Ad revenue that used to support journalism is now captured by Google and Facebook, and some of that money supports and spreads fake news.
Gridwise, Mystro and others help drivers predict where to get the best routes, and also manage the nitty-gritty for tax purposes.
A legal provision that protects companies like Facebook and YouTube has come under criticism from lawmakers. But they have shown little appetite to repeal the law.
Holding internet platforms liable for certain content would harm internet users.
Media companies merged to take on tech, and tech giants are producing media. Edmund Lee, a media reporter, has his eyes on what comes next.
There are no formal rules for what is ethical — or even legal — in the location data business. That needs to change.
The E.U.’s top antitrust regulator ordered Broadcom to halt specific practices while the bloc investigates possible anticompetitive activity.
Five years after “Gamergate,” little seems to have changed in the industry for minorities, women and members of the L.G.B.T.Q. community. Here are six stories of people trying to change that.
Amazon has become a lucrative place to do business for many Hasidic Jews, offering anonymity to a largely insular community and allowing women to work from home.
A recovery in quarterly revenue suggests that the Chinese tech giant is weathering the Trump administration’s efforts to hobble it.
Twitter said it would keep President Trump’s account live, despite pressure from Democrats to delete it.
“There’s something fundamental at stake, which is: What does human agency look like?”
Stars are sharing their phone numbers online. Well, sort of.
A five-fingered feat could show important progress in A.I. research. It is also a stunt.
A five-fingered feat could show important progress in A.I. research. It is also a stunt.
To improve community structures with citizens’ input, the United Nations uses a computer game inspired by Lego.
Google’s Pixel 4 is the newest example of how computational photography is driving the future of phone cameras.
With sensors so powerful now, computational photography is driving the future of cameras. Google’s Pixel 4 is the newest example.
Since 1989, Z.K.M. has predicted some of the biggest trends in art. Just don’t call it a museum.
Sure, being able to work remotely and travel nonstop is a blast. But it’s not without downtime and difficult moments.
A contentious organizing drive at the Brooklyn tech company has drawn in high-profile figures like the actor David Cross, the author Neil Gaiman and the cartoonist Matt Bors.
The modern data economy is too big to regulate at the state level.
A third round targeted 350 workers on Monday as the company struggles to reduce costs.
A black hole consumed everything in the game on Sunday, prompting widespread speculation that a major change is coming.
The Democratic presidential candidate bought the ad to goad Facebook into removing misinformation in political ads, escalating her feud with the social network.
As the N.B.A. defers to Beijing, a little more Western paranoia might be advantageous.
As the N.B.A. defers to Beijing, a little more Western paranoia might be advantageous.
Young women say that they responded to ads seeking models and were tricked into performing.
Stripe, Mastercard, Visa and eBay said they were dropping out of the effort, a week after PayPal pulled out.
New technology is creating some excitement in the formerly ho-hum world of dental care.
Although the growth of its core business has slowed, Uber is building its food and freight delivery services, among other ambitions.
American tech companies want access to customers in China. But they’re learning that can come with a lot of baggage.
Millions of Flickr images were sucked into a database called MegaFace. Now some of those faces may have the ability to sue.
Regulators appear poised to cave to the tech industry. What’s the rush?
In “Antisocial,” Andrew Marantz traces the disheartening evolution of social media from the land of the free to the home of the depraved.
Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t need to tip the scales in 2020. His platform will do that naturally.
Technology executives like WeWork’s Adam Neumann are the new bankers.
Apple said it was removing the HKmap.live app, which was criticized by Chinese state media, because the Hong Kong authorities said protesters used it to attack the police.
President Xi of China wants to censor the Western world, too.
The biggest YouTuber in the world has been accused of being a closet white nationalist and even inspiring mass shootings. He says it’s all a misunderstanding.
We thought economic growth and technology would liberate China. Instead, it corrupted us.
Countries have clashed in recent years over how — and where — to tax companies that operate across borders, particularly those that sell online.
Vivian Yee and Hwaida Saad, who cover the Middle East, have found Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter and YouTube vital to getting information out of Syria.
In a security report, the bloc noted the potential for cyberattacks but stopped short of citing any particular providers.
Outlets are trying to intimidate multinational companies into toeing the party line while Beijing tries to rein in the Hong Kong protests.
Payment apps can speed up register checkout and replace that paper and plastic clogging your billfold. Here are six steps to make them work for you.
Even the creator of the font thinks it’s a joke — but he’s tired of the tweets.
The company’s handling of a Trump campaign ad with unsubstantiated accusations about Joseph Biden foreshadows a continuing fight over misinformation.
Asking interviewees who said they were black to show me their faces filled me with discomfort. That was the point.
A report called for steps by Congress, the Trump administration and tech firms, and reiterated a conclusion the president has resisted: Russia interfered in the 2016 election.
Lessons have been learned from the unpopularity of Google Glass.
