Ya no quiero que mi vida sea un producto.
I don’t want my life to be a product anymore.
Innisfree M&A says Twitter, which Elon Musk bought last year, has not paid it $1.9 million for services it rendered for the deal.
Con artists are using dating sites to prey on lonely people, particularly older ones, in a pattern that accelerated during the isolation of the pandemic, federal data show.
Dispatchers for 911 are being inundated with false, automated distress calls from Apple devices owned by skiers who are very much alive.
It started with smirk and ended with a bang, and in between it changed the media universe.
Silicon Valley is wondering whether ChatGPT will replace Google as the internet’s main source of information. For many topics, YouTube already has.
Cada vez hay más sitios web y aplicaciones que piden este dato para acceder a ellos. Así pueden rastrear tu actividad y perfilar tus intereses. Te explicamos cómo evitar dejar un rastro de migajas digitales.
Even inside the company, the chatbot’s popularity has come as something of a shock.
After years of expansion and billions in profits, Big Tech is pulling back from its famously lavish spending as a long boom finally ends.
The iPhone maker said sales of its flagship product were down 8 percent as it dealt with a factory shutdown and worries about rising inflation.
Google’s parent company reported its fourth consecutive drop in quarterly profit, weeks after culling 6 percent of its work force to cut costs.
Mark Zuckerberg’s company recorded its biggest daily market gain in nearly a decade, as the mood brightens among tech investors.
Michael F. Bennet, a Colorado Democrat, cited national security, adding to bipartisan pressure on the Chinese-owned video app.
The company, which is in the midst of shifting to become a metaverse business, also forecast revenue would beat Wall Street predictions.
The San Francisco artificial intelligence lab has seen overwhelming interest in its chatbot since it was released in November.
The ruling is a defeat for the Federal Trade Commission, which used a rare antitrust argument to try to block Meta’s acquisition of a small start-up.
Waymo and Cruise hope to widen their projects to more of the city. But local officials are increasingly concerned about breakdowns causing congestion.
The popular drug discount app deceptively shared details on users’ illnesses and medicines with ad firms, regulators said in a legal complaint.
ChatGPT isn’t the only writing assistant that has emerged to replace editors. We tested it alongside two others to assess their strengths and weaknesses.
A national ban on TikTok would not solve America’s data privacy problems.
Estas son las claves para optimizar —y aligerar— tu vida digital.
As he fights for free speech online and promotes his companies, the new owner of Twitter spends a lot of time replying to his fans.
The maker of Snapchat also swung to a loss in the latest quarter and declined to provide financial guidance.
The maker of Snapchat also swung to a loss in the latest quarter and declined to provide financial guidance.
A regulatory filing says officials have asked about software that Elon Musk, the chief executive, has said would allow cars to operate autonomously.
After a yearlong investigation, a federal labor board determined that the tech giant’s rules interfere with employees’ right to organize.
Thrive has committed $1 billion, which would value the payments provider Stripe at about $55 billion to $60 billion, people with knowledge of the matter said.
Tech workers and investors are flocking to start-ups that aim to combat climate change.
The need for validation is universal, but it’s community, not clicks, that can provide it.
There are good reasons to look people in the eye when you fire them. Being nice is only one.
Jeff Foulk spent years working on Argo Navigation, a GPS app for boats. After a TikTok video, it became one of the App Store’s most popular products.
The move followed the disgraced cryptocurrency executive’s attempt to contact a potential witness in his criminal case, prosecutors said.
The site announced plans to use tools from the creator of ChatGPT to create content. Former quiz writers aren’t surprised.
Anthropic specializes in generative artificial intelligence, a hot investment in Silicon Valley. The new funding could value the company at roughly $5 billion.
Truth Social, the social network started by former President Donald J. Trump, has struggled to attract large brands.
California’s law sought to punish doctors who give patients false information about Covid-19.
The department said it had successfully prevented victims from having to pay $130 million in ransoms to Hive, a prolific ransomware gang, before seizing two of the group’s servers on Wednesday night.
