The company’s Family Link software for managing children’s Android phones can be undone the instant a young user turns 13.
A company known for its software and its failure to make good gadgets is making advances in personal computers. Consider the ingenuity of the Surface Studio big-screen desktop.
Thanks to the app’s ability to download interactive maps, you can still see where you’re going without having to be online.
After rigorous testing of brewing and grinding equipment for coffee, here are the results.
For years, Apple was the innovative leader in personal computers. Not anymore.
The American tech behemoth may be seeking to tailor its widely used voice recognition system to an Australian audience.
iRobot, the company that makes the Roomba robotic vacuum, is considering selling the mapping data the devices collect to a company like Google or Amazon.
The Japanese technology and media giant, which owns stakes in several of Uber’s competitors, is also considering putting money into the American ride-hailing service.
Subscription-based genealogy sites offer plenty of convenience for the price, but you don’t always have to pay to research your family history online.
A record $2.7 billion fine hurt Alphabet’s bottom line last quarter, but it was a financial footnote for Google’s parent company.
Employees at a Wisconsin technology company are volunteering to have microchips implanted in their hands to make unlocking doors and paying for food easier.
New York City, where 1.7 million people receive food stamps, now allows eligibility documents to be submitted via smartphones.
Since January, nearly 100 U.S. Soccer players have had sophisticated blood analysis in an effort to aid performance, recovery and injury prevention.
Not many companies could brush off a $2.7 billion hit. Nonetheless, the fine represents a regulatory threat that could continue to grow.
An exhibition at Sotheby’s in New York betrays a broad generational anxiety about the technological future and the role of humans in it.
An exhibition at Sotheby’s in New York betrays a broad generational anxiety about the technological future and the role of humans in it.
One of the first applications for Windows will no longer be actively developed, the company said, pushing the program closer to being discontinued.
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts is buying a dot-com survivor to merge it with its Internet Brands portfolio company.
Ben Horowitz is one of the most influential tech investors of his generation. His father is influential, too. But in a very different way.
Many sophisticated apps can capture images of photo prints and create good-quality digital versions that take up much less space in the closet.
Hotel and car reservations through Amazon’s Alexa, speedier Global Entry enrollment, automatic flight check-in and more aim to make travel smoother.
Skeptics scoffed when Blake Irving vowed to reform the internet business built on salacious television ads. But the change is looking real.
Ben Horowitz is helping define the modern tech age. His father shaped the ’60s radical left — before taking a hard right turn. Family chats get interesting.
The city is newly stylish, with hyped restaurants and an Ace hotel, thanks to a steady flow of Carnegie Mellon grads who decided to stay.
The recent struggles of Apple, LinkedIn and Facebook show why the number of tech companies willing to have a try in China is dwindling.
Should every company create its own self-driving program? Mike and Farhad debate.
Often used at tech companies, nondisparagement agreements are increasingly included in employment contracts and legal settlements.
The arrival of dogsitting apps like Rover and Wag has led the city to dust off a rule against caring for pets for pay in homes.
Ms. Lai, a former employee of Binary, contends that after she complained to her bosses about sexism and inappropriate behavior in the workplace, the company used the non-disparagement provision in her employment contract to threaten her and preven...
The ride-hailing company is opening a research center in Palo Alto, Calif., and plans to collaborate with automakers and tech companies.
Congress is taking its first steps to regulate autonomous vehicles, as the technology moves closer to fruition.
As more people shop online, large businesses and financial companies are looking at buying the companies that process payments.
If you have decided to switch from PC to Mac (or vice versa), Apple, Microsoft and other software makers can make the transfer process easier than you might think.
The app “changes friendships and makes them more transactional,” one user said. “It’s nickel-and-diming everything, literally.”...
Exhibit A for investors bullish on the company’s future helped profitability last quarter more than double from a year ago.
A new plan from the top of the Chinese government calls for the country to become a powerhouse in artificial intelligence in just over a decade.
Though the Secret Service is known for keeping government executives safe, it has a mandate to fight financial and cyber crimes. It could use help.
