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This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays.One of the technology industry’s big bets is that once a company is good at transporting one thing, it should be able to do the same for…

In the 1950s, Vladimir Nabokov asserted, not entirely playfully, that “reality” is a word that should only ever have quotation marks around it.Contemporary technology has enabled thinkers to become more elaborate about the nature of the…

SEATTLE — In 2002, Andy Jassy, a young executive at Amazon, began closely shadowing Jeff Bezos, the founder of the online bookstore.Mr. Jassy followed Mr. Bezos everywhere, including board meetings, and sat in on his phone calls, said Ann…