The Justice Department and Google are wrapping up a three-week hearing that could have a major impact on the search giant and how people gather information online.
A federal judge’s recent ruling has made it possible for apps to sell software and subscriptions outside the App Store without having to pay a commission.
Court documents show the company commissioned a sham report and lied on the stand to justify its actions, which will cast a shadow over future lawsuits.
At a landmark antitrust trial, a judge is weighing how to define competition for the social media giant in order to decide whether it broke the law.
Your bags may be ready to go, but do you really have everything you need? Here are some apps that can make your travels smoother, safer and more fun.
The discussions follow those of rival OpenAI, which recently closed a funding round that valued it at $300 billion.
President Trump denounced the Biden-era Digital Equity Act as “woke handouts based on race,” raging in a social media post against a broad effort to improve high-speed internet access.
Holly LaFavers said she was eventually refunded $4,200 for her 8-year-old son’s order of Dum-Dums candy.
Una nueva ola de sistemas con “razonamiento” de empresas como OpenAl produce información incorrecta con más frecuencia. Ni sus creadores no saben por qué.
Sam Altman, OpenAI’s chief executive, said he hired Instacart’s Fidji Simo to join in a new role as chief executive of applications.
Revelations about the defense secretary’s passwords came after he discussed details of planned U.S. airstrikes on a messaging app.
The company also predicted that business in the current quarter would be stronger than Wall Street had predicted.
Artificial intelligence software — some already free on your device — can quickly compose and edit documents. But be sure to check its work.
The company’s executives tried to reassure potential advertisers about the app’s future in the United States without directly addressing a looming ban under a federal law.
Meta had sued the firm, NSO Group, for using its spyware to hack 1,400 WhatsApp accounts belonging to journalists, dissidents and others.
The tech billionaire’s staff was concerned that correspondence about his home in West Lake Hills would become public after neighbors complained.
The multibillion-dollar acquisitions would give DoorDash an expanded global presence.
The acquisition would give DoorDash a presence in the Middle East and expand its footprint in Europe.
En su propio patio trasero, a las afueras de Austin, el multimillonario de la tecnología se ha visto envuelto en un laberinto de normativas locales y burocracia. Parece que nadie es lo bastante rico como para escapar de los vecinos.
President Trump has ended a tariff loophole that generated lots of business for delivery companies shipping inexpensive goods from China to the U.S.
The clone, TeleMessage, was the subject of a reported hack in which the contents of some direct messages and group chats were stolen.
The company will become a public benefit corporation and the nonprofit that has controlled it will be its largest shareholder.
Al terminar una laguna fiscal estadounidense, los fabricantes de ropa que venden a Estados Unidos se ven obligados a considerar mercados alternativos o ubicaciones más baratas dentro y fuera de China.
A new wave of “reasoning” systems from companies like OpenAI is producing incorrect information more often. Even the companies don’t know why.
Residents of an upscale enclave outside Austin, Texas, learned the hard way what it’s like when a multibillionaire moves into the mansion next door. Some of them have started a ruckus over it.
Technology’s many automated female voices are nothing if not helpful.
America must discard the belief that it is beating China in the innovation race.
As a U.S. tax loophole ends, the apparel makers that sell to America are forced to consider alternative markets or cheaper locations in and outside China.
Residents of Oakdale, Calif., have abandoned traditional media outlets for a mishmash of online sources. These days, they’re often not sure what information to trust.
World, a start-up backed by Sam Altman, has launched in the United States with the goal of verifying your humanity.
The tech giant said it would make its Gemini chatbot available to children next week, and warned families in an email about the changes.
In a hearing on Friday, lawyers for the Justice Department indicated the government would double down on its requests to break up the tech giant’s business.
A Reuters photographer captured an image of Michael Waltz’s phone screen during a White House cabinet meeting, a day before he was ousted from his job as national security adviser.
Tim Cook, the company’s C.E.O., said he expected $900 million in extra costs this quarter because of President Trump’s tariffs.
The company reported overall mixed results, sending share prices down in after-hours trading.
A deal for a state-backed Emirati firm to use a Trump-affiliated digital coin was announced in a panel that included the president’s son and his business partner, who promised, “This is only the beginning.”
A landmark antitrust lawsuit about the past has turned into a fight about the future.
The world’s most valuable company has become so reliant on Chinese suppliers and sales that it would be worth half as much or less without them.
