Noise can damage your heart as well as your hearing, but there are ways to measure your exposure and reduce your risk.
Generating a slide deck, talking points and meetings minutes can all be done in a snap. All you need are the right prompts.
The implosion of Three Arrows Capital, a cryptocurrency hedge fund, devastated the industry. Its two founders spent the next year surfing, meditating and traveling the world.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is warning that the funds may be at risk if the app’s parent company runs into trouble.
How history has shown that the concentration of A.I. development in the hands of two powerful companies will lead to the technology being deployed in ways that will hurt humanity.
Hay muchas razones por las que el Vision Pro podría fracasar. Pero no debemos olvidar que Apple tiene la habilidad de incursionar en una categoría de productos en el momento justo.
In an internal all-hands meeting, the chief executive explained his plans for artificial intelligence, the metaverse and rebooting Meta’s culture.
The company’s new leaders — who include a longtime aide to Warner Bros. Discovery’s C.E.O., David Zaslav — are trying to move on from the stormy tenure of CNN’s former leader Chris Licht.
Air quality levels have been a source of intense interest this week. There are a number of ways to keep track of them on your phone.
The new, A.I.-assisted Khanmigo allows students to chat with simulated historical figures or co-write stories with the software.
Newly announced modifications to the autocorrect feature used on iPhones will better understand a word’s context in a text message, saving users some blushes.
Two senators sent a letter to TikTok’s C.E.O. with questions about how user data may be stored and seen in China after new reports in May.
Tech entrepreneurs who left the Bay Area during the pandemic say they can’t afford to miss out on the funding, hackathons and networking of the artificial intelligence frenzy.
The chief executive of OpenAI, which makes ChatGPT, has met with at least 100 U.S. lawmakers in recent months. He has also taken his show abroad.
As the country becomes one of the world’s strictest crypto regulators, companies are exploring plans to expand internationally and possibly leave entirely.
There are plenty of reasons the Vision Pro could flop. But we shouldn’t forget that Apple has a knack for entering a product category at just the right time.
I briefly got my hands on Apple’s new high-tech goggles, which impressed and creeped me out and raised a question: Why do we need these?
Apple says its new Vision Pro headset will “shift the way we look at technology.” How about how we look?
In “Recoding America,” Jennifer Pahlka offers a deeper theory for why the U.S. government struggles to provide services to its people.
The device, called Vision Pro and shaped like a pair of ski goggles, faces a skeptical consumer market and competition from others, like fellow tech giant Meta.
Two environmental organizations criticize the approach offered in an essay. Also: Trump’s MAGA army; Erdogan’s victory; canned music; A.I.; social media.
The S&P 500 ended the day nearly 20 percent above its low last year, within a hair of a milestone for some market watchers. But assessing a bona fide bull market is not so simple.
In internal forecasts, the company projected that ad sales would keep declining, handing a tough challenge to its new chief executive.
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A conversation about nurturing our relationships in a digital world.
As election activists rally against new voting machines, they are drifting into territory now dominated by conspiracy theorists.
His cockpit warning system, which alerts the crew if an aircraft is heading toward a mountain, a building or the ocean, has saved thousands of lives.
What’s in yours?
An A.I.-powered version of Photoshop and the image generator Midjourney live up to the hype.
Interest in the futuristic, immersive digital world is fading just as Apple plans to debut a virtual reality device.
Don’t bother learning to code.
En internet, discos duros, teléfonos celulares y otros dispositivos podemos encontrar la huella de nuestros seres queridos fallecidos.
The District of Columbia accused the company of sharing user data in deceptive ways. A Superior Court decision said Meta had made its policies clear.
Readers react to a dire statement about the risks of artificial intelligence. Also: Public bathrooms; conditions in state prisons.
Five A.I. practitioners — an industry godfather, an artist, an ethicist, a writer and a computer scientist — share their experiences working with artificial intelligence.
Regulators said the tech giant kept children’s Alexa voice recordings “forever,” violating a children’s privacy law.
Alternative apps and shared photo albums let you set up your own exclusive club for online conversations and digital pictures.
