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May 10, 2021
The pipeline delivers roughly 45% of fuel consumed on the East Coast
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May 06, 2021
No matter if Clubhouse sinks or floats, its matzo-loving Jewish community is committed
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May 06, 2021
Facebook's new Oversight Board, a new, quasi-independent organization that acts as a kind of supreme court for Facebook's moderation decisions, issued its most important decision yet. In a lengthy ruling, it determined that Facebook was "justified" when it suspended Donald Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts on January 6th, 2021, but that it shouldn't have imposed…
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May 05, 2021
The decision by Facebook's handpicked Oversight Board opens the door for Trump to return to social media
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May 03, 2021
In identical tweets, they said they had made the decision to end their marriage of 27 years
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Apr 27, 2021
For TIME's cover story on the future of business and the digitization of everything—which accompanies our list of the 100 most influential companies—we turned the space over to an artist who's been at the forefront of the digital art movement for more than a decade. Artist Mike Winkelmann (aka Beeple) wanted to take our readers…
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Apr 27, 2021
In March 2020, as businesses across the world sent non-essential workers home to slow the spread of the coronavirus, a 2.6 million-sq.-ft. General Motors plant in Kokomo, Ind., sat idle. At the same time, ventilators—the breathing machines essential to keeping critically ill COVID-19 patients alive—were in frighteningly short supply. And so within a week of…
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Apr 23, 2021
Robert Chapman of Carmel, N.Y., appears to have said on the dating app that he 'did storm the Capitol'
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Apr 16, 2021
'Do you think anybody really wants an EV pickup truck?'
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Apr 13, 2021
Apple's new app tracking transparency rules require developers to submit information about the user data they collect
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Apr 06, 2021
'This is huge for a vibrant tech industry to continue innovating'
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Apr 06, 2021
What should you hear from an electric Vehicle? Automakers are working on answers--and composing the soundscape of the 21st century city
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Apr 05, 2021
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is telling everyone who will listen that it is time to regulate the internet. But do Facebook and other platform companies support meaningful oversight or simply a regulatory Potemkin Village? Zuckerberg's efforts began with a 2019 op-ed in the Washington Post, "The Internet needs new rules." The article proposed…
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Apr 02, 2021
President Biden faces challenges greater than any president since FDR. The country is struggling with a deadly pandemic that has shaken the economy and exposed its structural flaws. His political opponents refuse to engage with those challenges, choosing instead to focus their efforts on undermining democracy. Powerful business interests in technology, health care, finance, energy,…
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Apr 01, 2021
For a decade, the Kremlin has sought to control online information. But anti-government protests earlier this year have kicked efforts into higher gear
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Mar 24, 2021
A Twitter user who claims to have found shrimp tails in a box of Cinnamon Toast Crunch has kicked off a viral Twitter saga
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Mar 23, 2021
Facebook tweaked its algorithms in October, but advocacy group Avaaz finds the platform had already amplified false and toxic content by then
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Mar 22, 2021
'Non-fungible tokens' let artists sell digital creations in a unique new way--and open a window on the nature of value
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Mar 22, 2021
The day Françoise Brougher was fired from Pinterest began like so many of her workdays. It was April 2, 2020, and the company's chief operating officer—with her rescue dog Dogbert nearby—was a few weeks into the pandemic and remote work, managing her team of 750 from her home in Silicon Valley. The gentlest social media…
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Mar 19, 2021
It's an effort to get Facebook's popular products into the hands of the next generation of internet users
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Mar 18, 2021
Critics say NFTs and other crypto-based technologies are taking a disastrous toll
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Mar 15, 2021
Houses on real estate sites can run the gamut from wonderfully weird to straight up cursed
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Mar 14, 2021
And why the humble phone call is a better way to connect
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Mar 14, 2021
New research reports that video and social calls leave you lonelier and more stressed
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Mar 14, 2021
And why the humble phone call is a better way to connect
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Mar 11, 2021
The Indian government must suspend sweeping new Internet regulations, 10 international NGOs said in an open letter Thursday. The new rules, brought in by executive order in late February, give the Indian government an arsenal of muscular new powers that will force tech companies and news outlets to comply with government surveillance and censorship demands.…
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Mar 08, 2021
The White House has called the hack an "active threat" and said senior national security officials were addressing it
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Mar 05, 2021
In October 2019, the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg was asked what she thought historians would see when they looked back on the Trump era in United States history. Justice Ginsberg, known for her colorful and often blistering legal opinions, replied tersely, "An aberration." As President Biden's administration settles in, many feel an…
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Mar 01, 2021
It says it will use a "strike system" to remove accounts that repeatedly violate its vaccine misinformation rules
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Mar 01, 2021
It's the strongest action the company has taken against the armed forces, known as the Tatmadaw, or indeed those in power in any nation
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Feb 24, 2021
