Technology & Ideas

First, activists claim a medical benefit. Then they push for broader decriminalization.

The European Union is opening its doors to U.S. travelers again, but a summer excursion will take extra navigation this year. Here are eight useful travel tips.

Georgia cattle raiser Will Harris left behind the destructive techniques of modern agriculture, charting a new path forward for the livestock industry.

Vaccines are better than masks at stopping the spread of Covid-19, and we have the data to prove it.

To make it safe for kids to go back to normal life, adults need to step up and get the vaccine.

Giving in to hackers only emboldens them and worsens the problem.

Telecommunication equipment has the potential to be a major growth area. 

Hint: It doesn’t involve just paying ransoms over and over.

Every digitally connected company has vulnerabilities. Some low-tech, low-cost practices can go a long way toward preventing breaches like the Colonial Pipeline cyberattack.

Ransomware hacks of the kind that crippled the Colonial Pipeline have long been left to companies to handle — and hush up.

More focus on its core business could be just what the Chinese e-commerce giant needs.

Drugmakers’ recent earnings reveal the secondary but serious health effects of the pandemic, from delayed cancer screenings to reduced surgeries. 

Elon Musk has lost sight that Bitcoin mining arrays are powered via grids that don't distinguish between fossil fuels and alternatives. 

Where does the future of money end and the “hustle” begin?

Preventing further breaches means learning to deal with a multiplying set of threats.

U.S. antitrust enforcement actions against Big Tech will gain a powerful advocate with the confirmation of FTC nominee and legal scholar Lina Khan.

Diamonds from a lab and leather from a vat are better for people and the planet (and no less luxurious) than the stuff nature provides.

A sooner-than-expected decline in the birth rate will lower global greenhouse-gas emissions.

Miami is fun and New York is exciting, but Northern California has deep structural advantages.

Virgin Galactic’s effort to hold its own against Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos looks increasingly underpowered.

Even if it’s a joke, Musk has tapped into a mood that makes millions of people feel like insiders. 

Our infrastructure and companies are vulnerable to cyberattack, and we’re not nearly ready.

Companies and the government need to confront cyberattacks before an unmanageable disaster arrives.

The pandemic has changed family life, and not necessarily for the worse. It’s also given mothers the chance to finally change the things that didn’t work in the Before Times.

In solving this puzzle, you’ll identify a well-known trait of mothers around the world.