President Donald Trump declared this week that the United States has “plenty of jet engines” and doesn’t need to buy them from Europe, a statement that sent ripples through the global aerospace industry and raised pointed questions about whether American manufacturing capacity can actually back up the rhetoric. The comments, made to reporters aboard Air […]

Twenty-three years ago, Apple convinced the music industry to let customers buy individual songs for 99 cents. It was, at the time, a radical proposition — one that cannibalized album sales, enraged record labels, and fundamentally altered how consumers thought about paying for digital content. It also became the template for everything Apple has done

Every organization has one. The manager who drains morale, drives out talent, and somehow survives performance review after performance review. The one whose team fantasizes about quitting in unison. The one whose name triggers a collective sigh in Slack channels. Ethan Evans spent more than two decades at Amazon, rising to the rank of vice

Somewhere between the atmosphere and the void, a new front in the data center arms race is taking shape. Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos — the two richest men on the planet, perpetual rivals in rocketry and ego — are now racing to plant computing infrastructure in orbit. The pitch is seductive: unlimited solar power,

At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona earlier this year, a theme emerged that would have sounded like science fiction a decade ago: the next generation of wireless connectivity isn’t being built primarily for smartphones. It’s being built for machines. Specifically, robots. The relationship between wireless technology and robotics has always been constrained by a

Simon Willison hasn’t taken a proper break in three years. The co-creator of the Django web framework — one of the most widely deployed tools in modern software development — recently admitted something that surprised even his most devoted followers: he’s exhausted. Not the normal kind of tired that comes from shipping code on deadline.

A strange thing is happening on American roads. Cars without drivers are picking up passengers, delivering groceries, and hauling freight — and the stocks behind them are on a tear that’s making even the most skeptical analysts reconsider their models. This isn’t a prototype demo or a Silicon Valley fever dream anymore. It’s commerce. And