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Apr 06, 2020
Young people who entered this financial downturn with fewer resources than previous generations are enduring pain.
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Apr 06, 2020
Lawyers and a Silicon Valley start-up have found ways to flood the system with claims, so companies are looking to thwart a process they created.
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Apr 06, 2020
Young adults, who entered this financial downturn with fewer resources than previous generations, are enduring pain.
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Apr 05, 2020
The social network said it had made an "error" in threatening to ban the organizers of hand-sewn masks from posting or commenting on its site.
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Apr 05, 2020
Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman had to cancel a starry Hollywood party for their short-video platform because of the virus. But Quibi is still going live.
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Apr 05, 2020
Shifting sick-leave policy and communication issues are causing employees to assert themselves after they stayed on the job.
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Apr 05, 2020
Shifting sick-leave policy and communication issues are causing employees to assert themselves after they stayed on the job.
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Apr 04, 2020
Zachary Frenette spent about two weeks fighting to get help under a new Uber policy. It worked, but only after he got the news media involved.
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Apr 04, 2020
Zachary Frenette spent about two weeks fighting to get help under a new Uber policy. It worked, but only after he got the news media involved.
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Apr 03, 2020
Hospitals, governments, do-gooders and hucksters are all competing. Scams and prices are soaring.
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Apr 03, 2020
Zoom, the videoconferencing app, has become a target for harassment and abuse coordinated in private off-platform chats.
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Apr 03, 2020
Hospitals, governments, do-gooders and hucksters are all competing. Scams and prices are soaring.
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Apr 03, 2020
A video game pro tells us to embrace the mess of our pandemic lives.
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Apr 03, 2020
Hospitals, governments, do-gooders and hucksters are all competing. Scams and prices are soaring.
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Apr 03, 2020
Major prizes have been postponed or canceled because of the coronavirus outbreak, but one organization showed that a ceremony could still be done. Even down to the red carpet interviews.
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Apr 03, 2020
Silicon Valley hasn't suffered from the same financial devastation as other industries. Tech companies still have an agenda to push.
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Apr 03, 2020
Look at it as an opportunity to connect and build relationships with your children by doing something together.
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Apr 02, 2020
The pandemic is devastating start-ups. This matters in ways we can't always see.
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Apr 02, 2020
How Dr. Vladimir Zelenko's claims for his coronavirus treatment spread from a New York village all the way to President Trump.
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Apr 02, 2020
Doctors warn that sharing decisions to leave metropolitan areas for smaller towns on social media might encourage followers to disregard public health guidelines.
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Apr 02, 2020
India's government has pressured advertisers and even shut down channels to shape the information that 1.3 billion Indians receive. It's part of a wider assault on dissent.
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Apr 02, 2020
The coronavirus has relaxed many parents' stances on communication apps. Here are some ground rules.
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Apr 02, 2020
The internet giant is investing hundreds of millions of dollars in the effort, with its first original game, Crucible, to be released next month.
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Apr 02, 2020
After an inquiry from Times reporters, Zoom said it would disable a data-mining feature that could be used to snoop on participants during meetings without their knowledge.
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Apr 01, 2020
The new T-Mobile will have over 100 million customers and plans to take on AT&T and Verizon.
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Apr 01, 2020
Welcome to On Tech, a daily newsletter on how technology is changing all of our lives — for better or worse.
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Apr 01, 2020
While many start-ups grapple with the fallout from the pandemic, this San Francisco company raised more cash to survive.
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Apr 01, 2020
Dozens have laid off thousands, slashed costs and changed their businesses to try to survive the pandemic. All that may not work.
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Apr 01, 2020
If you have some spare time at home and want a productive project, consider creating a digital archive of your personal papers.
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Mar 31, 2020
From Ireland to Seattle, makers and engineers are creating open-source versions of much-needed medical equipment.
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Mar 31, 2020
We've tried all sorts of things to stop us from staring at our devices. Digital detoxes. Abstinence. Now? Bring on the Zoom cocktail hour.
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Mar 30, 2020
The two companies are the latest targets of labor action by groups fearing virus exposure on the job.
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Mar 30, 2020
As the videoconferencing platform's popularity has surged, Zoom has scrambled to address a series of data privacy and security problems.
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Mar 30, 2020
Tinkerers, sewers and scientists bring their ideas and 3-D printers to bear on the shortage of medical supplies.
