Breakthrough technologies and how they work.
A consumer electronics supply chain is a tiered global network in which a brand designs a product, contract manufacturers assemble it, and hundreds of specialized suppliers feed components upward through the tiers. Apple's $600 billion four-year US investment program, announced August 6, 2025,…
Graphene is a material one atom thick — a single sheet of carbon atoms — whose isolation in 2004 earned Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics. Two decades on, the question is whether it can be manufactured at scale and price. In late 2025 the evidence finally…
Amazon's global network passed one million deployed robots across more than 300 facilities, according to the company's own announcement in mid-2025 (announced). The same notice introduced DeepFleet, a generative AI system that Amazon says improves fleet travel time by 10 percent. Together they…
Precision agriculture is a data-driven approach to farm management that uses GPS guidance, satellite and drone imagery, and ground sensors to measure field variability and apply water, fertilizer, and pesticide only where needed. The United Nations Development Programme defines it that way, and…
A continuous glucose monitor (CGM) is a wearable sensor that measures glucose in interstitial fluid — the fluid between skin cells — every few minutes and streams the readings to a phone or reader. The FDA cleared the first over-the-counter CGM, Dexcom's Stelo, on March 5, 2024 for adults 18 and…
Clean hydrogen and carbon capture are the two workhorses of climate technology, and both are simpler to state than to build. A Congressional Research Service report dated October 3, 2024 records that the most widespread hydrogen production pathway in the United States and globally is steam…