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His equipment became the industry standard and influenced the sound of groups like Nirvana, Fleetwood Mac, the Grateful Dead, Santana, Chicago and the Who.

Employees and executives are battling over how to reduce misinformation and hate speech without hurting the company’s bottom line.

Lynn Conway was one of the company’s most promising young computer engineers but after confiding to supervisors that she was transgender, they fired her.

Labs closed in the pandemic, but innovation doesn’t stop. So while some workers have the home office, engineers have the garage.

As part of its next Mars mission, NASA is sending an experimental helicopter to fly through the red planet’s thin atmosphere.

A choreography of swimming, walking and rolling could help future rovers avoid getting stuck in loose soil on the moon or Mars.

The social network displaced more than two dozen employees who work on security, as the company fights threats such as cyberattacks.

The pandemic inspired an innovative project to design and make a low-cost ventilator in weeks, not years.

Robert Swan, who leads the world’s biggest chipmaker, is pushing his 110,000 employees to confront internal problems more openly.

The United Arab Emirates used a novel approach to build the Hope spacecraft, which launches for the red planet this summer.

The United Arab Emirates used a novel approach to build the Hope spacecraft, which launches for the red planet this summer.

After a career spent working on “very important backup plans,” Steve Mollenkopf has steered Qualcomm through one rough patch after another.

When honeybees fall into water, they generate their own ripples then glide to dry land, a study found.

The Planetary Society deployed LightSail 2, aiming to further demonstrate the potential of the technology for space propulsion.

They’ve nearly vanished, but hubs in Southern California and on Long Island played key roles in the lunar race.

Efforts to form unions at several smaller tech companies have stalled, showing the limits of how far a wave of employee activism can go.