Prosecutors Push Elizabeth Holmes of Theranos to Take Responsibility Under cross-examination, the founder of the failed blood testing start-up defended herself but admitted that she had made mistakes.
Prosecutors Push Elizabeth Holmes of Theranos to Take Responsibility Under cross-examination, the founder of the failed blood testing start-up defended herself but admitted that she had made mistakes.
Twitter Will Take Down Pictures of People Posted Without Their Permission The company said the policy was consistent with privacy laws in the European Union and elsewhere.
The head of Meta’s cryptocurrency efforts is leaving the company. David Marcus had most recently spearheaded Meta’s push into a global digital currency.
Jim Warren, Early Influencer in Personal Computing, Dies at 85 He personified the blend of technical enthusiasm and counterculture values that shaped the industry, launching the West Coast Computer Faire...
Jack Dorsey’s Twitter Departure Hints at Tech Moguls’ Restlessness Jack Dorsey, who is stepping down after six years as Twitter’s chief executive, is one of tech leaders who seem to have grown tired of manag...
Investors Snap Up Metaverse Real Estate in a Virtual Land Boom Transactions for properties in digital realms are jumping, guided by the same principle in the physical world: location, location, location....
Elizabeth Holmes Says Former Boyfriend Abused Her Ms. Holmes, the founder of the failed blood testing start-up Theranos, blamed Ramesh Balwani, the former No. 2 at the company.
Who Is Parag Agrawal, Twitter’s New C.E.O.? A longtime Twitter insider and a confidant of co-founder Jack Dorsey, Mr. Agrawal takes over as the social media company confronts various c...
Clearview AI fined $22.6 million by U.K. privacy commissioner. The Information Commissioner’s Office said it fined Clearview AI for failing to inform British residents that it was collecting billions of ...
Elizabeth Holmes Testimony: Updates from Day 4 Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of the failed blood testing start-up Theranos, took the stand for a fourth day on Monday.
Amazon Union Vote in Alabama Is a Step Closer to Being Overturned A regional office of the National Labor Relations Board said management’s victory in an earlier election should be overturned. The company c...
Jack Dorsey Expected to Step Down as C.E.O. of Twitter The social media pioneer, whose name has become synonymous with the company, will be replaced by Twitter’s chief technology officer, Parag A...
Twitter Founder Jack Dorsey Expected to Step Down as CEO The social media pioneer, whose name has become synonymous with the company, is also the chief executive of another company, Square.
Hunt for the ‘Blood Diamond of Batteries’ Impedes Green Energy Push Dangerous mining conditions plague Congo, home to the world’s largest supply of cobalt, a key ingredient in electric cars. A leadership batt...
Could Roads Recharge Electric Cars? The Technology May Be Close. But challenges await, including technical issues, regulatory barriers and many miles of highway.
Uber Survived the Spying Scandal. Their Careers Didn’t. A former co-worker accused the men of wiretapping their colleagues, hacking foreign governments and stealing trade secrets. It wasn’t true, ...
Uber Survived the Spying Scandal. Their Careers Didn’t. A former co-worker accused the men of wiretapping their colleagues, hacking foreign governments and stealing trade secrets. It wasn’t true, ...
Pinterest Pledges $50 Million on Reforms to Resolve Discrimination Allegations Shareholders had accused Pinterest’s board of directors of failing to respond to a pervasive culture of discrimination and retaliation again...
YassifyBot and 'Yassification' Memes, Explained A new Twitter account has amassed a following by sharing highly filtered versions of well-known images.
Adam Mosseri, Instagram's Head, Agrees to Testify Before Congress This will be the first time Adam Mosseri, a trusted lieutenant to Mark Zuckerberg, will appear before lawmakers under oath.
Space Pagans and Smartphone Witches: Where Tech Meets Mysticism The internet allows us to discover, select and combine the spiritual traditions that suit us best. In a new exhibition, artists are explorin...
A Fix-It Job for Government Tech To build trust in the government, it would help if the website worked.
The Best Tech Gifts That Aren’t Gadgets Supply-chain disruptions may make it tough to buy devices, but the most thoughtful presents were never tangible to begin with.
