Infrastructure
The quiet redesign of the data center
Liquid cooling and chip-level power delivery are no longer experimental — they're becoming the default as AI workloads outgrow air-cooled racks.
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SIGNAL tracks the ideas, tools, and people quietly rewriting how we build — from lab benches to shipping products. No hype cycles, just the work.
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Hardware
Smaller chips, bigger arguments
As transistor scaling slows, the real gains are shifting to packaging and interconnects. We look at who's betting where.
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Warehouses are the new proving ground
General-purpose robots are learning dexterity in the least glamorous place possible: the aisles of fulfillment centers.
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Storage, not generation, is the bottleneck
Cheap solar solved half the equation. The next decade of climate tech is about what happens after sundown.
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Designing proteins like software
Generative models are turning drug discovery into an iteration loop — write, simulate, test — instead of a decade-long search.
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The interface is becoming conversational
Menus and dashboards are giving way to plain-language requests. What that means for the people who design software.
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Inside the team building a factory that reprograms itself
Most factories run on fixed logic: same line, same sequence, same output. One manufacturing startup is betting on machines that renegotiate their own workflow in real time — and the early results are reshaping how the industry thinks about flexibility.
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