Month: November 2024

A worker delivers Amazon packages in San Francisco on Oct. 24, 2024. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images The U.S. presidential election beckons and even though nearly 75 million people have already voted, according to NBC Newsnothing seems to have leaked out. You would figure the hedge fund algorithms would have picked up […]

A flag stall at the Yiwu Wholesale Market in Zhejiang province, China, on May 10, 2019. Aly Song | Reuters BEIJING — The size of China’s highly anticipated stimulus plans will likely depend on the outcome of the U.S. presidential election, analysts said. Investors expect Beijing to announce details on fiscal support Friday. That’s when […]

Formula One has always tried to be more than just a good sport. When Britain’s National Health Service needed accurate ways to monitor children’s vitals signs in the early 2010s, F1 team McLaren re-engineered the telemetric system it used to measure track performance for use on the ward. Now the sport is turning its expertise […]

A screenshot of Project Sunroof shows the map data offered by the pilot project, which is meant to help consumers plan solar installations for their homes.ScreenshotGoogle is planning to license new sets of mapping data to a range of companies to use as they build products around renewable energy, and is hoping to generate up… […]

An aerial view of the city of San Francisco skyline and the Golden Gate Bridge in California, October 28, 2021.Carlos Barria | ReutersJan Sramek, a former Goldman Sachs trader, has been quietly working to build an urban utopia in California nestled near San Francisco and Silicon Valley. But just a few years after the mysterious… […]