Toronto’s City of Tomorrow Is Scaled Back Amid Privacy Concerns The overhaul envisioned by a sibling company of Google has been lauded for its innovations. It’s also been called a “corporate surveillance ...
Google Wants Safeguards for Information in Antitrust Fight The Silicon Valley company filed a court petition asking for limits on what is shared with consultants working with the attorney general of ...
California Attorney General Is a No-Show on Tech Investigations Attorney General Xavier Becerra is in Google and Facebook’s backyard. But unlike nearly all other state attorneys general, he won’t say whet...
Netflix Expands Into a World Full of Censors The streaming giant is having to navigate different political and moral landscapes, and calls for government oversight, as it seeks subscrib...
A Greater Understanding of Race and Identity Through Tech Podcasts featuring inmates. The evolution of social media. The writing of Stephen Hawking. All are routes to thinking about race and identit...
Stick to Sports? No Way. Deadspin Journalists Quit en Masse. At least eight writers and editors resigned on the day after the firing of the interim editor in chief.
Facebook’s Earnings and Revenue Jump, Topping Forecasts The company’s financial performance is a regular bright spot for the social giant, which has been embroiled in scandals in recent years.
Twitter Will Ban All Political Ads, C.E.O. Dorsey Says The social media company’s action is a stark contrast to Facebook, which is taking a hands-off approach to political advertising.
A Physics Magic Trick: Take 2 Sheets of Carbon and Twist The study of graphene was starting to go out of style, but new experiments with sheets of the ultrathin material revealed there was much lef...
Apple Has Upbeat Forecast While Profit Continues to Fall The company said its profit dropped 3.1 percent from a year ago, but there are early hints that new iPhones are selling well heading into th...
Facebook’s Revenue Jumps 29% The company’s financial performance is a regular bright spot for the social giant, which has been embroiled in scandals in recent years.
Lyft Focuses on Profitability as Cash-Burning Companies Lose Luster Lyft had said that it would lose record amounts of money, but it changed its tune as the sentiment toward prominent technology start-ups has...
This Guy Thought He Beat Facebook’s Controversial Political Ads Policy “Apparently, it’s only O.K. to lie on Facebook if you don’t tell them you’re lying,” said Adriel Hampton, who is running for California gove...
2 Plead Guilty in 2016 Uber and Lynda.com Hacks Guilty pleas to charges of hacking and an extortion conspiracy cap a legal saga that ensnared the tech companies in data breach scandals.
Amazon Tests ‘Soul of Seattle’ With Deluge of Election Cash Amazon is flexing its financial power in Seattle’s City Council elections, putting an innovative program meant to combat such influence at r...
Russia Tests New Disinformation Tactics in Africa to Expand Influence Facebook said it removed three Russian-backed influence networks aimed at African countries. The activity by the networks suggested Russia’s...
Ready. Set. Write a Book. The National Novel Writing Month event challenges people to crank out 50,000 words in 30 days. Here are the digital tools to help you make a...
Russia Tests New Disinformation Tactics in Africa to Expand Influence Facebook said it removed three Russian-backed influence networks aimed at African countries. The activity by the networks suggested Russia’s...
Apple Enters Show Business With a Black-Carpet Premiere Apple TV Plus arrives Friday with “The Morning Show,” starring Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston, as its flagship streaming program.
Sony to Shut Down PlayStation Vue, a Cable Alternative Vue was started in early 2015 as a cheaper version of cable TV. It drew a slew of copycats, but customer growth slowed for many of these ser...
HBO Max Details Set to Be Released at WarnerMedia Event It’s presentation day for the future online home of “Friends” and “Game of Thrones.”
WhatsApp Says Israeli Firm Used Its App in Spy Program In a federal lawsuit, the messaging service said the firm had targeted 1,400 WhatsApp accounts, including 100 journalists and human-rights a...
Debunking 4 Viral Rumors About the Bidens and Ukraine As lawmakers examine whether President Trump pushed Ukraine to investigate the Biden family, here are some of the most prominent falsehoods ...
Using Virtual Reality to Plan Your Actual Retirement V.R. and online visual aids are giving workers a better idea of how much they need to save.
Australia Proposes Face Scans for Watching Online Pornography As a government agency seeks approval of a facial recognition system, it says one use for it could be verifying the age of people who want t...