A new book by Scott J. Shapiro, a law and philosophy professor at Yale, examines breaches of cybersecurity and their implications for keeping information safe.
In Silicon Valley’s hacker houses, the latest crop of young entrepreneurs is partying, innovating — and hoping not to get crushed by the big guys.
Directivos de OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic y otros laboratorios de inteligencia artificial advierten que los sistemas del futuro podrían ser tan mortíferos como las pandemias y las armas nucleares.
The Shoggoth, a character from a science fiction story, captures the essential weirdness of the A.I. moment.
The disgraced founder of the blood testing start-up Theranos, who was convicted of fraud, turned herself in at a minimum-security prison in Texas.
Leaders from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic and other A.I. labs warn that future systems could be as deadly as pandemics and nuclear weapons.
From reparations to tax revolts, the Golden State tries out new ideas all the time. What roads will its latest experiments send us down?
Teaching fewer words to large language models might help them sound more human.
The mass shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh led to arguably the most ambitious effort ever undertaken to protect Jewish institutions in America.
To make good on its promise, artificial intelligence needs to deepen human intelligence.
Al menos dos organizaciones de la liga más destacada de Estados Unidos para jugadores profesionales de videojuegos están vendiendo sus equipos, lo que subraya el futuro incierto de la industria.
Even in African countries that have decriminalized homosexuality, life is not easy for gay people.
Los empleados de la aplicación de propiedad china han publicado información de los usuarios en una herramienta de mensajería y colaboración llamada Lark, según documentos internos.
Gov. Tim Walz said the legislation would have raised costs for ordering an Uber or Lyft too high, potentially pricing out Minnesota customers.
The Republican presidential candidate’s announcement on Twitter had a high of about 300,000 concurrent listeners and a total of 3.4 million listeners as of Thursday.
Its president, Brad Smith, said companies needed to “step up” and governments needed to “move faster” as artificial intelligence progressed.
You don’t have to quit Instagram and TikTok cold turkey. Use these strategies — some practical, some more philosophical — to be online in a healthier or less harmful way.
Our personal tech columnist shares how to improve many parts of your life.
Few are as involved in so many different artificial intelligence efforts as Mr. Hoffman, a Silicon Valley investor who co-founded LinkedIn.
New York City’s pioneering, focused approach sets rules on how companies use the technology in work force decisions.
College students need a taste of the monk’s life.
The surgeon general warned that social media can be harmful to young people. They had already realized that.
What was supposed to be a crowning moment for Mr. Musk’s Twitter turned into a series of technical glitches.
A group of scholars introduced an international panel to study the digital information landscape, inspired by those who had been warning of the effect of global warming.
The code, which Microsoft said was installed by a Chinese government hacking group, set off alarms because Guam would be a centerpiece of any U.S. military response to a move against Taiwan.
The Florida governor is set to announce that he will be running for president on Twitter Spaces, a live audio streaming platform on Twitter where people gather and talk online in real time.
Employees of the Chinese-owned video app have regularly posted user information on a messaging and collaboration tool called Lark, according to internal documents.
To manage its risks, “superintelligent” artificial intelligence should be governed by a body similar to the International Atomic Energy Agency, the lab’s leadership said in note on its website.
Un estudio reciente subrayó con qué profundidad la misoginia, el racismo y otras ideologías extremas se han arraigado en algunas salas de chat de videojuegos y otras plataformas, como Discord y Steam.
Concerned parents have many tools, including free software from Apple and Google, to actively oversee how children use their tech.
The report by Dr. Vivek Murthy cited a “profound risk of harm” to adolescent mental health and urged families to set limits and governments to set tougher standards for use.
Vivek Ramaswamy is what a pro-capitalism candidate looks like in post-Trump Republican politics, in which the emphasis is on the creation of a totalizing national identity.
Prosecutors investigating Sam Bankman-Fried, the cryptocurrency exchange’s founder, have accumulated more than six million pages of documents and other records.
Three women reflect on the complexities of their relationships with their A.I. companions.
