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Vermont Utility Plans to End Outages by Giving Customers Batteries

Sophie Caldwell

Many electric utilities are putting up lots of new power lines as they rely more on renewable energy and try to make grids more resilient in bad weather. But a…

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Unity Chief Resigns After Pricing Backlash

Sophie Caldwell

John Riccitiello, the chief executive of Unity Technologies, abruptly stepped down on Monday, less than a month after a change to the company’s pricing structure infuriated thousands of software developers…

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Takeaways From a New Book on Sam Bankman-Fried

Sophie Caldwell

On the same day that Sam Bankman-Fried’s trial on federal fraud charges begins, the best-selling author Michael Lewis is set to publish a widely anticipated book on Tuesday about Mr.…

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The Wager That Betting Can Change the World

Sophie Caldwell

I had never before attended a business conference with a 28 percent chance of an orgy.But those were the official orgy odds when I arrived at Manifest, a self-described “gathering…

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The Big Nobel Prize Winners Were Short and Fast

Sophie Caldwell

“There’s plenty of space at the bottom.” So proclaimed the physicist Richard Feynman in 1959, heralding the new field of nanophysics, the study of the very, very small.Feynman’s dictum kept…

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Tesla’s Sales Slip as It Readies Factories for New Models

Sophie Caldwell

Sales of Tesla electric cars slipped from July through September after the company paused production at some factories to upgrade assembly lines.The company delivered 435,000 vehicles worldwide in the third…