Amazon Turns to More Free Grocery Delivery to Lift Food Sales The company announced free two-hour food delivery for Prime members in about 20 major metropolitan areas.
‘OK Boomer’ Marks the End of Friendly Generational Relations Now it’s war: Gen Z has finally snapped over climate change and financial inequality.
California Blackouts Hit Cellphone Service, Fraying a Lifeline As power is cut to reduce the wildfire risk from electrical wires and towers, a primary source of emergency communication is put in jeopardy...
Google, in Rare Stumble, Posts 23% Decline in Profit Alphabet, Google’s parent, said its profits fell after a sharp increase in spending for research and development.
Google, in Rare Stumble, Posts 23% Decline in Profit Alphabet, Google’s parent, said its profits fell after a sharp increase in spending for research and development.
F.C.C. Plans Vote to Restrict Huawei and ZTE Purchases Rural carriers have raised concerns about moves to crack down on Huawei gear, saying it will cut them off from a supply of affordable equipm...
Dissent Erupts at Facebook Over Hands-Off Stance on Political Ads In an open letter, the social network’s employees said letting politicians post false claims in ads was “a threat” to the company.
Read the Letter Facebook Employees Sent to Mark Zuckerberg About Political Ads Hundreds of Facebook employees signed a letter decrying the decision to let politicians post any claims they wanted — even false ones — in a...
1.5 Million Packages a Day: The Internet Brings Chaos to N.Y. Streets The push for convenience is having a stark impact on gridlock, roadway safety and pollution in New York City and urban areas around the worl...
The Advertising Industry Has a Problem: People Hate Ads Ad-blocking consumers and cost-cutting clients make for “dangerous days for advertisers,” according to a new report.
These Apps Say You May Have a Health Disorder. What if They’re Wrong? Apps like Flo and Clue are shifting from just tracking your health data to using it to make evaluations about your health risks. Their tools...
Disney Is New to Streaming, but Its Marketing Is Unmatched The company’s synergistic approach — think trailers playing on TVs in 22,000 Disney World hotel rooms — has made Disney Plus known to millio...
‘Silicon Valley,’ Darker Than Ever, Captures the Bleak Mood of Tech In its final season, the HBO satire asks the big questions: Can good coexist with greed? Does money ruin everything — and how much does that...
This Week in Business: Zuckerberg Gets Grilled, and Boeing Goes from Bad to Worse Plus, the Fed seems poised to cut interest rates again.
Helping Alt-Meat Grow Some Muscle In their quest to make a lab-grown steak, researchers devised a form of scaffolding made with gelatin.
Microsoft Wins Pentagon’s $10 Billion JEDI Contract, Thwarting Amazon Amazon was considered a front-runner for the cloud computing project before President Trump began criticizing the company’s founder, Jeff Be...
Don Valentine, Founder of Sequoia Capital, Is Dead at 87 Mr. Valentine’s venture capital firm, established in 1972, helped cement Silicon Valley as a hub for technology companies.
The Week in Tech: Google’s Quantum Leap The company can run esoteric calculations on exotic new hardware faster than is possible on a supercomputer. It’s an achievement of little p...
Facebook Calls Truce With Publishers as It Unveils Facebook News The social network introduced a new section of its mobile app dedicated to news content, offering stories from a mix of publications.
Pentagon Pushes Tech Industry to Help U.S. Retain Military Edge Talks over how American companies can ensure future supplies of advanced computer chips have taken on more urgency.
‘It’s Definitely Pretty Empty’: Why Saving WeWork Will Be Hard While expanding at a breakneck pace, the co-working company has struggled to turn a profit on millions of square feet of office space.
Amazon Earnings: Profit Falls Sharply as Company Buys Growth The company has been investing heavily to keep its giant core businesses growing at the expense of higher profits.
Ingo Maurer, Designer Known as Poet of Light, Dies at 87 Mr. Maurer’s wonky fascination with technology led to lamps he made out of scribbled memos, tea strainers and incandescent bulbs with feathe...
Always Building, From the Garage to Her Company Jeri Ellsworth started as a self-taught computer hacker and chip designer. In an industry dominated by men, she’s the head of a company focu...
