Adam Rowe

2 weeks ago | tech.co | Adam Rowe

65% of US freight professionals expect self-driving trucks to hit public roads by 2050, according to new insights from a recent survey by Tech.co. Zoom in a little further, and you’ll see that some of them expect the revolutionary technology even sooner, with 42% of those survey respondents estimating that self-driving trucks will be traversing public roads as soon as 2040.

2 weeks ago | msn.com | Adam Rowe

Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.

2 weeks ago | tech.co | Adam Rowe

Perhaps all those Walmart drones are making up for labor reductions: Retailers cut or announced plans to cut a whopping 75,802 jobs across the first five months of 2025, a new report finds. That’s a 274% increase from the 20,276 jobs that were cut across the same time period in 2024, just last year. Needless to say, it’s a bloodbath for anyone working in retail. The retail sector is now the second highest industry for job losses, behind only the US government.

2 weeks ago | tech.co | Adam Rowe

The latest shipping data just arrived, and it reveals a sharp drop in overall container volumes for May 2025 — they’re now down 9.7% from April. It’s the first drop after months of growth in these imports, and reflects the impacts of large-scale tariff changes, as well as the removal of the de minimis exemption for China imports.

1 month ago | tech.co | Adam Rowe

Tariffs continue to make headlines: US President Donald Trump recently threatened a new 50% tariff on all goods from the European Union, which he now credits for the “positive” news that the EU will set a meeting to discuss a trade deal. The 50% tariff was first set to take effect on June 1st, but this has been pushed to July 7th. Meanwhile, businesses are adjusting to the new international duties in a variety of ways. Some are turning to a little-used customs law.