The slow destruction of Venice by motor traffic has a name that residents use without needing to explain it. Moto ondoso is the wave motion generated by powered boats, and it is doing measurable…
Every physical object in the historic centre of Venice arrived by hull. Bread, cement, hotel linen, restaurant deliveries, scaffolding, refuse going the other way, the coffin at a funeral. There is no…
I have spent most of this war as the person at the table who says economic pressure doesn’t end wars. Sanctions didn’t break Russia. The price cap leaked. The frozen reserves sat frozen while Moscow…
The headline from SanDisk’s fiscal fourth quarter was a $14 billion repurchase authorization, lifting the total remaining limit to $15.5 billion. The number that carries more information is $4.5…
Museum displays of Roman building material tend to be badly labelled and quickly walked past. A broken lump of wall behind glass with a card reading “concrete, 2nd century AD” gives a visitor nothing…
Cars usually die because nobody buys them. A smaller category dies while still selling, because the cost of making the engine comply with the next regulatory step exceeded what the volume could…
Museum displays of Roman building material tend to be badly labelled and quickly walked past. A broken lump of wall behind glass with a card reading “concrete, 2nd century AD” gives a visitor nothing…
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…
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…