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Feuds, grudges and revenge

One of the more touching on-screen relationships is that between C-3PO and R2-D2, two robots who appear in the “Star Wars” films. The actors behind the droids got on less well. “He...

How much trouble is the world’s biggest offshore-wind developer in?

Foul winds keep blowing Orsted’s way. On August 22nd Donald Trump’s administration ordered the offshore-wind developer to stop work on its $4bn Revolution Wind project off the coast of New England. The...

How a power shortage could short-circuit Nvidia’s rise

ON AUGUST 27TH Nvidia performed what has become a quarterly ritual beating of expectations. Analysts forecast that the chipmaker would sell $46bn-worth of semiconductors in the three months to July. It made...

Service stations are getting a glow-up

The Tesla Diner, an electric-vehicle (EV) charging hub and roadside restaurant that opened in July in Los Angeles, is not your typical service station. The architecture is sleek and retro-futuristic. The menu...

The market for startup shares is getting even weirder

“IT’S NOT fun being a public company,” lamented David Solomon, the chief executive of Goldman Sachs, earlier this year. Firms should proceed with “great caution” before pursuing an initial public offering (IPO),...

Donald Trump, friend of the EV?

Having once described Joe Biden’s electric-vehicle (EV) policies as “lunacy”, Donald Trump briefly seemed to be softening his opposition when he bought himself a Tesla in March. It was his way of...

How China became an innovation powerhouse

Most STARTUPS need time to prove that they can be trusted with investors’ money, let alone dangerous technologies. But not Fusion Energy Tech, a Chinese company in the city of Hefei that...

The last days of brainstorming

Alan: Let’s get going. We’ve all had a chance to think of some fresh names for our new value-added membership service. The last time we met we talked about calling it Gold...

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