Some think chief ethics officers could help technology companies navigate political and social questions.
By some estimates, only 1,000 or so researchers can claim to understand the technology. Finding more could become a national security issue.
Artificial intelligence is a technology of discovery and low-cost prediction. That’s how A.I. is beginning to transform a wide variety of industries.
Several start-ups hope to use the technology introduced by Bitcoin to give broader access to the data and algorithms behind artificial intelligence.
Conservative political apps deliver curated partisan messages, free from the strictures and content guidelines imposed by Silicon Valley giants.
The anonymous group’s campaign highlights Facebook’s continuing trouble with political advertising.
Facebook, which owns WhatsApp, is trying to prove it can curb the spread of false news. But the app’s design makes it difficult.
Growing cranberries involves techniques that aren’t common on other American farms. In Wisconsin, the year-round work culminates in waterlogged weeks of autumn.
Jack Dorsey of Twitter and Marc Benioff of Salesforce, among others, are sparring over a Nov. 6 ballot initiative that would impose new corporate taxes.
A software company operates underground to keep data secure. Its chief seeks a Middle-earth effect in décor.
Saudi Arabia’s investments in tech put some companies in a tough spot after evidence emerged that Saudi agents may have killed a dissident writer.
A push for a global agreement on autonomous weapons is stalled, much to the chagrin of advocates who believe a treaty is urgently needed.
Robin Sloan is using a homemade software program to supply phrases and images for his new book.
If you believe the marketing, you’d think every new gadget will change your life — but many are confusing to use or doomed to obsolescence. Here’s how to determine whether your purchase will stand the test of time.
She was a photo editor. Now she’s an events manager. Whitney Richardson discusses how her career shift at The Times has changed her tech habits.
The tech mogul, whose Craigslist site helped replace newspaper classifieds, has given $50 million to revitalize local reporting in New York — including a new gift on Wednesday.
Bankers have told Uber that its public offering could be worth $120 billion. That puts it in rare company with the likes of Facebook and Alibaba.
The office is investigating the source of more than 22 million public comments submitted to the F.C.C. during the battle over internet regulation.
It’s difficult to determine how and where companies like Facebook went wrong, which makes regulation challenging.
To comply with a European antitrust ruling, Google will begin charging a licensing fee of handset makers.
A breakup of the web grants privacy, security and freedom to some, and not so much to others.
As India develops new rules governing the data of its residents, global firms are the first target. Companies say they need more time to comply.
Doing significantly more work in the United States, as the company is being pressured to do, would require an overhaul of its business model and corporate culture.
Hardware innovations? Nope. Instead, Google is emphasizing software improvements — particularly for images — with its newest Pixel smartphones.
With fake pages and sham accounts, the military targeted the mostly Muslim Rohingya minority group, said former military officials, researchers and civilian officials.
The goal, said L. Rafael Reif, the president of M.I.T., is to educate “the bilinguals of the future.” Blackstone’s Steven A. Schwarzman is contributing $350 million.
Technology has given rise to an age of misinformation. But philosophy, and a closer look at our own social behavior, could help eliminate it.
Fifteen murder and sexual assault cases have been solved since April with a single genealogy website. This is how GEDmatch went from a casual side project to a revolutionary tool.
He created the mobile computing companies Palm and Handspring. But for decades his passion has been studying how the human brain works.
A management expert sees a need for a new business model and more oversight.
A labor union for anyone who wants to feel like part of something bigger.
On the same day the company announced it had purged domestic sources of disinformation, it said it had blocked two companies, one of them with Russian government clients.
For a week now, people have been buzzing about an article that sounded as if it had come from a high-tech spy thriller. Does it point to larger problems?
Focused investing can be risky, but growth stocks and high-conviction bets helped propel three mutual funds to outsize gains in the third quarter.
The company said Friday that a network breach was smaller than originally thought: 30 million profiles. But the hackers stole detailed information.
Technology companies can no longer turn a blind eye to the human rights abuses of one of their largest investors.
A lobbying firm that represents the Saudi government dropped it as a client as Saudi Arabia struggles with a backlash over allegations that it killed the journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Ahead of the midterm elections, false and divisive messages on social media — once the specialty of Russian-linked operatives — are now increasingly being created and spread by Americans.
We can no longer leave online security to the market.
Lost faith in Facebook and Instagram after data leakages, breaches and too much noise? Here’s a guide to breaking up with the social network and its photo-sharing app for good.