Ifeoma Ozoma Blew the Whistle on Pinterest. Now She Protects Whistle-Blowers. Ifeoma Ozoma, who accused Pinterest of discrimination, has become a key figure in helping tech employees disclose, and fight, mistreatment a...
Australian Minister Wins Defamation Case Over Tweet A government minister sued and won over a brief Twitter post that called him a “rape apologist.” A journalist sees “asymmetric warfare.”
How the $4 Trillion Flood of Covid Relief Is Funding the Future From broadband to transportation to high-tech medical manufacturing, benefits from America’s pandemic money infusion will linger.
Ifeoma Ozoma Blew the Whistle on Pinterest. Now She Protects Whistle-Blowers. Ifeoma Ozoma, who accused Pinterest of discrimination, has become a key figure in helping tech employees disclose, and fight, mistreatment a...
The Gene-Synthesis Revolution Researchers can now design and mass-produce genetic material — a technique that helped build the mRNA vaccines. What could it give us next?
Elizabeth Holmes Points Fingers at Others and Says She Was a Believer In her most substantial day of testimony, Ms. Holmes, the founder of the failed blood testing start-up Theranos, painted herself as someone ...
What We Know About Sunny Balwani As he waits for his own trial to begin in January, Elizabeth Holmes’s partner at Theranos and former partner in life is nowhere to be seen.
Samsung Will Build a $17 Billion Chip Plant in Taylor, Texas Taylor went to great lengths to lure the Samsung plant. The city, its independent school district and the surrounding county promised the co...
What Elizabeth Holmes's Trial Means for Silicon Valley The outcome of Ms. Holmes’s fraud trial may be a referendum on start-up behavior and hubris, lawyers and others said.
How Elizabeth Holmes's Defense Is Following a Common Playbook By blaming others and aiming to appear sympathetic, Ms. Holmes was employing a strategy of saying she didn’t know and that it wasn’t her, la...
Imagine Not Living in Big Tech’s World We live at the whims of the tech giants. What if small businesses had alternatives?
This Ink Is Alive and Made Entirely of Microbes Scientists have created a bacterial ink that reproduces itself and can be 3D-printed into living architecture.
Apple Sues Israeli Spyware Maker NSO Group Apple accused NSO Group, the Israeli surveillance company, of “flagrant” violations of its software, as well as federal and state laws.
Clearview AI Does Well in Another Round of Facial Recognition Accuracy Tests This time, a federal agency assessed the ability to pick the right person out of millions of photos. Clearview’s app still faces legal hurdl...
Clearview AI does well in another round of facial recognition accuracy tests. This time, a federal agency assessed the ability to pick the right person out of millions of photos. Clearview’s app still faces legal hurdl...
Can Synthetic Biology Save Us? This Scientist Thinks So. Drew Endy is squarely focused on the potential of redesigning organisms for useful purposes. He also acknowledges significant challenges.
For Rules in Technology, the Challenge is to Balance Code and Law Crypto fans have argued that code can be a better arbitrator than traditional regulators.
Kevin Spacey Ordered to Pay $31 Million to ‘House of Cards’ Studio A secret arbitrator’s ruling was issued 13 months ago and became public on Monday when lawyers for the studio petitioned a California court ...
What happened on Day 2 of Elizabeth Holmes’s testimony. Ms. Holmes’s lawyers showed exhibits and asked her questions to push back against the prosecution’s claims that she defrauded investors, pat...
Kevin Spacey Ordered to Pay $31 Million to ‘House of Cards’ Studio A secret arbitrator’s ruling was issued 13 months ago and became public on Monday when lawyers for the studio petitioned a California court ...
How Fake News on Facebook Helped Fuel a Border Crisis in Europe Social media worsened a migrant crisis on the border of Belarus and Poland and helped smugglers profit off desperate people trying to reach ...
Elizabeth Holmes Rebuts Prosecution's Key Argument In Trial Prosecutors said Theranos had lied about endorsements from pharmaceutical companies to land funding. Ms. Holmes testified that Theranos had ...
Key Pieces of Evidence in the Elizabeth Holmes Trial Prosecutors in the Elizabeth Holmes trial have presented a company report, an investor letter and internal emails to show that she intention...
Jeff Bezos Donates $100 Million to the Obama Foundation The gift was the largest yet for the Obama Foundation and was one in a series of splashy donations by Mr. Bezos, one of the world’s richest ...
