Engineering and Engineers
Inside Intel’s Delays in Delivering a Crucial New Microprocessor
Last May, Sandra Rivera, a top executive at the chip giant Intel, got some alarming news. Engineers had worked for more than five years to develop a powerful new microprocessor to carry out computing chores in data centers and were confident they had finally gotten the product right. But signs of a potentially serious technical […]
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Twitter’s Chief Tries Staying the Course as Elon Musk Upends Plans
SAN FRANCISCO — At a virtual meeting for Twitter executives last week, Parag Agrawal admitted he was exhausted. Mr. Agrawal, Twitter’s chief executive, had spent the past six weeks steering the company through a $44 billion sale to Elon Musk, the world’s richest person. Some employees were rebelling openly against their new owner, who had […]
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How Elon Musk Winged It With Twitter, and Everything Else
Kimbal Musk and Mr. Gracias, who left Tesla’s board last year and serves as a SpaceX director, declined to comment for this article. Today, Mr. Musk oversees or is associated with at least a dozen companies, including public ones, private ones and holding companies such as Wyoming Steel, which he uses to manage real estate. […]
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NASA Sees ‘Otherworldly’ Wreckage on Mars With Ingenuity Helicopter
The object resembles a flying saucer that crashed on Mars. And indeed it is. But it doesn’t belong to aliens. Instead, the wreckage is the work of NASA, a component called a backshell that detached during the landing of the Perseverance rover on the surface of the red planet in February 2021. “There’s definitely a […]
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Anonymity in Crypto Raises Alarm
At work, he makes one exception to the secrecy. On calls with clients, he often uses his actual first name to introduce himself, concerned that traditional business executives may be uncomfortable working with someone known simply as Legend. Over the last year, the venture capital firm Paradigm has also hired engineers and researchers who operate […]
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How Facebook Is Morphing Into Meta
Mr. Zuckerberg has since turned to Mr. Bosworth for major initiatives. In 2012, Mr. Bosworth was given the task of building out Facebook’s mobile advertising products. After management issues at the Oculus virtual reality division, Mr. Zuckerberg dispatched Mr. Bosworth in August 2017 to take over the initiative. The virtual reality business was later rebranded […]
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James Webb Space Telescope Launch Is Making Astronomers Very Anxious
What do astronomers eat for breakfast on the day that their $10 billion telescope launches into space? Their fingernails. “You work for years and it all goes up in a puff of smoke,” said Marcia Rieke of the University of Arizona. Dr. Rieke admits her fingers will be crossed on the morning of Dec. 24 […]
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Inside Tesla: How Elon Musk Pushed His Vision for Autopilot
To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. Elon Musk built his electric car company, Tesla, around the promise that it represented the future of driving — a phrase emblazoned on the automaker’s website. Much of that promise was centered on Autopilot, a system of […]
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