During her decadeslong career in technology, Judith Spitz watched as the “dismal number” of women in the industry failed to budge. In 2016, she decided to do something about it. That year, Dr. Spitz founded Break Through Tech at Cornell Tech in New York City, an initiative aimed at increasing the number of women in […]

BERLIN—Germany could become the first large nation to subsidize the use of consumer satellite internet services such as that offered by Elon Musk’s Starlink. The German government said it was considering paying grants of around 500 euros, equivalent to $610, per household to support purchasing the hardware required to access satellite broadband and other high-speed […]

Companies have spent more than a decade forcing employees and customers to resolve disputes outside the traditional court system, using secretive arbitration proceedings that typically don’t allow plaintiffs to team up and extract big-money payments akin to a class action. Now, Amazon . com Inc. is bucking that trend. With no announcement, the company recently […]

DoorDash Inc.’s DASH 0.38% and Uber Eats’ ambitions are bigger than your lunch. They are after a whole new category of logistics and are increasingly billing their specialty not as food but as speed and convenience. Companies say that so-called next-hour commerce—which includes delivering everything from drugstore staples and alcohol to pet food on demand—is […]

What looks like a children’s desk lamp, behaves like Amazon.com Inc.’s Alexa and comes with two surveillance cameras? The latest educational fad in China. “Smart homework lamps” have skyrocketed in popularity since ByteDance Inc., the creator of short video app TikTok, first introduced the $120 lamps in October. Chinese parents snapped up 10,000 units within […]

Apple’s website touts the AirPods’ ability to “connect magically” to iPhones and “move seamlessly” between iPhones, Apple Watches, iPads and Macs. For many, the popular Bluetooth earbuds work as billed. But for others—including me—AirPods have become AirProblems. Last September, I wrote a one-year review of the AirPods Pro, praising their top-notch noise-cancellation, new spatial audio […]

At a hatchery in the Netherlands that supplies the egg industry with laying hens, a machine inserts needles into rows of chicken eggs that shuttle down a conveyor belt, drawing a tiny drop of liquid from each egg before plugging the holes in the shells with biodegradable glue. The fluid is quickly analyzed for the […]

After Hannah Semmes graduated from college last year and began her first full-time job at a healthcare consulting firm, the 22-year-old found herself overwhelmed with all of the new decisions she had to make. She wasn’t sure which credit card to get, how to find an apartment in New York and whether to invest part […]

It’s 6 a.m., Monday, somewhere in America, and Jane Q. Office Worker’s alarm goes off. She’s tempted to hit the snooze button. But she knows if she does, she might miss out on a desk with a view. A hypothetical everyperson in most respects, Jane is exceptional in that she’s from the future—a few months […]

The Russia-linked hackers behind the cyberattack on SolarWinds SWI -0.78% have returned, launching a phishing attack targeting approximately 3,000 email accounts belonging to workers at more than 150 organizations, Microsoft MSFT 0.15% said late Thursday. The attack on SolarWinds is considered by investigators to be one of most stealthy and sophisticated ever detected, but the […]