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Oct 20, 2018
The midterm elections are 17 days away. Here is a collection of coverage from The New York Times and elsewhere on efforts to mislead voters on social media and the wider internet.
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Oct 20, 2018
Conservative political apps deliver curated partisan messages, free from the strictures and content guidelines imposed by Silicon Valley giants.
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Oct 20, 2018
Several start-ups hope to use the technology introduced by Bitcoin to give broader access to the data and algorithms behind artificial intelligence.
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Oct 19, 2018
The anonymous group's campaign highlights Facebook's continuing trouble with political advertising.
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Oct 19, 2018
The WikiLeaks founder claimed that his longtime hosts at the country's embassy in London are limiting his contact with the outside world and censoring his speech.
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Oct 19, 2018
Facebook, which owns WhatsApp, is trying to prove it can curb the spread of false news. But the app's design makes it difficult.
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Oct 19, 2018
Jack Dorsey of Twitter and Marc Benioff of Salesforce, among others, are sparring over a Nov. 6 ballot initiative that would impose new corporate taxes.
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Oct 19, 2018
Saudi Arabia's investments in tech put some companies in a tough spot after evidence emerged that Saudi agents may have killed a dissident writer.
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Oct 19, 2018
A push for a global agreement on autonomous weapons is stalled, much to the chagrin of advocates who believe a treaty is urgently needed.
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Oct 18, 2018
Amazon won't say a word about where it plans to put its much-hyped second headquarters. But there is a growing consensus that it will go across the river from Washington.
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Oct 18, 2018
Amazon won't say a word about where it plans to put its much-hyped second headquarters. But there is a growing consensus that it will go across the river from Washington.
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Oct 18, 2018
From Singapore to Israel, countries besides the United States and China are striving to play a role in the field of artificial intelligence.
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Oct 18, 2018
From Singapore to Israel, countries besides the United States and China are striving to play a role in the field of artificial intelligence.
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Oct 18, 2018
Robin Sloan is using a homemade software program to supply phrases and images for his new book.
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Oct 17, 2018
The ads, with language and imagery not typically found in even the roughest campaigns, were purchased by a critic of Jennifer Wexton, a Democrat trying to unseat the Republican incumbent.
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Oct 17, 2018
The streaming service surprised Wall Street with huge gains in subscribers in the third quarter. The results showed why AT&T and Disney spent big on their latest acquisitions.
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Oct 17, 2018
She was a photo editor. Now she's an events manager. Whitney Richardson discusses how her career shift at The Times has changed her tech habits.
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Oct 17, 2018
The Library of Congress says it has digitized the largest collection of Theodore Roosevelt's papers in the world.
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Oct 17, 2018
The tech mogul, whose Craigslist site helped replace newspaper classifieds, has given $50 million to revitalize local reporting in New York — including a new gift on Wednesday.
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Oct 16, 2018
Bankers have told Uber that its public offering could be worth $120 billion. That puts it in rare company with the likes of Facebook and Alibaba.
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Oct 16, 2018
Guests included Serena Williams, Anna Wintour, Kevin Systrom and Stewart Brand.
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Oct 16, 2018
The office is investigating the source of more than 22 million public comments submitted to the F.C.C. during the battle over internet regulation.
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Oct 16, 2018
To comply with a European antitrust ruling, Google will begin charging a licensing fee of handset makers.
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Oct 16, 2018
Mr. Allen and Bill Gates started the company in 1975, helping to usher in the personal computing revolution. He died after a recurrence of cancer.
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Oct 16, 2018
Laboratories frequently "reclassify" genetic mutations. But there is no reliable system for telling patients or doctors that the results of their genetic tests are no longer valid.
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Oct 15, 2018
As India develops new rules governing the data of its residents, global firms are the first target. Companies say they need more time to comply.
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Oct 15, 2018
The company said Friday that a network breach was smaller than originally thought: 30 million profiles. But the hackers stole detailed information.
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Oct 15, 2018
Doing significantly more work in the United States, as the company is being pressured to do, would require an overhaul of its business model and corporate culture.
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Oct 15, 2018
Hardware innovations? Nope. Instead, Google is emphasizing software improvements — particularly for images — with its newest Pixel smartphones.
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Oct 15, 2018
Fifteen murder and sexual assault cases have been solved since April with a single genealogy website. This is how GEDmatch went from a casual side project to a revolutionary tool.
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Oct 15, 2018
With fake pages and sham accounts, the military targeted the mostly Muslim Rohingya minority group, said former military officials, researchers and civilian officials.
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Oct 15, 2018
The goal, said L. Rafael Reif, the president of M.I.T., is to educate "the bilinguals of the future." Blackstone's Steven A. Schwarzman is contributing $350 million.
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Oct 15, 2018
Researchers developed a new microscope that traces embryonic cell movement in real time, sketching a virtual map of how organ systems develop.