Elizabeth Holmes trial: What she is accused of doing. Prosecutors also say that Theranos faked demonstrations of its technology and falsified validation reports from pharmaceutical companies and...
Taxi! To the Airport — by Air, Please. Several companies are betting they can bring electric urban air travel to the masses — perhaps within the next few years.
Jay Last, One of the Rebels Who Founded Silicon Valley, Dies at 92 He and seven others left the Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory to create their own silicon company, Fairchild Semiconductor, which is now se...
Race to the Future: What to Know About the Frantic Quest for Cobalt A New York Times investigation examines the global demand for raw materials as the clean energy revolution takes off. This is what we found....
How Hunter Biden’s Firm Helped Secure Cobalt for the Chinese The president’s son was part owner of a venture involved in the $3.8 billion purchase by a Chinese conglomerate of one of the world’s larges...
Race to the Future: What to Know About the Frantic Quest for Cobalt A New York Times investigation examines the global demand for raw materials as the clean energy revolution takes off. This is what we found....
Global Rivalries Are Miring the Clean Energy Revolution The quest for Congo’s cobalt, which is vital for electric vehicles and the worldwide push against climate change, is caught in a cycle of ex...
How Hunter Biden’s Firm Helped Secure Cobalt for the Chinese The president’s son was part owner of a venture involved in the $3.8 billion purchase by a Chinese conglomerate of one of the world’s larges...
Ken Griffin Bested ConstitutionDAO in Auction for Constitution A group of cryptocurrency fans known as ConstitutionDAO had also bid on the document, setting off a frenzy of memes and pledges.
Zia Chishti Steps Down as C.E.O. of Afiniti Zia Chishti resigned from the artificial-intelligence company he founded after a former employee accused him of sexual misconduct.
Google questions if the new Justice Department antitrust boss can be impartial. Jonathan Kanter, who was confirmed by the Senate earlier this week as the assistant attorney general for antitrust, has been a longtime behi...
U.S. Rests Its Case in the Elizabeth Holmes Trial Defense lawyers are expected to argue that the founder of Theranos, the blood-testing start-up, failed but did not commit fraud.
BuzzFeed Will Start Publicly Trading in Early December: BZFD The company still loses money, but its revenue rose 20 percent in the third quarter. Investors who want to own a piece can do so around Dec....
Can a Machine Learn Morality? Researchers at a Seattle A.I. lab say they have built a system that makes ethical judgments. But its judgments can be as confusing as those ...
Cryptocurrency Group Loses Bid for Rare Copy of U.S. Constitution ConstitutionDAO, a “decentralized autonomous organization,” had raised more than $40 million to bid for the artifact.
Cryptocurrency group loses bid for copy of U.S. Constitution. ConstitutionDAO, a “decentralized autonomous organization,” had raised more than $40 million to bid for the artifact.
How Elizabeth Holmes Soured the Media on Silicon Valley Testimony in the fraud trial of Ms. Holmes, the founder of the blood testing start-up Theranos, shows how much coverage of the tech industry...
Instagram Faces Investigation Over Mental Health Impact on Teens The states were examining whether the actions of Facebook, now called Meta, violated state consumer protection laws and put the public at ri...
Why Crypto.com Is Putting Its Name on the Staples Center What’s Crypto.com, which is paying $700 million for the naming rights to the sports venue?
State Attorneys General to Investigate Instagram’s Impact on Teens The states were examining whether the actions of Facebook, now called Meta, violated state consumer protection laws and put the public at ri...
Ford Announces Partnership to Assure Steady Flow of U.S.-Made Chips The automaker will team with GlobalFoundries on producing and developing semiconductors, crucial parts that have been in short supply.
He Helped Build Tesla. Now He Hopes to Do the Same at Lucid. Peter Rawlinson designed the Tesla S. His new Lucid Air sedan is a direct challenge to Tesla’s dominance.
What Apple’s New Repair Program Means for You (and Your iPhone) Apple said it would soon provide parts, tools and manuals to those who wanted to fix their own iPhones and Mac computers.
Visions of a U.S. Computer Chip Boom Have Cities Hustling Many local governments see a silver lining in the shortage of semiconductor chips that has contributed to a slowdown in the global economy.
