Google is going to the dogs—the mechanical, self-correcting, scary intelligent automated dogs. Last week, the technology giant confirmed that it had bought Boston Dynamics, a little-known Northeastern robotics company that has …
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Notoriously private executive spoke of personal discrimination
The battle for the living room between Microsoft and Sony, round three, has gotten off to a roaring start. Both companies have sold over 2 million units each of the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 in under a month at retail around the …
Meet the Lamborghini Sogna, a one-off version of the wildly beautiful Lamborghini Countach. The Sogna, essentially a Countach with a new “improved” body, was unveiled at the 1991 Geneva Motor Show by Japanese designer Ryoji …
Complaints and lawsuits cannot solve the problem of overregulation, only ideas can, but for an industry built on ideas for success, Wall Street seems surprisingly short of creativity.
Broadly speaking, Wall Street exists for …
A year ago, the news about Hewlett-Packard was sounding pretty dire. The stock had plunged following an $8.8 billion write-down from its botched purchase of Autnonomy. Some observers saw the company in a perpetual turnaround. …
Robots work tirelessly in factories, often around the clock, to churn out cars, computers and pack bags of cookies into boxes. They never complain, ask for breaks or demand bigger paychecks. In fact, robotic technology is …
You’d never know that women make up half the population from peeking inside Silicon Valley’s boardrooms. Nor could you tell from sitting in on meetings with rank and file programmers. Men dominate in the technology industry, …
The outcome of the 2012 presidential elections was widely touted as a win for average Americans and a defeat for big money, which overwhelmingly seemed to back the Republican challenger, Mitt Romney. But the reality is that …
Now that Michael Dell has taken his company private after a brutal eight-month battle over the future of the company, is the company better positioned to turn itself around? Perhaps, in time. But until then it’s looking like Dell …
In the wake of Twitter’s IPO, the word frothy is getting tossed around a lot. It’s what you say when you don’t want to be alarmist about another dotcom bubble, but you still see a classic sign of a market gone loopy: a disconnect …