Independent vendors who sell on sites like Etsy and eBay are trying to blunt the pain from tariffs on low-cost Chinese-made goods.
The ruling was a stinging defeat for Apple in a long-running antitrust case brought by Epic Games, the maker of Fortnite, on behalf of app developers.
The Silicon Valley company made the revenue projection as it reported a 35 percent rise in profit in the first quarter.
The tech giant’s revenue also grew 13%, topping Wall Street’s expectations.
Sundar Pichai told a federal judge that the government’s solution to fix its monopoly in search would harm innovation.
Here are some best practices for safeguarding sensitive personal data.
Los padres y los expertos en salud pública tienen mucho que decir sobre lo que hacen las adolescentes en sus teléfonos. Esta vez quisimos escucharlos a ellos.
Dazhon Darien, 32, who worked at Pikesville High School in Baltimore County, pleaded guilty to disturbing school operations.
Plus, let’s hear your best sea gull.
The prime example is Tether, a firm that regulators once targeted. Its chief executive recently hobnobbed in Washington with lawmakers and lobbyists.
Remedies to Google’s monopoly in internet search could change the future of the company. Read an interview with the Times reporter in the courthouse.
Companies like Alibaba that built China’s world-leading online shopping sector are now helping its sellers find markets beyond the United States.
The Take It Down Act, which united a coalition of conservative and liberal lawmakers, criminalizes the nonconsensual sharing of sexually explicit images of others and requires companies to remove them.
The spacecraft are the online giant’s entry into beaming wireless service from space, but the company has much to do before it can compete with SpaceX’s Starlink.
The announcement comes as the Trump administration pressures firms to expand their U.S. manufacturing.
For some people, the calmer, semi-exclusive spaces away from the deadening realities of modern air travel have become a prime place to find romance.
When Ted Kaczynski’s manifesto appeared 30 years ago, the internet was brand-new. Now his dark vision is finding fans who don’t remember life before the iPhone.
The devices will be remotely wiped “to simplify processes and to reduce burden” of terminating thousands of federal workers before the agency is closed.
Aparentemente, añadir palabras a un chatbot puede costar decenas de millones de dólares. Pero algunos temen que el precio de no decir por favor o gracias podría ser mayor.
Israel developed new artificial intelligence tools to gain an advantage in the war. The technologies have sometimes led to fatal consequences.
Google’s parent company, which is battling the government to stay intact after losing two antitrust cases, also said quarterly profit rose 46 percent.
Adding words to our chatbot can apparently cost tens of millions of dollars. But some fear the cost of not saying please or thank you could be higher.
Adding words to our chatbot can apparently cost tens of millions of dollars. But some fear the cost of not saying please or thank you could be higher.
As artificial intelligence systems become smarter, one A.I. company is trying to figure out what to do if they become conscious.
Plus, how to actually fall asleep.
How luxury cars, $500,000 bar tabs and a mysterious kidnapping attempt helped investigators unravel the heist of a lifetime.
Experts tell the stories of entrepreneurs and executives who have inched closer and closer to their governments.
Online mockery of President Trump is fodder for the Communist Party’s propagandists. For liberal-minded Chinese, it is a creative expression of shock at his policies.
Videos on the social media app, filmed at factories in China, urge viewers to buy luxury goods directly, as tariffs drive up prices. Americans are receptive.
Jason Citron was a co-founder of the company, which is said to be working toward an initial public offering at some point this year.
The offer, which caused President Trump’s memecoin to surge in price, was his family’s latest effort to profit from cryptocurrencies.
The video-streaming platform has revolutionized how we watch things. Here’s a timeline of its biggest moments.
From photo timers to music identifiers, here are a few new iPhone and Android tools to make your life easier.
The European Commission said the Silicon Valley companies violated the Digital Markets Act, a law meant to crimp the power of the largest tech firms.
In the landmark antitrust case, tech executives have harked back to a Silicon Valley age when social apps like Facebook, Path, Orkut and Google Plus boomed.
Set in the heart of Silicon Valley, the Computer History Museum long cheered the developments around it. Now, it’s taking a more nuanced approach.
Kevin Systrom said during testimony in a landmark antitrust trial that he believed Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive, viewed Instagram as a threat.
The deal, with the private equity firm Thoma Bravo, will help the struggling aerospace manufacturer pay down debt and streamline its operations.
