Dr. Anthony Fauci, the administration’s most outspoken advocate of emergency virus measures, faces a torrent of false claims that he is mobilizing to undermine the president.
It’s grim out there. But in music, messages of hope — and goofy stuff online — people are trying to provide ways to get through a scary time.
How could we so heedlessly appropriate a medical term?
The coronavirus pandemic has forced a nationwide reckoning with the lack of internet connectivity and devices for students.
Twelve New York galleries will each present two works by a single artist in Zwirner’s digital viewing room.
Child care options, internet access and extra living space leave a gulf between rich and poor in coping with disruptions to school and work.
Uncomfortable with tech, many are struggling to use modern tools to keep up with friends and family in the pandemic.
‘Social distance socializing’ isn’t just a temporary stopgap. Online gatherings are the culmination of a broader shift.
‘Social distance socializing’ isn’t just a temporary stopgap. Online gatherings are the culmination of a broader shift.
“Until tomorrow” and other games are the chain mail letters of social isolation.
A way to tap the wisdom and knowledge of our elders and keep our children from losing their minds.
When theaters closed by the pandemic stream their shuttered plays online, watching sharpens the longing for the real thing.
The recorded performances that theaters in Germany have put online while they are closed don’t live up to the real thing, our critic says.
With people going online more in the pandemic, internet traffic has exploded. That’s taking a toll on our download speeds and video quality.
Thousands of students living in shelters and doubled up in overcrowded apartments have not received web-enabled devices for online learning.
Homebound city dwellers are turning to a neighborhood app to connect, organize and help each other without risking physical contact.
The makers of unauthorized kits designed for consumers to collect their own saliva or throat swabs faced scrutiny from Congress.
Drivers have contended with Uber and inflated medallion prices. Now the pandemic has caused rides to plummet by two-thirds or more.
From setting a clear agenda to testing your tech setup, here’s how to make video calls more tolerable for you and your colleagues.
Cho Joo-bin was accused of blackmailing dozens of young women, including at least 16 minors, into making sexually explicit video clips of themselves.
Many assume the “accessibility” features on our devices are helpful only to those with visual or hearing impairments, but they’re useful for everyone.
The social network is straining to deal with skyrocketing usage as its 45,000 employees work from home for the first time.
Who seems poised to benefit from social distancing? Big Tech.
When you are quarantined or cancel your trip, you can still go on a journey. The secret? The author Reif Larsen says it’s Google Street View.
After a federal warning, companies have stopped marketing kits that let consumers collect their own saliva or throat swabs and send them to labs.
“How we spend our days is how we spend our lives.”
A quarantine is the perfect time to get (virtually) close to your community.
More than half of all news consumption on Facebook in America is about the virus, according to an internal report.
Trade officials approved the company’s request to remove tariffs on the Apple Watch.
Technology from Amazon, Apple, Google, IBM and Microsoft misidentified 35 percent of words from people who were black. White people fared much better.
Amazon is hiring aggressively to meet customer demand. Traffic has soared on Facebook and YouTube. And cloud computing has become essential to home workers.
A popular screen saver takes a break while its inventors try to digest data that may yet be hiding news of extraterrestrials.
Tracking entire populations to combat the pandemic now could open the doors to more invasive forms of government snooping later.
Some in the travel industry are stepping up with offers for everything from online yoga classes to storage space for displaced students.
If one of the most powerful tech companies can’t call out the president’s dishonesty, who can?
The federal government bungled its response to the coronavirus. But leaders around the country give us reason to hope.
On this special episode, we hear how people all over the world are facing the crisis — by coming together on the internet.
As its user base rapidly expands, the videoconference app Zoom is seeing a rise in trolling and graphic content.
Here are some of the experiences and bits of advice from those who have been able to get tested.
Many journalists are covering a once-in-a-lifetime story from home, thanks to Zoom and Slack. But as readers flock to large news outlets, ads are starting to disappear.
Anthony Levandowski was charged with stealing driverless-car plans when he left Google to form a company, which Uber then acquired.
We had to be set apart in order to feel together.
Health officials in Britain are building an app that would alert the people who have come in contact with someone known to have the coronavirus. The project aims to adapt China’s tracking efforts for countries wary of government surveillance.
It feels like the easiest gift until it needs a reboot, restart or anything else.
Our writers are usually busy covering dance, theater and musical performances. Coronavirus changed that. Here are their suggestions for what to watch, read or listen to while we’re housebound.
