On November 30, 1988, members of the Boston Computer Society filled that city’s Symphony Hall to capacity. They were there to see Steve Jobs demo the NeXT cube, the remarkable computer from the startup he’d founded after being ousted from Apple three years earlier. I was lucky enough to be in Jobs’s aud
A wave of apprenticeship programs in the tech industry have been generating media buzz. Among the organizations receiving attention include education startup Multiverse, which has raised $220 million for its apprenticeship program, and Accenture, which has launched its apprenticeship prog
Tesla’s been down a bumpy road this year, between COVID shutdowns at its Shanghai Gigafactory, a global stock market crash, and an early round of company layoffs.
Now, investors will be inspecting its quarterly earnings to glean whether the end of 2022 might be better than its tumultuous first half.
The shutdowns—which swept China this spring as COVID case numbers ticked up and the country’s zero-tolerance policy bore down—were particularly costly for
The onset of the crypto bear market over the last six weeks, and the downfall of high-profile projects resulting in some estimated $2 trillion in crypto losses caused a lot of debate about the future of crypto. Comparisons are being made between the blockchain industry of today and the dotcom bubble of 2000.
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Microsoft was founded in the inflationary environment of the mid-1970s. Adobe started in the depths of the 1982 recession. The most recent financial crisis of 2008 led to a wave of successful companies from Airbnb to Square.
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Flooded with fake and misleading reviews on many of its products, Amazon is going on the offensive, filing suit against the administrators of what it says are over 10,000 Facebook groups that are used to manage those reviews and incentivize peo
At the beginning of 2022, streaming giant Netflix seemed to be riding high. Over the previous two years, thanks in large part to the pandemic, it had added a remarkable 55 million subscribers, making it by far the most popular streaming service, all while steadily increasing the price those subscribers paid. While its stock price was down slightly from the all-time high it had reached in the fall of 2021, it was still near $600 a share, giving the company a mar
With a refined design announced Tuesday for its Mach 1.7 Overture jet, Boom Supersonic’s dream of reviving exceptionally fast commercial air travel looks a little more real. But this update to Overture, a small airliner in the works
When Apple announced lock screen customization as one of the tentpole features of iOS 16, I wasn’t all that excited—at first.
While I appreciate Apple’s attempts to make the iPhone more flexible and personal, I tend not to linger on my phone’s lock screen for long, and I’m a minimalist when it comes to home screen widgets. It wasn’t clear to me why customizing the lock screen would be worth the trouble.
Then I created an emoji wallpaper