They Love Crypto. They’re Trying to Buy the Constitution. How a “financial flash mob” is trying to raise $20 million for a rare copy of the U.S. Constitution.
The Legacy of Mattress Cash Fires Before we get to the metaverse, we need to talk about the past decade of tech ideas.
Miramax Sues Quentin Tarantino Over Planned ‘Pulp Fiction’ NFTs The director announced this month he was selling nonfungible tokens based on the screenplay for his 1994 movie. Miramax asserted in court do...
Amazon Will Stop Accepting Visa Credit Cards Issued in Britain For years merchants have complained about transaction fees that eat into their revenue, but having Amazon take up the fight may ratchet up t...
The Tech Gifts That Are Hard to Buy This Holiday Season The list of scarce gadgets is long, driven by a chip shortage. Don’t wait until Black Friday for the best deals.
Senate Approves Jonathan Kanter, a Big Tech Critic, As Top U.S. Antitrust Official Mr. Kanter has fought against Google and other tech giants for years.
Senate approves Jonathan Kanter, a Big Tech critic, as the top U.S. antitrust official. Mr. Kanter has fought against Google and other tech giants for years.
JPMorgan says Tesla owes it $162 million because of an Elon Musk tweet. The tweet, in which Mr. Musk claimed he had secured funding to take Tesla private, initially sent the automaker’s shares soaring. But they s...
The Secret to Great Online Communities Our online experiences are shaped by the people who run our favorite Facebook group or Reddit forum.
Developers Build More Net Zero Homes as Climate Concerns Grow Demand for residences that produce as much energy as they consume is being spurred by climate concerns, consumer appetite and more affordabl...
Will Indonesia Edge Its Way into the Space Race? An Indigenous clan fears it will lose its place in the world as the government pursues a quest to open a spaceport and lure the billionaire ...
In Moscow’s Technological Advances, a ‘Double-Edged Sword’ The latest example is Face Pay, which replaces a Metro card with facial recognition. It may be advanced, but activists are sounding the alar...
Halo Infinite Release Aims to Lift Xbox Prospects Though interest in Halo has waned over the years, the company is banking on a new version to goose sales of its Xbox and subscription gaming...
Google executives tell employees it can compete for Pentagon contracts without violating its principles. The company abandoned work on an earlier military program after employees revolted.
Halo Infinite Release Aims to Lift Xbox Prospects Though interest in Halo has waned over the years, the company is banking on a new version to goose sales of its Xbox and subscription gaming...
Alan Paller, a Mover on Cybersecurity Threat, Is Dead at 76 He made it his mission to find, recruit and develop the next generation of digital warriors to defend the nation against an onslaught of cyb...
Can Hydrogen Save Aviation’s Fuel Challenges? It’s Got a Way to Go. Small, experimental hydrogen-powered planes are paving the way for net-zero carbon aviation by 2050. But the route is rocky.
Amazon Staten Island Workers Withdraw Request for Union Vote The workers had spent months collecting signatures to call for an election.
Covid-19 Misinformation Goes Unchecked on Radio and Podcasts False statements about vaccines have spread on the “Wild West” of media, even as some hosts die of virus complications.
Covid-19 Misinformation Goes Unchecked on Radio and Podcasts False statements about vaccines have spread on the “Wild West” of media, even as some hosts die of virus complications.
The Secret to a Better Internet? Post Less, Chat More. One of the web’s oldest functions remains one of its most powerful and promising.
Trump Allies Help Bolsonaro Sow Doubt in Brazil's Elections With his poll numbers falling, President Jair Bolsonaro is already questioning the legitimacy of next year’s election. He has help from the ...
Why the Internet Is Turning Into QVC Hint: It’s not because we all have a burning desire to buy makeup on YouTube.
Alibaba reports slower sales growth for its Singles Day shopping event. Sales grew 8.5 percent from last year, but had grown 26 percent in 2020 from the year before.
Elon Musk Sells $5 Billion in Tesla Stock The sales so far were considerably short of the $20 billion worth he promised over the weekend that he would sell.
Key takeaways from Week 10 of the Elizabeth Holmes trial. Two former lab directors testified about some of the inner workings of Theranos.
