Durante la pandemia surgió la frase “romantiza tu vida” como un llamado a disfrutar el presente y añadir belleza a los momentos sencillos. Dos años después, esta tendencia sigue vigente.
Flush with cash, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Google are positioned to emerge from a downturn stronger and more powerful. As usual.
The world of deal making has always been rough and tumble. But Mr. Musk blows any predecessors away.
The company relies on automated systems to spot violent content, but people are still uploading and sharing the Buffalo video.
For a fee, the app will allow businesses to build a custom dashboard so they can chat with customers and offer customer services more easily.
Tell us about your experiences in the volatile crypto market.
Dozens of recordings of a 2019 massacre in Christchurch, New Zealand, remain online, in a sobering reminder of the internet’s permanence.
The governor issued orders to widen the fight against gun violence in the aftermath of the Buffalo massacre.
The Department of Homeland Security suspended the work of a panel focused on the subject of disinformation. The group had provoked accusations of government overreach.
Plus North Korea’s Covid strategy and China’s expanding internet censorship.
Gov. Kathy Hochul issued orders to strengthen the state’s “red-flag” law and create new units to target violent extremism online, following the Buffalo shooting that left 10 dead.
Actual music can seem like an afterthought as digital coverage of the genre has tilted toward tabloidism. Are there other paths forward?
The news was welcomed by an employee group worried about growing coronavirus rates.
The pandemic’s arrival turned spaces like WeWork into ghost towns. Now people are lining up for low-commitment offices, and providers are working to sustain that trend.
Some private companies are keeping tabs on employees with systems that may rely on questionable behavioral science foundations.
Mr. Musk has been creating confusion around whether the Twitter deal will close, causing the social media company’s share price to fall.
There is still a lot we can learn from big data.
Sam Bankman-Fried is a studiously disheveled billionaire who made a fortune overseeing trades that are too risky for the U.S. market. Now he wants Washington to follow his lead.
Buzzy start-ups promising easy access to mental health medication found an eager market on social media. Should anyone be looking for treatment on TikTok, though?
Arvind Krishna is trying to stay in touch with the company’s roots as he confronts today’s challenges.
El desplome en el valor del bitcóin refleja las pérdidas experimentadas en la bolsa de valores Nasdaq, una referencia con ponderación hacia las acciones tecnológicas.
A steep sell-off that gained momentum this week starkly illustrated the risks of the experimental and unregulated digital currencies.
The law, prompted by complaints from conservatives, allows people to sue large online platforms that remove posts expressing a particular viewpoint.
America still doesn’t have a federal data privacy law. But look what we have found — hope!
An internal memo shared with employees said the platform’s general manager and general manager for revenue would be departing.
Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day.
Artificial intelligence is being woven into an array of the company’s products. But the change — for now — is subtle.
The confirmation of a third Democrat creates an opportunity for Lina Khan, the Federal Trade Commission’s chair, to advance efforts to rein in corporate power.
Delivery apps are making fresh food available to millions who couldn’t have easily gotten it otherwise.
The cryptocurrency’s plunging value has mirrored losses in the Nasdaq, a benchmark that’s weighted toward tech stocks.
A trend that took off early in the pandemic encourages people to appreciate life’s simple pleasures, a philosophy that resonates just as strongly two years later.
Workers are dumping their stock, companies are cutting costs, and layoffs abound as troubling economic forces hit tech start-ups.
The February attack rattled Pentagon officials and private industry because it revealed new vulnerabilities in global communications systems.
After nearly 22 years, Apple is stopping production of the devices that changed consumer electronics and led to the creation of the iPhone.
Once a day, at an unpredictable time, BeReal notifies its users that they have two minutes to post a pair of pictures. The feed is mundane, but also fun — for now at least.
We’re now buying less online than many had predicted, and it’s throwing tech companies and the economy for a loop.
Mr. Musk has said he wants Twitter to be a forum for debate, and he called the barring of Mr. Trump “morally wrong.” The former president has said he would not rejoin the platform.
The fitness company’s first quarterly earnings report under its new chief executive showed losses of $757 million, far more than analysts expected.
Their houses are piggy banks, their retirement accounts are up and their bosses are eager to please. When the boom ends, everything will change.
The facial recognition software maker is largely prohibited from selling its database of photos to private companies.
Readers discuss Mr. Musk’s promise of more “free speech” and his notion of Twitter as a “town square.” Also: Tears and other subway memories.
Here’s what Mr. Musk is projecting for Twitter’s finances over the next few years, according to a pitch deck he presented to investors.
Company officials said the terminations were the result of an internal review, while the fired managers saw it as a response to the recent union victory.
Web3, billed as the future of the internet, might create more problems than it solves.
In a settlement, the software company admitted no wrongdoing but agreed to repay fees it had charged millions of Americans for returns that the authorities said were falsely advertised as free.
We idolize founders with brilliant ideas, but triumph often results from business savvy combined with imagination.
El aprendizaje automático es conocido por su capacidad para detectar cargos de crédito fraudulentos o reconocer rostros. Ahora los investigadores están probando esa tecnología para trabajar con virus.
