TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION

Researchers in Japan have developed a plastic that dissolves in seawater within hours, offering up a potential solution for a modern-day scourge polluting oceans and harming wildlife. From a report: While scientists have long experimented with biodegradable plastics,...

This article is excerpted fromEvery American an Innovator: How Innovation Became a Way of Life, by Matthew Wisnioski (The MIT Press, 2025).Imagine a point-to-point transportation service in which two parties communicate at a distance. A passenger in need of...

A week after reporting strong first-quarter earnings, Nvidia has surpassed Microsoft in market value to become the most valuable company in the world by market capitalization.Shares of Nvidia grew by 3% on Tuesday, leading the AI chipmaker...

TikTok is preventing users searching for "skinnytok" - a hashtag which critics say directs people towards content which "idolises extreme thinness."Content associated with the hashtag includes videos showing people's work-out routines or what they eat in a day. TikTok...

The economic winds whipped up by President Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariff proclamations in early April have been anything but a gentle breeze. Rising prices, fomenting trade wars, and uncertainty about when tariffs will go into effect has led to...

An anonymous reader quotes a report from IEEE Spectrum: In a development straight out of science fiction, Australian startup Cortical Labs has released what it calls the world's first code-deployable biological computer. The CL1, which debuted in March,...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. I recently came across a job ad from a boutique U.S. agency that read:"If you prefer a clock-in, clock-out mentality, we're not a good...

Morgan Stanley built its in-house AI tool to tackle a difficult coding problem: reworking old legacy code into more updated coding languages.Morgan Stanley introduced the AI tool, which is based on OpenAI's GPT models, in January, per...

Dave's Hot Chicken, which began in 2017, announced on Monday that it was acquired by private equity firm (and Subway owner) Roark Capital in a $1 billion deal.The chicken shop, which specializes in a hot, Nashville-style of...