Gadgets
20 Years of MacBook: How Apple shaped the laptops we use today
A retrospective on 20 years of MacBook history and Apple's influence on laptop design and technology standards.
Features / Deep Dives
Long-form reporting, explainers and investigations.
Enterprise
The right model at the right moment: Vendors push their agentic AI PC vision
Tech vendors are promoting hybrid AI architectures that run lighter workloads on PCs locally while offloading complex tasks to cloud, reducing expensive cloud token costs.
AI
No signal, no problem: Smaller models bring more AI capabilities on-device
A countertrend in AI research is developing smaller, efficient models that run locally on devices without cloud connectivity, shifting away from the largest frontier models with trillions of parameters.
More Tech
‘My social life completely plummeted’: gen Z is fighting back against big tech
Young people are adopting tools and strategies to reduce social media usage, citing negative impacts on mental health and social life from platforms designed to maximize engagement.
AI
How AI is transforming engineering
Article by AMD's CVP of Silicon Design Engineering explores how AI is being applied to address increasing complexity in chip design and engineering.
Enterprise
When AI writes more code, why isn’t engineering getting faster?
As AI takes on more code generation, a CTO argues that engineering productivity gains depend less on tool output and more on validation and architectural oversight, with implications for how India's global capability centers organize teams.
Enterprise
How everyday technology choices drive true workplace sustainability
IT leaders and executives increasingly view technology choices and adoption as critical to meeting organizational sustainability goals, with 96% of surveyed tech leaders believing their efforts have positive environmental impact.
Green Tech
How solid-state transformers could help power the AI boom
Researchers and companies are developing solid-state transformer technology to modernize the power grid and handle rising electricity demand from data centers, EVs, and other sources.
Green Tech
How much will data centers increase your electric bill?
Data center electricity demand can affect utility bills differently depending on local grid capacity and infrastructure. A 2025 study found North Dakota's abundant wind power and spare capacity allowed data centers to lower bills by spreading costs across more customers.
Gadgets
The secret strategy behind Whoop’s $10.1 billion valuation
Whoop, valued at $10.1 billion, is expanding beyond fitness tracking into preventive healthcare with a Medicare pilot program for seniors with chronic conditions. The strategy reflects wearable companies hiring clinical experts and courting healthcare partners to tap growing consumer interest in wel
Policy
UK government met 137 businesses over AI datacentres – but no environmental groups
An investigation reveals the UK government developed AI datacentre policy through 137 meetings with businesses but held no meetings with environmental groups, while 38 officials moved into AI industry roles.
Startups
Store Memory: D2C In The Age Of Experiential Retail
Indian fashion and lifestyle brands including Gully Labs, Comet, Nothing, Almost Gods and Broadway are adopting experiential retail strategies, creating immersive store environments that blend brand identity with product discovery beyond traditional purchase-driven retail.
Green Tech
From Barrel to Battery: What Will Europe’s Clean Car Debate Decide
Europe debates the pace of battery electric vehicle adoption as battery costs fall below oil barrel prices, shaping the continent's automotive future.
Policy
‘Digital hostile environment’: AI secretly being embedded across Home Office, report claims
The UK Home Office has deployed AI across its immigration operations with minimal transparency, according to Open Rights Group research, including for asylum age assessment and border surveillance.
AI
Humanity can't afford not to spend $800B on AI, Anthropic insists
Anthropic's IPO filing reveals massive compute expenditure plans exceeding half a trillion dollars over the next decade, while the company works to offset operational losses.
Startups
Databricks co-founder shares his secrets for winning big enterprises customers
Databricks co-founder reveals that enterprise sales success comes from leveraging partner sales teams rather than relying on superior technology alone.
Startups
7 insights from F1 Capital Factory: Builders take deep tech startup infrastructure from prototype to scale
Deep tech startups in energy, defense, space, and applied AI are transitioning from prototype phase to manufacturing and scaling, with infrastructure moving beyond the lab.
Startups
Slack’s founder got one hour with Benioff before the $27.7bn sale
A Slack founder's insider account details the company's first two years post-acquisition by Salesforce for $27.7 billion, recounting a one-hour meeting before the sale.