Twitter Stock Plunges After Earnings Are Worse Than Expected Twitter posted worse-than-expected third quarter revenue and profit, which the company attributed to advertising problems and unusually low ...
Using Technology to Close the Autism Job Gap Adults on the autism spectrum often have difficulty finding employment. Entrepreneurs and advocates are working to fix that by pairing compa...
Microsoft Rides Cloud to a 21% Increase in Profits The company’s cloud computing efforts again pushed profits higher, to $10.7 billion in the latest quarter.
Tesla Reports Profit for Quarter, Sending Shares Soaring The electric-car maker’s revenue declined, but it said it had removed “substantial cost” from its operations.
Zuckerberg Defends Facebook Cryptocurrency Project to House Committee The chief executive of Facebook faces an uphill battle convincing lawmakers that its digital initiative, called Libra, would benefit consume...
Getting the N.F.L.’s Big Picture Out of Any Screen There are many websites and tech tools for covering football nationally, Ken Belson says. (The beat doesn’t hurt his fantasy team, either.)
Google Claims a Quantum Breakthrough That Could Change Computing Scientists at a company lab said they had taken a big step toward creating a machine that would make today’s supercomputers look like toys.
Zuckerberg to Admit That Facebook Has Trust Issues The chief executive is expected to testify on Wednesday at a House committee hearing about his company’s cryptocurrency project.
Facebook Pledges $1 Billion for California Housing The move, which combines money and land, is the latest effort by technology companies to ease the state’s severe housing shortage.
WeWork Accepts SoftBank Takeover Offer The troubled shared office company scrapped an initial public offering and push out its chief executive last month.
Jeff Bezos Announces Blue Origin’s Team Approach to NASA Moon Lander The start-up launched by the Amazon founder will work with three older space companies in its bid to carry American astronauts back to the l...
China Sharpens Hacking to Hound Its Minorities, Far and Wide New, more sophisticated attacks are targeting Uighurs’ phones — even iPhones and even abroad, security researchers say. They warn that forei...
Can You Really Be Addicted to Video Games? The latest research suggests it’s not far-fetched at all — especially when you consider all the societal and cultural factors that make toda...
WeWork Considers Rescue Plans From SoftBank and JPMorgan The purveyor of shared office space, which aborted an initial public offering last month, has lost billions of dollars and needs a big cash ...
Facebook Lays On the Charm for Its Libra Cryptocurrency Plan Executives fanned out in Washington to court lawmakers and regulators. Mark Zuckerberg is expected to testify about Libra this week before t...
Facebook Discloses New Disinformation Campaigns From Russia and Iran The company also announced several new initiatives to reduce the spread of false information, including an effort to clearly label inaccurat...
Pixel 4 Review: Google Needs to Do More to Stand Out The new Pixel 4 is a solid higher-end phone. But dollar for dollar, it pales against the latest iPhones and Galaxy devices. Here’s why.
Trump Campaign Floods Web With Ads, Raking In Cash as Democrats Struggle That campaigns are now being fought largely online campaign is hardly a revelation, yet only one political party seems to have gotten the me...
High Schools to TikTok: We’re Catching Feelings Teens love the app, and now it’s getting the stamp of approval with teacher-approved clubs. Did school just get ... fun?
Biden Escalates Attack on Facebook Over False Political Ads Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s presidential campaign sent Facebook a letter about a false video ad that a super PAC ran on the social network.
In House Antitrust Hearing, Lawmakers Focus on Harms to Privacy Members of Congress questioned whether the power of Facebook, Google, Apple and Amazon could hurt consumer privacy.
Mark Hurd, Co-Chief Executive of Oracle, Is Dead at 62 Mr. Hurd, who previously ran Hewlett-Packard and other technology businesses, had stepped aside last month from Oracle for health reasons.
The Week in Tech: Amazon Muscles In on Seattle Election The hometown tech giant has contributed more than $1.4 million this year to influence City Council races.
China’s Cryptocurrency Plan Has a Powerful Partner: Big Brother Facebook’s Libra project led Beijing to accelerate its efforts. The government could soon know a lot more about how people are spending.
Zuckerberg, Inflaming Debate, Asserts Facebook Stands for Free Expression In an address at Georgetown University, the Facebook chief executive called for more free speech — not less — as his company has been assail...
