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Lean green flying machines take wing in Paris, heralding transport revolution

There has been much dreamy and not always credible talk of skies filled with flying and nonpolluting electric taxis. That's about to change, industry leaders say.

Now on the menu at Toast: a new 99 cent fee

The surcharge will be added onto orders at a small portion of the restaurants served by the Boston-based company starting Tuesday, with plans to add the fee nationwide on July 10.

With new toilet seat, BU and MIT engineers want to nip bathroom mishaps in the bud

Cleana has developed a new kind of toilet seat that raises or lowers itself to avoid unwelcome splashes, or to prevent objects from falling accidentally into the bowl.

Warren, Markey blast federal attack on right-to-repair law

The two Massachusetts senators say federal guidance “appears to favor Big Auto” over the will of the voters.

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FTC accuses Amazon of enrolling consumers into Prime without consent and making it hard to cancel

A running list of layoffs in the Boston-area tech sector

Gannett sues Google, accusing it of dominating the ad market

The yellow brick road wouldn’t have been yellow without Boston’s Technicolor

Woburn drone maker aims to replace the crop duster

Biden will host a forum about artificial intelligence with technology leaders in San Francisco

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Introducing the top New England CEOs, venture capitalists, and founders of 2023
Our second annual list spotlights leaders who have kept the region's technology scene vibrant in a challenging climate, telling a story about where the industry stands, where it’s been, and where it’s going.

The Boston tech sector’s defining characteristic in 2023? Resilience.

No. 1: These restaurant-focused entrepreneurs are the Toast of tech

Climate change is a major problem. These Boston leaders have solutions.

By the numbers: A look at jobs, hiring, diversity, and funding in Mass. tech

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TECH LAYOFFS

A running list of layoffs in the Boston-area tech sector
Dozens of companies have reduced their workforces, ranging from the regional offices of the tech giants to startups that have only been in a business a few years.

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Unicorn Tracker

The Boston Globe’s tech unicorn tracker lists startups headquartered in Massachusetts that have a valuation of at least $500 million. A “unicorn” is a company with a valuation in excess of $1 billion.

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The yellow brick road wouldn’t have been yellow without Boston’s Technicolor

The company that changed the way movies looked conducted its breakthrough research here.

Consider these 10 moonshot ideas for Massachusetts

Housing, microlending, and eco-friendly transportation are among the most ambitious ideas for the tech sector to usher in a new era of Massachusetts competitiveness, post-COVID.

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DraftKings bids for smaller rival in effort to block Fanatics

The Boston firm offered $195 million for the US unit of the Australian betting company.

Amazon’s $1.7 billion deal to buy Roomba maker iRobot gets UK approval

Consumer groups have voiced concerns that Amazon’s purchase of the Bedford-based Roomba maker would widen the e-commerce giant’s dominance in the smart home market.

A Russian ransomware gang breaches the Energy Department and other federal agencies

The impact was not expected to be great, Homeland Security officials said Thursday, but for others, the hack was beginning to show some serious impacts.

Subaru buyers take a hit in Mass. right-to-repair fight

While other companies are counting on a long-running federal lawsuit to overturn the statute, Kia and Subaru opted to shut off the features in their vehicles that are covered by the law.

Google might owe you some money. Here’s how to get it.

Anyone who clicked on a Google search result link from October 2006 to September 2013 is entitled to a piece of a $23 million class action settlement.

Shares of robot maker Symbotic hit all-time high

The Wilmington warehouse robotics maker is now one of the most valuable tech companies in Massachusetts.

Federal government warns carmakers not to comply with Mass. right-to-repair law

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said that complying with the Mass. law would violate federal car safety legislation, because it could make it easier for cyber criminals to interfere with sensitive data or even take control of vehicles remotely.

How Europe is leading the world in the push to regulate AI

A yearslong effort by Brussels to draw up guardrails for AI has taken on more urgency as rapid advances in chatbots like ChatGPT show the benefits the emerging technology can bring — and the new perils it poses.