The Instant Articles feature disappointed many publications that tried to work with the social media giant, but it is developing a tool that might drive subscriptions.
The Street View feature of Google Maps stitches together 360-degree photos of a location, and there is a way to see when an image was created.
TripAdvisor has added search features and refreshed its app. We tried it out before, during and after a trip to see if the changes benefit travelers.
In a follow-up to a 2014 audit, the comptroller’s office rebuked the city’s Education Department for its “ineptitude” in its record-keeping.
The social giant is working with media companies on a new tool that would push Facebook users to buy subscriptions to news outlets.
If you can welcome it as a gift from the internet, it might offer up a valuable conversation with the most mature side of your teenager.
Misscliks, a channel on the video game streaming platform Twitch, aims to be a safe space for underrepresented gamers, with no tolerance for sexism or bullying.
Some remember the computing scare as a bad joke. But the collective, worldwide effort to prevent calamity could be a model for handling global warming.
IBM researchers used an exotic material known as a Weyl semimetal to confirm the existence of a gravitational anomaly predicted in equations that describe the universe.
What technology does our personal tech columnist use to solve readers’ everyday frustrations with gadgets, gear and apps?...
If you think it’s been a long time since the United States tackled a nebulous problem like climate change, you’ve forgotten the scramble to fix our old computers.
Online app stores can be a safer and more convenient way to add programs to your computer and devices, but you may not find everything you want.
Facebook’s last major consumer product in China was partly blocked as Beijing increases its grip on the internet.
The K5 has a passing resemblance to R2-D2 — and a dash of Paul Blart, mall cop. Its creators took the online mockery in stride.
Facebook’s mobile app can automatically play news feed videos with the sound turned on, but you can turn it all off.
Most of Hampton Creek’s board resigned last month, another setback in Silicon Valley’s push to innovate beyond the high-tech industry.
The tech company’s new data center, which is now a regulatory requirement, will give Beijing access to troves of personal and industry secrets.
The company’s acquisition of Whole Foods sets up a clash between two vastly different visions for the future of labor.
Four resignations last month left the company’s chief executive as its only board member. Hampton Creek did not say why the board members resigned.
Have you felt left out of the emoji world? That might change as Apple prepares to roll out new symbols. There’s even one for vomit.
For Arcade Fire, Balenciaga and more, website designs are evoking the days of GeoCities, Windows 98 and flashing banner ads to be cool.
Finish “Anna Karenina” so you can stop lying. Research eye cream. Pack lunch.
Your desktop operating system includes a wide variety of typefaces to use in documents and other design projects, but you can always add more.
After Mr. Liu’s death, the number of keyword combinations that were blocked greatly increased, and images were automatically filtered in private chats, researchers said.
Mr. Bachman was a pioneer in the field of database management software, and modern digital commerce sites like Amazon and eBay owe an intellectual debt to his work.
Readers suggest steps that can be taken.
Posing as humans, today’s bots are different from what science fiction writers imagined, but they represent a serious threat to democracy.
Three Times tech reporters discuss Snap’s difficulties as a public company, and the so-called net neutrality debate.
Both personal and professional users have seen their accounts suddenly go missing, but there are ways to report the errors, and precautions to take.
Misbehaving technology executives and investors need more than sensitivity training and public scorn.
Even as Uber faces problems like a broken culture and a legal battle, many are coveting the ride-hailing company’s vacant chief executive job.
The competitors have decided to stop battling for market share and instead operate jointly in a handful of Eastern European countries.
Despite all the issues facing Uber, many people in in Silicon Valley and beyond would love to have the company’s chief executive job.
The next version of Apple’s operating system will be the last one to fully support 32-bit applications, but you can check now to see what needs upgrading.
“Flash organizations,” modeled on filmmaking, find their way into fields like software and pharmaceuticals, assembling freelancers and then disbanding.
Donald Trump Jr.’s Russian email thread shows the historical value and irresistible allure of a technology that continues to betray us.