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Mar 30, 2020
After spending billions to avoid a repeat of 2016, the tech giants are careening from crisis to crisis as their foes change tactics.
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Mar 30, 2020
Around the world, the history of our present moment is taking shape in journal entries and drawings.
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Mar 30, 2020
With grants and marketing spending, the social media giant hopes to support outlets doing essential local reporting but struggling with a drop in advertising.
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Mar 30, 2020
In the era of big data, memes and disinformation, the Democrats are trying to regain their digital edge as the president and his loyalists dictate the terms of debate.
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Mar 29, 2020
After spending billions to avoid a repeat of 2016, the tech giants are careening from crisis to crisis as their foes change tactics.
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Mar 29, 2020
The Kremlin-backed Internet Research Agency, which interfered in the 2016 election, is using different methods to hide itself better.
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Mar 28, 2020
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the administration's most outspoken advocate of emergency virus measures, faces a torrent of false claims that he is mobilizing to undermine the president.
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Mar 28, 2020
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the administration's most outspoken advocate of emergency virus measures, has become the target of claims that he is mobilizing to undermine the president.
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Mar 27, 2020
As New Jersey orders nonessential workers to stay home to fight the spread of the new coronavirus, employees of the RealReal, a luxury resale company, wonder just what is "essential."
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Mar 27, 2020
Uncomfortable with tech, many are struggling to use modern tools to keep up with friends and family in the pandemic.
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Mar 27, 2020
Upended by the coronavirus outbreak, nonprofits are laying off workers and seeking help from stretched donors.
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Mar 27, 2020
We are more dependent on technology than ever. Can it handle the strain?
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Mar 27, 2020
Upended by the coronavirus outbreak, nonprofits are laying off workers, seeking help from stretched donors and trying to stay alive.
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Mar 26, 2020
Americans are turning to crowdfunding to cover coronavirus-related costs while the government prepares to deliver on its stimulus plan. But most campaigns aren't meeting their goals.
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Mar 26, 2020
Homebound city dwellers are turning to a neighborhood app to connect, organize and help each other without risking physical contact.
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Mar 26, 2020
A new consortium of top scientists will be able to use some of the world's most advanced supercomputers to look for solutions.
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Mar 26, 2020
With people going online more in the pandemic, internet traffic has exploded. That's taking a toll on our download speeds and video quality.
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Mar 25, 2020
Homebound city dwellers are turning to a neighborhood app to connect, organize and help each other without risking physical contact.
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Mar 25, 2020
The makers of unauthorized kits designed for consumers to collect their own saliva or throat swabs faced scrutiny from Congress.
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Mar 25, 2020
Check your lighting and be deliberate about the background you're showing the world.
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Mar 25, 2020
As people become hostages in their own homes, hired clowns and costume nights may not be enough to maintain sanity.
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Mar 25, 2020
Do your co-workers really need to make their pets or toddlers part of the call? No.
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Mar 25, 2020
Cho Joo-bin was accused of blackmailing dozens of young women, including at least 16 minors, into making sexually explicit video clips of themselves.
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Mar 24, 2020
States like New York and California have made gig workers eligible for jobless benefits and sick days. But the companies have resisted complying.
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Mar 24, 2020
The social network is straining to deal with skyrocketing usage as its 45,000 employees work from home for the first time.
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Mar 24, 2020
The shared office space company is offering its workers $100-a-day bonuses to come to its locations amid the coronavirus crisis.
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Mar 23, 2020
After a federal warning, companies have stopped marketing kits that let consumers collect their own saliva or throat swabs and send them to labs.
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Mar 23, 2020
More than half of all news consumption on Facebook in America is about the virus, according to an internal report.
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Mar 23, 2020
Technology from Amazon, Apple, Google, IBM and Microsoft misidentified 35 percent of words from people who were black. White people fared much better.
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Mar 23, 2020
Trade officials approved the company's request to remove tariffs on the Apple Watch.
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Mar 23, 2020
Amazon is hiring aggressively to meet customer demand. Traffic has soared on Facebook and YouTube. And cloud computing has become essential to home workers.
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Mar 23, 2020
Plenty of work can be done from home, but the pandemic is forcing some parts of the scientific process to be put on the shelf.
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Mar 23, 2020
Tracking entire populations to combat the pandemic now could open the doors to more invasive forms of government snooping later.
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Mar 22, 2020
As its user base rapidly expands, the videoconference app Zoom is seeing a rise in trolling and graphic content.
