Semiconductor headlines run on a small vocabulary that most readers use interchangeably and almost nobody uses correctly. The difference between a company being added to the Entity List and a company…
Wall Street runs on two languages. One is formal: financial statements, analyst reports, SEC filings. The other is the fast shorthand traders use when they talk about what is actually happening in the…
The headline numbers were large enough to move a $29 billion company 37% in two sessions. Total revenue of $1.766 billion, up 28% against a $1.66 billion consensus. Adjusted EPS of $1.87 against…
The progress bar is the least informative part of a firmware update. It moves at a rate that has almost nothing to do with the work being done, it frequently sits at the same percentage for two…
Stand in the nave of almost any large Flemish church and look up at the tall windows. Saints in blue and gold, donors kneeling at the bottom, borders of painted foliage, everything glowing the way you…
Two words are legible on the granite from the pavement: SVATÝ VÁCLAVE. Saint Wenceslas, vocative case, the form you use when you are speaking to someone. The rest of the inscription runs around the…
A chokepoint is a stretch of water narrow enough that closing it forces a detour long enough to change the economics of a trade. That definition excludes a lot of famous straits and includes a few…
A port announces it handled ten million TEU last year. The natural reading is that ten million boxes crossed the quay. They didn’t. The real number was probably closer to six million, and depending on…
The airline that taught Europe to fly for the price of a train ticket is going private. EasyJet’s board has accepted a firm £5.7bn cash offer from Apollo Global Management at £7.15 a share, announced…
IonQ’s latest DARPA award is more significant than the headline $28 million suggests. The company has secured $28 million to advance manufacturing and deliver 25 Evergreen-05 optical atomic clocks,…