Starfield’s 1,000 Planets May Be One Giant Leap for Game Design
The stakes are high for Bethesda’s newest role-playing game. Microsoft needs an Xbox hit, and players are hungry for an expansive and satisf...
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VanMoof, Trendy E-Bike Brand, Bought Out of Bankruptcy by Scooter Maker
Lavoie, which makes high-end scooters based on McLaren’s Formula 1 technology, acquired the trendy e-bike brand that had gained a zealous fo...
Educational Apps to Help You Learn While Passing the Time
Apps that offer short lessons in various subjects can help get the most out of your time whether you’re waiting for a train or a meeting.
Educational Apps to Help You Learn While Passing the Time
Apps that offer short lessons in various subjects can help get the most out of your time whether you’re waiting for a train or a meeting.
Falsehoods Follow Close Behind This Summer’s Natural Disasters
Misattributed videos, recycled lies and warped fears are fueling unfounded claims about the recent record-breaking heat, floods and wildfire...
Falsehoods Follow Close Behind This Summer’s Natural Disasters
Misattributed videos, recycled lies and warped fears are fueling unfounded claims about the recent record-breaking heat, floods and wildfire...
A California Land Mystery Is Solved. Now the Political Fight Begins.
Tech industry investors spent roughly $900 million buying land to build a dream city in a rural part of the Bay Area. It could be years, tho...
Where Tech Investors Are Buying Up Land, Locals Are Worried
In Solano County, Calif., longtime residents are both worried and baffled by an ambitious plan to build a city where there is now mostly far...
As Teens Take to E-Bikes, Parents Ask: Is This Freedom or Danger?
Across the country, parents are expressing a mix of enthusiasm, contrition and uncertainty about the trendy mode of transportation.
Meta’s ‘Biggest Single Takedown’ Removes Chinese Influence Campaign
The campaign began at least four years ago and spanned thousands of accounts on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X, Substack and Chinese website...
The A.I. Revolution Is Coming. But Not as Fast as Some People Think.
From steam power to the internet, there has always been a lag between technology invention and adoption across industries and the economy.
TikTok’s U.S. Future Still in Limbo as Commerce Secretary Visits China
Gina Raimondo, who is in China this week, has said banning TikTok could “lose every voter under 35, forever.”
Tech Chiefs to Gather in Washington Next Month on A.I. Regulations
The leaders of Google, OpenAI, Microsoft and others are meeting with lawmakers on Sept. 13 to kick off listening sessions that may shape A.I...
Electric Vehicle Charging Can Be Confusing. Here’s What to Know.
Many carmakers and charging companies are switching to the Tesla plug for electric vehicles. Why are they doing that and what will it mean?
A.I. Brings the Robot Wingman to Aerial Combat
An Air Force program shows how the Pentagon is starting to embrace the potential of a rapidly emerging technology, with far-reaching implica...
Instacart Reveals $428 Million in Profit but Slowing Growth Ahead of I.P.O.
Nearly a third of Instacart’s revenue came from advertising, and grocery orders were flat in the first half of this year, the company said.
Before Gran Turismo Inspired a Movie, It Drove Jann Mardenborough to Greatness
The PlayStation video game’s realistic cars and racetracks helped Jann Mardenborough find his calling as a professional driver.
Trump Returns to X, the Service Formerly Known as Twitter
Absent for more than two years, former President Donald J. Trump posted his mug shot on the site, now called X.
John Warnock, Inventor of the PDF, Dies at 82
As a founder of Adobe Systems, he oversaw the development of software and systems that made modern personal computing possible.
Despite Cheating Fears, Schools Repeal ChatGPT Bans
Some districts that once raced to block A.I. chatbots are now trying to embrace them.
In Reversal Because of A.I., Office Jobs Are Now More at Risk
Technology disruption typically affected blue-collar occupations. Now white-collar workers may feel the brunt of changes.
Nvidia Revenue Doubles on Demand for A.I. Chips, and Could Go Higher
Sales for the current quarter will nearly triple their total a year ago, said the company, which makes chips essential to the development of...
YouTube Improperly Used Targeted Ads on Children’s Videos, Watchdogs Say
One of the groups said it had used Google’s tools to run a targeted ad campaign this month on children’s channels. Google has said it did no...
Defcon 2023: los hackers encuentran fallos de la IA
Los piratas informáticos actuaron con el beneplácito de la Casa Blanca y de empresas de inteligencia artificial y hallaron desinformación po...
Canadian Officials Condemn Facebook for News Ban, as Wildfires Burn
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said it was “inconceivable” that the platform had responded to a new licensing law by blocking news links, as ...
What Spatial Audio Can and Cannot Do for Classical Music
Immersive audio formats, while newer for pop, have been used by composers for decades. But not all works call for spatial treatment.
