Rachel Lerman

Strengthen Your Manufacturing Sales Resiliency

Strengthen Your Manufacturing Sales Resiliency

October 14, 2026

Aerial view of modern industrial warehouse complex with blue-accented buildings, loading docks, and surrounding agricultural landscape.

Buildings Full of Machines (Data Centers) Tied to Modest Local Job Growth

October 28, 2026

Person's hand gripping an orange and yellow metal object against a clear blue sky

Systems Engineer Moonlights as 'Picasso of Pumpkin Carvers'

October 27, 2026

Industrial production line with multiple white tissue paper rolls on conveyor system with mechanical components and yellow wiring

Georgia-Pacific to Invest $150M to Modernize Toilet Paper Production

October 28, 2026

Modeling AI ROI Like a CFO, Not a Vendor

Modeling AI ROI Like a CFO, Not a Vendor

A six-step framework for building AI business cases that survive audit scrutiny, board review, and hindsight.

October 28, 2026

In this March 6, 2020 photo, bus, bike, pedestrian and car traffic is light on Pike St. in downtown Seattle at 5:20 pm during the Friday evening commute.

Seattle Businesses Pinched, Virus Keeps Workers Home

Amazon and other companies told tens of thousands of people to work from home.

March 10, 2020

In this Sept. 16, 2016 file photo, a customer compares her iPhone 6, left, with an iPhone 7 at an Apple Store in Chicago.

Apple to Pay $500M Over Phone Slowdown

The company is settling claims over intentionally slowing down older phones to preserve older batteries.

March 3, 2020

Pentagon

Judge Freezes Pentagon Contract

The company sued over the $10B military cloud contract, dubbed JEDI, that was awarded to a rival.

February 14, 2020

People look at different Samsung Galaxy S20 5G phones displayed at the Unpacked 2020 event in San Francisco, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2020.

Foldable Phone Cheaper, Still a Novelty

The Galaxy Z Flip is the second attempt to sell consumers on phones with bendable screens and clamshell designs.

February 12, 2020

A Sublue diver moves around with the Sublue WhiteShark Mix outfitted with dual propellers for power and balance shown at their water tank booth during the CES tech show Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020, in Las Vegas.

CES: Pizza Robots & Underwater Scooters

Need a faster way to travel underwater? Sublue has your back.

January 9, 2020

An employee holds a tablet showing a video demonstrating the Alexa pay for gas feature in the Amazon booth at the CES tech show, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020, in Las Vegas.

CES: Voices for Gas Pumps, Plant

A connected world means paying for gas with your voice and sensing when a plant needs water.

January 9, 2020

Hyun-Suk Kim, president and CEO of the Consumer Electronics Division at Samsung, holds Ballie, an AI rolling robot during a Samsung keynote before the CES tech show, Monday, Jan. 6, 2020, in Las Vegas.

CES: Junk Food Wristband; Keurig for Booze

New gadgets will help you say 'no' to junk food and give you a robot friend.

January 8, 2020

CES: From Flying Taxis to Toilet Paper Robots

Charmin's robot solves a common problem: being stranded on the toilet with an empty toilet paper roll.

January 7, 2020

This March 20, 2018, file photo shows the YouTube app on an iPad. YouTube's trust and safety team is tasked with deciding what the video site allows to reach its enormous audience, and what gets taken down. Team leader Matt Halprin constantly has to balance safety and civility with what the company considers a core mission: freedom of expression.

How YouTube Decides What to Ban

Matt Halprin oversees the teams that decide what is allowed and what should be prohibited.

January 6, 2020

Labor

Fifth Fired Google Worker Files Federal Labor Complaint

The engineer says Google fired her after she created a pop-up notification for employees to inform them of their labor rights.

December 18, 2019

In this Sept. 5, 2018, file photo, an empty chair reserved for Google's parent Alphabet, which refused to send its top executive, is seen before the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. The co-founders of Google are stepping down as executives of its parent company, Alphabet.

Google Co-Founders Leave as Antitrust Scrutiny Heats Up

Larry Page and Sergey Brin are stepping down.

December 4, 2019

In this Oct. 31, 2018, file photo shows signage outside the offices of Google in San Francisco with the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge in the background. Four workers fired from Google in November 2019 are planning to file charges against the company with a federal agency. They are claiming the company unfairly retaliated against them for organizing workers around social causes.

Fired Google Workers Plan Labor Complaint

They say the company unfairly retaliated against them for organizing workers around social causes.

December 3, 2019

The Tesla Cybertruck is unveiled at Tesla's design studio Thursday, Nov. 21 in Hawthorne, CA.

Tesla Edges Into Pickup Truck Market

The vehicle will have an estimated battery range of between 250 miles to more than 500 miles.

November 22, 2019

Izzy Lewkosky, of Kansas City, Kansas, tastes a glass of Cabernet Sauvignon while looking out at the wildfire incinerated Soda Rock Winery in Healdsburg, California.

Despite Fires, California Wine is Fine

Operators are hoping that the fires of 2017 and 2019 are not the new normal.

November 11, 2019