Christopher Mims
Wall Street Journal
Baltimore, MD, United States
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What Will AI Do to Your Job? Take a Look at What It’s Already Doing to Coders
Artificial-intelligence software is eating the software industry, as companies turn to generative AI tools to save money on programmers. It’s a sign of what’s to come for many white-collar workers. → Read More
The ‘Killer Apps’ That Could Make Apple’s New Headset a Winner
Augmented and virtual reality have mostly been dead ends so far. How Apple’s vision could succeed where others have failed. → Read More
The AI Boom That Could Make Google and Microsoft Even More Powerful
Relying on tech giants for both answers and assistance, rather than just information, could entrench them into our lives more deeply than ever. → Read More
The Key to Widespread Adoption of EVs: Less Range
Battery packs that could charge in the same amount of time it takes to fill up at a gas station could be key to making electric vehicles more affordable than gas cars. → Read More
More Bosses Are Spying on Quiet Quitters. It Could Backfire.
The tools companies use to monitor their employees can fall short of their promises, and even be counterproductive. → Read More
71 Cities and Towns Are Paying Tech Workers to Abandon Silicon Valley. It’s Working.
Incentives are drawing high-paid tech workers, and challenging how we think about local economic development. → Read More
What the Heck Is a ‘Super App’ and Why Are Elon Musk, Evan Spiegel and Jack Dorsey So Interested?
Immensely popular in Asia but not in the U.S., feature-stuffed apps are the new hot thing for companies scrambling to capture ever more of our time, attention and money. Messaging, social, shopping and delivery all in one app? Tech titans ask: Why not? → Read More
The Surprising Reason Your Amazon Searches Are Returning More Confusing Results than Ever
Jeff Bezos wanted to build the ‘everything store’—and now the company is drowning in China-based sellers hawking the same items under a dizzying array of brands → Read More
Self-Driving Big Rigs Are Coming. Is America Ready?
Autonomous trucks that mostly stick to highways could make sense, both technologically and economically, in ways robotaxis have not. The goal is better-than-human, but not perfect, autonomous driving; jobs are probably on the line. → Read More
Meta-morphosis or More Pain? Possible Futures for Facebook’s Parent Company
Meta Platforms is facing all kinds of headwinds—from flat user growth to $10 billion in lost revenue this year alone from Apple’s privacy changes. Realizing its transformative goal may depend on successfully building a whole new business for itself. → Read More
Adam Neumann’s ‘Goddess Nature Token’ Is the Future of Crypto—for Better or Worse
WeWork’s infamous ex-CEO co-founded a darling of the Web3 scene, which has recently been tested by falling cryptocurrency prices. True believers think the real problem is existing securities regulations, not the logic that underlies their offerings. → Read More
The Tech Crash Could Be a Talent Bonanza For Big Tech
After years of fighting to keep engineers and other sought-after employees from leaving for rivals or buzzy startups, the healthiest of the big tech companies are increasingly attractive for tech workers suddenly keen on stability amid signs of trouble throughout the industry → Read More
The Biggest Problem With Flying Cars Is on the Ground
Whether you call them eVTOLs, “flying cars” or air taxis, these all-electric, vertical take-off-and-landing passenger vehicles promise to make George Jetson’s commute a reality—if only their manufacturers can figure out where to land them. → Read More
Fast Delivery: Gopuff’s Co-CEO on What Will Work—and What Won’t
Drones? E-Bikes? Robots? Rafael Ilishayev, co-founder of the $15 billion ‘instant needs’ company, weighs in. → Read More
Apple’s Not-So-Secret Plan to Take Another Gigantic Bite of the Microchip Market
Apple now designs the ‘brains’ of its computers and phones in-house. Its attempt to do the same for the chips that connect them to the internet could have a big impact on the company’s plans for smart glasses, augmented reality, Apple Watch, AirPods and the iPhone → Read More
Why Elon Musk’s Twitter Won’t Be What Fans or Critics Expect
In shaping the social network’s future, Elon Musk may look to its past, to a Twitter-funded project that has yet to bear fruit and to proposals from others including former CEO Jack Dorsey. → Read More
The Future of Socializing at Work? Virtual Golf
Companies like Meta often insist we will all be working inside the metaverse. But what if a round of mini golf with colleagues is the better application? → Read More
Amazon, Alphabet and Others Are Quietly Rolling Out Drone Delivery Across America
Drone companies have been cleared to expand their operations across the U.S., in cities as well as rural areas, at the same time their tech has become faster and more reliable. Coming by air to a front door near you: 33 chicken wings with sauce and fries; 27 if they’re bone-in. → Read More
How Sanctions on Russia, War in Ukraine and Covid in China Are Transforming Global Supply Chains
Globe-spanning supply chains are designed to be cost-effective, but not necessarily resilient. Companies are transforming them into supply ‘webs’—and governments are subsidizing the shift. → Read More
Alexa for Animals: AI Is Teaching Us How Creatures Communicate
New kinds of artificial intelligence are enabling scientists to better understand the sounds of the animal world, from whale songs to mouse squeaks → Read More