Digital dance raves. Streaming soundbaths. Book readings by phone. Now we’ve gotta get creative.
Here’s what the federal government must do to help.
As students and professors converge online, universities shouldn’t just reach for makeshift solutions. They might learn something useful.
Like many of my colleagues in the emergency room, I have been gathering information from Facebook and Twitter.
The pandemic has clarified the dark bargain of our internet-connected devices: We look to them to protect our bodies and soothe our nerves, and in return, we hand over our minds.
Ed Catmull and Pat Hanrahan created computer techniques that remade animation, special effects, virtual reality and artificial intelligence.
As more and more schools close because of the coronavirus, a reporter talks about covering one family’s experience adjusting to online instruction.
We’re denied the solace of community just when we need it most.
The three-week pause, which affects products like consumer electronics, allows the e-commerce company to deal with a surge in demand for household goods.
The retailer is trying to do two contradictory things: Ban hate literature but allow free speech.
Zoom is where we work, go to school and party these days.
We’ve always hoped that our digital tools would create connections, not conflict. We have a chance to make it happen.
In China, many rural students lack the connections or hardware to learn remotely. More nations will confront the same reality as the outbreak spreads.
The pandemic offers an opportunity to experiment with meaningful digital gatherings, from book clubs to happy hours to religious services.
It was unknown whether the actions were the result of foreign actors or just hackers seizing on the coronavirus panic to try to create chaos.
The companies funded Russia’s social media-fueled interference in the 2016 election, prosecutors said. But they tried to weaponize the case instead of fight it.
Expand the ways you use your smart, internet-connected speakers to help everyone in your family get the most out of them each day.
The site from Google’s sister company, Verily, was rolled out to two Northern California counties in hopes of guiding people to local virus testing.
After canceling its fair, Art Basel Hong Kong will present more than 2,000 works online with an estimated value of $270 million. That’s just the beginning as the art world goes virtual.
With millions of people working and learning from home during the pandemic, internet networks are set to be strained to the hilt.
With millions of people working and learning from home during the pandemic, internet networks are set to be strained to the hilt.
The fine comes as the iPhone maker deals with the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.
Online enforcers are dragging in hundreds for questioning as an assault on online speech continues. They are a sign of how Beijing has given censors a more punitive role.
Conditions are ripe: The pandemic is sweeping right into campaign season, and Trump’s response is highly contested.
A Tennessee man had planned to sell his stockpile at marked-up prices online. Now he is under investigation for price gouging.
A Tennessee man had planned to sell his stockpile at marked-up prices online. Now he is under investigation for price gouging.
Its executives, with headquarters just a few miles from one of the country’s worst coronavirus outbreaks, were among the first to confront the impact.
With coronavirus closings, tours for admitted students are off the table. Here are some workarounds in this time of social distancing.
The pledge some companies took, in the face of the coronavirus pandemic, also calls for them to open public Wi-Fi hot spots and waive late fees, the F.C.C. said.
The tech giant, which will keep its stores in the China region open, becomes one of the first retailers to shut its doors in an effort to halt the spread of the coronavirus.
Amazon cracked down on coronavirus price gouging. Now, while the rest of the world searches, some sellers are holding stockpiles of sanitizer and masks.
Amazon cracked down on coronavirus price gouging. Now, while the rest of the world searches, some sellers are holding stockpiles of sanitizer and masks.
The Music Issue, out on March 15, introduces a multimedia experience that bridges print and digital through your smartphone.
Technical glitches disrupted Mr. Biden’s virtual town hall with voters in Illinois on Friday. Bernie Sanders held an online “fireside chat’’ on Saturday. It’s the new paradigm for candidates amid a health crisis.
The president inaccurately described travel restrictions he had announced, falsely blamed his predecessor for testing shortages and misstated the role Google was playing in mitigating the outbreak.
Mr. Gates, who founded the company with Paul Allen four decades ago, will also step down from the board of Berkshire Hathaway.
Many tech employees have the luxury of working from home in an emergency. But companies like Uber, Airbnb and WeWork could end up hurting.
To slow the virus, Alessandro Vespignani and other analysts are racing to model the behavior of its human host.
One consequence of coronavirus: It will become more apparent that good online education is easier said than done.
Content moderators are essential gatekeepers, but also our greeters, paramedics, law enforcers, teachers and curators.
Pediatricians say the automated Baby Brezza dispenser may produce watery bottles of formula.
Even if life is just a high-tech game, I’m comforted by our scientific superheroes.
