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By Jon D. Markman On August 18, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Industrial designers dream about products free of buttons and wired connections. Sadly, function always gets in the way.
That is likely to change. Samsung, Foxconn and other firms are...
By Jon D. Markman On August 11, 201702:00 PM Eastern
A couple of celebrity tech CEOs are having a Twitter fight.
Elon Musk, co-founder of Tesla (TSLA) and part-time rocket scientist, believes that unchecked artificial intelligence will ultimately...
By Mike Larson On August 11, 201707:00 AM Eastern
Twenty-seven years and two weeks ago, Iraqi infantry and tanks poured across the border into Kuwait. Saddam Hussein’s lightning-fast invasion overwhelmed the defenders, and he seized the country...
By Jon D. Markman On July 28, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Quantum physics and tiny satellites hundreds of miles above Earth will form the basis of the next leap in global communications.
“Quantum communications.” That’s what scientists call this...
By Jon D. Markman On June 30, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Major automakers are discovering the benefits of electric cars. And it is a really big deal.
This week, Porsche announced that its “Mission E” electric concept led to a corporate epiphany....
By Jon D. Markman On June 26, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Oil prices have crashed from $52 to $42 in the last month. And China’s the culprit, say Wall Street analysts.
China is an easy mark: Ghost cities, capital flight, shadow banking, rising dissent...
By Jon D. Markman On June 21, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Mining giant Rio Tinto PLC (RIO) is willing to go to hell and back for copper.
Its new mine near Superior, Arizona, bores nearly 7,000 feet below the Earth’s surface. There, temperatures...
By Jon D. Markman On June 14, 201702:00 PM Eastern
In the near future, scientists will engineer food that grows faster and does not spoil.
This is the promise of CRISPR/Cas 9, a game-changing gene-editing tool.
Bioengineered food could end...
By Jon D. Markman On May 24, 201702:00 PM Eastern
Elon Musk is obsessed with speed. From rockets to hyperloops to electric cars, fast is kind of his thing.
Now he wants to apply the same aesthetic to manufacturing.
Critics argue it’s another...
By Mike Larson On May 5, 201707:00 AM Eastern
Stop me if you’ve seen this movie before: Central bankers flood the economy with cheap, easy money. Things go well for a while in the sector that benefits from it. But eventually lenders go WAY...