The Chinese-owned video app filed the lawsuit days after Montana’s governor signed the ban, which takes effect on Jan. 1, into law.
Apple, Starbucks, Trader Joe’s and REI are accused of targeting union supporters after organizing efforts gained traction, charges the companies deny.
A Chinese government block on Micron Technology’s memory chips marks how far apart the two economic powers are drifting on tech policy.
Eight years after a controversy over Black people being mislabeled as gorillas by image analysis software — and despite big advances in computer vision — tech giants still fear repeating the mistake.
Anticipating federal subsidies, Applied Materials said it planned to invest up to $4 billion in the semiconductor project in Sunnyvale, Calif.
The Facebook owner said it would appeal an order to stop sending data about European Union users to the United States.
Lyft and Uber have opposed the legislation, threatening to reduce operations or leave the state if it is enacted.
The latest clash between Florida’s governor and Disney. The looming X-date. And the boom this year in corporate bankruptcies.
The “mathematical equivalent to the FBI’s voluminous fingerprint files” turns 50 this year, with 362,765 entries (and counting).
In a video, Mr. Green said he was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a very “treatable cancer.”
At least two organizations in America’s most prominent league for professional video game players are selling their teams, underscoring the industry’s uncertain future.
The findings in two new reports raise fresh concerns over how artificial intelligence may transform the misinformation landscape online.
The economy is open again, helping Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent claw back in the first quarter from a miserable 2022, though they are likely to face continuing skepticism from investors.
La empresa publicó un artículo que suscitó uno de los debates más intensos del mundo de la tecnología: ¿la industria está creando algo parecido a la inteligencia humana?
In toasters and in life, the top-rated anything will never be good enough.
Tech nerds see the current moment for artificial intelligence as similar to the time when the Netscape browser was released, stirring innovation.
As political figures, they’re not innovating. They’re peddling ahistoric drivel.
Under a newly signed bill, the state is poised to become the first to ban TikTok. Influencers living there have a lot to lose.
In a letter to Microsoft’s chief executive, Satya Nadella, Twitter said the tech giant had violated a data agreement.
A spokeswoman for the state attorney general said that his office had “expected a legal challenge” and was “fully prepared to defend the law.”
OpenAI is aiming to build on the popularity of its chatbot with a smartphone app that responds to voice prompts.
The justices ruled in one case that a law allowing suits for aiding terrorism did not apply to the ordinary activities of social media companies.
In the past year, about half the people who played online multiplayer games in the world’s major gaming markets encountered extremist statements, a new study found.
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The tech giant has publicly released its latest A.I. technology so people can build their own chatbots. Rivals like Google say that approach can be dangerous.
More than a dozen companies have popped up to offer services aimed at identifying whether photos, text and videos are made by humans or machines.
Personal Google accounts that have not been used in at least two years could be removed starting in December as part of an effort to address security threats, the company said.
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The tech executive and lawmakers agreed that new A.I. systems must be regulated. Just how that would happen is not yet clear.
A provocative paper from researchers at Microsoft claims A.I. technology shows the ability to understand the way people do. Critics say those scientists are kidding themselves.
The green light follows objections to the blockbuster deal by American and British regulators on the grounds that it would undercut competition.
Vice, which had wooed media giants, has struggled to adjust to the punishing realities of digital publishing. A group of creditors could buy Vice for $225 million.
Parents must help their children live healthier digital lives.
BuzzFeed and Gawker weren’t the only brands that moved the discourse.
Countless people find joy, frustration and discovery in video games.
Elon Musk’s seemingly erratic behavior is rational if one looks at the true source of his wealth.
The former executive sued ByteDance, which owns TikTok, for wrongful termination and accused the company of lifting content from rivals and “supreme access” by the Chinese Communist Party.
Mr. Musk said Ms. Yaccarino would focus on business operations and he would work on product design and technology at the social media platform.
The problems faced by migrants suggested that an important strategy for alleviating crowding at the border still faced challenges.
Mr. Musk is in talks about the role with Linda Yaccarino, chairman of global advertising and partnerships at NBCUniversal, two people with knowledge of the matter said.
