How the Pandemic Broke Silicon Valley’s Stranglehold on Tech Jobs
Silicon Valley, make way for Silicon U.S.A.In a feedback loop that could transform the economic geography of the U.S., millions...
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Why All Those EV-Battery ‘Breakthroughs’ You Hear About Aren’t Breaking Through
In the superheated market for batteries, promising lab developments often get overhyped by startups. “Liar, liar, battery supplier.” Source link
The Technology That’s Helping Companies Thrive Amid the Supply-Chain Chaos
Bad news abounds about supply chains these days, with shortages of everything from cars to coffee cups. The better news:...
The Nanotechnology Revolution Is Here—We Just Haven’t Noticed Yet
Before there was a “metaverse,” before there were crypto millionaires, before nearly every kid in America wanted to be an...
Jack Dorsey and the Unlikely Revolutionaries Who Want to Reboot the Internet
The internet hasn’t turned out the way it was supposed to.In its earliest incarnation, before some Wall Street Journal readers...
Facebook Joins a Crowded Field In the Race to Build the ‘Metaverse.’ We All Have a Stake in the Outcome.
Tech billionaires are a quirky lot. Some are attempting to build a world imagined in utopian visions of the future,...
How the Search for Extraterrestrial Life Helped Make Your Smartphone’s Screen Possible
In December, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and its partners plan to launch the James Webb Space Telescope. A...
The Novel Material That’s Shrinking Phone Chargers, Powering Up Electric Cars, and Making 5G Possible
If you’re reading this on a screen, it’s likely you’re literally staring at the future. Present in most LED screens,...
What a Tech Breakup Could Mean for You
As momentum builds to curtail the power of Big Tech, lawmakers, Beltway pundits and the companies themselves are all competing...
Why PCs Are Turning Into Giant Phones
Your next laptop will be like a smartphone—only bigger, more powerful and more capable. It’s a reversal of almost a...
Self-Driving Cars Could Be Decades Away, No Matter What Elon Musk Said
In 2016, Lyft CEO John Zimmer predicted they would “all but end” car ownership by 2025. In 2021, some experts...
Apple and the End of the Car as We Know It
Now that the car is evolving into essentially a smartphone on wheels, it’s no wonder Apple is kicking the tires.First,...
These Technologies Could Hold Back Business Travel Indefinitely
It’s a sunny, breezy morning in Eugene, Ore., a place best known for access to the great outdoors, a history...
As Apple and Facebook Clash Over Ads, Mom-and-Pop Shops Fear They’ll Be the Victims
If Apple is King Kong and Facebook is Godzilla, mom-and-pop online merchants are worried they’re the screaming, scattering citizens who...
Graphene and Beyond: The Wonder Materials That Could Replace Silicon in Future Tech
Silicon is pretty great. Testifying to its greatness is more than 70 years’ worth of steady progress in electronic computing,...
With Shopify, Small Businesses Strike Back at Amazon
In a world in which e-commerce has become a necessity for nearly every retailer, it can seem they have only...
What’s Missing in the Electric-Vehicle Revolution: Enough Places to Plug In
Bradley Wilkinson is the owner of a 2017 Chevrolet Bolt, and the kind of electric-vehicle diehard who knows how to...
Amazon’s New CEO Can Either Help Workers and Sellers—or Automate Them Away
Andy Jassy is taking over a very unusual “tech” company. Amazon AMZN 0.63% has many times more employees than any...
GameStop, Bitcoin and QAnon: How the Wisdom of Crowds Became the Anarchy of the Mob
This was the week that the stock market became the stonks market. For those of you unaware, “stonks” is an...