Sliman Bensmaia, Who Enabled Prosthetic Limbs to Feel, Dies at 49
His work in the neuroscience of touch led to devices that allow amputees and quadriplegics not just to move about the world but also to sens...
Arm, the Chip Designer, Files for an I.P.O. Expected to Be Among the Largest
The I.P.O. filing means Arm can begin to gauge investor interest, which will be critical to the share sale.
More Screen Time Delays Development in Babies, Study Finds
One-year-olds exposed to more than four hours of screen time a day experienced developmental delays in communication and problem-solving ski...
How Nvidia Built a Competitive Moat Around A.I. Chips
The most visible winner of the artificial intelligence boom achieved its dominance by becoming a one-stop shop for A.I. development, from ch...
Even in War, Ukrainian Soldiers Find Time for World of Tanks Video Game
The urge to play a violent video game in the midst of the most brutal land war in Europe since World War II may seem baffling. But it’s a wa...
Haptic Suits Let You Feel Music Through Your Skin
Wearable backpacks designed by Music: Not Impossible, which allow people to experience music as vibrations on their bodies, are becoming mor...
Cruise Agrees to Reduce Driverless Car Fleet in San Francisco After Crash
A driverless Cruise taxi with a passenger collided with a fire truck Thursday night, just one week after state officials allowed the service...
Sam Bankman-Fried Goes to Jail, Back to School With A.I. and A Self-Driving Car Update
Sam Bankman-Fried lands himself back in jail.
Intelligence Agencies Warn Foreign Spies Are Targeting U.S. Space Companies
U.S. officials say Chinese and Russian spy agencies are trying to steal technology from private American space companies and preparing cyber...
Driverless Car Gets Stuck in Wet Concrete in San Francisco
Though driverless cars have not been blamed for any serious injuries or crashes in the city, they have been involved in several jarring epis...
YouTube Ads May Have Led to Online Tracking of Children, Research Says
YouTube’s advertising practices on kids’ channels could have resulted in companies tracking children across the web, a report said.
New York City Bans TikTok on Government-Owned Devices
The ban extends to some of the popular accounts run by the city.
Kansas Newspaper Raid: Seized Items to Be Returned to Marion County Record
The raid of the newspaper, The Marion County Record, has drawn condemnation from First Amendment advocates.
Intel Acquisition of Tower Semiconductor Is Scuttled by China
Intel calls off its planned acquisition of Tower Semiconductor, an Israeli chip maker, after waiting in vain for 18 months for a review by C...
When Hackers Descended to Test A.I., They Found Flaws Aplenty
The hackers had the blessing of the White House and leading A.I. companies, which want to learn about vulnerabilities before those with nefa...
The A.I. Industry’s Desperate Hunt for GPUs Amid a Chip Shortage
To power artificial-intelligence products, start-ups and investors are taking extraordinary measures to obtain critical chips known as graph...
Google Tests an A.I. Assistant That Offers Life Advice
The tech giant is evaluating tools that would use artificial intelligence to perform tasks that some of its researchers have said should be ...
Superconductor Scientist Faces Investigation as a Paper Is Retracted
The University of Rochester will examine the work of Ranga Dias, who was an author of a materials science paper unrelated to his superconduc...
X Slows Down Access to Some Rival Sites
Elon Musk’s social media service “throttled” access to sites such as Substack and Facebook, according to an analysis, but began reversing th...
A.I. Can’t Build a High-Rise, but It Can Speed Up the Job
Developers are embracing artificial intelligence tools like drones, cameras, apps and robots, which can reduce the timelines and waste that ...
First Solar Finds That Forced Labor Was Used in Its Malaysian Ops
The company, First Solar, said an internal review had found that subcontractors used unethical recruitment tactics and withheld pay from wor...
Prosecutors Detail Evidence Against Sam Bankman-Fried
In a filing, prosecutors laid out the evidence they plan to use to convict the founder of the failed crypto exchange FTX, who faces trial in...
Werner Herzog Is the Voice of A.I. Poetry
When asked to narrate an audiobook of machine-generated verse, Mr. Herzog readily agreed. “I wasn’t the best choice,” he said. “I was the on...
The Case of the Internet Archive vs. Book Publishers
In the pandemic emergency, Brewster Kahle’s Internet Archive freely lent out digital scans of its library. Publishers sued. Owning a book me...
As Hollywood Strikes Roll On, Viewers Catch Up With a TV Glut
After years of being inundated with new shows, some are using a pause in production to finally watch all the stuff they missed when it came ...
Sam Bankman-Fried to Be Sent to Jail After Judge Revokes Bail
Mr. Bankman-Fried had been under house arrest at his parents’ home as he awaited trial on charges stemming from the collapse of his cryptocu...
