Massachusetts is one of the first states to put legislative guardrails around the use of facial recognition technology in criminal investigations.
Narc-narc, who’s there?
We need more ways to find new movies, books and activities — especially those that challenge us.
While much has been made of tech’s unwillingness to work with the Pentagon, start-ups are still plumbing the industry’s decades-long ties to the military.
Sherry Turkle is best known for exploring the dysfunctional relationships between humans and their screens. She takes on a new focus — herself — in her memoir, “The Empathy Diaries.”
An online spreadsheet with an anonymous minder tabulates Xi Jinping’s crackdown on speech.
The money, aimed at low-income households, is part of an effort to bridge the access gap to broadband connectivity amid the pandemic.
Though it has received outsized attention for the last few years, the company has not changed very much. But a recent acquisition spree signals a new course.
Virtual food brands, often driven by real celebrities, are rapidly spreading across the country. Do they help or hurt independent restaurants?
Where the war over net neutrality stands, and why it (sort of) matters today.
The 11-month-old audio social network is compelling. It also has some very grown-up problems.
The move puts the social network squarely on the side of Myanmar’s pro-democracy movement after years of criticism over how the military has used the site.
Google and Facebook have objected to a law that will require them to pay media outlets for content. But the legislation won’t protect the businesses it aims to help.
JustWatch makes finding where shows or movies are streaming online super easy. Hallelujah.
The technology, Wi-Fi 6, is designed to reduce congestion from devices. We put it to the test.
A federal judge’s ruling can allow the state to go ahead with its law while a lawsuit works its way through the courts.
Taking back control of our personal data can feel like a lost cause. But there’s hope!
As the military seized power again, the generals moved quickly to take the country offline, criminalize online dissent and block social media.
It’s the economy, stupid.
Many of us already live with artificial intelligence now, but researchers say interactions with the technology will become increasingly personalized.
The agreement means users and publishers in Australia can once again share links to news articles, after Facebook had blocked the practice last week.
A proposal released by the acting chairwoman of the commission is an attempt to close the digital divide.
What happened to California’s Inland Empire when Amazon came to town.
What happened to California’s Inland Empire when Amazon came to town.
A fast-growing market for digital art, ephemera and media is marrying the world’s taste for collectibles with cutting-edge technology.
Hurt by refunds, some are trying to cut the site out of bookings or taking legal action. The company says it is working to reduce tensions.
The Kremlin has constructed an entire infrastructure of repression but has not displaced Western apps. Instead, it is turning to outright intimidation.
While her daughter was hospitalized, one mother built more room for our national grief.
A simple explainer to the newest, buzziest social media app around.
His equipment became the industry standard and influenced the sound of groups like Nirvana, Fleetwood Mac, the Grateful Dead, Santana, Chicago and the Who.
Big Tech likes to copy the hot new thing. But that’s not always good for the rest of us.
First-time buyers have the tech-smarts and now the tools to do all or part of their purchase online, sometimes even before seeing their new houses in person.
A big question about the future of commerce is how local businesses will succeed online.
A 11 meses de su creación la aplicación ha aumentado enormemente en popularidad, mientras lidia con problemas de acoso, desinformación y privacidad.
Critical thinking, as we’re taught to do it, isn’t helping in the fight against misinformation.
El teletrabajo no tiene por qué poner en pausa tu carrera. Con estas estrategias puedes promover relaciones positivas con tus supervisores.
“Computer glasses” are a booming category, thanks to increased screen time, but scientists say they don’t do much.
With Australia moving to make the tech companies pay for news, Facebook took a hard line, while Google has struck deals to pay publishers.
The decision is in response to a proposed law in the country that would require tech companies to pay publishers for linking to stories across their platforms.
The decision is in response to a proposed law in the country that would require tech companies to pay publishers for linking to stories across their platforms.
Facebook and Google exist in so many countries. Who should decide the rules in each one?
Pathbreaking legislation showed that even a small nation can get the tech giant to bend. But the United States seems unlikely to follow.
Fakes and little-known brands still abound, even as health officials have advised us to up our mask game. Here’s what to do.
Sick of boring grids of heads? A new crop of start-ups aims to bring some serendipity and spark to remote meetings.
The questions are bigger than whether Trump should have been suspended.
Is technopessimism our new future?
Corey Quinn has made it his business to understand Amazon’s cloud-computing charges and have some fun at the company’s expense.
The case focuses on two of the company’s facilities in New York.
State and local governments are looking to assert more control over tech companies.
In some cases, remote work software or devices can also give your boss tools for surveillance.
Government antitrust lawsuits have created openings for numerous private cases against Big Tech, with more expected to come. If successful, the cases could cost them dearly.
Try getting into Garfield variants: remixes of the original strips that testify to the internet’s limitless invention.
After being cut off by Amazon and other tech giants, Parler worked for weeks to find a way to get back on the internet.
