You’re reading Open Questions, Joshua Rothman’s weekly column exploring what it means to be human. “I, Joanna Stern, do solemnly swear to live with the machines for the next 365 days.” Thus begins the ...

In life science research, one of the industry’s biggest challenges is not a lack of data; it is the fragmentation of data. Research teams often rely on disconnected systems for experiment tracking, ...

We started seeing them in our apps earlier this month, but Google said Tuesday that it’s rolling out the icons over the “next several weeks.” I’m not a fan of the changes — the Gmail and Sheets ones ...

Toshifumi Suzuki partnered with the US operator of 7-Eleven to bring the convenience store chain to Japan in 1973 and then went on to revolutionize the use of sales, customer, and inventory data to ...