Tag: technology

Amazon to Cut Up to 30,000 Jobs in Largest Layoffs in Company History

Richard C. Young - October 28, 2025

Amazon is preparing to launch its largest-ever round of corporate layoffs, cutting up to 30,000 jobs starting Tuesday, according to reports from CNBC and...

The Real Secret to Silicon Valley

Debbie Young - February 24, 2025

“Intelligence moves out to the edge of the network.” In the WSJ, Andy Kessler discusses the “New Frontier of individualism,” not an instant replay. It’s...

Artificial Intelligence Opposed

Richard C. Young - February 19, 2025

UPDATE 2.19.25: On his Substack, Dr. Joseph Sansone discusses merging artificial intelligence with biology. He writes: Artificial Intelligence, is in fact, ‘Artificial’ Intelligence. It is...

Which Comes First: Technology or Mandates?

Debbie Young - February 21, 2024

Those Million Dollar Babies In New York, there are a number of state legislators now calling for the repeal of the state’s electric school bus...

Will the Real World Wide Web Please Stand Up?

Steve Schneider - November 10, 2017

Roughly 50% of the world remains without reliable high-speed connectivity, including rural America, Europe and Asia. OneWeb, a corporation backed by over a billion...

Bill Gross of Idealab

E.J. Smith - Your Survival Guy - October 23, 2015

Bill Gross is the founder of technology incubator Idealab and 100 companies in the last 30 years. This week he was Tweeting from the...

Slash Solar Costs by Half

Richard C. Young - August 5, 2014

Cutting solar costs to four cents per kilowatt-hour from eight cents is the goal of Glint Photonics. A material with optical properties that change to...

Solar “Game Changer”

Richard C. Young - June 9, 2014

A University of California at Berkeley professor has found a way to potentially boost the efficiency of solar cells and make solar competitive with...

Drink Your Book

Debbie Young - May 12, 2014

A gorgeous new book that you can drink? Wired magazine reports on a breakthrough method of killing bacteria in drinking water developed at Carnegie...