Also, Russian missile attacks in Ukraine and a major deal for Indian women’s cricket.
The payments processing start-up, one of the world’s most valuable private companies, could go public in the next year, people with knowledge of the matter said.
Amid a boom in new tools like ChatGPT, the Austin campus plans to train thousands of students in sought-after skills in artificial intelligence.
Keeping its head down has not paid off for the company, which now faces regulatory pressure on many fronts. So it is starting to speak out.
The company said the layoffs were a final step after asset sales rather than a sign of weakness in its business.
Meta said the suspensions of Donald Trump’s accounts would be lifted “in the coming weeks,” with measures in place to discourage repeat offenses. Twitter reinstated Mr. Trump last year.
The drumbeat of layoffs in Silicon Valley is partly a result of how the pandemic upended the economy.
The widely used Microsoft Teams and Outlook email services were unavailable for thousands of users early Wednesday.
Angst rippled across laptop screens this month, with dozens of companies announcing layoffs and finding ways to breed extra chaos in the process.
Your email address has become a digital bread crumb for companies to link your activity across sites. Here’s how you can limit this.
Third parties pay writers for posts praising or panning hotels, restaurants and other places they never visited. How review sites like Yelp and Tripadvisor are trying to stop the flood.
The company, which announced plans to lay off 10,000 workers last week, had warned that was facing a significant slowdown in the growth of its sales.
The Justice Department’s antitrust lawsuit, which a group of states joined, was the fifth by U.S. officials against the company since 2020.
Yuen Yuen Ang argues that understanding China as an “autocracy with democratic characteristics” is key to making sense of its rise and trajectory.
More hospitals and medical practices have begun charging for doctors’ responses to patient queries, depending on the level of medical advice.
A new book by the company’s co-founder Uri Levine offers lessons on succeeding as an entrepreneur.
The laws, enacted by Florida and Texas in response to conservative complaints about censorship, have been challenged under the First Amendment.
The tech giant aims to remain at the forefront of generative artificial intelligence with its partnership with OpenAI.
The audio streaming platform became the latest big technology company to cut costs over worries about the economy.
Durante décadas, las empresas de tecnología anunciaron un enfoque centrado en hacer que los empleados estuvieran contentos. Eso comenzó a cambiar.
Rock-bottom rates were the secret engine fueling $1 billion start-ups and virtual attempts to conquer the physical world. But in 2023, reality bites.
Representative Ted Lieu on why Congress needs to regulate A.I.
Digital theorist Cal Newport is arguing for a new way to work.
Few governments have approved regulations, often because of free-speech concerns. New mandates from China could change the tone of the debate on digital forgeries.
Some of the biggest tech companies have announced tens of thousands of job cuts. But even after the layoffs, their work forces are still behemoths.
The industry’s recent job cuts have been an awakening for a generation of workers who have never experienced a cyclical crash.
The layoffs amount to about 6 percent of the global work force at the company, the latest tech giant to make cuts after a pandemic hiring spree.
A dispute over photos of bare chests with the nipples covered, posted on Instagram by a transgender and nonbinary couple, has prompted a call for the platform to clarify its content guidelines.
The Turing test used to be the gold standard for proving machine intelligence. This generation of bots is racing past it.
A rival chatbot has shaken Google out of its routine, with the founders who left three years ago re-engaging and more than 20 A.I. projects in the works.
Genesis was caught in the fallout of the collapse of FTX, the crypto exchange founded by Sam Bankman-Fried.
The move comes as Amazon is laying off 18,000 workers, but a company spokesman said the decision to end the AmazonSmile program was not a cost-cutting measure.
The cases could significantly affect the power and responsibilities of social media platforms.
For decades, tech companies heralded an approach that centered on making workers happy. That’s changing fast.
Con el auge de las herramientas de IA generativa, muchos centros educativos reestructuran cursos y toman medidas preventivas ante la posibilidad de plagios masivos.
The job cuts, which amount to less than 5 percent of the company’s work force, are its largest in roughly eight years.
