Survival Lessons From Past Tech Downturns
People who have been in the tech industry long enough to remember its previous major downturns have a message for...
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Amazon’s Quest for the ‘Holy Grail’ of Robotics
Automating some warehouse functions could let the giant do more with its existing workforce—or the retailer may not require all...
Why Elon Musk’s Quest to Revive Twitter Is Likely to Fail
Elon Musk is treating Twitter like a startup. The thing about startups is, most of them fail.At Twitter, as is...
Meet the Army of Robots Coming to Fill In for Scarce Workers
A new wave of robots is arriving—and, in a world short of workers, business leaders are more eager to welcome...
The Next Big Battle Between Google and Apple Is for the Soul of Your Car
A few years from now, in addition to deciding your next vehicle’s make and model, you may have another tough...
Why Even Big Tech Companies Keep Getting Hacked—and What They Plan to Do About It
The companies that should know best how to fight hackers, tech firms, have reached an arresting conclusion: The weakest link...
More Bosses Are Spying on Quiet Quitters. It Could Backfire.
In the battle against “quiet quitting” and other obstacles to productivity in the workplace, companies are increasingly turning to an...
Companies Used to Announce Products. Now They ‘Drop’ Them.
Once upon a time, not that many years ago, most companies with important new products just announced them, perhaps with...
For Rent: 327 Square Foot Apartment With 5 Rooms—Thanks to Robot Furniture
Our homes are, as comedian George Carlin put it, just a place for our stuff. But what if, asks a...
The Microchip Era Is Giving Way to the Megachip Age
If microchips were cities, the new, industrywide strategy for making them better could be summed up in one word: sprawl....
How to Build AI That Actually Works for Your Business
Artificial intelligence might one day be used to power genuinely humanlike cyborgs or other figments of humanity’s fertile imagination. For...
What the Heck Is a ‘Super App’ and Why Are Elon Musk, Evan Spiegel and Jack Dorsey So Interested?
Look! Up in the sky! Is it a bird? A plane? No, it’s super…apps. Unlike regular apps, which for years...
The Surprising Reason Your Amazon Searches Are Returning More Confusing Results than Ever
If you want to be reminded just how tiny you are, you could travel to a remote part of the...
Self-Driving Big Rigs Are Coming. Is America Ready?
Some day in the next few years, if you’re on the right stretch of highway in America’s Sunbelt, you are...
Adam Neumann’s ‘Goddess Nature Token’ Is the Future of Crypto—for Better or Worse
To understand the current state of Web3—that future version of the internet that proponents promise will be decentralized and better—it...
The Tech Crash Could Be a Talent Bonanza for Big Tech
Apple, Amazon, AMZN 3.66% Microsoft, Google and Facebook FB 1.83% parent Meta Platforms have spent years battling for engineers and...
The Biggest Problem With Flying Cars Is on the Ground
The startups and investors that have sent hopes soaring for “flying cars” could be in for a rough landing, in...
Apple’s Not-So-Secret Plan to Take Another Gigantic Bite of the Microchip Market
Apple AAPL -3.66% has shown it can design the brains of its devices, and is now poised to do something...
How Sanctions on Russia, War in Ukraine and Covid in China Are Transforming Global Supply Chains
A new world order is emerging for the vital supply chains that deliver most of the goods we rely on...
Alexa for Animals: AI Is Teaching Us How Creatures Communicate
Artificial intelligence has already enabled humans to chat with robots like Alexa and Siri that were inspired by science fiction....
