by Don Basile | Oct 21, 2026 | Digital, Technology
For much of the last twenty years, technology competition was primarily a software competition. Companies built social networks, search engines, mobile applications, digital marketplaces and cloud platforms. A small team with a good idea could build a product and...
by Don Basile | Oct 21, 2026 | Graphene, Technology
Artificial intelligence receives enormous attention because its effects are visible. People can interact with a new AI model immediately. They can ask questions, generate images or write software and see the result in seconds. Materials science works differently. A...
by Don Basile | Oct 21, 2026 | Business, Graphene, Technology
Graphene has spent much of the last two decades surrounded by enormous expectations. The material is extremely strong, electrically conductive, lightweight and only one atom thick. Those properties have inspired potential applications ranging from electronics and...
by Don Basile | Oct 8, 2026 | Business, Technology
The technology industry has been trying to put computers on our faces for a surprisingly long time. Google Glass introduced millions of people to the idea more than a decade ago. Virtual reality headsets followed. Apple, Meta, Snap and numerous smaller companies have...
by Don Basile | Oct 7, 2026 | Digital, Technology
For decades, the technology industry has been built on a remarkably simple idea. Make transistors smaller. Smaller transistors allowed engineers to place more computing power onto a chip. More computing power produced faster computers, smaller devices and eventually...
by Don Basile | Oct 7, 2026 | Business, Technology
Artificial intelligence has created an unusual situation in the semiconductor industry. A component most consumers rarely thought about has become one of the most valuable and strategically important technologies in the world. AI models require enormous amounts of...
