Two developments a few weeks apart have done something the on-demand manufacturing industry has talked about for a decade and never shipped: they made the path from design intent to a physical part…
The semiconductor rally led by Intel, AMD and Broadcom is more than another rotation into chip stocks. The market increasingly appears to be looking beyond the GPU itself and toward the entire AI…
Damascus announced on Sunday that it had reached a memorandum of understanding with Moscow over the two facilities that anchored Russia’s military position in the eastern Mediterranean for a decade.…
Monday opened with two officials describing the same negotiation in incompatible terms. The American position is that talks with Iran are being kept deliberately quiet, that the pressure now is…
For about fifteen years the promise of on-demand manufacturing was the same: upload a file, get a price, get a part. That promise was kept. What nobody built was the layer above it, the part where…
The last vaporetto of the evening pulls away from the Rialto stop and takes most of the noise with it. What is left on the water is a different city from the one that was here at two in the afternoon,…
Cars stop at Piazzale Roma. Past that point there is no road, no kerb, no parking, and no traffic in any sense a driver would recognise. What there is instead is a status hierarchy of powered vehicles…
The palaces on this stretch of water were paid for by a rent extracted from geography. Venice sat where the Levant trade entered Europe, taxed what passed, and converted the proceeds into a navy that…
Somebody on a marketing team signed off on trucking snow into a city centre so a snowmobile could sit on it for an afternoon. That is a line item. It went through a budget review, it beat something…
A snowmobile sits on a pile of trucked-in snow in the middle of an Austrian shopping street. It is not going anywhere. A rider poses on it, a rope line keeps the public back, and behind that rope a…