Why Don’t Rich People Just Stop Working? Are the wealthy addicted to money, competition, or just feeling important? Yes.
What to Expect From Netflix Earnings The streaming giant lost domestic subscribers for the first time earlier this year. But it doesn’t expect to disappoint in the third quarter...
Save Some Popcorn for the Deal-Making Behind TV Media companies merged to take on tech, and tech giants are producing media. Edmund Lee, a media reporter, has his eyes on what comes next.
Virgin Galactic Unveils Jumpsuit for Space Tourists The outfits, which would look at home on the bridge of the starship Enterprise, come with a ticket to space that costs as much as $250,000.
Europe’s Margrethe Vestager Uses a Rarely Used Weapon to Take On Big Tech Ms. Vestager, the E.U.’s antitrust regulator, ordered Broadcom to halt possible anticompetitive practices while an inquiry is underway, sign...
Huawei Reports Stronger Sales Growth A recovery in quarterly revenue suggests that the Chinese tech giant is weathering the Trump administration’s efforts to hobble it.
Twitter Stands by Trump Amid Calls to Terminate His Account Twitter said it would keep President Trump’s account live, despite pressure from Democrats to delete it.
Ad Giant Wins Over Disney With Big Data Pitch After a “painful” earnings report, the advertising company Publicis trotted out what it knows about consumers in its “most important pitch o...
Twitter Stands by Trump Amid Calls to Terminate His Account Twitter said it would keep President Trump’s account live, despite pressure from Democrats to delete it.
If a Robotic Hand Solves a Rubik’s Cube, Does It Prove Something? A five-fingered feat could show important progress in A.I. research. It is also a stunt.
When You Take a Great Photo, Thank the Algorithm in Your Phone Google’s Pixel 4 is the newest example of how computational photography is driving the future of cameras.
The Report Was About Turkey Bombing Syria. ABC Showed Video From a Kentucky Gun Range. ABC News apologized for its error but did not specify how it had occurred.
AMC Theater Chain Gets Into Streaming With On-Demand Movies AMC Entertainment dominates the cineplex business. Now it also wants to be a major player in home viewing.
Uber’s Layoff Total Rises Past 1,000 With Latest Cuts A third round targeted 350 workers on Monday as the company struggles to reduce costs.
Fortnite Goes Dark. Gamers Wonder What’s Next. A black hole consumed everything in the game on Sunday, prompting widespread speculation that the game is amid a major transition.
Warren Dares Facebook With Intentionally False Political Ad The Democratic presidential candidate bought the ad to goad Facebook into removing misinformation in political ads, escalating her feud with...
China’s Political Correctness: One Country, No Arguments The Communist Party has spent decades preparing the people to defend a united homeland. Hong Kong’s protests show it has paid off.
Facebook’s Libra Cryptocurrency Faces Exodus of Partners Stripe, Mastercard, Visa and eBay said they were dropping out of the effort, a week after PayPal pulled out.
Does Your Toothbrush Have an App Yet? New technology is creating some excitement in the formerly ho-hum world of dental care.
Netflix Goes All Out to Wow Children as Streaming Wars Intensify Faced with new competition like Disney Plus, the streaming service has quietly prepared a barrage of shows and movies for children and famil...
Uber Acquires Cornershop, a Grocery Delivery Start-Up Although the growth of its core business has slowed, Uber is building its food and freight delivery services, among other ambitions.
The Week in Tech: Navigating the Chinese Minefield American tech companies want access to customers in China. But they’re learning that can come with a lot of baggage.
NASA and SpaceX Are Feuding. Will They Make Up? The space agency’s administrator, Jim Bridenstine, will meet Elon Musk at SpaceX headquarters on Thursday, weeks after the two exchanged ten...
Without Naming Huawei, E.U. Warns Against 5G Firms From ‘Hostile’ Powers In a security report, the bloc noted the potential for cyberattacks but stopped short of citing any particular providers.
The Radical Manifesto Embraced by Google Workers and Uber Drivers A book based on ideas associated with a labor group from the early 20th century has provided a blueprint for organizing without a union.
Apple Removes App That Tracked Hong Kong Police Apple said it was removing the HKmap.live app, which was criticized by Chinese state media, because Hong Kong authorities said protesters us...