Regulators Agree to Expansion of Driverless Car Services in San Francisco
Autonomous Cruise and Waymo taxis have been buzzing around the city for some time, and now they can offer round-the-clock rides for pay.
Wisk and Archer Will Collaborate on Air Taxis and End Legal Fight
Wisk Aero, owned by Boeing, entered a financial and technological partnership with Archer Aviation and dropped a lawsuit claiming theft of t...
Sweden Is Not Staying Neutral in Russia’s Information War
The country has empowered a government agency to openly combat online disinformation coming from foreign adversaries, and especially the Kre...
Dozens of Children Die in Hot Cars Each Year. Back-Seat Sensors Could Save Them.
A moment of forgetfulness by a distracted or sleep-deprived parent can be devastating. Experts and child-safety advocates have called for in...
Amid Sextortion’s Rise, Computer Scientists Tap A.I. to Identify Risky Apps
Researchers who found that a fifth of social networking apps have received multiple user complaints about sexual exploitation have launched ...
San Francisco Balks at Expanding Driverless Car Services on City’s Roads
Local officials are worried that state regulators are too eager about a plan by the companies Cruise and Waymo to offer round-the-clock driv...
Special Counsel Obtained Search Warrant for Trump’s Twitter Account
The warrant, obtained in January, adds a new dimension to the scope of the federal inquiry into the events of Jan. 6, 2021.
This Is a Reminder That You’re Probably Oversharing on Venmo
The mobile wallet service is a cautionary tale of how apps born a decade ago or more may be exposing more information than you would like.
Amazon to Meet Regulators as U.S. Considers Possible Antitrust Suit
Amazon’s meetings with the Federal Trade Commission, known as “last rites” meetings, are typically a final step before the agency votes on f...
Crypto’s Next Craze? Orbs That Scan Your Eyeballs.
Sam Altman, OpenAI’s chief executive, has started Worldcoin, a cryptocurrency project that aims to scan billions of human irises.
Eight Months Pregnant and Arrested After False Facial Recognition Match
Porcha Woodruff thought the police who showed up at her door to arrest her for carjacking were joking. She is the first woman known to be wr...
A Zoom Call, Fake Names and an A.I. Presentation Gone Awry
A.I. start-ups are competing fiercely with one another as a race to get ahead in the technology intensifies.
With No Date Set, Musk and Zuckerberg Trade Barbs on ‘Cage Match’
Elon Musk, in an early-morning post, said he planned to livestream the event on his own platform. Mark Zuckerberg called for a “more reliabl...
Schumer Wields Political Heft in Bid for New York Chips Funds
The Senate majority leader helped deliver billions of dollars in federal funding for semiconductors. Now he’s pushing for his state to reap ...
Ransomware Attack Disrupts Health Care in at Least Three States
It was not immediately clear how many locations operated by Prospect Medical Holdings were affected but some sites had to cut back services ...
A New Frontier for Travel Scammers: A.I.-Generated Guidebooks
Shoddy guidebooks are flooding Amazon. Their authors claim to be renowned travel writers, but are they A.I. inventions? And how big is the p...
Judge Narrows Scope of Google Search Antitrust Case
The ruling did not affect other claims in the antitrust case about Google search, which is scheduled to go to trial next month.
How the ‘Spider-Verse’ Movies Have Changed Animation for the Better
The new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie and other C.G.I. cartoons are taking a looser, imperfect approach. The style represents a shift m...
The Chip Titan Whose Life’s Work Is at the Center of a Tech Cold War
At 92, Morris Chang, the founder of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, can no longer stay in the shadows.
Sales Drop in Apple’s Third Quarter but Top Wall Street Expectations
The iPhone maker’s recent quarter benefited from strong sales in its App Store and other services businesses.
Amazon Posts 11% Rise in Revenue as Growth Improves
The retailer also swung to a profit in the second quarter.
LK-99 Is the Ambient Superconductor of the Summer
Social media users are excited about what would be a breakthrough in solid state physics, but many experts in the field are cautiously skept...
When A.I. Lies About You, There’s Little Recourse
People have little protection or recourse when the technology creates and spreads falsehoods about them.
So What Do We Call Twitter Now Anyway?
With Elon Musk’s rebranding of the app, is Twitter’s name really retired? What about tweets? We unravel the terminology puzzle.
How to Self-Publish Your E-Book
If you have a story you want to share, you can easily publish your work in popular electronic bookstores — and maybe even make a little mone...
Tired of Dating Apps, Some Turn to Google Docs
Writers of so-called Date-Me Docs, which can read like 1,000-word versions of the personal ads of yore, hope for a more meaningful connectio...
Uber Posts 14% Rise in Revenue as Growth Slows
The company’s growth decelerated as the rebound from the pandemic normalized and its freight business declined. It also swung to a profit.
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