather Across Asia
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) states that the current strengthening El Niño is likely to become stronger by the end of 2026, raising the chances of extreme heat and major changes in rainfall patterns in parts of Asia and in other areas. In its recent update on Sept. 3, the agency indicated that there is…
Read MoreWho Are Patrick and Thomasina Tobin? Their Spain Hot Tub Death Explained
A London father and his wife are believed to have died after becoming trapped by a hot tub’s suction system at their holiday villa in Spain, with their two teenage children later finding their bodies in a discovery that has shocked the family. Patrick Tobin, 48, and his wife Thomasina Tobin, 51, were found dead…
Read MoreAI CRM Shifts as Salesforce and Anthropic Ship Claudeforce
Salesforce and Anthropic have deepened an existing relationship, and the two companies announced Claudeforce on August 26. The arrangement runs in both directions, putting Claude inside Salesforce products and Salesforce inside Claude. For founders, the detail worth tracking is not the branding. It is that a major software vendor has now picked a default model…
Read More‘Street Fighter’ star reveals intense diet and exercise regimen she used to bulk up her thighs by 2.5 inches
How does one get some of the most famous thighs in video game history? The actress playing Chun-Li in the upcoming Street Fighter movie, Callina Liang, took the responsibility very seriously. “[I] strengthened my legs a lot and changed my diet drastically,” the Canadian actress told Empire magazine in August. “But it worked. By the…
Read MoreSmall Business Grants for Women Reopen With $45K Each
Applications opened this week for a program worth watching, because H&R Block reopened its Fund Her Future grant for women-owned small businesses on September 1. Four recipients will each receive $45,000 in funding plus a full year of business services. Running a business is hard enough without spending your evenings guessing at payroll rules. That…
Read MoreHeart-stopping rescue saves capsized ship passengers off Cyprus
Helicopters rescued passengers stranded on the overturned hull of a ferry off North Cyprus on August 30. The catamaran, carrying about 270 passengers and crew, capsized shortly after leaving Kyrenia for Turkey, killing at least seven people and leaving 23 missing. Authorities said 237 people were rescued alive, while the cause of the ferry taking…
Read MoreAI Agent Security Draws $50M as AIR Exits Stealth
Six months after two former military cyber operators founded the company, AIR left stealth with a $50 million round led by Sequoia Capital and Greenoaks. Swish Ventures and Netz joined, with private investors drawn from the cybersecurity and AI industries. The speed of that raise will get the attention. However, the more useful detail for…
Read MoreExclusive | Tourists refuse to leave Hamptons after Labor Day, putting beloved ‘Tumbleweed Tuesday’ tradition on ice
For decades, Labor Day in the Hamptons meant the crowds left, shared houses emptied and locals reclaimed their towns from chaotic summer tourists. Known colloquially as “Tumbleweed Tuesday,” the day after Labor Day once marked a real economic and cultural cutoff between the frenetic summer season and the quiet months that followed. But that timeline…
Read MoreHow Did Chris Langham Die? ‘The Thick of It’ Star Whose Career Was Destroyed by Controversial 2007 Conviction Dies at 77
Chris Langham, the British actor and writer best known for playing hapless Cabinet minister Hugh Abbot in the BBC political satire The Thick of It, died from pancreatic cancer at the age of 77, it has been revealed. Langham died on June 24, 2026, but news of his death only became public on Sept. 3,…
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