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Tuesday, September 22, 2026

Tech Tuesday
  1. 9:04The Smart Start

    The Garage Laser Cutter That's Now Worth a Billion Dollars

    Reno Startup Week returns Sept 28-Oct 2, free and open to anyone, with nearly 70 sessions across Midtown, the Reno Public Market, and a Sparks warehouse turned makerspace. One of this year's headline speakers bootstrapped a Reno garage laser-cutting shop to a billion-dollar company without ever taking outside money, until this year.

  2. 9:18The Smart Start

    The Power Plants Going Up for the Computers, Not the Houses

    Two new gas-fired power plants are rising in Storey County to run AI data centers, and Northern Nevada's own utility projects computing could eat up the vast majority of its power sales within twenty years. What's actually being built, and what it could mean for your bill down the road.

  3. 9:32The Smart Start

    The Headline Said 3,000 Jobs. The Paperwork Says 974.

    An old Amazon warehouse on the edge of Reno is becoming an AI-server factory. What the company's press release promises, what Nevada actually got them to sign, and why those two numbers don't quite match.

  4. 9:46The Smart Start

    Hire the Person or Buy the Tool

    Thinking about automating a task instead of hiring for it? The real, fully-loaded cost of a Nevada hire, an honest look at what AI tools can and can't replace, and the onboarding cost nobody puts in the spreadsheet.

  5. StandbyThe Smart Start

    Is It Cheating to Let AI Write That

    The FTC can fine a business over fifty thousand dollars for a fake review, and in May it proved it wasn't bluffing. Where the honest line is between AI helping you write and AI helping you lie.

  6. StandbyThe Smart Start

    The Boring Thing That Bankrupts You

    The email that ends a small business doesn't look like a hacker movie. Nevada ranks third in the country for cybercrime losses, and the fix that blocks almost all of it is free.

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