June 27, 2025

The Download: how to clean up AI data centers, and weight-loss drugs’ side effects

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. This battery recycling company is now cleaning up AI data centers In a sandy industrial lot outside Reno, Nevada, rows of battery packs that once propelled electric vehicles are now powering a small…

Semiconductor Stock 2024 Insights: Top 3 Picks to Buy

January 15, 2024
The semiconductor industry’s outlook for 2024 appears optimistic due to resurgent market demand and government funding and other incentives. Given the industry’s tailwinds, it could be wise to buy quality…

The FTC’s unprecedented move against data brokers, explained

January 15, 2024
This article is from The Technocrat, MIT Technology Review‘s weekly tech policy newsletter about power, politics, and Silicon Valley. To receive it in your inbox every Friday, sign up here. We’re only a few weeks into 2024, and violations of people’s privacy are already making some big headlines! First we had the continued drama with…

Analyzing 3 Software Stocks – Buy, Hold, or Sell?

January 15, 2024
The software industry is positioned for sustained expansion due to technological advances, escalating demand for innovative software solutions, and the shift to cloud-based platforms, driving the demand for software solutions….

FedEx announces its own commerce platform for merchants

January 15, 2024

Logistics company FedEx announced its own commerce platform called FDX today. The platform will likely compete against Amazon by offering merchants services like demand generation, fulfillment, tracking, and post-purchase experiences including returns. The company said that FDX is currently in private preview with plans for a wider launch in fall 2024. Businesses can register their […]

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Watch this robot cook shrimp and clean autonomously

January 15, 2024
Sophisticated robots don’t have to cost a fortune. Even relatively cheap robots can do complex manipulation tasks and learn new skills quickly using AI, a new study has shown. With just $32,000, researchers from Stanford University managed to build a wheeled robot that can cook a three-course Cantonese meal with human supervision. Then they used…

The race to get next-generation solar technology on the market

January 15, 2024
In Swift Solar’s lab, more than a dozen pairs of elbow-length rubber gloves hover horizontally in midair, inflated like arms. The gloves are animated by gaseous nitrogen and jut out of waist-high, glass-walled enclosures, designed to keep the workspaces dry and airtight to protect the delicate solar materials inside.  In a corner, technician Roger Thompson…

LG opens its first US EV charging factory in Texas 

January 15, 2024

LG Electronics has opened its first electric vehicle (EV) charger facility outside of South Korea — in Fort Worth, Texas — to capture a share of North America’s competitive EV charging market.  Its new EV charging station factory, spanning 59,202 square feet, has the capacity to produce more than 10,000 chargers per year, LG said […]

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CES has almost fully succeeded in chasing sex-tech off its show floors

January 14, 2024

CES has long been a launchpad for innovation and cutting-edge technology. However, at this year’s event, there was a conspicuous void: the near-absence of sex tech. Despite being an industry that caters to a universal human experience, sex tech has always had an uneasy association with CES. This year, its conspicuous absence begs the question: […]

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