Tech

The Boss Wants to Make You More Efficient

Posted by April 29, 2023

For years when AT&T Inc. threw a retirement party, employees had to enter the names of attendees in the telecom company’s expense-reporting sy

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This Couple Built an Obscure Corner of Sports Betting Into…

Posted by April 21, 2023

VANCOUVER—A husband-and-wife team founded a tech company here that is quietly policing nearly every bet made in the multibillion-dollar online-gambl

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America Is Back in the Factory Business

Posted by April 8, 2023

Production at U.S. factories rose last year, but few things were produced at a more furious pace than factories themselves.Construction spending related to manu

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The Business Genius in ‘Air’ Isn’t Michael Jordan

Posted by April 6, 2023

There’s a scene in the new movie “Air” that should be required viewing for any executive in any line of work. It’s a conversation between

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The Class of 2023 Faces a Jittery Job Market: ‘The…

Posted by March 30, 2023

The Class of 2023 is getting ready to enter a job market that is suddenly less eager to hire new grads.Many employers are taking a go-slow approach to employing

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Hollywood Is Betting on Fear

Posted by March 25, 2023

Hollywood, once again, is resorting to scare tactics. Producers and studio chiefs say we’re headed into a horror-movie b

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Your NCAA Tournament Bracket Is Packed With Business Lessons

Posted by March 16, 2023

March Madness is a delightfully inefficient market. Every year, a selection committee gathers to place a value on 68 college-basketball teams, and fans make pre

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Monkey Business Threatens U.S. Drug Discovery

Posted by March 3, 2023

The monkey business is in trouble.While many of us would prefer not to give it much thought, monkeys are often used in laboratory tests during the development o

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For Chat-Based AI, We Are All Once Again Tech Companies’…

Posted by February 25, 2023

The companies touting new chat-based artificial-intelligence systems are running a massive experiment—and we are the test subjects.In this experiment,

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The Offshore Oil Business Is Gushing Again

Posted by January 21, 2023

The $1.2 billion Deepwater Titan sat idle in a Singaporean shipyard for five years, looking like an abandoned cruise ship with a derrick attached to its deck. S

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