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Oct 14, 2018
He created the mobile computing companies Palm and Handspring. But for decades his passion has been studying how the human brain works.
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Oct 12, 2018
On the same day the company announced it had purged domestic sources of disinformation, it said it had blocked two companies, one of them with Russian government clients.
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Oct 12, 2018
A study found that it will soon be possible to identify the DNA of 90 percent of European Americans through cousins in genealogy databases.
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Oct 12, 2018
For a week now, people have been buzzing about an article that sounded as if it had come from a high-tech spy thriller. Does it point to larger problems?
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Oct 11, 2018
Ahead of the midterm elections, false and divisive messages on social media — once the specialty of Russian-linked operatives — are now increasingly being created and spread by Americans.
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Oct 11, 2018
As SpaceX and other companies use the Vandenberg Air Force Base launch hub near Los Angeles more often, the region can expect more spectacles like the one visible on Sunday.
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Oct 11, 2018
Amazon and other tech giants have made devices connected to the internet increasingly prevalent. Now is the time to be freaking out about the dangers.
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Oct 10, 2018
The service, which will include HBO shows and Warner movies, will put AT&T into direct competition with rivals like Netflix, Disney and Amazon.
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Oct 10, 2018
Lost faith in Facebook and Instagram after data leakages, breaches and too much noise? Here's a guide to breaking up with the social network and its photo-sharing app for good.
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Oct 10, 2018
Millie Tran, the first global growth editor at The Times, discusses how she tries to understand and nurture a worldwide audience. "So many dashboards and data sets!"
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Oct 10, 2018
The social network turned to Rappler, a scrappy news start-up, to clean up its service in the Philippines. But misinformation comes fast and has proved hard to stamp out.
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Oct 09, 2018
Last week the company was praised for increasing what it paid its warehouse workers. Now the company is explaining what that means for bonuses and stock grants.
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Oct 09, 2018
Last week the company was praised for increasing what it paid its warehouse workers. Now the company is explaining what that means for bonuses and stock grants.
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Oct 08, 2018
Google did not notify authorities of the vulnerabilities in Google Plus, which exposed the data of up to 500,000 users.
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Oct 08, 2018
After the 2000 dot-com crash and the Sept. 11 attacks, it seemed as if the era of cocky young Silicon Valley techies minting easy millions was over for good. Ha.
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Oct 08, 2018
Google did not notify authorities of the vulnerabilities in Google Plus, which exposed the data of up to 500,000 users.
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Oct 08, 2018
Google did not notify authorities of the vulnerabilities in Google Plus, which exposed the data of up to 500,000 users.
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Oct 08, 2018
At a time when trust in its services is eroding, the social network introduced Portal and Portal Plus, its first major effort to build consumer hardware from scratch.
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Oct 08, 2018
At a time when trust in its services is eroding, the social network introduced Portal and Portal Plus, its first major effort to build consumer hardware from scratch.
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Oct 08, 2018
The heart monitor should not be considered a medical device and reflects wider problems with health screens.
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Oct 07, 2018
The willingness to back some nicotine start-ups while condemning others illustrates the delicate ethical dance that investors are trying to perform.
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Oct 07, 2018
Tech employees concerned their products are being deployed for government surveillance or censorship are increasingly asking their employers how the technology is being used.
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Oct 05, 2018
The hack of 50 million Facebook accounts affects logins on hundreds of other sites. Plus, two billionaires lost big, and another shared the wealth.
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Oct 05, 2018
Millions of weapons aficionados reload their own ammunition and cast their own bullets, acts of individualism that are hallmarks of the broader American gun ethos.
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Oct 05, 2018
New technology that draws from user feedback is helping.
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Oct 05, 2018
Spotify and Ancestry team up for that saliva sample sound.
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Oct 04, 2018
A prominent show of support from a Facebook executive for Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh as he faced assault claims has brought new turmoil to the company.
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Oct 03, 2018
Sheera Frenkel, who writes about cybersecurity for The Times, explains how she safeguards her devices, and why passwords remain a weak link for more people.
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Oct 03, 2018
Anthony Aiello of San Jose, Calif., was charged in his stepdaughter's death after her Fitbit showed her heart stopped beating while he was in her house, the police said.
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Oct 03, 2018
Two Democrats want the Federal Trade Commission to examine whether thousands of apps are violating a children's online privacy law.
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Oct 03, 2018
The auction site said it was tipped off to the situation by an eBay seller who had been contacted by Amazon.
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Oct 03, 2018
The Japanese automaker will take a $750 million stake and commit $2 billion over 12 years in the race to develop fully autonomous vehicles.
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Oct 03, 2018
The technology, also known as magnetic induction, is a relatively new feature for powering iPhones and popular Android phones. Most people don't use it, but here are a few benefits.
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Oct 03, 2018
The alert, at 2:18 p.m. Wednesday, was the first nationwide test of a wireless emergency alert system, designed to warn of a major threat, like a terror attack or natural disaster.
