DISRUPTIVE / TECHNOLOGY
Department · Hype off
Technology: systems in deployment, reported where they work.
Engineering and economics before hype, always. The Technology desks cover applied systems where they actually operate, factory floors, field deployments, production lines, reported from where it happens, on every continent, not just Silicon Valley, and keep a clear line between fact and claim.
Jude Callahan, Correspondent, technology & engineering
The assignment, what each desk covers, and who covers it.
The desks
The assignment.
Artificial Intelligence
Applied systems in deployment: what they do, how they are built, and what changes when industries adopt them. Not speculation.
Jude Callahan, Correspondent, technology & engineering
Robotics & Automation
Machines at work: industrial robotics, warehouse automation, physical AI, reported from factory floors and field deployments, not press releases.
Jude Callahan, Correspondent, technology & engineering
Aerospace & Defense Technology
Hard systems covered with technical accuracy and a clear line between fact and claim.
Jude Callahan, Correspondent, technology & engineering
Advanced Manufacturing
Processes, materials, and the economics of making things in a new industrial era.
Jude Callahan, Correspondent, technology & engineering
Transportation & Mobility
Vehicles, logistics, mobility systems. Engineering first, hype never.
Jude Callahan, Correspondent, technology & engineering
From the desk
The latest stories.
Stories from this desk, newest first.
Technology · Explainer · Europe · Netherlands
How a Container Moves Through a Port With Almost No One Driving: Inside Rotterdam’s Automated Terminals at Maasvlakte 2
At Maasvlakte 2, on land reclaimed from the North Sea, remotely controlled ship-to-shore cranes hand containers to battery-powered driverless vehicles, which hand them to automated stacking cranes, the chain, step by step, terminal by terminal.
Technology · News · Asia · India
Chennai’s Driverless Era Begins as Metro Phase II Carries Its First Passengers
The first stretch of Chennai Metro Phase II, 11 elevated stations on Corridor 4, served by Alstom’s made-in-India driverless Metropolis trainsets, opened to passengers on 11 October 2026.
Technology · News · North America · New York
GlobalFoundries Will Build TSMC's CoWoS Interposers in New York
A $2 billion agreement puts GlobalFoundries' Malta fab inside the AI supply chain's tightest bottleneck: the silicon interposers that stitch GPUs to memory in TSMC's CoWoS packages.
Technology · News · Asia · Japan
Rapidus Builds Its 2nm Alliance: Seventeen Partners, One Missing Piece
Japan’s $15 billion chipmaker unveiled a 17-company design ecosystem this week. The partners are real. The customers are still the question.
Technology · Retrospective · Asia · South Korea
Ten Years After the Note 7: The Recall That Rewired Battery Safety
On October 11, 2016, ten years ago today, Samsung killed its flagship phone. The industry has spent a decade making sure it never happens again.
Technology · Evergreen · Global · the instruction set
Open Source Comes to Silicon: The RISC-V Explainer
The most important layer of the computer is the one nobody sees. For sixty years it was proprietary. A 2010 summer project at Berkeley set out to change that.
Technology · Evergreen · Global · the adoption curve
The S-Curve: Why Technologies Arrive Slowly, Then All at Once
Every technology feels inevitable after the fact. The most useful model of how adoption actually unfolds is more than sixty years old, and still explains why the future arrives late, then early.
Technology · Evergreen · Global · the industry, not a place
Moore’s Law at Sixty: What Gordon Moore Actually Predicted
It wasn’t a law, it wasn’t about speed, and the doubling period changed. The most famous prediction in technology, read properly.
Technology · News · Europe · Dresden, Germany
Dresden’s Billion-Euro Bet on Chips for the Physical World
GlobalFoundries has topped out its €1.1 billion SPRINT fab expansion and unveiled FDX Fusion, a chip platform designed for what the industry now calls Physical AI.
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