My initial reaction to Specialized’s new electric gravel bike was an eye roll. It was early June, and I had just finished sweating profusely under the sweltering Kansas sun while puttering along in the Dirty Kanza 100 gravel race. I was slow, but I was proud of my effort and suspected that an electric bike…

High-speed 5G mobile data networks may still very much be a work in progress, but they've already started rolling out in some US cities. As researchers comb through the 5G standard to see if it delivers not just on lightning speeds but improved security, they're finding that it still needs some shoring up.At the Black…

FedEx racked up nearly $15 million in parking fines in New York City last year, evidence of the challenges of delivering in urban areas.Getty ImagesFrom the summer haze, and the cars and Ubers and bicycles and scooters and cement trucks and delivery vans and city buses that operate within it, emerges a white truck, the…

“Years and Years” is an unusual show. It’s a co-production of HBO and the BBC, and in the course of six hourlong episodes, it covers a span of more than…

August has arrived, which means that we've officially entered the broiling, miserable, too-long dog days of summer, when it seems impossible that we ever thought that skipping work to sit in a park would be a good idea. Luckily, there are plenty of sales to both distract and remind you that autumn is coming soon,…

What founders need to know about pro rata rights Pro rata used to be reasonably simple. Venture investors who bought preferred shares in startups had the right to lock in…

Facebook will append its name to its family of apps, including Instagram and WhatsApp, even as government agencies probe the company for possible antitrust violations.David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesFacebook bought Instagram in 2012 and WhatsApp in 2014. But even today, many users of those apps don’t realize they are part of Mark Zuckerberg's empire.…

Tesla is resurrecting a popular benefit that CEO Elon Musk once called “unsustainable” as it attempts to boost sales of its more expensive electric vehicles. Tesla announced Saturday that all…

Brian Kateman Contributor More posts by this contributor The fashion industry has historically relied on exploitative, unsustainable and unethical labor practices in order to sell clothes — but if recent trends…

Cryptocurrency fans who were hoping to use Apple’s forthcoming credit card to splash on coin are out of luck. You also won’t be able to use the Apple Card to…