What was particularly astonishing to me was that after all these efforts, the fund still remains incredibly obscure. The total amount in the fund ($17.3 million)...
I’m fascinated by these experiments that give power back to the users and let them make decisions on platform rules and in individual disputes. While most...
The recent OpenAI saga, in which Microsoft exerted its quiet but firm dominance over the “capped profit” entity, provides a powerful demonstration of what we’ve been...
Boston Metal’s strategy is to try to make the transition as digestible as possible for steelmakers. “We won’t own and operate steel plants,” says Adam Rauwerdink,...
The volume of mining is even higher if you take into account that some minerals are present in pretty low concentrations. Take copper, for example—a common...
Technology is all about solving big thorny problems. Yet one of the hardest things about solving hard problems is knowing where to focus our efforts. There...
Emily Pilloton-Lam didn’t grow up in a particularly handy household, but she did spend hours outside building treehouses out of logs and sticks. After years studying...
Catch up with China 1. The Wagner Group bought two high-resolution observation satellites from a Chinese firm in 2022, allowing the Russian mercenaries to access surveillance...
When cement is mixed with water, sand, and gravel, it hardens into concrete—the second-most-used substance on the planet (after water). In the conventional cement-making process, emissions...
Form Energy uses an iron-air chemistry in its batteries: as they store energy, the iron combines with oxygen, converting to rust. As energy discharges, the reverse...