If you buy the right piece, it should be the last thing you have to worry about.
Hundreds of companies coordinated a huge online protest on Wednesday against the Federal Communications Commission’s plan to scrap net neutrality rules.
It is now almost impossible to stop location tracking on smartphones. So here are our tips for the best and worst cases of sharing your whereabouts.
The Donald Trump Jr. flap is a reminder of the perils of hard-to-erase email, but its transparency could be missed if everyone switches to secure communications channels.
Several well-known security companies offer free versions of their full software suites for Windows and Mac.
Anita Pouchard Serra has been documenting several Argentine collectives that help community groups set up independent radio stations.
Anita Pouchard Serra has been documenting several Argentine collectives that help community groups set up independent radio stations.
Use apps and Instagram, ask local servers and bartenders for suggestions, and talk to retailers before you go.
Retrieving messages overseas can be easy as un, deux, trois, but there are a few things that are helpful to know before you go.
Microsoft plans to use unused channels between television broadcasts for broadband service, which could help rural Americans connect to the internet.
Amazon’s annual deals blowout, Prime Day, is back again — but not all the deals are worthwhile. Luckily, we can help.
The software company on Tuesday plans to roll out a “white spaces” broadband service to connect rural Americans to high-speed internet.
The fashion house is unveiling its first smartwatch, the Tambour Horizon, but it’s not stopping there.
As the rise of A.I. creates demand for new computing hardware, the giant chip maker is using acquisitions and new products to try to stay ahead.
The International Entrepreneur Rule, which was set to go into effect next week, is being delayed — and probably eliminated down the line.
Google-owned YouTube has been the internet’s go-to destination for both viewers and would-be stars. Now it’s getting some competition from the leading social network.
If that video or album of photos attached to your message is too big for the mail server to handle, Apple has another way to send it.
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A group of news organizations plans to ask Congress for the right to negotiate with the online giants, which are gaining greater shares of digital advertising and distribution.
Eight months into its review, the Justice Department still has stumbling blocks in assessing the most significant business deal before the Trump administration.
The best-known video celebrities gravitate to the mass audience of YouTube. But some others are carving a niche on the worlds biggest social network.
Wimbledon’s commitment to its “tennis in an English garden” atmosphere means its technology and commercial partnerships must be very understated.
Each side claims victory as Waymo drops three claims that Uber violated its patents related to light detection and ranging sensor technology.
Some victims still struggle to recover from hacking last week, with a beverage producer saying factories temporarily shut and a spray company lowering a sales forecast.
If you don’t want to risk losing a notebook full of passwords when traveling, pack a secure password manager app on your phone or laptop instead.
Among the companies targeted was a firm that operates a nuclear power plant in Kansas. It is not clear who was responsible.
An attack that started in Ukraine and spread throughout the world is still causing headaches for a number of big companies.
The layoffs cut the streaming music site’s work force by about 40 percent and could be a way to make it more attractive to a buyer.
News of the cuts comes a week after the company described sweeping changes that will shift resources to selling cloud-computing services.
Harassers are engaging in a practice called swatting and they’re getting away with it.
Jia Yueting’s resignation came just days after a court froze $182 million in assets tied to him, the latest in a series of setbacks for the businessman.
A snippet focusing on President Trump as part of his continuing feud with CNN is the latest reminder of what is born on the internet can have a major impact beyond it.
Amazon’s Kindle e-readers and tablets have been able to play music for years, and there are a few ways to move your listening library to a new device.
A Syrian man risks his life to expose ISIS atrocities. He’s now asking Silicon Valley to do more to help.
A Syrian man risks his life to expose ISIS atrocities. He’s now asking Silicon Valley to do more to help.
An activity tracker helped the Sketch Guy discover how much time he was frittering away. But now he is equipped to make changes.
But Choe Sang-Hun, The New York Times’s Korea correspondent, wishes that his iPhone could record phone conversations.
An environment in which entrepreneurs go hat-in-hand for financing from venture capitalists can be easily exploited.
