Junk health information that preys on people’s fears spreads online. Here’s how we can stamp it out.
A lawsuit by the state’s attorney general adds to pressure on the companies to consider their drivers full employees.
So long to overhyped innovations. Hello to tech that embeds accessibility into everyday devices.
There’s a power imbalance between the internet companies and those who make the posts and videos.
Even groups that regularly disagree on labor issues said there should be significant public investment in programs that can upgrade the skills of American workers.
Before public health officials can manage the pandemic, they must deal with a broken data system that sends incomplete results in formats they can’t easily use.
A document sent by the search giant to Australian regulators argues that the company doesn’t control enough of the digital ad industry to overcharge customers or block competitors.
Matt Mullenweg, the founder of Automattic, which runs the publishing platform WordPress, says working remotely is “good for the environment” and “good for the economy.”
The move was intended to deter Russians from interfering in the midterm elections, and serve as a test of America’s capability to protect the 2020 elections.
The social network has been under intense pressure for allowing misinformation and hate speech to spread on its site.
The Trump administration said it would impose 25 percent tariffs on some French goods but will delay collection of the levies.
TikTok, owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, has been under scrutiny as a potential national security threat.
Virtual cycling offers lessons for how other sports can appeal to fans leading increasingly digital lives.
How Facebook’s most recent crisis started, and what it says about the company’s role in our lives.
Life will return to ‘normal,’ but not entirely. Here are some suggestions for investing in a changed world.
The buzz that Tyler Blevins, also known as Ninja, generated by streaming on a new platform showed the power famous content creators have in the video game industry.
Its users buy and sell the riskiest financial products and do so more frequently than customers at other retail brokerage firms, but their inexperience can lead to staggering losses.
The social network said the fake accounts were active around the 2016 presidential election.
Why we should all care who controls the invisible infrastructure of the global internet.
All of our tech products will one day become obsolete, but here are some strategies to buying gadgets that you can enjoy for many years.
Unlike Nielsen, which measure audience size, Parrot Analytics says it can track viewer enthusiasm. That’s more important to subscription services.
As countries race to deploy coronavirus-tracking software, researchers are reporting privacy and security risks that could affect millions of people and undermine trust in public health efforts.
An independent audit faulted the social network for allowing hate speech and disinformation to thrive — potentially posing a threat to the November elections.
Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s top executives, engaged in “spin” during a meeting over hate speech, civil rights groups said.
The agency identified the causes of mishaps in orbit during an uncrewed test flight of its Starliner spacecraft in December.
Marathons and meets are canceled, so runners are using tech to stay connected and compete.
An insult takes a dizzying trip through rap, men’s rights, misogyny and TikTok.
Tech giants suspend handing over information to Hong Kong, setting up a collision with China.
As the city grapples with new restrictions on online speech, American tech giants are on the front line of a clash between China and the United States over the internet’s future.
Peggy Johnson, who led Microsoft’s business development, will take over the struggling virtual reality start-up in August.
A commercial deal in Kenya marks the first application of balloon-powered internet in Africa, the region with the lowest percentage of internet users globally.
The data start-up, which has a valuation of $20 billion, would be the largest Silicon Valley tech listing since Uber made its debut last year.
Google, Facebook and Twitter said they were reviewing China’s punitive new national security law for the city, a rare public questioning of Chinese policy by major American tech companies.
YouTube shows that some constructions of digital spaces can help combat online nastiness.
The social network said it would review the city’s punitive new national security law, a rare public questioning of Chinese policy by a large American tech company.
The companies said they were reviewing China’s punitive new national security law for the city, a rare public questioning of Chinese policy by major American tech companies.
The Justice Department had sought to try Son Jong-woo after he was indicted by a federal grand jury in the District of Columbia on money-laundering and other charges.
The ride-hailing company’s core business has struggled in the pandemic, so it is betting on the growth of its Uber Eats division.
Summer camp in the pandemic looks just like a screen. But what happens when kids run away from the computer?
The city was among the first to close and among the first to reopen. But Uber’s lessons there could be difficult to duplicate elsewhere.
Coronavirus is just a distant memory while zipping around in a several-hundred-thousand-dollar custom van on the open road.
The internet is changing, and the freewheeling, anything-goes culture of social media is being replaced by something more accountable.
El famoso y sociable artista era, en secreto, un hombre hogareño. Su libro de autoayuda me dio permiso para divertirme en casa.
Researchers have developed a model that uses social-media and search data to forecast outbreaks of Covid-19 well before they occur.
Home entertainment today isn’t all that different from the time of VHS tapes.
Mientras el coronavirus sigue activo, los empleadores están convencidos de que el trabajo remoto tiene un futuro brillante. Advertencia: décadas de contratiempos sugieren lo contrario.
In a post-quarantine world, heat sensors could help spot sick people with elevated temperatures as they enter public places. But it’s not that simple.