Australia's parliament on Thursday passed the final amendments to the so-called News Media Bargaining Code
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Feb 23, 2021
The ban is to be lifted after a deal was struck on legislation that would make digital giants pay for journalism
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Feb 17, 2021
Australian users cannot share Australian or international news. International users outside Australia also cannot share Australian news
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Feb 08, 2021
The reported block appeared an explosion of discussions over the weekend on taboo topics from Taiwan to Xinjiang
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Feb 04, 2021
Natural Cycles uses fertility awareness methods, which carry a relatively high rate of unintended pregnancy
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Feb 01, 2021
Twitter blocked access to accounts associated with farmers protesting against the Indian government on Monday, in a localized blackout of some 250 accounts and tweets. The blocks, which only applied for viewers based in India, came after the Indian government hit Twitter with a legal demand. One thing many of the accounts appeared to have…
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Jan 29, 2021
The ruling on the Trump case is a major test of whether users and lawmakers will trust the company's attempts to regulate itself
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Jan 29, 2021
The year's most consequential events so far can be understood as a battle between the mobs and the mods
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Jan 28, 2021
Online violence leads to real world violence. The January 6th storming of the U.S. Capitol and the role of social media in helping coordinate the riots was not a surprise and the emerging details show this could have been mitigated, if not prevented, if Facebook had taken years of warnings seriously. Buzzfeed reported that for…
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Jan 28, 2021
The collective push by hyper-online investors also sought to fight back against a system that they feel deserves a reckoning
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Jan 26, 2021
The battle for privacy is moving to the next medium: money
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Jan 22, 2021
'If you want people to ride bikes, it can't just be about safety'
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Jan 22, 2021
The author discusses how we can regulate the murky world of big tech platforms
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Jan 22, 2021
The author discusses how we can regulate the murky world of big tech platforms
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Jan 22, 2021
Under President Biden, tech reform will take on a new urgency
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Jan 22, 2021
The rules proposed by the government aims to make Google and Facebook pay Australian media companies fairly for using news content
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Jan 21, 2021
The episode reveals the immense power held by Amazon's AWS and rival cloud services
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Jan 21, 2021
Creatives evolved "Bernie Sanders in a Chair" beyond the confines of a normal meme
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Jan 21, 2021
To be a responsible member of today's increasingly digital society requires a new set of "cyber citizenship" skills. This goes far beyond the need to protect oneself from on-line scams or the theft of Personally Identifiable Information (PII). Such skills should go to the very heart of what it means to be a U.S. citizen.…
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Jan 18, 2021
Greene gained large followings on social media in part by posting incendiary videos and comments and has also embraced QAnon
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Jan 15, 2021
Wikipedia, which celebrates its 20th birthday on Jan. 15, lives on—and it's not just surviving, but thriving.
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Jan 13, 2021
In centuries past, these call-and-response work songs maintained a ship crew's focus on safely navigating often dangerous waters
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Jan 12, 2021
If democracy is a river, or a forest, or a pristine meadow, then social media platforms are a factory spewing toxic pollutants into it. Even if you block the new effluent, the pollution that has already escaped won't just go away. It needs to be cleaned up. That's the analogy used by Whitney Phillips, one…
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Jan 08, 2021
The social media platform announced on Friday evening that it would be permanently suspending it "due to the risk of further incitement of violence"
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Jan 07, 2021
The events at the Capitol seemed a glaring sign that the risk to democracy was finally greater than the necessity of giving a sitting President a platform to speak
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Jan 06, 2021
The social media giants removed posts by President Donald Trump, and blocked him from posting to his tens of millions of followers on Wednesday
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Jan 06, 2021
This appears to be the first time that Twitter has locked down engagement with one of Trump's tweets
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Jan 06, 2021
This appears to be the first time that Twitter has locked down engagement with one of Trump's tweets
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Jan 06, 2021
The social media giants removed posts by President Donald Trump, and blocked him from posting to his tens of millions of followers on Wednesday
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Jan 05, 2021
'I know that Doctor Noc doesn't really have an agenda, outside of science'
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Dec 31, 2020
When Julie's boyfriend came home with a brand new iPhone for her at the end of the summer in 2019, Julie saw it as a peace offering—a sign that their relationship was on the mend. A few weeks earlier, her boyfriend Steve had flown into a rage, trashing the apartment they shared, punching Julie in…
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Dec 19, 2020
The cyber security firm FireEye revealed that it has been the victim of a massive, long-running hack of its network. Given FireEye's stature in the tech community, that alone would have made headlines, but the company went on to explain that the hackers were able to gain access to their system through corrupted software updates…
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Dec 18, 2020
Amid concerns over their ties to Beijing's government
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Dec 17, 2020
An investigation has found the hack didn't affect "mission-essential national security functions," a Department of Energy spokesperson said in a statement.