2,200 Viewed Germany Attack Before Twitch Removed Post The live-streaming platform, owned by Amazon, has struggled to police content as it is posted.
Tech Giants Shift Profits to Avoid Taxes. There’s a Plan to Stop Them. Countries have clashed in recent years over how — and where — to tax companies that operate across borders, particularly those that sell onl...
How to Get the Most Out of Your Digital Wallet Payment apps can speed up register checkout and replace that paper and plastic clogging your billfold. Here are six steps to make them work ...
When Social Media Becomes a Wartime Necessity Vivian Yee and Hwaida Saad, who cover the Middle East, have found Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter and YouTube vital to getting information out o...
Chinese Media’s Attacks on Apple and N.B.A. Help Inflame Nationalism Outlets are trying to intimidate multinational companies into toeing the party line while Beijing tries to rein in the Hong Kong protests.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry Honors Work on Lithium-Ion Batteries John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino were recognized for research that has “laid the foundation of a wireless, fossi...
Blizzard, a Gaming Company, Stirs a Backlash for Penalizing Hong Kong Player The company suspended the gamer and made him forfeit his prize money after he expressed support for the protest movement in Hong Kong.
Behind Amazon’s Abrupt Change in Its Film Strategy After poor box-office numbers for Mindy Kaling’s “Late Night,” the company shrank its ambitious release plan for a big fall movie, “The Aero...
Facebook’s Hands-Off Approach to Political Speech Gets Impeachment Test The company’s handling of a Trump campaign ad with unsubstantiated accusations about Joseph Biden foreshadows a continuing fight over misinf...
G.O.P.-Led Senate Panel Affirms Russia Attacked Election, and Urges Action A report called for steps by Congress, the Trump administration and tech firms, and reiterated a conclusion the president has resisted: Russ...
Can a Jean Jacket Revive the Wearable? Lessons have been learned from the unpopularity of Google Glass.
Silicon Valley’s Mantra of Spend Big, Grow Fast? It’s Changing Start-up investors are warning of a reckoning after the stumbles of some high-profile “unicorns.” Now turning a profit is in.
As U.S. Takes Aim at Chinese Tech Firms, Trump Signals a Strategy Shift In blacklisting surveillance companies, the United States is the first major government to punish China for its crackdown on Muslims.
U.S. Blacklists 28 Chinese Entities Over Abuses in Xinjiang The companies and security bureaus were barred from buying American products because of their roles in human rights violations against Musli...
Nets Owner Joe Tsai Didn’t Seem Political. Until Now. In response to an N.B.A. executive’s Twitter post, Tsai called pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong a “separatist movement,” further inflamin...
Online Map Leads Archaeologist to Maya Discovery Lidar has transformed the study of ancient civilizations, but maps made with the technology are expensive. Takeshi Inomata found a great one...
Jeffrey Katzenberg’s Mobile Start-Up, Quibi, Makes a Deal With ESPN With $1 billion to work with, the veteran Hollywood executive finds more material for his short-form video platform.
In a Race Against Death, No Way to Call a Doctor Medical personnel in Kashmir say preventable deaths are happening because of blocked streets, medicine shortages, and a phone and internet b...
Addicted to Screens? That’s Really a You Problem Nir Eyal, who wrote the industry manual for hooking people on tech, now has a recipe to free you — even though it was your fault to begin wi...
China Masters Political Propaganda for the Instagram Age Leveraging celebrities, the know-how of tech companies and images built for social media, the Communist Party can effectively stir patriotis...
Atlanta Asks Google Whether It Targeted Black Homeless People City officials asked Google to verify a report that its contractors sought to scan the faces of black homeless people to improve facial-reco...
PayPal Pulls Out of Libra, Facebook’s Cryptocurrency Project The move deals a blow to the heavily criticized effort, which Facebook unveiled in June.
Disney Bars Netflix TV Ads in Battle for Streaming Supremacy ABC, Freeform and other Disney-owned entertainment networks will no longer accept Netflix ads in another sign of how the streaming wars are ...
Iranian Hackers Targeted Presidential Campaign, Microsoft Says Microsoft said in a security report Friday that journalists and other government officials were also targeted. It did not name the campaign....