The professional networking platform reached a settlement with the U.S. Labor Department over allegations that it underpaid 686 female employees in California from 2015 to 2017, officials said.
In 1969, he was part of a team of young engineers who built the first machine to switch data among computers using the Arpanet, the precursor to the internet.
At the Kitchen, the multimedia artist melds the White Cube, the Black Box and your phone. The exhibition is undefined by bodies, a stage, a gallery, or physical space.
Some digital inventions have seemed brilliant, but their business plans might not work.
To a degree unseen in any other mogul, the world’s richest man acts on impulse and the belief that he is absolutely right.
Lauren Hirsch, a Times business reporter, discusses what it’s been like to cover Elon Musk over the course of his acquisition of Twitter.
The board, an advisory group with the Department of Homeland Security, has become embroiled in the debate over the government’s role in policing online content.
The results were a setback for the upstart Amazon Labor Union, which won a landmark victory last month at a larger Amazon warehouse nearby.
Regulators said Apple had blocked PayPal and others from access to technology in the iPhone that lets people make a purchase with a quick tap.
The researchers are considered a key to the company’s future. But they have had a hard time shaking infighting and controversy over a variety of issues.
My Twitter pullback is about more than Elon Musk.
A new history of the trillion-dollar company in the wake of Steve Jobs.
The man who helped give the world candy-colored computers eventually walked out the door. What does that mean for the company’s next big thing?
Much like the fitness tools that count steps, these electronic devices help keep a record of the day’s religious recitations.
It’s highly unusual to move from a “poison pill” to a $44 billion deal in under two weeks. But Twitter’s board ran out of options.
The platform just doesn’t matter as much as we seem to think it does.
It takes just a kid and an app.
One thing that unites conservatives and liberals? No matter how loudly they denounce the social media platform, they don’t actually leave.
The grocery delivery start-up changed its leadership, slashed its valuation and shifted its strategy after sales slowed.
La depresión, las autolesiones y el suicidio están aumentando entre los adolescentes estadounidenses. Para M, de 13 años, la desolación era prácticamente insoportable.
Elon Musk has invested heavily in China, where officials are willing to influence or punish companies that cross political red lines.
The Twitter bid is a power play in the attention economy.
El absolutismo de la libertad de expresión puede ser contraproducente cuando se trata de aumentar la base de usuarios y las ganancias de la empresa.
While the company did better in its first three months of the year than many of its tech peers, it warned that Covid problems in China will be an issue.
Amazon benefited from the coronavirus pandemic as people flocked to online shopping. Now, shoppers’ behavior has shifted.
The drone camera is the newest hardware product from the maker of Snapchat, which previously released smart glasses known as Spectacles.
The past decade has been one long party for tech. Where we go from here isn’t so clear.
Content moderators warn that Elon Musk doesn’t appear to understand the issues that he and the company will face if he drops its guardrails around speech.
The social media company reported a 16 percent jump in daily active users from a year ago.
The men were paid in cryptocurrency by a man suspected of being a North Korean spy agent, the South Korean national police agency said.
The document, which isn’t legally binding, aims to be a reference “for public policymakers, as well as citizens, businesses and civil society organizations.”
To make social media less toxic, the United States needs to commit to making digital platforms more transparent.
The Trump-backed social media app is inundated with phony accounts and features that don’t work. It also hides some posts, including those with curse words.
It was the company’s second consecutive quarterly decline, the first time that had happened in over a decade.
Mr. Musk had challenged an agreement he reached with securities regulators after he claimed that he had the funding to take Tesla private.
There’s currently a limit to how many people in the world can use digital services like Facebook and Netflix.
Machine learning is known for its ability to spot fraudulent credit charges or recognize faces. Now researchers are siccing the technology on viruses.
Free speech absolutism might backfire when it comes to increasing the company’s user base and profits.
Musk se unirá a un reducido grupo de ejecutivos que tienen un gran poder en limitar o expandir el discurso global. ¿Qué pasará cuando sea el dueño de Twitter?
Twitter would have to pay if it signed a deal with another suitor. Mr. Musk would have to pay if his financing falls apart.
The company’s co-founder Vlad Tenev said it had overhired during the height of the pandemic, and now needed to “increase our velocity.”
Its sales of $49.4 billion in the first quarter were up 18 percent from a year earlier.
The results were below analysts’ expectations for a net profit of $17.33 billion on revenue of $68.05 billion.
Members of the far right started testing the limits, tweeting misleading information about masks or pushing false claims about the 2020 election results.
Readers are split over whether this prospect should be cheered or feared. Also: A hard-line U.S. message to Russia; parents and teachers.
He wants Twitter to allow more speech. We’ve got questions.
The deal with Abry Partners is the latest example of private equity’s pushing into Hollywood to cash in on the demand for streaming shows.
The world’s richest person didn’t like Twitter. So he’s buying it.
¿Estás suscrito a muchas plataformas de transmisión en continuo, contrataste varios servicios de almacenamiento en la nube y renuevas tu celular con frecuencia? Aquí hay unas recomendaciones para ahorrar.