School is over. There’s no camp. It’s so boring. How to be your tween’s creative collaborator instead of the boss.
What will happen when the leaders of Apple, Google, Facebook and Amazon appear before Congress? We are about to find out.
The hearing this month would be a central moment in the continuing backlash against the power of Amazon, Facebook, Alphabet and Apple.
We need to reimagine the social network or find a way to survive its dominance.
Internet companies should treat people with big followings differently.
In a pandemic-induced recession, it’s more important than ever to take care of our smartphones and other gadgets.
A new report revealed a broad campaign that targeted Muslims in China and their diaspora in other countries, beginning as early as 2013.
The social network has tried striking a more conciliatory tone with its advertisers, who object to its handling of hate speech.
The social network said it was designating the antigovernment movement as a dangerous organization.
American cellular businesses will no longer be able to spend federal money on equipment from the two Chinese companies.
The social media company has taken steps toward reining in Trump. It’s too little, too late.
Steve Huffman, Reddit’s co-founder and chief executive, says new rule changes will help the company fulfill its mission.
The economics of delivery apps stinks. Uber is offering to buy the food delivery company Postmates to make it stink a little less — for them.
Censorship and politics are fracturing the global internet, isolating users and industries accustomed to ignoring national borders.
A proposal to give scientists access to huge data sets and powerful computers.
The famously social artist was a secret homebody. His self-help book gave me permission to actually have fun at home.
People who put off care as Covid-19 surged are easing back into the medical system. Here are some tips to help keep it safe.
Officials promised to recruit at least 500 cyberspies and build on the country’s offensive capabilities to take the online battle overseas.
The ride-hailing company has been trying to expand its food-delivery business to compensate for the collapse of its main business.
The ride-hailing company has been trying to expand its food-delivery business to compensate for the collapse of its main business.
The influential pro-Trump community broke the rules on harassment and targeting, said Reddit, which also banned other groups.
With no coronavirus cure or vaccine, early detection of outbreaks is crucial. This tool could help.
The Times said Apple News did not align with its strategy of building direct relationships with paying readers.
The action appeared to be the first outright suspension of one of the president’s social media accounts.
The move is part of the tit-for-tat retaliation after the Indian and Chinese militaries clashed earlier this month.
The action appeared to be the first outright suspension of one of the president’s social media accounts.
Young people have tweaked the conspiracy, and today’s internet sites help spread such false ideas.
Bringing millions of students back to campus would create enormous risks for society but comparatively little educational benefit, an economist says.
As the coronavirus keeps spreading, employers are convinced remote work has a bright future. Decades of setbacks suggest otherwise.
Filming Bravo’s hit reality franchise about yachts and yachties is a complex logistical operation.
Many gig-based business models help customers take advantage of workers. Let’s stop giving tech companies a free ride.
The false theory targeting Democrats, now fueled by QAnon and teenagers on TikTok, is entangling new targets like Justin Bieber.
Six former employees were recently named in federal charges that were an indication of the lengths some companies will go to hit back at detractors.
Posts about voting will direct viewers to accurate information, and violations from important political figures will be marked “newsworthy.”
Mary Jo Laupp, who made a viral TikTok video that disrupted a Trump campaign event, plans to create a “political hype house” to support Joe Biden.
Small businesses are always asking: Is the tech they now rely on helping or hurting them?
The arrest of a man for a crime he didn’t commit shows the dangers of facial recognition technology.
Attorney General William Barr’s attention to the Justice Department investigation shows the high stakes for the agency and for him.
A man of manifold interests, his achievements ranged from developing ideas behind the so-called Internet of Things to publishing the world’s biggest book.
The internet company has long been criticized about how much information it keeps on users. The change applies only to new accounts.
Why the middlemen are the internet’s villains.
Digitized newspaper archives and hyperlocal historical sources can help you understand how your ancestors lived.
From racist graffiti to missed promotions, employees say a “systemic pattern of racial bias” permeates the company.
In what may be the first known case of its kind, a faulty facial recognition match led to a Michigan man’s arrest for a crime he did not commit.
The change came after many users accused the platform of deleting posts related to Black Lives Matter and not tamping down on racial profiling.
The president threatened “serious force” if protesters tried to set up an autonomous zone in Washington, D.C., as they have in Seattle.
In a closely watched case, Facebook lost an appeal related to charges that it has violated competition laws by abusing its dominance in social media.
Gambling on shark migration patterns could raise awareness, some experts say. But it could also fuel the animals’ reputation as mere entertainment.
Apple says it will make it tougher for apps to track you. It will also help you wash your hands.
Small businesses say the Twitter chief’s other company is holding on to 30 percent of their customers’ payments during the pandemic.
Views, trails, the best takeaway food and where to find an evil clown sign, not to mention a Jell-O museum, can all be found with these apps for the outdoors-bound.