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Oct 03, 2018
The actor just made her second start-up investment, in dating app Bumble. Her investments will skew heavily toward companies with an element of social impact, and companies founded by women.
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Oct 03, 2018
The alert, at 2:18 p.m. Wednesday, will be the first nationwide test of a wireless emergency alert system, designed to warn of a major threat, like a terror attack or natural disaster.
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Oct 03, 2018
The Japanese automaker will take a $750 million stake and commit $2 billion over 12 years in the race to develop fully autonomous vehicles.
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Oct 03, 2018
To help those with hearing problems, speech is shown in real time on the lenses. The technology will be available free during the 2019 season.
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Oct 03, 2018
The Apple Watch is hardly a failure, but its sluggish takeoff reveals the cracks in the company's mythology.
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Oct 03, 2018
The alert, at 2:18 p.m. Wednesday, will be the first nationwide test of a wireless emergency alert system, designed to warn of a major threat, like a terror attack or natural disaster.
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Oct 02, 2018
Ten years ago, the social network introduced a password system that connected it to a broad swath of the internet. Now we are seeing the downside.
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Oct 02, 2018
Facebook offered a convenient and secure way to sign up for online services. A major hack shows it failed at its one job.
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Oct 02, 2018
The hike includes Whole Foods employees and part-time workers, and the company also said it would lobby the federal government for a higher minimum wage.
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Oct 02, 2018
The improvement is welcome news for a company that has been rocked by upheaval since Elon Musk, its chief executive, unveiled an abortive buyout plan.
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Oct 02, 2018
The improvement is welcome news for a company that has been rocked by upheaval since Elon Musk, its chief executive, unveiled an abortive buyout plan.
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Oct 02, 2018
The improvement is welcome news for a company that has been rocked by upheaval since Elon Musk, its chief executive, unveiled an abortive buyout plan.
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Oct 02, 2018
The hike includes Whole Foods employees and part-time workers, and the company also said it would lobby the federal government for a higher minimum wage.
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Oct 02, 2018
In a satirical new novel, a former Google executive identifies the technology industry's chief issue: its narrow engineering-focused bubble.
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Oct 01, 2018
Groups of new vehicles are being detected in unexplained locations across the country. Evidence being posted online has raised questions about production, logistics, quality and even demand.
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Oct 01, 2018
The Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal by Vinod Khosla, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist whose belief in property rights outweighed his affinity for a state access law.
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Sep 30, 2018
The agency filed its suit shortly after the state's bill, meant to guarantee equal access to the internet, was signed into law.
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Sep 30, 2018
A rabbi at the world's largest kosher certification agency is leading an effort to determine if and how meat grown from animal cells can satisfy Jewish law.
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Sep 30, 2018
Spotless walls, a "millennial pink" sofa, and a spa-style bathtub that's waiting to be filled with flowers. And every inch of its 2,400 square feet is free from the clutter of everyday life.
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Sep 30, 2018
Vertical Networks, founded by Elisabeth Murdoch, has become a major supplier of app-centric video series that are drawing young viewers on Snapchat, Facebook and YouTube.
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Sep 29, 2018
After walking away from a deal, Tesla's chief agreed to give up the chairmanship for three years and pay a $20 million fine.
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Sep 29, 2018
After walking away from a deal, Tesla's chief agreed to give up the chairmanship for three years and pay a $20 million fine.
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Sep 29, 2018
After walking away from a deal, Tesla's chief agreed to give up the chairmanship for three years and pay a $20 million fine.
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Sep 29, 2018
After walking away from a deal, Tesla's chief agreed to give up the chairmanship for three years and pay a $20 million fine.
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Sep 29, 2018
After walking away from a deal, Tesla's chief agreed to give up the chairmanship for three years and pay a $20 million fine.
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Sep 29, 2018
With the cancer center's corporate ties under scrutiny, the hospital told employees that no one should profit personally from representing MSK on outside boards.
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Sep 28, 2018
The attack added to the company's woes as it contends with fallout from its role in a Russian disinformation campaign.
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Sep 28, 2018
The S.E.C. said that Renaud Laplanche had improperly approved alterations to some of the company's lending products to bolster the company's financial performance.
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Sep 28, 2018
With a fresh battery and operating system, an aging iPhone 6 seems faster than ever. Why would Apple take steps to discourage a new purchase?
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Sep 28, 2018
Sundar Pichai, the chief executive, met with Republican and Democratic lawmakers to try to tamp down criticism facing the company.
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Sep 28, 2018
The attack added to the company's woes as it contends with fallout from its role in a Russian disinformation campaign.
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Sep 28, 2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission is seeking to bar Mr. Musk from ever serving as an officer or director of a public company.
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Sep 28, 2018
The company was attacked amid one of the most difficult times in its history and as it continues to contend with the falloutfrom its role in a Russian disinformation campaign.
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