Every technology goes through an age of discovery and an age of implementation. During the age of discovery, the critical work takes place in research laboratories, where scientists make the breakthroughs that move the field forward. During the age of implementation, the technology reaches a point of practical utility and begins spilling out of the lab and into the world. Over the past decade, I’v
A woman crossing Mill Avenue at its intersection with Curry Road in Tempe, Ariz., on Monday. A pedestrian was struck and killed by a self-driving Uber vehicle at the intersection a night earlier.Credit...Caitlin O'Hara for The New York Times SAN FRANCISCO — Arizona officials saw opportunity when Uber and other companies began testing driverless cars a few years ago. Promising to keep oversight lig
President Obama spoke after a wreath-laying ceremony with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial on Friday.Credit...Doug Mills/The New York Times The following is a transcript of President Obama’s speech in Hiroshima, Japan, as recorded by The New York Times. Seventy-one years ago, on a bright cloudless morning, death fell from the sky and the world was changed. A flash
In the days since Prince died at Paisley Park, many of his collaborators have reflected on his remarkable talents onstage and in the studio, and come to the same conclusion: The artist’s legacy is much greater than the public realizes. Beyond Prince’s own powers as a live performer (his flair, stagecraft and stamina) and a studio artist (his curiosity, productivity and virtuosic command over nearl
Bjarni Benediktsson, the minister of finance in Iceland, leaving a meeting in Gardabaer, Iceland.Credit...Birgir Por Hardarson/European Pressphoto Agency WASHINGTON — Four years passed between The New York Times’s first article based on the Pentagon Papers and the end of the Vietnam War. Two years passed between The Washington Post’s first story establishing Richard M. Nixon’s link to the Watergat
A Whole Foods in San Francisco shortly after Apple Pay’s introduction in 2014.Credit...Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Sammy Yuen, a graphic designer who lives on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, was standing in line at Whole Foods Market one morning waiting to pay. He used the Starbucks app on his phone to order coffee in advance and then bought his Whole Foods items with Apple Pay by holding the p
Banking has long been viewed as one of the last traditional, old-school, stuck-in-the-past industries. When you think of banking, you might still think of wood-paneled walls and pinstripe suits. That impression may increasingly be misguided. If you spend more than 15 minutes with any senior executive of a large bank these days, it is almost impossible not to hear the phrase “fintech” uttered. It i
Genetically modified mosquito larvae and pupae in an Oxitec laboratory.Credit...Andrew Testa for The New York Times WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — In the expanding realm ruled by Randal J. Kirk, sliced apples don’t brown. Salmon grow twice as fast without swimming upriver to spawn. Beloved cats are reborn. And male mosquitoes are unleashed with the sole mission to mate, pass on a gene that kills their of
When Daniel Nadler woke on Nov. 6, he had just enough time to pour himself a glass of orange juice and open his laptop before the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its monthly employment report at 8:30 a.m. He sat at the kitchen table in his one-bedroom apartment in Chelsea, nervously refreshing his web browser — Command-R, Command-R, Command-R — as the software of his company, Kensho, scraped t
With competition continuing to heat up in the handset market, Samsung Electronics is relying heavily on virtual reality to help distinguish its smartphones. The South Korean manufacturer, which is the world’s largest phone maker by units, on Sunday announced two new Galaxy smartphones along with Gear 360, a camera for recording virtual reality videos. The company made the announcements at the Mobi
Where do techies look for inspiration to help invent new immersive worlds? In the nascent industry of virtual reality, the answer is science fiction. So found Nick Wingfield, when he recently explored the intersection between virtual-reality gadget makers like Oculus and science fiction novels and movies. The ties run deep: Oculus, owned by Facebook, actually hands out a copy of “Ready Player One,
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