Senators Urge Google to Give Temporary Workers Full-Time Status Temps and contractors outnumber permanent employees at the company, allowing it to maintain labor flexibility and save money.
8chan Is a Megaphone for Gunmen. ‘Shut the Site Down,’ Says Its Creator. The site is a venue for extremists to test out ideas, share violent literature, and cheer on the perpetrators of mass killings.
A Brain Scan May Predict Alzheimer’s. Should You Get One? One expert warns of “unintended downsides,” including overuse of only modestly effective medications.
Fortnite Fortunes and Freakouts: Parents Grapple With an Obsession Fortnite, the widely popular video game, can lead to big financial wins for teenagers. But Times readers say its use also has parents strugg...
Bad Times in Tech? Not if You’re a Start-Up Serving Other Start-Ups Meet the two Stanford dropouts, both 23, who run Brex, which provides charge cards to start-ups. Its growth is a sign of Silicon Valley’s un...
The Math Equation That Tried to Stump the Internet Sometimes BODMAS is just PEMDAS by another name. And no, the answer is not 100.
Ninja, a Fortnite Star, Leaps From Twitch to Mixer Tyler Blevins, 28, the multimillionaire gamer known as Ninja, says he has a deal to stream exclusively at the Microsoft service. He’s quitti...
The Week in Tech: Facebook Romance Scams and Banking Hacks For years, impostors have been posing as members of the military to bilk people out of money. Why has Facebook been unable to stop them?
DoorDash Buys a Rival, Caviar, for $410 Million The deal escalates the intense competition in food delivery.
Mixer Lures Ninja From Twitch. (What? We Explain.) Tyler Blevins, 28, the multimillionaire gamer known as Ninja, says he has a deal to stream exclusively at the Microsoft service. He’s quitti...
Another Victim of Facebook Romance Scams: A U.S. Congressman After battling social media impostors for years, Representative Adam Kinzinger of Illinois wants to force Facebook to do more to combat fake...
Children as Young as 11 Added to N.Y.P.D. Facial Recognition Database With little oversight, the police have been using the powerful surveillance technology on photos of children and teenagers.
Should Board Gamers Play the Roles of Racists, Slavers and Nazis? After the cancellation of Scramble for Africa, where do board games go from here?
Amazon Kindle Oasis Review: Now Is the Perfect Time to Buy an E-Reader In an era of smartphone addiction, a single-purpose device like an e-reader may help you unplug and focus on content that will bring you joy...
EBay Accuses Amazon Managers of Conspiring to Poach Its Sellers The accusation comes at a touchy time for Amazon, with Washington on the lookout for potential anticompetitive behavior.