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Intel’s CEO Says AI Is the Key to the Company’s Comeback
When veteran engineer and executive Pat Gelsinger returned to Intel as CEO in 2021, the once-great chipmaker was in a…
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Cars Are Getting Bigger. Can Smarter Software Make Them Safer?
It’s not just you: American cars have gotten bigger. Over the past two decades, growing numbers of US buyers have…
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How Elon Musk and Tesla Helped Spark the UAW Auto Strikes
Elon Musk hasn’t been sighted at the picket lines in Missouri, Ohio, or Michigan, where autoworkers are striking against the…
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The Auto Strike Threatens a Supply Chain Already Weakened by Covid
In addition to making everyone an epidemiologist, the Covid-19 pandemic schooled the public on the world-spanning network of manufacturers, assemblers,…
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Autoworkers Prepare to Strike for a Place in the EV Future
Like GM, Ford and Stellantis have launched their own joint EV battery ventures with South Korean electronics companies. The UAW…
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One Man’s Quest to Revive the Great American Vacuum Tube
Predictably, it was harder than Whitener thought. It took him two years to persuade AT&T, which hadn’t made a tube…
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Tesla’s Berlin Hub Can’t Hire Enough People, or Keep Them
As Elon Musk attempts to manage Twitter after mass layoffs in November, his flagship company Tesla is also facing staffing problems globally,…
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The World Can’t Wean Itself Off Chinese Lithium
Lithium projects outside China have been at the mercy of the markets, slowing and expanding as the price of lithium…
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The Rise and Precarious Reign of China’s Battery King
The headquarters of battery giant CATL tower over the coastal Chinese city of Ningde. To the untrained eye, the building…
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China Built Your iPhone. Will It Build Your Next Car?
Rumors of an Apple electric car project have long excited investors and iPhone enthusiasts. Almost a decade after details of…
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