No matter where you turned this year, it seemed Elon Musk was there. The world’s richest man and CEO of multiple companies always seemed to be in the spotlight, even when it wasn’t especially flattering.
With a personality as large as Musk’s, it’s easy to focus on the individual. But as the year comes to a close, how have his companies performed? It’s a bit of a mixed bag—though some of his most ardent supporters and biggest detractors might
In a recent interview with Dua Lipa on her podcast, At Your Service, Apple CEO Tim Cook discussed something that he and Apple almost never address: the succession plan they have in place regarding the company’s leadership.
The mere thought of Tim Cook’s inevitable retirement is enough to send shivers down the spines of many of those on Wall Street. Cook is adored by both institutional and retail investors because he has seemingly achieved the impossible: sending Apple
The Bio-Block Spiral is a small, short wall, but it may be a bulwark against a giant threat: climate change. The curved, mud-colored structure is part of the current Chicago Architecture Biennial, entitled “Rehearsing the Future.” Unlike the artists’ installations filling the city’s downtown exhibit halls, the Bio-Block Spiral rises as a tight 15-foot-tall circle of concrete blocks outside the entrance to an office building that’s away from the action. Perha
Working her way up in tech, Nikitha Suryadevara saw many of her more senior colleagues investing their personal funds into new startups. “I would mention, ‘I saw that this company is doing XYZ’ or ‘That startup is doing this,’ and they’d say, ‘I invested in it,’ or ‘So and so asked me to write a check,’” says Suryadevara, a product manager who’s worked at Ritual, VMware, and Google. “I thought, That
2023 has been a busy year for Apple. While the company had its usual annual software launches, such as the iPhone’s iOS operating system and the Mac’s macOS operating system—along with annual hardware refreshes including the iPhone and Apple Watch—it has also had its first brand new product unveiling in years with the Apple Vision Pro.
As 2023 draws to a close, we look at the best moments Apple had during the year—and not all of them are product-re
On Friday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a pair of gene therapies for the painful and potentially fatal blood disorder, sickle cell disease (SCD)–including the first-ever CRISPR gene-editing treatment. The gene-editing treatment from Vertex Pharmaceuticals and partner CRISPR Therapeutics is called Exa-cel and marketed as Casgevy. Regulators also gave the green light to Bluebird Bio’s lovo-cel (marketed as Lyfgenia), which uses a different type of technolog
With less than a year to go before the 2024 election, Democratic leaders and pundits are constantly telling us that we are facing unprecedented threats to our democracy. They frame the stakes of the election as a last stand against authoritarian takeover.
They’re not wrong about the threat. But some Democrats in Congress are recklessly pushing into the hands of the next president the renewal of dangerous spying powers that even the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court admi
The CEO of technology giant Nvidia said Friday that he views Malaysia as a potential hub for artificial intelligence “manufacturing,” though he did not confirm the chipmaker is in talks with a local conglomerate to set up AI data centers in the Southeast Asian country.
Jensen Huang, Nvidia’s founder and CEO, told reporters in Kuala Lumpur that the Malaysian conglomerate YTL Corp. could play an important role in setting up AI data centers.
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Spotify’s chief financial officer will step down next year, according to the music streaming service, just days after it announced its third round of layoffs for 2023.
In a statement announcing CFO Paul Vogel’s departure, CEO Daniel Ek said that the two had “come to the conclusion that Spotify is entering a new phase and needs a CFO with a different mix of experiences.”
Spotify said this week that it would be axing 17% of its global wo
Think of European tech powerhouses and you likely imagine London, Berlin, or somewhere in the Nordics. It’s rare that Croatia would come to mind. But those within the tech sector there believe that it ought to be in the conversation—and that it could well be in 2024.
The country is “punching above its weight,” says Nikola Paveši, director of startups at Infobip, speaking on the sidelines of his company’s conference in the Croatian city of Zad