Facial recognition technology is being used at the arena to punish an unusual cohort — tort lawyers.
Dutch privacy negotiators have spurred major changes at Google, Microsoft and Zoom, using a landmark European data protection law as a lever.
Lawyers for FTX have identified cash and digital assets that would go toward repaying customers and lenders of the collapsed exchange.
The company’s artwork, high-end furniture and espresso machines are for sale in an online auction that evoked a more flush era when its tastes reflected its status as a hot tech-world employer.
Documents obtained by The New York Times provide new details about the discussions among FTX’s top leaders before the cryptocurrency exchange collapsed in November.
A popular cosmological theory holds that the cosmos runs on quantum codes. So how hard could it be to tweak the supreme algorithm?
With the rise of the popular new chatbot ChatGPT, colleges are restructuring some courses and taking preventive measures.
MSG Entertainment resorted to facial recognition technology to kick out legal foes, but some have undermined the ban using a law passed to protect theater critics in 1941.
The parent company of CoinDesk, one of the first news sites focused on the industry, faces questions about the operations and financial health of some of its subsidiaries.
The school’s prohibition brings a geopolitical fight front and center for TikTok’s biggest fans: young Americans.
Presidents have established and developed the classification system through a series of executive orders around World War II and the early Cold War.
Southwest Airlines’ chief executive, Bob Jordan, said frigid temperatures and mistakes by the company caused its meltdown around Christmas.
The tech mogul’s company has hired Whisper Advisors, an advisory firm, to find potential buyers for the digital publication.
Ante las dudas sobre la utilidad de los asistentes de voz, preguntamos a nuestros lectores cómo usan uno de los más populares, Alexa, de Amazon. Aquí están sus respuestas.
As a new chatbot wows the world with its conversational talents, a resurgent tech giant is poised to reap the benefits while doubling down on a relationship with the start-up OpenAI.
The S.E.C. charged Genesis Global Capital and Gemini Trust, which is run by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, as crypto companies face heightened regulatory scrutiny.
OpenAI’s new chatbot is raising fears of cheating on homework, but its potential as an educational tool outweighs its risks.
The disgraced founder of the crypto exchange FTX denied that he stole anyone’s money and said customers could still get their deposits back.
The C.E.O. of iFixit is fighting for your right to stop shopping and start repairing.
The company has discussed selling some user names through online auctions, people with knowledge of the plans said.
Are you wondering what all those sliders and buttons on photo-editing apps actually do? Here’s a cheat sheet.
Professional photographers have long used the RAW format and editing software to turn image files into gorgeous pictures — and you can, too.
LastPass, un servicio que gestiona contraseñas fue hackeado. El incidente debería llevarnos a considerar si hay que confiar en las empresas que guardan información sensible en la nube.
Face filters and selfie apps are so compelling because they simulate limitless interest in what we look like.
Preying on shoppers strapped for cash and time, scammers are setting up fake sites that claim to have deep discounts on premium brands.
The company grappled with missteps for years while developing a microprocessor code-named Sapphire Rapids. It comes out on Tuesday.
Sexually explicit content has become so prevalent online that teenagers are deluged, according to a new report by a nonprofit child advocacy group.
There is no banal color commentary, no players milling around between plays — just athletes carrying a billion-dollar industry on their backs with amazing plays.
At a new website called Character.AI, you can chat with a reasonable facsimile of almost anyone, live or dead, real or (especially) imagined.
Researchers are studying how the internet was used to stoke anger and to organize far-right groups ahead of the Brazilian riots.
Smartphones, pings and Insta-everything have shortened our attention spans. Get some old-school concentration back with these tips.
Inspired by digital art generators like DALL-E, biologists are building artificial intelligences that can fight cancer, flu and Covid.
Google, Apple y Meta ofrecen espacios digitales casi ilimitados para almacenar fotos, videos y documentos importantes, pero debes conservar una copia de lo que más aprecias.
But at least he is arriving with a plan.