Millie Tran, the first global growth editor at The Times, discusses how she tries to understand and nurture a worldwide audience. “So many dashboards and data sets!”
Amazon and other tech giants have made devices connected to the internet increasingly prevalent. Now is the time to be freaking out about the dangers.
We often use technology to form meaningful relationships with virtual strangers. But what happens when the person on the other side of the screen dies?
The social network turned to Rappler, a scrappy news start-up, to clean up its service in the Philippines. But misinformation comes fast and has proved hard to stamp out.
Though sales of its devices have been slow, the search giant unveiled the Pixel 3, a smart speaker with a built-in screen and a tablet that doubles as a PC.
Google is dealing with the disclosure that it exposed personal data of up to 500,000 users, but will hope its new products can take investors’s minds off the debacle.
The tech company decided not to go public about a vulnerability that exposed user data. That may have been a bad idea.
Last week the company was praised for increasing what it paid its warehouse workers. Now the company is explaining what that means for bonuses and stock grants.
Google did not notify authorities of the vulnerabilities in Google Plus, which exposed the data of up to 500,000 users.
After the 2000 dot-com crash and the Sept. 11 attacks, it seemed as if the era of cocky young Silicon Valley techies minting easy millions was over for good. Ha.
At a time when trust in its services is eroding, the social network introduced Portal and Portal Plus, its first major effort to build consumer hardware from scratch.
The heart monitor should not be considered a medical device and reflects wider problems with health screens.
The willingness to back some nicotine start-ups while condemning others illustrates the delicate ethical dance that investors are trying to perform.
Tech employees concerned their products are being deployed for government surveillance or censorship are increasingly asking their employers how the technology is being used.
Concerns about trade have dominated recent economic headlines, but hacking may be an even bigger threat to global growth and prosperity.
The hack of 50 million Facebook accounts affects logins on hundreds of other sites. Plus, two billionaires lost big, and another shared the wealth.
Bloomberg says Chinese spy chips were placed in equipment used by Apple and Amazon. The companies involved flatly deny it. Either way, the story raises important questions.
A prominent show of support from a Facebook executive for Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh as he faced assault claims has brought new turmoil to the company.
If Democrats win back the House, they promise to start regulating Silicon Valley.
Sheera Frenkel, who writes about cybersecurity for The Times, explains how she safeguards her devices, and why passwords remain a weak link for more people.
No time to wait for your phone to charge up? No problem — these tips will get you the most battery power in the least amount of time.
Anthony Aiello of San Jose, Calif., was charged in his stepdaughter’s death after her Fitbit showed her heart stopped beating while he was in her house, the police said.
Two Democrats want the Federal Trade Commission to examine whether thousands of apps are violating a children’s online privacy law.
The technology, also known as magnetic induction, is a relatively new feature for powering iPhones and popular Android phones. Most people don’t use it, but here are a few benefits.
The auction site said it was tipped off to the situation by an eBay seller who had been contacted by Amazon.
An expert discusses the continuing battle with tech companies to safeguard our institutions.
The actor just made her second start-up investment, in dating app Bumble. Her investments will skew heavily toward companies with an element of social impact, and companies founded by women.
Renegade broadcasters fostered styles from rave to grime. But competition from online and community FM stations means pirate radio is dying out.
The Apple Watch is hardly a failure, but its sluggish takeoff reveals the cracks in the company’s mythology.
Ten years ago, the social network introduced a password system that connected it to a broad swath of the internet. Now we are seeing the downside.
Facebook offered a convenient and secure way to sign up for online services. A major hack shows it failed at its one job.
The administration’s new policy of striking first at online attackers might invite cyberattacks, not deter them.
In a satirical new novel, a former Google executive identifies the technology industry’s chief issue: its narrow engineering-focused bubble.
The Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal by Vinod Khosla, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist whose belief in property rights outweighed his affinity for a state access law.
Our editors and designers answer frequently asked questions about our new home page.
A rabbi at the world’s largest kosher certification agency is leading an effort to determine if and how meat grown from animal cells can satisfy Jewish law.
The agency filed its suit shortly after the state’s bill, meant to guarantee equal access to the internet, was signed into law.
The S.E.C. said that Renaud Laplanche had improperly approved alterations to some of the company’s lending products to bolster the company’s financial performance.
The social networking giant said attackers had exploited a weakness that enabled them to hijack the accounts of nearly 50 million users. Here are some tips for securing your account.