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Mar 20, 2020
Doctors and patients also worry that the president's rosy outlook for the treatments will exacerbate shortages of old malaria drugs relied on by patients with lupus and other debilitating conditions.
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Mar 20, 2020
As its user base rapidly expands, the videoconference app Zoom is seeing a rise in trolling and graphic content.
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Mar 20, 2020
The internet is a pretty scary place right now. Here are some ways to make it better.
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Mar 20, 2020
Gabriel Jiménez hated the Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro. But he loved cryptocurrency. When he built the regime a digital coin, he nearly paid with his life.
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Mar 19, 2020
Anthony Levandowski was charged with stealing driverless-car plans when he left Google to form a company, which Uber then acquired.
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Mar 19, 2020
Health officials in Britain are building an app that would alert the people who have come in contact with someone known to have the coronavirus. The project aims to adapt China's tracking efforts for countries wary of government surveillance.
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Mar 19, 2020
Tractor-trailer fleets will take time to electrify, and start-ups and established truck makers are racing to get their models on the road.
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Mar 19, 2020
Digital dance raves. Streaming soundbaths. Book readings by phone. Now we've gotta get creative.
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Mar 18, 2020
A new project aims to turn social distancing into a dating game, taking a cue from "Love Is Blind."
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Mar 18, 2020
Hospitals and doctors say they are critically low on swabs that are needed to test patients for the coronavirus, as well as face masks and other gear to protect health care workers.
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Mar 18, 2020
From shoddy Wi-Fi to digital distractions, our tech can make remote work miserable. Here's how to overcome the problems.
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Mar 18, 2020
Hillel Furstenberg, 84, and Gregory Margulis, 74, both retired professors, share the mathematics equivalent of a Nobel Prize.
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Mar 18, 2020
Ed Catmull and Pat Hanrahan created computer techniques that remade animation, special effects, virtual reality and artificial intelligence.
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Mar 18, 2020
Gig companies promoted their flexible hours as an economic lifeline for workers. In the coronavirus outbreak, it has been anything but.
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Mar 18, 2020
From start-ups to big brands, businesses are offering personalized product options to extend their product lines and increase sales.
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Mar 18, 2020
In China, many rural students lack the connections or hardware to learn remotely. More nations will confront the same reality as the outbreak spreads.
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Mar 17, 2020
The three-week pause, which affects products like consumer electronics, allows the e-commerce company to deal with a surge in demand for household goods.
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Mar 17, 2020
The retailer is trying to do two contradictory things: Ban hate literature but allow free speech.
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Mar 17, 2020
More Netflix. Less ESPN. The pandemic means a greater number of television viewers in the short term, but signals a potential threat to the ecosystem protecting the industry.
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Mar 17, 2020
Zoom is where we work, go to school and party these days.
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Mar 17, 2020
More Netflix. Less ESPN. The pandemic means a greater number of television viewers in the short term, but signals a potential threat to the ecosystem protecting the industry.
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Mar 17, 2020
We've always hoped that our digital tools would create connections, not conflict. We have a chance to make it happen.
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Mar 17, 2020
In China, many rural students lack the connections or hardware to learn remotely. More nations will confront the same reality as the outbreak spreads.
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Mar 16, 2020
Online enforcers are dragging in hundreds for questioning as an assault on online speech continues. They are a sign how Beijing has given censors a more punitive role.
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Mar 16, 2020
The site from Google's sister company, Verily, was rolled out to two Northern California counties in hopes of guiding people to local virus testing.
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Mar 16, 2020
The site from Google's sister company, Verily, was rolled out to two Northern California counties in hopes of guiding people to local virus testing.
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Mar 16, 2020
With millions of people working and learning from home during the pandemic, internet networks are set to be strained to the hilt.
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Mar 16, 2020
The fine comes as the iPhone maker deals with the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Mar 16, 2020
Online enforcers are dragging in hundreds for questioning as an assault on online speech continues. They are a sign how Beijing has given censors a more punitive role.
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Mar 16, 2020
A clothing item inspired by a YouTube star has found its way into malls and schools, stumping adults along the way.
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Mar 15, 2020
Social media companies are delivering reliable information in the coronavirus crisis. Why can't they do that all the time?
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Mar 15, 2020
A Tennessee man had planned to sell his stockpile at marked-up prices online. Now he is under investigation for price gouging.
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