Photo of US Marines walking along a snow-covered trail

US Steps Up Winter-Warfare Training as Global Threat Shifts

MARINE MOUNTAIN WARFARE TRAINING CENTER — Hunkered down behind a wall of snow, two U.S. Marines melt slush to make drinking water after spending the night digging out a defensive position high in the Sierra Nevada. Their laminated targeting map is wedged into ...
Photo of Steve Jobs holding up iPhone

Triumph of the iPhone: Apple Cracks Trillion-Dollar Mark

SAN FRANCISCO — Apple is the world's first publicly traded company to be valued at $1 trillion, the financial fruit of stylish technology that has redefined what we expect from our gadgets. The milestone reached Thursday marks the latest triumph of a trend-...
Portrait of Irma Olguin Jr. at Bitwise in Fresno, CA

Olguin Writes New Code on Tech, Downtown Fresno

On a warm April day on the campus of Fresno State, the woman with short hair, wearing jeans, a T-shirt and Bulldogs jacket appears to be just another student. Or, maybe a hip professor. She's not. Irma Olguin Jr. is the co-CEO of Bitwise, a downtown Fresno ...