We explain why the government is trying to break up companies like Meta and Google.
Retail executives huddled with the president amid fears that tariffs could result in higher prices.
The suit is an indication that the commission’s close scrutiny of the tech industry will continue in the Trump administration.
The Justice Department said the best way to address the company’s monopoly in internet search was to force it to sell Chrome, among other measures.
Hyperpartisan and misleading content from popular right-wing pages such as Canada Proud is thriving on Facebook as the election nears.
On Monday, the tech giant and the U.S. government face off in court over how to fix the company’s online search monopoly. The outcome could alter Google and Silicon Valley.
The long-running tech drama always felt as if it took place in a dystopian near future. How much of that future has come to pass?
Everything is under threat. What you care about can make it to the other side.
New restrictions on semiconductor exports to China are scrambling sales and fueling concerns that the Chinese tech giant will become a chip-making powerhouse.
The Elon Musk operatives were abruptly shifted to the department’s immigration enforcement unit as part of an expanding effort to use personal data in deportation cases, one official said.
Within a year, two federal judges declared the tech giant a monopoly in search and ad technology. The tide may be turning for antitrust.
El ecosistema de comercio electrónico de China ilustra cómo los aranceles de Trump solo refuerzan las industrias de ese país.
Aunque suban los precios de los celulares, tenemos muchas opciones más baratas, como comprar el modelo de teléfono del año pasado en lugar del último y mejor.
In her second day on the stand of a landmark antitrust trial over Meta’s power, Ms. Sandberg, the former chief operating officer, also said the company faced plenty of competition from TikTok.
Google violated the Sherman Antitrust Act “by willfully acquiring and maintaining monopoly power” in the online technology ad industry, the court said.
It was the second time in a year that a U.S. court found that the company had acted illegally to remain dominant.
The Fed chair signaled the central bank will stand pat on borrowing costs despite President Trump’s trade fight. Investors and the president aren’t happy.
These estimates, drawn from the location data of three billion Facebook users, provide a view of human migration in extraordinary detail.
The company also introduced a new tool that helps computer programmers use chatbots when writing code.
China’s success in artificial intelligence has the Trump administration and lawmakers weighing rules and investigations to slow Beijing’s progress in the industry.
The former chief operating officer took the stand in a landmark antitrust trial accusing Meta of quashing competition through acquisitions.
An Illinois couple who sell party supplies on Amazon have been frantically trying to understand and adapt to new costs caused by President Trump’s tariffs.
We waited too long to make laws around social media. A.I. has similar problems.
China’s e-commerce ecosystem illustrates how Trump’s tariffs only strengthen that country’s hand.
The restrictions are the first major limits the Trump administration has put on semiconductor sales outside the United States, toughening rules created by the Biden administration.
Las nuevas restricciones de China a la exportación de estos metales podrían repercutir en la producción de todo tipo de productos, desde luces LED hasta aviones de combate.
Moose fans are following the weekslong moose migration, which airs live on the national broadcaster. “This is reality TV at its finest,” a moderator of a zealous Facebook group said.
Starting in January, members of the airline’s AAdvantage loyalty program will have free access to wireless internet on 90 percent of its fleet, the company said.
The Meta chief executive testified in a landmark antitrust trial that it was business as usual when he bought rival apps. He denied he was trying to snuff out competitors.
The Internal Revenue Service issued a memo last month that said victims of certain impersonation and investment schemes might be eligible for a tax break.
For the first time since the late 1990s Microsoft case, federal trials are weighing antitrust breakups, a tactic that harks back to Standard Oil.
For the first time since the late 1990s Microsoft case, federal trials are weighing antitrust breakups, a tactic that harks back to Standard Oil.
Even if gadget prices surge, we have plenty of cheaper options, like buying last year’s phone model instead of the latest and greatest.
Geo Group, una compañía de prisiones que fabrica herramientas digitales de rastreo, se convierte en uno de los grandes ganadores empresariales del gobierno a medida que su tecnología se utiliza cada vez más en las deportaciones.
China’s new restrictions on exports of the metals could have an impact on the production of everything from LED lights to fighter jets.
People who once found right-wing ideas scintillating are having second thoughts as they watch Trump put those ideas into practice.
Mark Zuckerberg has appeared before Congress more times than any other tech leader. He will testify again soon — as a witness in a federal antitrust trial. Cecilia Kang, a technology reporter for The New York Times, recalls some of Zuckerberg’s pa...