The 11-month-old app has exploded in popularity, even as it grapples with harassment, misinformation and privacy issues.
The characteristics of a rhombus. The limits of parental authority. Gratitude.
The 11-month-old app has exploded in popularity, even as it grapples with harassment, misinformation and privacy issues.
A vote on a bill this week is part of a movement that could cost Apple and Google billions of dollars. State legislatures are becoming the fight’s new front.
Slate Star Codex was a window into the psyche of many tech leaders building our collective future. Then it disappeared.
The company said the attorney general, Letitia James, had overstepped her authority in investigating workplace safety.
What we need to get to a future of energy-efficient cars.
In his latest Netflix docu-series, the director of foundational works like “Paradise Lost” turned his lens to the fans and web sleuths that are changing the stakes of true crime.
Civil society groups say a proposed measure to limit online expression and privacy rights could lead to mass arrests of those who criticize the military government.
Analysts estimate that the tax will generate up to $250 million for schools in the state in the first year. It will also probably face fierce legal challenges.
Analysts estimate that the tax would generate up to $250 million for schools in the state in the first year. It would also probably face fierce legal challenges.
Prominent anti-vaccine activists remain active on Facebook and Instagram despite the company's efforts to ban all vaccine misinformation.
Researchers who study misinformation said Facebook, which owns Instagram, continued to struggle to contain Covid-19 falsehoods.
Twitter is defying a democratically elected government. We should all watch what happens next.
German playhouses are finding innovative ways to forge connections while their doors are closed.
Nadire Atas trashed the reputations of people she saw as enemies, and their relatives. On Tuesday, she was charged by the Toronto police with harassment and other offenses.
The social network, which has a history of cloning its competitors, has started working on an audio chat product.
To see where technology is headed and why, follow the money.
The platform’s problems in the country offer a stark example of the difficulty of adhering to its free-speech principles amid government worries over its influence.
Readers have collected their favorite literary lines for centuries. Now compiling a portable word scrapbook is easier than ever.
News feeds will start getting less political content in Canada, Brazil and Indonesia, the social network said, with the change reaching the U.S. in coming weeks.
Dr. Rosenbluth, who received her physics Ph.D. at 21, helped create an algorithm that has became a foundation of understanding huge quantities of data. She died of complications of the coronavirus.
The legacies of John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie offer hints about what could be next for Amazon’s founder.
Buying electronics now is rough. Be patient. Shop around. And try not to break anything important.
China’s censors finally blocked Clubhouse, but not before users were able to bypass the caricatures painted by government-controlled media and freely discuss their hopes and fears.
New Yorkers with tech skills were appalled when they tried to make vaccine appointments for older relatives. They knew there was a better way.
New Yorkers with tech skills were appalled when they tried to make vaccine appointments for older relatives. They knew there was a better way.
New online tools and an array of remote classes and programs are ramping up education and training for adults.
Bitcoin and even Dogecoin, which began as a playful experiment, are soaring in value as billionaires, companies and celebrities promote the digital currencies.
The start-up, which was at the center of a recent stock market frenzy, was valued at $6 billion in the new funding round.
Uber and Lyft will report financial results this week for a year that upended hopes that the companies would soon turn around big losses.
For a little while, the social media platform Clubhouse provided the rare opportunity for cross-border dialogue on contentious topics free from the country’s usual tight controls.
The move, which applies to anti-vaccine posts unrelated to Covid as well, targets unpaid posts to the site and particularly Facebook pages and groups.
Traditional automakers and tech-focused companies, like Tesla, race to rule the future of cars.
A new crop of digital health companies is using blood glucose monitors to transform the way we eat.
The Amazon founder prepares to step back just as Washington turns up the heat on the mega-retailer and cloud company.
The president of Microsoft says the company is focusing its PAC efforts on supporting democracy.
“Managing up” while you work from home can foster positive relationships with those above you, and give your career a boost.
Health agencies and hospitals are using different formulas to allocate the coronavirus shots, exacerbating disparities in vaccine access.
Fueled by amateur traders and online enthusiasm, the struggling retailer’s shares took investors on a ride like no other. For them, it ended in different ways, including apathy, defiance and regret.
Readers discuss an article about how data collection poses a threat to democracy.
Readers discuss how most people ignore the legalistic fine print of online service contracts and don’t know what they are agreeing to.
America’s biggest vulnerability in cyberwarfare is hubris.
America’s biggest vulnerability in cyberwarfare is hubris.
The Trump administration awarded a no-bid contract to Deloitte to develop software to track vaccinations, but the system has flaws. A competitor claims the C.D.C. and the company stole her intellectual property.
Los servicios encriptados que preservan la confidencialidad de las conversaciones son cada vez más populares. Nuestros columnistas de tecnología discuten si podrían convertirse en un foco de desinformación y una plataforma para las teorías conspirativas.