Sundar Pichai, the chief executive, met with Republican and Democratic lawmakers to try to tamp down criticism facing the company.
With a fresh battery and operating system, an aging iPhone 6 seems faster than ever. Why would Apple take steps to discourage a new purchase?
The attack added to the company’s woes as it contends with fallout from its role in a Russian disinformation campaign.
With the photo app’s founders gone, Facebook is likely to change it significantly.
Robots are struggling to cope with the real world. Lately, so are Twitter, Google, Facebook and a few other companies.
A new fund-raising round could value the maker of the Tik Tok and Toutiao apps at nearly as much as Uber, as China’s online surge continues.
A former sperm donor, searching online, finds both offspring and love.
The social network pays big bucks for start-ups. But founders seem uncomfortable with what happens afterward.
Venture capitalists are racing to pour money into technology for real estate — or what Silicon Valley is now calling proptech.
The internet giant has largely avoided the scrutiny faced by its internet peers. Now lawmakers are questioning whether it has too much influence.
A week after internet rumors started circulating about Christine Blasey Ford, misinformation is still spreading about her and two other women.
Google said users will be able to opt-out of getting automatically signed into Chrome.
Alternative power sources have upended the electric grid. Ivan Penn, who covers the beat, discusses the changes and how he keeps track of them.
Showing all of the videos from your travels can be cumbersome. Instead, stitch them together into a short highlight reel.
The ride-hailing company faced charges that it covered up a breach of user data, rather than immediately notifying consumers.
A former research scientist at the tech giant said a project to build a censored search engine was a “catastrophic failure of the internal privacy review process.”
Everyone is worried about the power of big technology companies. Apple alone has managed to turn the fears into an argument for its own business model.
The Supreme Court said the Aadhaar fingerprint ID system is legal, but restricted it to government benefits and banned companies from using it.
Facebook’s acquisition of the photo-sharing site was a model for making a tech deal work. But slowly losing independence was difficult to accept.
USAReally might look like any other fledgling news organization. But some cybersecurity experts believe it may be part of a retooled Russian propaganda operation.
Justice Department officials met with attorneys general from 14 states to discuss whether they have the right tools to fight concerns about privacy and the tech business model.
The chip maker claims Apple wanted to reduce its reliance on Qualcomm technology and make sure Intel’s chips were just as good.
When it comes to Bitcoin and the like, government oversight should be a feature, not a bug.
The woman, who worked as a contractor for Facebook for nine months, cited her viewing of thousands of images of rapes, killings and other disturbing acts.
The government says its identification system for public services has already saved billions of dollars, but critics are worried about data security and a surveillance state.
It’s unclear if any successor will be able to continue the hot streak of the social networks’s co-founders, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger.
Instagram’s co-founders, who resigned on Monday, presided over a company that boomed with help from technological advances and societal changes.
Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, who carefully shaped the company even after Facebook acquired it, have resigned — and tension with Mark Zuckerberg may be to blame.
Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, Instagram’s co-founders, resigned from the photo app on Monday. Their exits add to the challenges facing Facebook, which owns the app.
My goal, in writing about the annual hacking and cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas, was to show a more nuanced portrait of the hacker community, while protecting my data.
Thanks to the internet — and RuPaul — what was once a queer subculture has gone totally mainstream. Episode 8 of our video series.
Thanks to the internet — and RuPaul — what was once a queer subculture has gone totally mainstream. Episode 8 of our video series.
The internet has given fans the tools to pull celebrities’ strings. How creepy can we get? Episode 9 of our video series.
The internet has given fans the tools to pull celebrities’ strings. How creepy can we get? Episode 9 of our video series.
How YouTube family vlogs are remaking childhood itself to fit the algorithm. Episode 7 of our video series.
As tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese goods go into effect on Monday, tech and telecom companies warn that America’s dominance is at risk.
The e-commerce giant uses its headquarters city as a living laboratory, trying out new retail and logistics models.
Favorable regulations and an influx of venture capital have made London a testing ground for banks without physical branches.
The Markup, dedicated to investigating technology and its effect on society, will be led by two former ProPublica journalists. Craig Newmark gave $20 million to help fund the operation.
Boston Dynamics often makes a splash with videos of its anthropomorphic robots. But after years of work, it is not clear who would buy them or what they would be used for.
At Defcon, one of the world’s largest hacking conferences, new pressures are reshaping the community’s attitudes toward privacy and anonymity.