Tell us how location sharing has affected your relationship, and you might hear yourself in an episode of the Modern Love podcast.
Meta’s antitrust trial, in which the government contends the company killed competition by buying young rivals, hinges on unknowable alternate versions of Silicon Valley history.
Mr. Zuckerberg went to court on Monday in a trial focused on his social media company’s acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp. The case could reshape Meta’s business.
Meta’s chief has grown accustomed to tough questioning in courts and hearings, but an antitrust trial that started Monday could be more grueling, experts said.
Eric Slesinger made a career shift from the spy agency to venture capital, championing military start-ups as Europe beefed up its defenses amid an uncertain relationship with the United States.
Geo Group, a private prison firm that makes digital tools to track immigrants, becomes one of the Trump administration’s big business winners as its tech is increasingly used in deportations.
The Trump administration is continuing an aggressive effort to rein in the power of the biggest tech companies. Here’s what to know.
On Monday, Meta will face off against the federal government in a landmark antitrust trial over claims that it illegally quashed competition by buying Instagram and WhatsApp.
Products including smartphones and computers appeared to be getting a reprieve from at least some of the levies on China, which had been expected to take a big toll on tech companies like Apple.
A long list of electronic products got a reprieve for now from at least some of the levies on China, which had been expected to take a toll on tech giants like Apple.
Many Americans have purchased foreign-made products out of fears that companies could start to raise prices soon.
Federal lawmakers who benefited from crypto largess in the 2024 election are speedily advancing the industry’s agenda.
Incluso antes de la amenaza de los aranceles del presidente Trump, había dudas sobre la capacidad de la empresa para hacer realidad nuevas ideas.
Even before the threat of President Trump’s tariffs, there were questions about the company’s inability to make good on new ideas.
The Trump administration has started purging the government’s digital memory. Democracies die without proper archiving and public records.
A set of popular apps helped China’s ByteDance develop a key component of advanced artificial intelligence: information on how a billion people use the internet.
The company moved most of its manufacturing to Vietnam from China to avoid tariffs. But the unpredictability of President Trump’s plans has thrown Nintendo for a loop.
With tariffs threatening to drive up the costs of most things, the new entry-level phones from Apple and Google present a timely opportunity to save some bucks.
In a legal filing, OpenAI asked a federal court to hold Mr. Musk responsible for any damage he has caused the firm, in the latest sign of their bitter feud.
The spacecraft are the online giant’s entry into beaming wireless service from space, but the company has much to do before it can compete with SpaceX’s Starlink.
The recordings, along with works by Tracy Chapman, Elton John and the rock band Chicago, are among the 25 selected for preservation by the Library of Congress.
Jo Ellis, a National Guard pilot, is suing an influencer who falsely identified her as the captain of a helicopter that collided with a passenger plane in January.
The internet giant told employees on Monday that it expected them to return to the office full-time in January.
N.I.H. officials suggested federal record keepers helped them hide emails. If so, “that’s really damaging to trust in all of government,” one expert said.
Los expertos ofrecen consejos para reconocer las afirmaciones médicas falsas en internet y combatirlas en tus círculos cercanos, sin pelear con nadie.
Experts offer tips for combating false medical claims in your own circles.
A 24-year-old’s sudden death devastated his family — and caught the attention of the movement of vaccine opponents.
The company is requiring many employees to use an app that tracks their in-person attendance.
As it prepares to go public next week, Instacart shows that one secret to making money as a gig economy company is to become an advertising company.
The Democratic presidential challenger continues to espouse extreme ideas, but has dialed that messaging back in large public forums.
The candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination uses logical leaps and rhetorical devices to create false or misleading messages.
A late-summer rise in Covid-19 infections is bringing with it a wave of conspiracy theories.
Heavy reliance on online remote learning during the pandemic drew attention away from more equitable ways of teaching children at home, a UNESCO report says.
La operación de influencia comenzó al menos hace cuatro años y, según la empresa, abarcó miles de cuentas en Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, X, Substack y sitios web chinos.
The campaign began at least four years ago and spanned thousands of accounts on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X, Substack and Chinese websites, Meta said.
Two weeks after employees filed to organize, the company told some they had to change cities or would lose their jobs. It said the plan had long been in the works.