Los servicios encriptados que preservan la confidencialidad de las conversaciones son cada vez más populares. Nuestros columnistas de tecnología discuten si podrían convertirse en un foco de desinformación y una plataforma para las teorías conspirativas.
The first decisions from the new Oversight Board have been issued. The results are underwhelming.
One America News ran an extensive disclaimer before the broadcast.
Medios de comunicación rusos vinculados al Kremlin publicaron notas engañosas en castellano contra las vacunas hechas en Estados Unidos y Europa, según investigadores.
Other countries are plowing cash into homegrown technologies. Should the United States follow?
Russian news outlets with connections to the Kremlin ran disingenuous Spanish-language stories targeting vaccines made in the United States and Europe, researchers said.
The moderators of the Reddit message board WallStreetBets battled over movie deals after their sudden fame with the GameStop mania.
Delivery apps like Uber and Instacart are branching out. How this shakes out will affect all of us.
This documentary, from the director of “Room 237,” is a lively yet superficial exploration of the theory that our reality is actually a computer simulation.
The author of two young adult novels learned the language of computing when her father bribed her with a pink laptop.
The internet rewired our brains. He predicted it would.
Mr. Jassy, who will become Amazon’s chief this summer, has spent more than two decades absorbing lessons from Mr. Bezos.
John Matze, who led the social media platform that was popular with conservatives, said he recently disagreed with one of the site’s backers, Rebekah Mercer.
Canadian authorities declared that the company needed citizens’ consent to use their biometric information, and told the firm to delete facial images from its database.
Amazon has reimagined entire industries. What happens next to the $1.7 trillion company?
Critics say Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s approach to dissent increasingly involves stifling dissenting voices, blocking the internet and cracking down on journalists.
Telegram and Signal, the encrypted services that keep conversations confidential, are increasingly popular. Our tech columnists discuss whether this could get ugly.
Una columna de opinión y un batallón de cuentas en Twitter fueron parte de una operación encubierta para influir en la política de telecomunicaciones de Bélgica sobre la red 5G.
Andy Jassy, the chief of Amazon’s cloud computing division, will become chief executive, while Mr. Bezos, the company’s founder, will become executive chairman.
Vlad Tenev has incited the fury of the trading app’s fans amid a stock market frenzy. His lack of preparedness on nuts-and-bolts issues was part of a pattern, former employees and analysts said.
Facebook groups spread conspiracy theories and shield abuse. Here are ways to make them less toxic.
After a “9/11 moment,” federal authorities have begun arresting people for domestic threats they might have just monitored in the past.
These steps, experts say, could prod more people to abandon the scourge of hoaxes and lies.
After a “9/11 moment,” federal authorities have begun arresting people for domestic threats they might have just monitored in the past.
My chronic illness made it hard to volunteer at my kids’ school. Now I can serve on the executive board of the P.T.A. without leaving my bed.
The frenzy for the troubled retailer’s stock has been a head-scratcher for the analysts who try to determine a company’s value.
Young video game pros from abroad are being lured to play in the United States.
What began as a story about Reddit versus Wall Street has since revealed itself to be something larger. We have an explanation of what happened and what it means.
The deaths of two young employees of Pinduoduo, an e-commerce platform, have reignited longstanding concerns about working conditions at internet giants.
An online tool targets only a small slice of what’s out there, but may open some eyes to how widely artificial intelligence research fed on personal images.
¿Cómo saber qué es falso y qué es cierto? En estos tiempos de posverdad se han multiplicado tanto los proyectos de verificación de datos como las profesiones forenses.
Outrageous lies destroyed Guy Babcock’s online reputation. When he went hunting for their source, what he discovered was worse than he could have imagined.
Robinhood pitched itself to investors as the antithesis of Wall Street. It didn’t say that it also entirely relies on Wall Street. This past week, the two realities collided.
League of Legends teams in the U.S. lag behind their competitors in Asia, so they recruit the world’s best players by offering huge salaries.
They are young, they are fearless and they are forcing everyone to pay attention.
They should instead focus on the big question: Can satellites bring internet access to billions?
A covert online push to sway telecommunications policy in favor of the Chinese company may presage a new twist in social manipulation.
A Massachusetts man who goes by “Roaring Kitty” on social media helped fuel the frenzy around GameStop. His $53,000 investment in the company briefly reached $48 million in value.
Silicon Valley techies and Wall Street titans have bought homes and moved businesses there in the pandemic, coaxed by an eager mayor.
A month after the holiday season, gamers are still contending with scalpers, bots and immense demand as they hunt for elusive devices.
The no-fee trading app, which is popular with young investors, has been strained by the high volume of trading this week in stocks such as GameStop.
After the tech giant threatened to take its search engine offline in Australia, I’ve been looking into some alternatives.