U.S. Sues Uber, Saying it Discriminated Against People With Disabilities The Justice Department says Uber did not adjust its wait time fees for people with disabilities, even when Uber knew someone needed addition...
How Do You See Inside a Volcano? Try a Storm of Cosmic Particles. Muography, a technique used to peer inside nuclear reactors and Egyptian pyramids, could help map the innards of the world’s most hazardous ...
Rivian, the electric-truck maker, soars in early trading after its I.P.O. The company, backed by Amazon and Ford, was valued at nearly $70 billion in its initial public offering, though it has delivered only 156 ve...
Facebook's Meta: How Designers View the New Logo and Brand The emblem for Facebook’s new parent company is built for the metaverse, even if it disappoints in the real world.
Amazon on the High Seas Amazon, racing to get products from factories to our homes, lures merchants with chartered cargo ships.
Google Loses Appeal of $2.8 Billion E.U. Antitrust Fine European antitrust regulators said Google gave preferential treatment to its own price-comparison shopping service over rival services.
Alibaba Downplays Singles Day for a Tense Time in China The Chinese e-commerce giant is updating its blockbuster shopping holiday for a humbler, more dutiful era in the country’s internet industry...
Rivian prices its I.P.O., valuing the electric-vehicle maker at nearly $70 billion. The company, backed by Amazon and Ford, has delivered only 156 trucks so far, but its market worth approaches that of Ford.
Judge denies Apple’s request to delay App Store changes. Apple may have to rewrite its policies to allow app developers to point users to alternative payment methods as soon as December.
Tesla Shares Drop Another 12%, Have Shed $200B in Value Since Musk’s Tweet Since Friday, Tesla has shed about $200 billion in market valuation.
Meta plans to remove thousands of sensitive ad-targeting categories. Ad buyers will no longer be able to use topics such as health, race or sexual orientation to target people with unwanted ads on Facebook or ...
Satellite Hopes Meet Internet Reality Satellite internet is exciting, but it needs to be part of a bigger effort to get more people online.
Satellite Hopes Meet Internet Reality Satellite internet is exciting, but it needs to be part of a bigger effort to get more people online.
Twitter Will Give Users Access to Ad-Free Articles With Twitter Blue The company is pushing to find new sources of revenue.
Twitter expands its subscription service to news articles. The company is pushing to find new sources of revenue.
How Data Is Reshaping Real Estate Tech start-ups are offering new tools to help retailers and entertainment venues be more efficient by counting crowds, tracking foot traffic...
Brazil’s Far-Right Disinformation Pushers Find a Safe Space on Telegram In a social media ecosystem facing mounting pressure to combat fake news and polarization, Telegram is the most permissive disseminator of c...
An 8-Year-Old Explains the Metaverse “One minute you get scammed, another minute you’re having the best time of your life, making billions of dollars.”
The Popularity of E-Bikes Isn’t Slowing Down Motorized bicycles are outselling all-electric cars and have the potential to transform urban transit.
Behind Elon Musk’s Twitter Poll Is a Tax Bill Coming Due He asked whether he should sell 10 percent of his stock, and Twitter voters said yes. Stock options he was granted in 2012 are “a ticking ta...
Chip Shortage Creates New Power Players Low-profile chip makers with aging factories have become surprisingly powerful, leading to industry changes that may outlive the pandemic-fu...
Chip Shortage Creates New Power Players Low-profile chip makers with aging factories have become surprisingly powerful, leading to industry changes that may outlive the pandemic-fu...
Google Temps Fought Loss of Pandemic Bonus. And Won. When a Google staffing agency reneged on a promise to pay an attendance bonus, temps who are part of the company’s union organized and force...
The Metaverse Takes Manhattan NFT.NYC, a gathering for nonfungible token enthusiasts, offered a taste of a crypto-filled future.
To Build the Metaverse, Meta First Wants to Build Stores The social networking company has discussed opening physical stores to showcase its virtual reality and augmented reality devices.
Facebook Faces New Antitrust Lawsuit The suit, filed by the now defunct photo start-up Phhhoto, accused the social network of stalling on a deal and then putting it out of busin...
Google Launches Company Dedicated to Drug Discovery Isomorphic Labs is a spinoff of the London-based artificial intelligence lab DeepMind.
