We were losing the light, and still about 20 kilometers from the main road, when the car shuddered and died at the edge of a strange forest. The grove grew as if indifferent to certain unspoken rules of botany. There was no understory, no foreground or background, only the trees themselves, which grew as a...

This is today's edition ofThe Download,our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. Inside the controversial tree farms powering Apple's carbon neutral goal We were losing the light, and still about 20 kilometers from the main road, when the car shuddered and died at the edge...