The action came after Amazon had contended that it lost the deal because of potential interference from President Trump.
If you find yourself working closer to your bedroom because of coronavirus, here are some tips that can help.
Scary mom stories filled me with dread. I wish I’d known how delightful I would find having a child.
Samsung wants to excite you by offering a device with a foldable screen. Too bad it’s tedious to use (and bulky in a pocket).
The use of virtual visits climbs as a way of safely treating patients and containing spread of the infection at hospitals, clinics and medical offices.
A yearlong effort by a bipartisan group of lawmakers suggests steps to deter attacks, including clearer communication of operations.
Employees had tracked the group, believed to be based in Russia, as it hijacked nine million computers around the world to send spam emails meant to defraud unsuspecting victims.
With the help of intelligent machines, humans can be nudged to make choices that make workplaces fairer for everyone.
Online travel sites, including Booking.com and Airbnb, are facing a world of hurt as people all but stop taking trips.
Laboratorios secretos. Curas mágicas. Conspiraciones del gobierno. Las compañías de redes sociales se esfuerzan para detenerla, pero la información falsa sobre el coronavirus prolifera en todo el mundo.
Faced with an array of opponents for its sensor-laden city of tomorrow in Toronto, a Google sibling has drastically dialed back plans. The critics now want the tech giant to quit altogether.
Home-cooked lunches and no commuting while we deal with coronavirus can’t compensate for what’s lost in creativity.
Providers who defend vaccines face online death threats and negative reviews from fake patients. Now the staid medical establishment is finally speaking out.
New federal data-sharing requirements will enable people to use consumer apps to retrieve their medical information directly from their doctors.
Elliot Management had tried to force out Mr. Dorsey, the co-founder and C.E.O., after accumulating a stake in the company.
For the first time, Twitter applied its policy against fake and misleading videos and labeled one.
Secret labs. Magic cures. Government plots. Despite efforts by social media companies to stop it, false information about the coronavirus is proliferating around the world.
The uncrewed December space mission could have ended in disaster.
Green Bank, W.Va., is home to a telescope so large that it requires near radio silence to operate, a technological restriction that has created a unique kind of modern childhood.
A pandemic is a great way to examine American class inequities.
Hay tiendas en línea que venden asesinatos a pedido. Los investigadores advierten que son estafas, pero las personas que buscan deshacerse de alguien no están prestando atención.
The social media company has had a permissive policy about truthfulness in political content. But it drew the line on interfering with the national census.
Data overages from your wireless carrier can add up quickly. Here’s how to keep your bill under control.
Investors and clients of the facial recognition start-up freely used the app on dates and at parties — and to spy on the public.
Devices like the Gizmo are meant to calm parents’ fears — but they hamper children’s growing senses of freedom.
Blued, one of the biggest gay dating apps in the world, has succeeded because it plays by the ever-shifting rules for L.G.B.T.Q. China — bringing together a minority community without activism.
Anthony Levandowski, who helped pioneer self-driving cars and was accused of taking Google’s trade secrets to Uber, also filed for bankruptcy.
The Democratic presidential candidate had accused the tech giant of infringing on her free speech when it temporarily suspended her advertising account.
The food delivery app is losing money, battling rivals, facing lawsuits — and trying to go public. What could go wrong?
A collection of online stores offer murder for pay. Researchers say they are scams, but people who want someone dead aren’t listening.
The latest Apple and Google models have software that automatically enhances your photos, but you can also take control to get your perfect shot.
Robinhood remained down part of Tuesday as the markets bounced around, leaving customers angry and nursing big losses.
Alphabet’s self-driving unit, a pioneer in autonomous vehicle research, has been expanding its commercial efforts.
A settlement for as much as $500 million would resolve a lawsuit accusing Apple of slowing old iPhones as it released new ones.
The outbreak threatens the stability of everything from information systems to Amazon orders.
A look at one of the entries from last week’s puzzles that stumped our solvers.
Their tech employees are a different story.
A new study examines YouTube’s efforts to limit the spread of conspiracy theories on its site, from videos claiming the end times are near to those questioning climate change.
A new system uses software to dictate quarantines — and appears to send personal data to police, in a troubling precedent for automated social control.
Robert Swan, who leads the world’s biggest chip maker, is pushing his 110,000 employees to confront internal problems more openly.
La ironía ha sido siempre una estrategia para desenmascarar y para cuestionar al poder. El nuevo arte del sampleo y la remezcla a partir de archivos digitales la mantiene viva en este siglo.