The Week in Tech: Facebook Fights Back A remarkable leak from an internal meeting shows the company is gearing up to fight government intervention.
Barr Pushes Facebook for Access to WhatsApp Messages The Justice Department has long sought access to encrypted messages, alarming privacy advocates.
Even Trump Can’t Turn Down a Nickelback Joke (but Twitter Did) The site removed a video posted by President Trump that showed a meme of the rock band’s lead singer, edited as an attack on Joe Biden.
Body of Kidnapped Tech Entrepreneur Found, Police Say The body of Tushar Atre, the owner of AtreNet, was discovered hours after he was taken from his California home, the authorities said, and m...
Facebook Can Be Forced to Delete Content Worldwide, E.U.’s Top Court Rules The decision that individual countries can order Facebook to take down posts globally sets a benchmark for the reach of European laws govern...
Cyberattacks on Egyptian Activists Are Traced to Government A cybersecurity firm says evidence suggests the Egyptian government carried out cyberattacks on journalists, academics, lawyers and rights a...
Hong Kong Takes a Symbolic Stand Against China Tech The first major place in China to rebel against Beijing’s technologies of control is one of the last not yet fully under their thrall.
E.U.’s Top Court Rules Against Facebook in Global Takedown Case Comments posted on the social network about an Austrian politician became a battle over the reach of European defamation laws on the interne...
Facebook Encryption Eyed in Fight Against Online Child Sex Abuse The debate over privacy in the digital age increasingly pits tech companies against law enforcement agencies as explicit imagery explodes.
Tesla Reports a Record Quarter for Its Deliveries The pace may allow the electric-car maker to fulfill its forecast for the year. But analysts are skeptical that sales are enough to yield a ...
Night Prowler in Florida Cut Electric Scooters’ Brakes, Police Say The suspect did not give the police a motive when he was arrested in Fort Lauderdale, where at least 140 scooters were vandalized since Apri...
F.A.A. Allows U.P.S. to Deliver Medical Packages Using Drones After a year of working with the Federal Aviation Administration, United Parcel Service was awarded a certification that allows it to use dr...
Police Data and the Citizen App: Partners in Crime Coverage On her New York City law enforcement beat, Ali Watkins mines CompStat for trends and crowdsourcing for breaking news. You can, too.
How to Set Your Google Data to Self-Destruct Google has now given us an option to set search and location data to automatically disappear after a certain time. We should all use it.
The Online Ad World Is Murky. A Group of Companies Wants to Fix That. Sixteen companies are calling for more transparency from the likes of Google and Facebook, and setting their own example in hopes of a less ...
From Your Mouth to Your Screen, Transcribing Takes the Next Step Improvements in automatic speech transcription are beginning to have a significant impact on the workplace.
What Does Having a Boyfriend Have to Do With Sleep? An emergent A.S.M.R. category on YouTube involves young men role-playing romantic partners, all in service of a better night’s rest.
What if You Could Rent an Apartment Without a Security Deposit? Start-ups are disrupting the practice of shelling out thousands of dollars to rent a home.
As WeWork Slows Down, Biggest Competitor Says It’s Thriving The chief executive of International Workplace Group contends his company’s approach may not be as flashy but is more sustainable.
Congress and Trump Agreed They Want a National Privacy Law. It Is Nowhere in Sight. Even amid a bipartisan backlash against tech companies, lawmakers have struggled to channel that into a federal privacy law.
‘This Game Is My Life’ Thousands gathered in Philadelphia for the Overwatch League Grand Finals, an e-sports tournament that draws a hugely diverse and rabid fan b...
Zuckerberg Hates Warren’s Plan to Break Up Facebook. She Doesn’t Care. In leaked audio, Mark Zuckerberg said he would sue over Elizabeth Warren’s plan to break up the company. She responded in kind.
Here She Is, the Safest Driver in Los Angeles She got the prize for being the most competent navigator in L.A. If you’re willing to let insurance companies spy on you, it can pay off for...
Court Upholds Net Neutrality Repeal, With Some Caveats The mixed ruling gave both supporters and opponents a chance to declare victory on an issue that has bubbled up occasionally for more than a...
The Evolution of the Hard Hat The hard hat was designed 100 years ago as protective gear for miners and other laborers, but it has grown to become a symbol of status and ...