Gene Berdichevsky once helped build the battery that powered Tesla’s first Roadster. Now he warns that clinging to graphite anodes leaves American industry exposed. One decision in Beijing could idle nearly 100,000 U.S. workers within days. Factories would halt. Assembly lines would stop. The scenario isn’t hypothetical. China imposed export controls on lithium-ion batteries and […]

Baby boomer entrepreneurs face a stark choice. Sell the company they spent decades building to private equity or a larger rival. Watch it close when no buyer appears. Or hand it to family members who may lack interest or aptitude. None of these paths sits well with founders who view their businesses as more than

Google has long lured users with 15 gigabytes of free storage shared across Gmail, Drive and Photos. That promise helped build an empire. Now the company appears ready to chip away at it. Early reports from users in Kenya and Nigeria show new Gmail accounts receiving just 5GB unless they verify a phone number. The

A new Gallup poll has laid bare a startling shift in American attitudes toward industrial infrastructure. Seven in 10 adults say they oppose construction of data centers for artificial intelligence in their local area. Nearly half register strong opposition. By contrast, just 53 percent object to a nuclear power plant nearby. The numbers come from

Passkeys promise stronger security than passwords. Yet for years they trapped users inside one password manager. Google now appears ready to change that on Android devices. Researchers at Android Authority activated a hidden interface inside Google Password Manager. The new options read “Import passwords & passkeys” and “Export passwords & passkeys.” They work. Users can

Financial institutions stand at the edge of a major shift. Agentic AI systems promise to plan, decide and act across complex tasks from fraud detection to portfolio adjustments without constant human direction. Yet fresh analysis shows many banks and asset managers risk watching this wave pass them by. Their data simply isn’t prepared. Published today,

Human rights defenders face threats that go far beyond physical danger. Sophisticated spyware now infiltrates their phones. It tracks movements. It steals contacts. It silences voices before they can document abuses. But a fresh alliance aims to flip that script. Surfshark just became a supporting partner of Amnesty International’s Digital Forensics Fellowship. The program trains

Bun’s creator Jarred Sumner merged a staggering rewrite this week. Over one million lines of Rust code now sit in the project’s main repository. The change marks the end of the JavaScript runtime’s reliance on Zig. Version 1.3.14 shipped as the final Zig-based release. Memory leaks had plagued Bun for months. They hit hardest at

Zoey Zhang once found the film industry nearly impenetrable. Hierarchies loomed. Gatekeepers blocked the way. Without funding or connections, breaking through seemed almost impossible, she has said. Then she turned to artificial intelligence. Her animated short earned the Best Visual award at MIT’s 2025 AI Film Hack. That success marked a turning point. It convinced

Google slipped up in early May. The company published an experimental Android app called COSMO to the Play Store under its main account. Then it yanked the listing within hours. What leaked offers a rare look at how Google plans to move artificial intelligence from distant servers onto phones themselves. The app weighed in at