A SpaceX Engineer Turns Rocket Engines Into Power Plants
Spencer Jackson spent nearly seven years at SpaceX working on some of the most extreme machines ever built: the structures of the Falcon Heavy, the thermal seals that protect Starship…
Uber Expands in Houston, Where the Robotaxi War Has Three Armies
On any given evening in Houston, a rider hailing a car can now be picked up by a vehicle with no driver at the wheel, from two different companies, and…
Intel’s Most Advanced Chip Node Enters Production Testing
The engineers gathered at the VLSI Symposium in Honolulu on Tuesday to hear Intel make a quiet but consequential announcement: the company’s most advanced chipmaking process, 18A-P, had entered risk…
SpaceX Overtakes Amazon Four Days After Its IPO
The market-capitalization table on the Nasdaq floor changed twice in the space of an afternoon. Around midday on Tuesday, June 16, SpaceX shares touched $225.64, briefly making the rocket company…
Microsoft Weighs a Spin-Off for Xbox as Gaming Revenue Slides
The question inside Microsoft used to be how to fix Xbox. Now it is whether to keep it. The company has considered spinning off its gaming business into a standalone…
The World’s 500 Richest Gained $336 Billion in a Single Day
The number is so large it reads like a typo: $336 billion, added to the combined net worth of the world’s 500 richest people in a single day. It happened…
Threads Passes 500 Million Users, Lets Them Tune Its Algorithm
The feature Meta rolled out for Threads this week reads like an answer to a question users have asked since the app’s early days: why am I seeing this? The…
Amazon to Spend $10 Billion on Missouri Data Center Campus
Montgomery City, Missouri, has about 2,800 residents and sits beside Interstate 70, roughly midway between St. Louis and Kansas City. It is not the first place most people would look…
BofA’s Hartnett Tells Clients to Keep Trimming Stocks Until July
Michael Hartnett has been Wall Street’s most prominent bear for so long that some clients stopped reading his notes. In his latest, the Bank of America strategist told them to…
U.S.-Iran Accord on Hormuz Sends Stocks Soaring, Oil Falling
The first sign of the rally came in Asia. SoftBank Group shares surged more than 12% in Tokyo trading Monday after the United States and Iran announced a framework peace…