Tech, catering and design companies are rushing to sell employers on fever scanners, box lunches and office floor-planning apps for social distancing. But it’s too soon to tell if they will work.
The move, announced in the live-streamed start to the company’s conference for developers, marks the end of a 15-year partnership.
Claims about the involvement of anti-fascist activists in protests of racism show the many ways false information spreads inside communities online.
The underdog tactics and fighting spirit that once served tech companies well now make them look petty and mean.
In the race for the most powerful computers, Fugaku, a Japanese supercomputer, recently beat American and Chinese machines.
The company publicly supports the racial justice movement. But content on the platform may be compromising the cause.
Mark Zuckerberg has forged an uneasy alliance with the Trump administration. He may have gotten too close.
Apple could announce plans as soon as Monday to replace Intel processors in Macs with chips that it designed itself.
Shows of support from Facebook, Twitter and YouTube don’t address the way those platforms have been weaponized by racists and partisan provocateurs.
When the original video game was transcendental, can a sequel top it? Two Times reporters debate the answer.
Sridhar Ramaswamy once ran Google’s $115 billion advertising arm. But he grew disillusioned and worried that growth was too much of a priority.
The outcome of the company’s latest scuffle could have a lasting impact on the power dynamic between Big Tech and the rest of us.
It was the first time that Twitter had used that tag on one of the president’s messages.
The court ruled that the new law disproportionately infringed on freedom of speech. It was a blow to the government’s efforts to regulate content on tech platforms.
The Amazon-owned site, known for showing video game play, has become a hub for airing the sit-ins and marches over racial inequality.
Months after other countries, Britain will now use technology provided by Apple and Google to build a contact-tracing app.
Social media allows us “to see a reality that has been entirely visible to some people and invisible to others,” says this Princeton professor.
As businesses grapple with how to safely reopen the workplace, companies like Fitbit and Verily, Google’s sister company, are rushing out new work force health-vetting and tracking tools.
As businesses grapple with how to safely reopen the workplace, companies like Fitbit and Verily, Google’s sister company, are rushing out new work force health-vetting and tracking tools.
Apple has repeatedly denied Facebook’s new Gaming app from appearing in its App Store, citing its own rules.
The panic is a measure of how deluded public discourse has become.
The breakdown in negotiations could prompt President Trump to retaliate against countries that impose taxes on American tech firms.
Apple’s app store shows we can be fine with digital zones that ditch the myth of free expression.
The agency said that Congress should repeal parts of a law that has been crucial for the growth of companies like Facebook and Twitter.
The agency will say that Congress should repeal parts of a law that has been crucial for the growth of companies like Facebook and Twitter.
The agency said that Congress should repeal parts of a law that has been crucial for the growth of companies like Facebook and Twitter.
For $99 a year, Hey wants to help us restore some control. The new service has a way to go — and so does email, come to think of it.
Now that the stock market has largely shrugged off the coronavirus, start-ups are scrambling to go public.
The change lets Facebook play both sides of the debate about political advertising on social media.
The conviction of the journalist Maria Ressa shows that Facebook’s harms can’t be ignored.
The rapid rise of Bookshop.org during the shutdown has been hailed as a boon for independent stores. But some booksellers worry it could become another competitor for online business.
Italy and Germany activated apps this week as tools to avoid a second wave of coronavirus infections, fueling a debate about privacy rights.
Italy and Germany activated apps this week as tools to avoid a second wave of coronavirus infections, fueling a debate about privacy rights.
If you want to steal a few minutes of Zen and achieve something like contentment in the face of chaos and uncertainty, you might be tempted to download a meditation app.
The digital companions may sound like science fiction. But when social isolation became the norm, they helped deal with the loneliness, some users say.
After complaints from rivals including Spotify, European authorities will investigate Apple’s App Store.
Six former employees of the site sent threatening messages and deliveries to a couple after the e-commerce newsletter they published wrote about a lawsuit involving eBay.
This restaurant was forced to get creative with its use of technology — and to forgo the apps.
Lawmakers had requested that he testify as part of their antitrust investigation into the big tech companies.
The Americans who pushed a conspiracy theory the night of the Iowa caucuses have migrated to coronavirus conspiracies on Twitter, with help from a very Russia-friendly account.
The Americans who pushed a conspiracy theory the night of the Iowa caucuses have migrated to coronavirus conspiracies on Twitter, with help from a very Russia-friendly account.
Online shopping surged after virus-related shutdowns. But even within the areas of rapid growth, the recent gains have not been spread evenly, new data shows.
Dr. Li Wenliang tried to warn his country but was silenced. Now its traumatized people visit his spirit online.
With many stuck at home during the pandemic, Americans have been spending more of their lives online. This is how our habits have changed.
An analysis of Google search data suggests that last week’s unemployment claims could surpass 5 million.