Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest man, is spending $10 billion to help combat climate change. | Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Amazon Bezos has quietly started […]
Podcast: Canada’s narwhals skewer Silicon Valley’s unicorns
Toronto and the corridor that stretches west to Kitchener and Waterloo is already Canada’s capital of finance and technology—and naturally, the region’s leaders want to […]
How Hollywood accidentally built Netflix
Johnny Depp starred in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. | Screenshot via Disney Netflix’s stunning rise wouldn’t have happened without unwitting help from the […]
Will astronauts ever visit gas giants like Jupiter?
Every week, the readers of our space newsletter, The Airlock, send in their questions for space reporter Neel V. Patel to answer. This week: Can we go to […]
America has almost 800 billionaires, a record high
Mike Bloomberg at Sun Valley, a conference popular with billionaires. | Drew Angerer/Getty Images The debate over whether the world’s megarich are too rich is […]
Baidu’s deep-learning platform fuels the rise of industrial AI
AI is driving industrial transformation across a variety of sectors, and we’re just beginning to scratch the surface of AI capabilities. Some industrial innovations are […]