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This courtroom sketch showed FTX co-founder Gary Wang on the witness stand.

MIT roommate, FTX co-founder testifies against Sam Bankman-Fried

“FTX was not fine, and the assets were not fine,” Gary Wang said in his second day as a prosecution witness in Bankman-Fried's trial.

Should you still feel guilty for taking an Uber?

Mark MacGann, the Uber whistleblower who leaked 124,000 internal company files to journalists last year, remains a critic of the ride-hailing company.

Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella arrived at federal court Monday in Washington, D.C.

Microsoft CEO testifies that Google’s power in search is ubiquitous

Satya Nadella laid out how Microsoft could not overcome Google’s use of multibillion-dollar deals to be the default search engine on smartphones and web browsers.

N.H. man convicted of running unlicensed bitcoin business gets 8-year prison sentence

A federal judge has sentenced libertarian activist and radio show host Ian Freeman to eight years in prison for running an unlicensed bitcoin exchange business and fined him at least $40,000

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A police officer walked outside the courthouse where Sam Bankman-Fried's fraud trial is taking place in New York.

What to know about Caroline Ellison, Newton native and key witness in Sam Bankman-Fried’s trial

Robots, from left to right: Boston Dynamics' Atlas, Apptronik's Apollo, and Agility's Digit.

Humanoid robots may finally be coming to the business world — starting in warehouses

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried leaves Federal court on July 26, 2023, in New York.

Sam Bankman-Fried to meet his jury as criminal trial gets underway

MIT scientist Moungi Bawendi, embraced his wife, Rachel Zimmerman, on Wednesday.

MIT professor Moungi Bawendi, Nobel Prize co-recipient in chemistry, overcame a tough start at Harvard

Technicians at Electric Hydrogen assembled the company's electrolytic system for extracting hydrogen gas from water.

In Natick, a ‘green hydrogen’ startup steps on the gas

This courtroom sketch shows Samuel Bankman Fried, center, flanked by his defense attorneys Christian Everdell, left and Mark Cohen, right, as jury selection began in his fraud trial on Oct. 3.

Jury selection to begin in trial of fallen cryptocurrency mogul Sam Bankman-Fried

TECH POWER PLAYERS 50

Introducing the top New England CEOs, venture capitalists, and founders of 2023
Our second annual list spotlights leaders who have kept the region's technology scene vibrant in a challenging climate, telling a story about where the industry stands, where it’s been, and where it’s going.

What distinguishes Boston’s tech sector is perseverance, determination, and confidence to take the long view — qualities exhibited by the diverse entrepreneurs, financiers, and intellectuals on The Boston Globe’s Tech Power Players 50 list.

The Boston tech sector’s defining characteristic in 2023? Resilience.

From left to right: Steve Fredette, Aman Narang, and Jonathan Grimm.

No. 1: These restaurant-focused entrepreneurs are the Toast of tech

Siyu Huang, founder and CEO of Factorial Energy.

Climate change is a major problem. These Boston leaders have solutions.

Thanks to the local changemakers driving innovation, the tech industry in all its forms plays an outsize role in Boston’s economy, from the flow of venture capital funds to where workers get their paychecks.

By the numbers: A look at jobs, hiring, diversity, and funding in Mass. tech

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TECH LAYOFFS

A running list of layoffs in the Boston-area tech sector
Dozens of companies have reduced their workforces, ranging from the regional offices of the tech giants to startups that have only been in a business a few years.

Unicorn Tracker

The Boston Globe’s tech unicorn tracker lists startups headquartered in Massachusetts that have a valuation of at least $500 million. A “unicorn” is a company with a valuation in excess of $1 billion.

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Yellow pea field fritters being prepared at CommonWealth Kitchen in Dorchester, Mass., on Aug. 16. The nonprofit aims to produce more sustainable, locally-grown, and plant-based menu options.

A new kind of falafel is being developed in Boston. Is it any good?

At CommonWealth Kitchen, a Dorchester nonprofit that serves as home base for food entrepreneurs, chef Kevin Doherty is cooking up a new kind of falafel — with no chickpeas in sight.

From paving commuter rail tracks to Watertown water shuttles, innovators are dreaming up Boston transportation solutions

Can technology fix the broken process of getting around Boston?

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Sam Bankman-Fried, co-founder of FTX Cryptocurrency Derivatives Exchange, leaves court in New York on July 26.

Sam Bankman-Fried must now convince a jury that the former crypto king was not a crook

The trial of Bankman-Fried, the founder of the failed cryptocurrency brokerage FTX, will begin Tuesday with jury selection. 2:02 p.m.

Annie Christie, a beekeeper at Best Bees, inspected bee hives in Stow on Sept. 1.

This Roxbury company is getting corporate America buzzing about bees

Best Bees’ SmartHive technology collects data on conditions and activity in hives and uses AI to analyze the health of bee colonies. 9:00 a.m.

XL Fleet claimed a backlog of $220 million.

Former EV startup darling pays $11 million fine over misleading investors

XL Fleet shut down its electric vehicle conversion business and was acquired by Denver-based Spruce Power last year. 1:43 p.m.

The deal struck earlier this week between the Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers will protect television and movie screenwriters from losing their jobs to computers that could use artificial intelligence to generate screenplays.

Hollywood writers have won the AI battle. What about the rest of us?

The deal struck earlier this week will protect TV and movie screenwriters from losing their jobs to computers that could use artificial intelligence to generate screenplays. But the AI wars are far from over. 11:24 a.m.

An out of service EV charging station at the Charlton rest stop westbound on the MassPike.

New EV chargers coming to Mass Pike rest stops soon

The state’s Department of Transportation said Thursday it has selected a contractor to remove six non-working fast chargers on the Pike and replace them with new equipment. 11:27 a.m.

The DVD service that has been steadily shrinking in the shadow of Netflix’s video streaming service will shut down after its five remaining distribution centers in California, Texas, Georgia and New Jersey mail out their final discs Friday.

Netflix’s DVD-by-mail service bows out as its red-and-white envelopes make their final trip

The fewer than 1 million recipients who still subscribe to the DVD service will be able to keep the final discs that land in their mailboxes. 9:47 a.m.

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Molly White, a graduate of Northeastern University, is the creator of the sarcastically named blog “Web3 Is Going Just Great,” which tracks the twists and turns of the cryptocurrency market.

Is crypto dead? Critic Molly White doesn’t think so.

With Sam Bankman-Fried’s upcoming trial, the crypto industry is under fire, but it won’t be stopped, says the writer of the “Web3 Is Going Just Great” blog. 9:00 p.m.

Jessica Rosenworcel, chairwoman of the Federal Communications Commission, said that the repeal of net neutrality in 2017 put the FCC “on the wrong side of history, the wrong side of the law, and the wrong side of the public.”

Biden administration plans to bring back net neutrality rules

The earlier open internet rules prohibited broadband internet suppliers — telecommunications and cable companies — from blocking or slowing online services. 7:18 p.m.