Even if you have a laptop with the newer USB-C connections, you can find cables and adapters to hook up your small screen with a big monitor.
The last big innovation in luggage was the introduction of wheels. Now, start-ups are building all types of new technology into their bags, like USB ports, GPS trackers and scales.
Several apps can help you and your friends share your location information with each other, no matter which mobile platforms you use.
A wave of revelations about investors mistreating female entrepreneurs has spurred the resignation of a prominent venture capitalist and calls for change.
As readers respond to women’s accounts of sexual harassment in the technology industry, the investor Dave McClure announces his resignation from a firm he helped found.
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Microsoft recently issued an emergency patch for the operating system it retired in 2014, but the company has no plans to restore full support.
If you’ve developed new malicious software to break into a bank, do you test it out on Wall Street or in a developing economy?...
Often the best way to see if a cyberweapon works is to try it out in a country without the best digital defenses, as recent attacks have indicated.
The Bay Area tech scene has start-up incubators and hacker spaces. But what do you do when you want to figure out your next move?...
Young men are working less. Some economists think it’s because they’re home playing video games.
Welcome to the second edition of the Smarter Living newsletter.
Facebook and other online forums have become the connecting tissue for Vietnam’s increasingly public dissident voices. And the government is fighting back.
Once courted, then spurned, the smaller rival sought revenge for years. Now Europe’s regulators give it reason to cheer.
More than two dozen women in the tech start-up industry spoke to The New York Times about being sexually harassed by investors and mentors.
Two Times reporters discuss the Jay-Z album debut on Tidal, and the bad behavior that runs rampant in the venture capital industry.
Redefining property rights to include your social-media data will unleash competition.
The Silicon Valley workaholic ethos would never be confused with the French way of living. That’s not dissuading a group of tech entrepreneurs.
A modem-router combination from your internet service provider usually means less setup and simpler technical support but, sometimes, fewer features.
Laws sought by Trump administration officials and some politicians would overhaul how the United States vets deals, especially ones with technological and military ramifications.
The British authorities on Thursday asked regulators to further examine 21st Century Fox’s deal for the European satellite giant.
Hackers in two global attacks have used cyberweapons stolen from a dangerous collection that had been amassed by the agency.
The cyberattack that started in Ukraine and went global didn’t seem like an effort focused on making money.
If your phone is getting less time between trips to the charger, make sure external heat and power-hungry apps aren’t part of the problem.
Monalisa Perez shot Pedro Ruiz III at close range as he held a book, the authorities said. The couple apparently thought the book would stop the bullet.
Mesh networks appeal to people who aren’t happy with the speed of their current Wi-Fi system. But they’re not for everyone.
The South Korean company said it had considered opening an appliance plant for about three years, but the factory may help it stay on President Trump’s good side.
Amazon’s new Echo Show smart speaker, which comes with a touch screen, represents the model for a new kind of communal, household computer.
The latest strike, which affected computers from Ukraine to the United States, has intensified worries that such events will become everyday dangers.
In May, an attack that locked computer systems around the world made people more aware of ransomware. It seems that was just the start.
Windows 10 includes built-in protections for blocking several types of online threats to your computer.
Programs promoting a skills-based labor market are gaining momentum and changing the way people are hired and trained for tech and other jobs.
It has been a rough, scandal-filled year for Uber. But don’t expect John Zimmer, Lyft’s president, to gloat about his competitor’s misfortunes.
Conversation starters and context, drawn from the day’s news in Australia.
Companies are looking to merge tech, TV and mobile forces. If a deal takes place, consumers could see more bundles, which could be a good for fans of package deals.
The Cannes Lions festival attracts big brands, the top players in technology and boldface names. Our reporter, a first-time attendee, found plenty to observe.
Researchers said the attack had originated in Ukraine, but then spread to at least 64 countries.
Apple’s AirDrop feature is a convenient way to share files directly between iOS gadgets, but make sure you know who wants to connect with you.
By slapping Google with a record fine, the European Union sent a billion-dollar signal to American tech companies.