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Between Christmas and New Year’s, my family took a six-hour drive to Vermont. I drove; my wife and two children sat in the back seat. Our children are five and two—too old to be hypnotized by a rattle or a fidget spinner, too young to entertain themselves—so a six-hour drive amounted to an hour of …

In recent weeks, Apple Inc. has accelerated plans to shift some of its production outside China, long the dominant country in the supply chain that built the world’s most valuable company, say people involved in the discussions. It is telling suppliers to plan more actively for assembling Apple products elsewhere in Asia, particularly India and …

Shares of technology companies fell to close out a volatile week. Across the U.S. and beyond, companies, governments and households that bulked up on computers during the pandemic are drastically scaling back. PC and chip makers say the market slump is hitting their results, often harder than expected. Cloud-computing company Nutanix is exploring a sale …

Spintronic computing artistic concept illustration. Columbia University chemists and physicists find a link between tunable electronic and magnetic properties in a 2D semiconductor, with potential applications in spintronics, quantum computing, and fundamental research. Information in computers is transmitted through semiconductors by the movement of electrons and stored in the direction of the electron spin in …

Intel Corp. INTC -0.01% said it has filed paperwork to take its Mobileye self-driving car unit public as the semiconductor giant tries to spark investor enthusiasm in its own shares and capitalize on growing demand for automated driving. Intel last year said it was going to list Israel-based Mobileye, which it bought in 2017 for …

Shares of Seagate Technology Holdings PLC STX, -1.33% shed 1.33% to $92.69 Wednesday, on what proved to be an all-around poor trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index SPX, -0.54% falling 0.54% to 4,223.70 and Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.77% falling 0.77% to 34,033.67. This was the stock’s sixth consecutive …

Text size Procore’s CFO says many construction companies still use pen, paper, and fax machines. Pojoslaw/Dreamstime Procore Technologies is looking to modernize the construction industry, which it says has been slow to adopt technology that could save vast amounts of money. Founded in 2003, Procore (ticker: PCOR) provides cloud-based construction-management software that enables its customers, …

Neousys Technology, an industry-leading provider of rugged embedded systems, today announced its new ultra-compact fanless embedded computer, the POC-400 series. Featuring Intel’s latest Atom processor, 56 mm (W) x 108 mm (D) x 153 mm (H) ultra-compact dimensions, versatile I/Os and flexible MezIO™ expansion capability, POC-400 suits space-conscious applications without compromising performance and scalability. Powered …

Shares of Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. CTSH, +0.30% inched 0.30% higher to $80.18 Wednesday, on what proved to be an all-around rough trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index SPX, -0.08% falling 0.08% to 4,183.18 and Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.48% falling 0.48% to 33,820.38. This was the stock’s third …

Shares of Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. CTSH, -0.57% dropped 0.57% to $78.12 Wednesday, on what proved to be an all-around mixed trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index SPX, +0.36% rising 0.36% to 3,972.89 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.26% falling 0.26% to 32,981.55. Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. closed …