America Loves Choices. Not in Phones. Why Apple and Samsung are the Coke and Pepsi of smartphones in the U.S.
Blue Origin Loses Legal Fight Over SpaceX’s NASA Moon Contract A federal judge rejected the argument by Jeff Bezos’ rocket company that NASA unfairly awarded a lunar lander contract to Elon Musk’s firm.
A New 10-Year Plan for the Cosmos On astronomers’ wish list for the next decade: two giant telescopes and a space telescope to search for life and habitable worlds beyond Ear...
Google Wants to Work With the Pentagon Again, Despite Employee Concerns Three years ago, the company walked away from a Defense Department project after employees objected to it. Now the company is working on a n...
Satellites Could Help Track if Nations Keep Their Carbon Pledges Scientists used satellite measurements of carbon dioxide to detect small atmospheric reductions over areas under coronavirus lockdowns. The ...
Tech Can’t Fix the Problem of Cars Flashy new car technology may be exciting, but it might also be distracting us from what we need.
The U.S. blacklists the NSO Group, an Israeli spyware firm. NSO and three other companies were added to a list that blocks foreign companies from buying certain types of sensitive American technology ...
Researchers say a coordinated misinformation campaign on Twitter backed Kenya’s president. The research underscores how online platforms based in the United States still struggle to police inauthentic behavior abroad.
How to Block Your Phone from Interrupting You If the apps, alerts and action on your smartphone are taking up too much of your attention, turn on Focus mode to mute the distractions.
Meta Makes Changes to Marketing Strategy Amid Scandals After the social media giant auditioned agencies to manage its ad budget, underscoring its Madison Avenue ties, Spark Foundry won the busine...
Zillow, facing big losses, quits flipping houses and will lay off a quarter of its staff. The real estate website had been relying on its algorithm that estimates home values to buy and resell homes. That part of its business lost...
Are You Missing Out on the Metaverse? Pitches for the future of the internet are banking on an old trick: FOMO.
Are You Missing Out on the Metaverse? Pitches for the future of the internet are banking on an old trick: FOMO.
The Mark Zuckerberg Aesthetic With his plans for a virtual reality metaverse, the Facebook founder pitches himself as a cultural impresario of the internet’s future.
Another Apple Worker Says the Company Retaliated Against Her One of the leaders of an activist movement at Apple took her complaint to a federal agency, marking an escalation of a conflict between Appl...
The Mark Zuckerberg Aesthetic With his plans for a virtual reality metaverse, the Facebook founder pitches himself as a cultural impresario of the internet’s future.
Facebook Plans to Shut Down Its Facial Recognition System Saying it wants “to find the right balance” with the technology, the social network will delete the face scan data of more than one billion ...
The Strange Saga of Huawei How the U.S. tries to keep the country safe and competitive as the future of technology becomes less American.
Squid Cryptocurrency Crashes, and Investors Lose Money The digital money, called Squid, began trading last week for a penny. It soared spectacularly, before the money vanished.
As Demand for Green Energy Grows, Solar Farms Face Local Resistance Developers say industrial-scale farms are needed to meet the nation’s climate goals, but locals are fighting back against what they see as a...
Funding for start-ups founded by women is surging. Women raised almost twice as much venture capital funding in the first nine months of this year as they did in 2020 or 2019.
Squid Cryptocurrency Crashes, and Investors Lose Money The digital money, called Squid, began trading last week for a penny. It soared, spectacularly, before the money vanished.
Rivian Gets Closer to IPO, Seeking Over $50 Billion Evaluation The company updated registration documents with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday.
Regulators Ask Congress to Create New Rules for Cryptocurrencies A Treasury Department report says stablecoin issuers should operate like banks to avoid destabilizing runs that could erode financial stabil...
Amazon to Launch First Two Internet Satellites in 2022 Competing with SpaceX, OneWeb and others, the e-commerce titan will rely on small rockets to get prototypes of its satellite constellation i...
Can Supersonic Air Travel Fly Again? The key to its revival may be a breakthrough in creating a quieter sonic boom. The challenges, though, are significant.
Banks Tried to Kill Crypto and Failed. Now They’re Embracing It (Slowly). Digital payments technology is forcing the financial system to evolve. Banks feel their power waning and want to regain control.