Don Steinberg

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Retail Delivery by Drone

Google sister-company Wing has built one of the world’s largest residential drone delivery operations, pushing aerial product drops past proof-of-concept and into shoppers’ neighborhoods. In the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, Wing and Walmart had already reached...

By Don Steinberg

Fresher Herbs

Cramming 40 acres of farmland into one acre in its Texas greenhouses, indoor vertical farmer Eden Green this year grew and shipped a full suite of ten herbs out of a single facility, where each...

By Don Steinberg

Saving Crops

The name of InnerPlant’s data platform, CropVoice, suggests its plants communicate their individual feelings to farmers. It’s kind of true. Plants react when they need nutrients or are stressed by insects or pathogens. But InnerPlant...

By Don Steinberg

Hope for a Genetic Disease

In June, the FDA expanded its approval of Sarepta Therapeutics’ Elevidys gene therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy to all patients ages four and older. The one-time treatment (which costs $3.2 million) bypasses a genetic mutation...

By Don Steinberg

Simplifying Tax Returns

Millions of Americans eligible for free income tax filing don’t take advantage of it, in part because it isn’t well integrated with the rest of their financial lives. Column Tax figures it’s cheaper and easier...

By Don Steinberg

Cerebras Systems

As AI systems proliferate, the demand for computing power to crunch large data sets has become monstrous. Cerebras, founded in 2015, has responded with the largest computer chip ever. Its Wafer-Scale Engine 3 is 8...

By Don Steinberg

Tory Burch

The fashion brand Tory Burch’s transformation from sensible, preppy classics to edgy designs burning up ready-to-wear runways has the fashion press marveling. Its eponymous former CEO Tory Burch herself spurred the “Toryssance” by stepping down...

By Don Steinberg

Xiaomi

Xiaomi’s SU7 electric sedan, launched in March, may be the first car made by a phone company. The Chinese electronics giant—which makes computers, wearable devices, robot vacuums, scooters, and phones (it was No. 3 in...

By Don Steinberg

Lamda Development

Lamda Development’s $8 billion Ellinikon, now under construction about 20 minutes from the Acropolis in Athens, is the largest urban reclamation project in Europe. The project, being built from scratch on Mediterranean coastline that used...

By Don Steinberg

Ludo Studio

Australian production company Ludo’s Bluey cartoon series for preschoolers has proven hugely popular—it was not just the most-streamed children’s show in the U.S. in 2023, but the second most streamed show overall, per Nielsen. Airing...

By Don Steinberg

Sol de Janeiro

Sol de Janeiro’s spray fragrances, like its Cheirosa 68 (Brazilian jasmine & pink dragonfruit) and Cheirosa 62 (vanilla & salted caramel), were the viral beauty product of 2023, generating 850 million TikTok views. Videos and...

By Don Steinberg

Saildrone

At any given time, there may be 50 of Saildrone’s unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) sailing the world’s seas. Powered mostly by wind and solar energy, the USVs—which do, in fact, look like small robotic sailboats—are...

By Don Steinberg

Yubico

Hackers send billions of emails every day hoping to trick people into revealing sensitive login credentials. Yubico’s YubiKeys lock down access credentials by making them impossible to transmit digitally. Every user carries a physical YubiKey...

By Don Steinberg

Powin

This year’s Super Bowl marked a milestone that had nothing to do with the Kansas City Chiefs: Las Vegas’ Allegiant Stadium was powered exclusively by renewable energy. One of Powin’s utility-scale battery systems helped make...

By Don Steinberg

Vertex Pharmaceuticals

A new era of personalized medicine began last fall when the U.S. and other countries gave the first-ever approvals to a treatment based on CRISPR gene editing: Casgevy, developed by Vertex and CRISPR Therapeutics, treats...

By Don Steinberg
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