The surveillance state is not inevitable.
Start-up investors are warning of a reckoning after the stumbles of some high-profile “unicorns.” Now turning a profit is in.
In blacklisting surveillance companies, the United States is the first major government to punish China for its crackdown on Muslims.
The answer is to design artificial intelligence that’s beneficial, not just smart.
It won’t end employment discrimination. In fact, it could make it worse.
The domain name can be yours, for a minimum bid of $300,000.
The push is the latest salvo in a global fight over who gets to set the rules for the internet.
He oversaw the Defense Department’s research division in the 1960s and ’70s, when it made great early strides in nuclear-device detection, artificial intelligence and computer networking.
We need to stop pretending that Silicon Valley can compete with China on its own.
With $1 billion to work with, the veteran Hollywood executive finds more material for his short-form video platform.
Technology allows us to do it. Should we?
Nir Eyal, who wrote the industry manual for hooking people on tech, now has a recipe to free you — even though it was your fault to begin with.
A changed Supreme Court hears a new gay rights case, protests escalate in Hong Kong and new Brexit maneuverings.
Leveraging celebrities, the know-how of tech companies and images built for social media, the Communist Party can effectively stir patriotism among the youth.
City officials asked Google to verify a report that its contractors sought to scan the faces of black homeless people to improve facial-recognition software.
Some of these suggestions are more aggressive, and make using the web less convenient, but they’ll definitely protect your privacy.
The move deals a blow to the heavily criticized effort, which Facebook unveiled in June.
The news, according to two people with knowledge of the attacks, followed a Microsoft report that said hackers had targeted a campaign, U.S. officials and journalists.
Get those index fingers off your screen.
Collectives in cities around the world are bringing computer languages to the club.
A remarkable leak from an internal meeting shows the company is gearing up to fight government intervention.
Noxious language online is causing real-world violence. What can we do about it?
In case of death: how to set up a list of important digital account info for simple and secure information sharing with family members and trusted friends
The site removed a video posted by President Trump that showed a meme of the rock band’s lead singer, edited as an attack on Joe Biden.
A cybersecurity firm says evidence suggests the Egyptian government carried out cyberattacks on journalists, academics, lawyers and rights activists.
The first major place in China to rebel against Beijing’s technologies of control is one of the last not yet fully under their thrall.
Comments posted on the social network about an Austrian politician became a battle over the reach of European defamation laws on the internet.
The decision that individual countries can order Facebook to take down posts globally sets a benchmark for the reach of European laws governing the internet.
The debate over privacy in the digital age increasingly pits tech companies against law enforcement agencies as explicit imagery explodes.
The fashion and lifestyle site had something that Vice lacked: an audience made up largely of women.
He puts on a good front in Washington. But a leaked recording reveals what seems to keep him up at night.
And so will lots of other states, despite the F.C.C.’s decision.
The future of medical research depends on all of our information — mine and yours.
On her New York City law enforcement beat, Ali Watkins mines CompStat for trends and crowdsourcing for breaking news. You can, too.
Sixteen companies are calling for more transparency from the likes of Google and Facebook, and setting their own example in hopes of a less expensive, more efficient system.
Improvements in automatic speech transcription are beginning to have a significant impact on the workplace.
Google has now given us an option to set search and location data to automatically disappear after a certain time. We should all use it.
Even amid a bipartisan backlash against tech companies, lawmakers have struggled to channel that into a federal privacy law.
Long before Google, he helped create The New York Times Information Bank, an electronic repository of content from The Times and other publications.
“Amazon is building the infrastructure to monitor us all,” a privacy advocate says.
The mixed ruling gave both supporters and opponents a chance to declare victory on an issue that has bubbled up occasionally for more than a decade.
My wanting to share every waking thought became eclipsed by a desire for an increasingly rare commodity — a private life.
A whistle-blower said advisers improperly restricted access to a record of President Trump’s Ukraine call. Here is how that storage system works.
The Los Angeles Police Department said that the ad’s appearance on the right-wing website created “a negative juxtaposition to our core values.”
The social network says it has struggled to get the information to researchers because it also wants to protect its users’ privacy.
Emerging tech platforms and overwhelmed law enforcement agencies have contributed to a boom in digital abuse imagery, a Times investigation found. Here are some key takeaways.
Online predators create and share the illegal material, which is increasingly cloaked by technology. Tech companies, the government and the authorities are no match.
I’d love a dining car on the train. Or any chance to slow down.
Neither liberal nor conservative, the true ideology of Silicon Valley is an unwavering belief in the power of technology.
It’s possible (though not always painless) to live without a wallet — as long as you have a smartphone.
Untitled Goose Game, which has become a surprise hit, aims to make your day better by encouraging you to ruin someone else’s.
While Congress has stalled on new privacy bills, a real estate developer is pushing for broader data rights in the Golden State.
