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Andrew Marantz on the HBO sitcom "Silicon Valley."

Before Silicon Valley was all apps and ad tech, it was about atoms—not just bits. The future of innovation depends on rediscovering that hardware-first mindset.

In a world where computer chips run everything from laptops to cars to the Nintendo Switch, Taiwan is the undisputed leader. It's one of the most powerful tech centers in the world — so powerful that both China and the U.S. have vital interests there. But if you went back to the Taiwan of the 1950s, this would have seemed unimaginable. It was a quiet, sleepy island; an agrarian culture. Fifty years later, it…

The fallout threatens to engulf the startup world—and has exposed a new set of vulnerabilities for the banking system

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Was the Internet Created for Nuclear War?

The forgotten story of how an obscure English engineer very nearly invented the integrated circuit. And what happened next.

The failure of Silicon Valley Bank demonstrates the risk in showering unproven companies with cash and in handing so much power to venture capitalists to manage the process.

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For now, The Network State is an exemplary salvo in a debate playing out in tech today over which type of world we want to live in: A world of Atoms, or of Bits?

Sign up for Power Corridor using this link: https://bit.ly/3TbHNzNA number of things went wrong at Silicon Valley Bank over the last days, weeks and years,...

Its been a busy couple of weeks… Today I resigned from my job. I have no gripes with the company that I am leaving and they have some great ...

We are still learning exactly how much of this industry's genius was a mere LIRP, or low-interest-rate phenomenon.

One of the developments I didn't predict at the start of the year was the rise in support for Donald Trump among members of the tech elite—like Elon Musk.Musk aside, there's no question that Silicon Valley elites are more politically divided than they have been for at least the last 20 years I ...

What a panic. You might have thought a new coronavirus had surfaced in Silicon Valley Bank's Santa Clara, Calif., headquarters, as SVB investors (and, apparently, depositors) rushed for the exits. SVB's shares fell 60% in regular trading and another 21% after hours. This doesn't seem likely to ...

I ramble a bit about the state of NixOS on Apple's bespoke ARM chips

Dispatches From the Elon Musk School of Management

Discomfort with faith cuts the tech industry off from a necessary moral foundation.

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