Tech’s big shots have learned again and again that free speech isn’t so simple. What happens when Mr. Musk owns Twitter?
Las razones del hombre más rico del mundo para tomar el control de la red social no tienen que ver con la libertad de expresión. Se trata de controlar el megáfono.
A new generation seeks to shock the bourgeoisie.
Mr. Musk has not been a responsible caretaker for the companies he already oversees.
One prominent Republican, Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio, tweeted that free speech was “making a comeback.”
The government most commonly intervenes when a company is buying a competitor.
The things we create are better when they come out of a specific, lived context.
The world’s richest man succeeded in a bid to acquire the influential social networking service, which he has said he wants to take private.
Workers say they have been left largely in the dark about what a sale to the billionaire will mean for them and their shares in the company.
Meta Store, the company’s first physical storefront, will sell virtual- and augmented-reality devices.
The company’s 11-member board met with Mr. Musk to discuss his offer to buy the social networking service and take it private. An agreement could come as soon as Monday.
Depression, self-harm and suicide are rising among American adolescents. For M, a 13-year-old in Minnesota, the despair was almost too much to take.
A group of about 20 quality assurance testers at the video game company are to vote by mail, with ballots counted on May 23.
He found success as an entrepreneur in Silicon Valley shortly after arriving there in 1978, then represented his fellow alumni from the Indian Institutes of Technology.
Mr. Musk’s plan for a Twitter takeover adds to the problems facing the former president’s nascent Truth Social network.
For a decade, warnings about a tech bubble have only led to more money flooding into high-growth start-ups. Could this one be it?
Test your knowledge of this week’s health news.
The humble cloth can do a surprising amount of work.
Crypto is a lot of things – including terribly explained. We’re here to clear things up.
Crypto is a lot of things – including terribly explained. We’re here to clear things up.
Crypto is a lot of things – including terribly explained. We’re here to clear things up.
Crypto is a lot of things – including terribly explained. We’re here to clear things up.
Crypto is a lot of things – including terribly explained. We’re here to clear things up.
新文件揭示了中国官员如何命令私人承包商按需提供内容、吸引关注者、追踪批评人士、为信息战提供其他服务，让人们得以一窥北京如何在全球社交媒体上进行宣传和塑造舆论。
New documents detail how Chinese officials tap private businesses for online information campaigns, offering a rare glimpse into how China’s vast bureaucracy works to spread propaganda online.
China’s government has supported foreign YouTubers who put a positive spin on its policies, in its latest effort to shape how the world sees it.
中国政府支持那些展示中国政策积极形象的外国YouTube博主，这是它塑造世界对中国看法的最新努力。
It has the trappings of popular social media, a young audience and explicit content on suicide that other sites don’t allow. It is linked to a long line of lives cut short.
A devoted corps of users has kept this sparkly but outdated digital world, where magical pets have been reared since 1999, afloat. Recently, droves of pandemic-era nostalgia seekers have joined them.
This week, Karen Weise, Grace Ashford and I revealed that as Amazon hit record profits, it fired, underpaid and mishandled employees seeking leaves for new parenthood or medical crises.
What we learned from Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen’s Congressional testimony
Apple emitió una actualización de seguridad para corregir un fallo que permitía a los gobiernos espiar subrepticiamente a los usuarios. Te decimos cómo actualizar tu iPhone.
A guide to updating your phone's software after researchers found that a flaw had infected billions of Apple products.
A guide to the key figures in the Elizabeth Holmes trial.
People now spend more at Amazon than Walmart, making it the world’s largest retail seller outside China.
Artificial intelligence promises to remake the world. These believers are fighting to make sure thousands of years of text and tradition find a place among the algorithms.
Test your knowledge of this week’s health news.
They can make big claims about reducing stress and even pain, but not everything that you’ll find in the App Store can necessarily restore your sense of calm.
Thousands of videos posted look like unfiltered glimpses of life for Uyghurs, but taken together, the videos begin to reveal clues of a broader influence campaign orchestrated by the Chinese government.
数千条视频看起来像是维吾尔人的真实生活掠影，但综合起来，这些视频开始揭示中国政府策划的更广泛影响力宣传攻势的证据。
Apple has long centered its sales pitch on protecting its users’ data. But I had a hunch that it couldn’t be that simple in China, where the company is deeply entrenched.
The Justice Department, starting early in the Trump administration, secretly sought data about journalists, lawmakers and White House officials from big tech companies.
Each year, hundreds of thousands of workers churn through a vast mechanism that hires and monitors, disciplines and fires. Amid the pandemic, the already strained system lurched.
Desde su suspensión y la toma de mando del presidente Biden, Donald Trump ha hecho intervenciones en línea con menor frecuencia, pero algunas de sus declaraciones siguen teniendo gran alcance.
If you own a newer Amazon gadget, like a Ring camera or an Echo speaker, you'll be automatically enrolled in a new network called Sidewalk.
Since Facebook and Twitter banned him, Donald J. Trump, the former president, has posted statements online far less often. But some of his statements have traveled just as far and wide on social networks.