Robots Lay Three Times as Many Bricks as Construction Workers

Construction workers on some sites are getting new, non-union help. SAM — short for semi-automated mason — is a robotic bricklayer being used to increase productivity as it works with human masons.

The siege of Herbalife

At about 2 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012, CNBC’s Kate Kelly broke the news that billionaire Bill Ackman’s hedge fund had taken a massive short position — about $1 billion worth, we know now — in the stock of a nutrition company called Herbalife HLF .

Transmedics’ Heart-in-a-Box Could Help with Organ Transplant List

Transplant surgeons have started using a device that allows them to “reanimate” hearts from people who have recently died, and use the organs to save others.

Why GE’s Diet Should Carry More Weight With Investors

How Will Ahmed Mohamed’s Story Play Out in Texas?

On Monday, a fourteen-year-old Sudanese-American boy named Ahmed Mohamed brought a homemade clock to school, in the Dallas suburb of Irving. He had hoped to impress a teacher.

H-P Outlines Up to 30,000 More Job Cuts

The Comeback Conundrum

In the spring of 2013, the consumer-products giant Procter & Gamble asked its former C.E.O. A. G. Lafley to come out of retirement and bail the company out of trouble. When Lafley stepped down, back in 2009, P. & G. seemed in fine shape, but his successor had floundered.

Mossberg: It’s Time to Free the Smartphone

Welcome to Mossberg, a new weekly commentary and reviews column on The Verge and Re/code by veteran tech journalist Walt Mossberg, now an executive editor at The Verge and editor at large of Re/code.

The Four Best Productivity Tricks I Learned At Google

When Google acquired the online photo editor Picnik in 2010, CMO Lisa Conquergood and the rest of the Picnik team went, too. They worked on the site until Google narrowed its focus and closed Picnik in 2012.

Trump’s America

“THIS country is a hellhole. We are going down fast,” says Donald Trump. “We can’t do anything right. We’re a laughing-stock all over the world. The American dream is dead.” It is a dismal prospect, but fear not: a solution is at hand. “I went to the Wharton School of Business.

The Heat Is On: How New Horizons Got Its Power

Feature by feature, they revealed themselves: the plains of Sputnik, the Norgay Montes and the vast and forbidding Cthulu Regio.

The software secretaries

A PEPPY crowd poured into the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco on September 9th. They had turned up at the venue, which usually hosts rock concerts, to watch a show by Apple, a firm with a cult following of its own.

What Makes Uber Run

The transportation service has become a global brand, an economic force, and a cultural lightning rod. Jordan Kretchmer remembers what Travis Kalanick was like before Uber was Uber.

Crazy Talk at the Republican Debate

Eleven presidential candidates had three prime-time hours on the national stage on Wednesday to tell the American people why they should lead the country. Nobody forced them to be there.

Hawaii’s Deepest Secret

Earth’s concentric layers scale remarkably well to those of a peach. The atmosphere is proportionally as thick as the exterior fuzz.