The tech giant had already remade the virtual world. For a brief period, it also tried to make it easier for people in the Bay Area to get to work. Then it gave up.
Young people are opting for point-and-shoots and blurry photos.
In a perpetually tricky market for tech talent, large companies are turning to an in-house resource to get the word out.
An investment frenzy over “generative artificial intelligence” has gripped Silicon Valley, as tools that generate text, images and sounds in response to short prompts seize the imagination.
With questions swirling about the utility of voice assistants, we asked readers how they use one of the most popular, Amazon’s Alexa. Here’s what they answered.
Doctors are exasperated by the persistence of false and misleading claims about the virus.
Many reinstated users are tweeting about topics that got them barred in the first place: Covid-19 skepticism, election denialism and QAnon.
Has another autocratic regime ever taken away the right of so many people to lead a normal life?
Two lawsuits in California have pre-emptively challenged a new law that would punish doctors for misleading patients about Covid-19.
Protests are rising as China enacts more lockdowns and quarantines, with no end in sight. The defiance is a test of Xi Jinping’s authoritarian leadership.
Reflecting on what worked and what didn’t.
In his first communications with Twitter’s staff, the company’s new owner painted a bleak picture as more executives resigned.
Lawmakers’ objections to an obscure Chinese semiconductor company and tough Covid-19 restrictions are hurting Apple’s ability to make new iPhones in China.
The company said Covid-19 restrictions were slowing production of the company’s new phones ahead of the holiday season.
A pair of prominent headlines highlights the reversals.
Hundreds of workers are said to have fled, afraid of being forced into quarantine with inadequate food and supplies.
Commutes are still painful, readers say. And it’s hard to give up the joys of working from home. But many of those who have gone back to the office say they like it.
El gobierno chino ha reprimido a muchas empresas tecnológicas pero permite las aplicaciones de citas que fomentan las conexiones sociales.
The massive expansion of online higher education created a worldwide laboratory to finally assess its value and its future.
China has cracked down on many tech companies, but has allowed dating apps that provide social connections to flourish.
Self-checkout systems are intended to make shopping convenient, but they also can lead to more thefts, experts said.
Weighing into the fierce national debate over Covid-19 prevention and treatments, the state would be the first to try a legal remedy for vaccine disinformation.
In an aggressive turn, the normally staid @WhiteHouse account itemized hundreds of thousands of dollars in pandemic-related debt relief given to U.S. House members who criticized the Biden plan.
A federal judge said Cleveland State University violated the Fourth Amendment when it used software to scan a student’s bedroom, a practice that has grown during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The social networking company said that Children’s Health Defense, a group led by Mr. Kennedy, an anti-vaccine activist, had “repeatedly” violated its guidelines by spreading medical misinformation.
Sales are down, but there is no need to pity the Chromebook.
They were once Democrats and Republicans. But fears for their children in the pandemic transformed their thinking, turning them into single-issue voters for November’s midterms.
How much we buy online affects the whole economy, but right now there are lots of question marks.
Not long ago, it seemed impossible to find a laptop. The pandemic has upended that, too.
A diet app helped writer Sam Anderson shed his extra Covid pounds — and reminded him that he was still his old self.
In many places, there is no system for sharing home test results with health officials, but the information may still be beneficial for public health.
In emails to workers at SpaceX and Tesla, Mr. Musk said they were required to spend a minimum of 40 hours a week in the office.
The contract workers are resisting a plan to resume in-person work, citing health concerns and commuting costs.
Plus North Korea’s Covid strategy and China’s expanding internet censorship.
The rapidly expanding practice, which authorities say helps combat disinformation from abroad, has fueled a whole new type of online battle.
The news was welcomed by an employee group worried about growing coronavirus rates.
The pandemic’s arrival turned spaces like WeWork into ghost towns. Now people are lining up for low-commitment offices, and providers are working to sustain that trend.
Arvind Krishna is trying to stay in touch with the company’s roots as he confronts today’s challenges.
Company officials said the terminations were the result of an internal review, while the fired managers saw it as a response to the recent union victory.