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View MoreChristopher Altman saw it in the same way that most small business owners do: in the quiet of an inbox that used to fill up on its own, rather than all at once. His Oakland tree-trimming crew scheduled three weeks off for years without his involvement. Then, the reservations simply…
The atmosphere changed somewhere between a half-empty diesel station outside Hamburg and the screens of a London trading floor. Like these things often do, it happened quietly. In January, Brent crude was trading at about sixty dollars. It was close to 120 by the second week of March. Ten weeks.…
On April 3, 2024, a tiny capsule created by a business that most people were unaware of plummeted from the sky over the Utah desert, landing in a dust cloud. There were crystals grown in microgravity that may find use in semiconductors, fiber optic cables with optical qualities impossible to…
Nowadays, you can see them if you go outside on a clear night practically anywhere on Earth, such as a field in rural Saskatchewan, a beach in southern Portugal, or a plateau in the Chilean Atacama where some of the most potent telescopes in the world are aimed at the…
It’s difficult to miss the scope of what’s being constructed when you drive through Sriperumbudur, a dusty industrial town in Tamil Nadu about forty kilometers outside Chennai. With worker dorms still under construction in early 2024, cranes moving against the flat southern sky, and the entire operation humming with a…