Chiplets, a way to design chips for higher performance, has become a key prong of U.S. industrial policy. But pushing for more of this activity domestically is challenging.
Seven months after Washington unveiled tough curbs, Chinese companies are doubling down on homegrown supply chains and drawing billions in cash from Beijing and investors.
Taiwan’s world-dominating microchip sector was built by TSMC’s skilled employees. But a demographic crisis, demanding work culture and flagging interest threaten its lead.
Overall iPhone sales were up, and revenue for the company’s services business set a record.
A day after nearly 1,100 people were laid off, the struggling company told its remaining workers to prepare for a series of changes.
The rule on price disclosure was written before widespread use of the internet. Regulators are considering an update.
They got lost in this weird moment, where the world is caught between crisis and normalcy, nostalgic for house parties — and Houseparty, too.
The analyst Dan Wang takes stock of how the country’s growth trajectory has changed.
As tech companies cut costs and move to remote work, their left-behind office furniture has become part of a booming trade.
With loosened rules around remote prescriptions, a psychedelic-like drug has become a popular treatment for mental health conditions. But a boom in at-home use has outpaced evidence of safety.
As the companies have shed jobs recently, many teams assigned to combat false and misleading information have taken a hit.
The chief executive, under pressure from activist investors, seeks to do well and do good — but his options are narrowing.
The outcome of a case in federal court could help decide whether the First Amendment is a barrier to virtually any government efforts to stifle disinformation.
California’s law sought to punish doctors who give patients false information about Covid-19.
Also, Russian missile attacks in Ukraine and a major deal for Indian women’s cricket.
The drumbeat of layoffs in Silicon Valley is partly a result of how the pandemic upended the economy.
More hospitals and medical practices have begun charging for doctors’ responses to patient queries, depending on the level of medical advice.
Some of the biggest tech companies have announced tens of thousands of job cuts. But even after the layoffs, their work forces are still behemoths.
Doctors are exasperated by the persistence of false and misleading claims about the virus.
Many reinstated users are tweeting about topics that got them barred in the first place: Covid-19 skepticism, election denialism and QAnon.
Has another autocratic regime ever taken away the right of so many people to lead a normal life?
Two lawsuits in California have pre-emptively challenged a new law that would punish doctors for misleading patients about Covid-19.
Protests are rising as China enacts more lockdowns and quarantines, with no end in sight. The defiance is a test of Xi Jinping’s authoritarian leadership.
Reflecting on what worked and what didn’t.
In his first communications with Twitter’s staff, the company’s new owner painted a bleak picture as more executives resigned.
Lawmakers’ objections to an obscure Chinese semiconductor company and tough Covid-19 restrictions are hurting Apple’s ability to make new iPhones in China.
The company said Covid-19 restrictions were slowing production of the company’s new phones ahead of the holiday season.
A pair of prominent headlines highlights the reversals.
Hundreds of workers are said to have fled, afraid of being forced into quarantine with inadequate food and supplies.
Commutes are still painful, readers say. And it’s hard to give up the joys of working from home. But many of those who have gone back to the office say they like it.
El gobierno chino ha reprimido a muchas empresas tecnológicas pero permite las aplicaciones de citas que fomentan las conexiones sociales.
The massive expansion of online higher education created a worldwide laboratory to finally assess its value and its future.
China has cracked down on many tech companies, but has allowed dating apps that provide social connections to flourish.
Self-checkout systems are intended to make shopping convenient, but they also can lead to more thefts, experts said.
Weighing into the fierce national debate over Covid-19 prevention and treatments, the state would be the first to try a legal remedy for vaccine disinformation.
In an aggressive turn, the normally staid @WhiteHouse account itemized hundreds of thousands of dollars in pandemic-related debt relief given to U.S. House members who criticized the Biden plan.
A federal judge said Cleveland State University violated the Fourth Amendment when it used software to scan a student’s bedroom, a practice that has grown during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The social networking company said that Children’s Health Defense, a group led by Mr. Kennedy, an anti-vaccine activist, had “repeatedly” violated its guidelines by spreading medical misinformation.