Signal & Silicon
A weekly column on the machines we keep building
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Warehouse Robots Still Need Someone Standing Nearby
Fulfilment operators spent six years automating the aisles and discovered the exceptions never went away — a torn label, a shifted pallet, a box that split in transit. The floor supervisor's job changed shape instead of disappearing.
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The Talent Rush Reshaping Enterprise Software
After years of fighting to keep infrastructure engineers from drifting toward younger, louder startups, the steadiest of the large platform companies are suddenly the appealing option for people who now read stability as the scarcer asset.
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The Hardest Part of the Air Taxi Is the Landing Pad
Call them eVTOLs, air taxis or short-hop shuttles: the all-electric, vertical take-off aircraft promise to lift a 40-minute commute off the motorway entirely — if the companies building them can work out where in a dense city they are allowed to touch down.
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The Next Decade | The Field Notes Issue
A Delivery Founder on What Scales — and What Quietly Doesn't
Cargo bikes? Sidewalk carts? Dark stores on every third block? Emil Radoslav, who co-founded the $4.3 billion instant-groceries operator Perch, walks through the assumptions his own company got wrong first.
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The Quiet Race to Redesign the Wireless Chip
Handset makers already draw the processors at the centre of their phones and laptops. Pulling the radio silicon in-house too would reshape what they can promise for earbuds, watches, headsets and everything else meant to stay connected without a cable.