Technology
The U.S. is building barriers around drones and robots, but China has scale to...
In July and August, Washington tightened restrictions on foreign-made advanced robotic systems and imposed steep tariffs on imported drones and their components, both...
Amazon Mechanical Turk to Shut Down Sept. 30 After 21 Years
Mechanical Turk was built to supply the “human intelligence” computers could not provide. After 21 years, Amazon is shutting it...
Why the Hottest New Wearables Want to Be Ignored
Whoop has made screen-free wearables since its first proper release in 2015, but the shift in what Whoop considers itself to be about...
Grindr wants to be the everything app for gay men; investors are still deciding...
When George Arison took over Grindr in 2022, he inherited a company that had been bounced from Chinese ownership to a forced divestiture...
AI Expansion Meets Security Crises, Costs, and Public Resistance in Tech This Week
This week, artificial intelligence moved deeper into enterprise software, custom silicon, media creation, autonomous vehicles, and workplace planning. At the same...
Google Maps Now Shows ‘Lake America’ Instead of Lake Ontario
Lake Ontario is no more on Google Maps in the US. Google changed the name of easternmost of the Great Lakes to “Lake...
Musk’s faster path to more gas turbines comes with pollution problem
Elon Musk says he’s found a way to solve one of AI’s biggest bottlenecks by making a hard-to-manufacture turbine part himself.
On Saturday,...
Could the Grid Handle It?
Anthropic’s Australian ambitions could require an extraordinary amount of electricity.
The Claude maker expressed interest earlier this year in locating up...