Companies like WeWork and Uber were expected to become a new generation of corporate giants. But investors have backed away.
The social network, which has been under fire for extreme content on its site, said it was testing making Likes to posts private in Australia.
The Japanese technology company’s investments in WeWork, Uber, Sprint and other businesses have produced disappointing results, raising questions about how it picks companies.
Disinformation experts are preparing for fast-twitch media manipulation, droves of false and misleading claims and hyper-polarized audiences fiercely clinging to their side’s version of reality.
While tech reviewers last week encouraged people to upgrade to Apple’s newest phones, The New York Times recommended something different: to cherish the phone you have, and upgrade if you must. Here’s why.
A.I. research is becoming increasingly expensive, leaving few people with easy access to the computing firepower necessary to develop the technology.
Governments are using “cyber troops” to discredit political opponents, bury opposing views and interfere in foreign affairs, according to Oxford researchers.
New devices were introduced on Wednesday to get the digital assistant in your earbuds, in your eyeglasses and in your bathroom.
EBay’s chief executive officer, Devin Wenig, has stepped down and the online auction company named its finance head Scott Schenkel as interim C.E.O.
Davey Alba, a Times newcomer who reports on disinformation, has a taste for Ice Breakers and a trick for saving audio from her computer.
When it comes to 5G technology, we have to build a trustworthy system out of untrustworthy parts.
We tested the new suite of privacy tools in Apple’s latest mobile software, from minimizing location sharing to silencing robocalls.
The leaders of Californians for Consumer Privacy say they want to amend the law, which goes into effect next year, through a ballot initiative.
Just by downloading an app, you’re potentially exposing sensitive data to dozens of technology companies, ad networks, data brokers and aggregators.
Instead of breaking up Facebook, America should create a public alternative.
London transport authorities on Tuesday gave Uber two months to continue operating in the city rather than the full five-year license the ride-hailing company had sought.
CVS Health is encouraging employers to provide a sleep app that could help push digital therapeutics into the mainstream.
The European Court of Justice said the landmark privacy law cannot be enforced beyond the European Union.
Facebook plans to use the neural interface technology in developing a wristband that connects to other devices intuitively, the company said.
Apple’s announcement ended a monthslong public dance with the White House over tariffs and the company’s ability to build products in the United States.
We should stop worrying that kids these days refuse to say “no worries” in response to “thank you.”
Your data makes the internet go round. Here’s a plan to get you compensated.
We can remake the internet into a force for good.
You’ve been tricked into giving away your most valuable asset.
The use of Europe’s “right to be forgotten” privacy law has broadened, illustrated by two Italian brothers, a stabbing and the journalist who wrote about them.
This is the gear that Wirecutter staffers use to get some rest while on the road.
House lawmakers asked the companies for information on how their businesses had been affected by Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google.
The account was one of thousands with ties to governments in the Middle East that were taken down by the social media company.
Tension has grown among a 6,000-person work force as it waits to sell company shares, people with knowledge of the situation said.
The scale of suspensions, following the Cambridge Analytica scandal, was far larger than the social network had previously revealed.
If regulators and lawmakers are serious, they’re going to have to rethink a traditional approach to monopolies.
As more people are able to work from home, housing priorities have changed, and different places and types of housing have become more popular.
A nascent group in California offers a model for organizing a far-flung work force, and wielding political influence, through innovative technology.
A choose-your-own-adventure series is designed to give young Tinder swipers something to talk about.
Technical skills taught in college have a short shelf life, while a liberal arts education prepares graduates for jobs that haven’t been invented yet.
The Amazon and Facebook leaders were there for different reasons, but the appearances highlighted their companies’ need to reshape the public debate about their practices.
Making a public statement about a stock market debut in a particular year is unusual among technology start-ups, which typically keep their plans secret.
Smart lighting brightens up your home and makes life more convenient. But it’s also an easy and effective way to enhance home security.
Pledging that the retailer would be carbon neutral by 2040, Jeff Bezos, the C.E.O., said it was ordering 100,000 electric delivery trucks.
Maybe because the real footage seems insufficient to what we feel in an apocalyptic age.
At the DealBook DC Strategy Forum a group of leaders in business, politics and academia gathered to try to solve problems from student debt to carbon emissions. Here are their recommendations.
“Until you acknowledge the problems, you can’t solve them,” Brad Smith said. “And nobody is going to believe you’re trying.”
The same news organizations that do a great job of reporting on privacy problems — have privacy problems.
The big business of encouraging the words.
Sure, there’s a new iPhone, but Apple’s launch of a new iPod Touch earlier this year came with laughter from some. Others see an opportunity.
Sure, there’s a new iPhone, but Apple’s launch of a new iPod Touch earlier this year came with laughter from some. Others see an opportunity.
The finance editor, David Enrich, does a lot of work while on the move (but don’t worry, he’s not behind the wheel).