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Dec 17, 2020
It's time to rethink gaming's pre-ordering culture
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Dec 15, 2020
Big tech companies could face multibillion dollar fines in Europe and the threat of being broken up unless they comply with sweeping new regulations announced by the European Commission on Tuesday. After years of wrangling in the U.S. over whether to hold tech companies accountable for data practices and anticompetitive behavior, the new rules in…
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Dec 15, 2020
Big tech companies could face multibillion dollar fines in Europe and the threat of being broken up unless they comply with sweeping new regulations announced by the European Commission on Tuesday. After years of wrangling in the U.S. over whether to hold tech companies accountable for data practices and anticompetitive behavior, the new rules in…
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Dec 14, 2020
New Apple-Google software is leading to skyrocketing adoption
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Dec 13, 2020
(WASHINGTON) — Hackers broke into the networks of federal agencies including the Treasury and Commerce departments in attacks revealed just days after U.S. officials warned that cyber actors linked to the Russian government were exploiting vulnerabilities to target sensitive data. The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security's cybersecurity arm are investigating what experts and…
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Dec 11, 2020
On Wednesday, the Federal Trade Commission and the attorneys general of 48 states and territories filed antitrust cases against Facebook. The state case is broader than the FTC's, but both call for unwinding Facebook's acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp. On the heels of the House Antitrust Subcommittee report - which concluded that Facebook, Google, and…
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Dec 11, 2020
The PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X are in short supply, but there are plenty of other great gift options for gamers
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Dec 08, 2020
By putting the accessory on sale in December, Apple was aiming to lure holiday shoppers, but shipping delays may upset that strategy
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Dec 07, 2020
Consider these game-streaming services instead
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Dec 07, 2020
Some critics argue the Facebook Oversight Board's powers are too limited to actually take on the big-picture problems Facebook has with misinformation and hate speech
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Nov 24, 2020
It's quickly become my favorite of Apple's latest lineup
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Nov 20, 2020
From 'Spider-Man: Miles Morales' to 'Among Us'
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Nov 19, 2020
Every year, TIME highlights inventions that are making the world better, smarter and even a bit more fun. (See last year's list here.) To assemble our 2020 list, we solicited nominations both from our editors and correspondents around the world, and through an online application process. We then evaluated each contender on key factors, including…
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Nov 18, 2020
It's tempting to upgrade right away, but there are plenty of reasons to wait.
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Nov 12, 2020
Decisions, decisions...
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Nov 10, 2020
They use new iPhone-like processors that promise better battery life
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Nov 10, 2020
The otherwise excellent game is a missed opportunity to reckon with the issues of the day
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Nov 10, 2020
Sluggish development, distrust of technology companies, and sloppy messaging have slowed adoption
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Nov 06, 2020
If successful in India, WhatsApp Pay could be replicated worldwide
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Nov 06, 2020
The DualSense is a surprising standout of Sony's new console
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Oct 30, 2020
Every morning, Johnny Sayles wakes up and scrolls through news about the collapse of human civilization. Formerly a medical assistant at a surgical department in Washington state, Sayles was laid off at the beginning of April, when the pandemic hit. Confined to his home by stay-at-home orders, he began spending more time on the social…
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Oct 29, 2020
The warning comes as COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations surge across the country
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Oct 27, 2020
Facebook's top policy official in India, Ankhi Das, stepped down from the company on Tuesday following reports this summer by TIME and the Wall Street Journal that detailed links between senior Facebook staff and India's ruling party. A Facebook spokesperson told TIME that Das's departure "has nothing to do with the parliamentary inquiry or the…
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Oct 20, 2020
The Sussexes are working to educate others about the role that online communities can play in people's lives offline
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Oct 20, 2020
Maria Ressa urged U.S. voters to think about the kind of information ecosystem they want to live in when they vote in the Nov. 3 presidential election, in a TIME100 Talks discussion with Prince Harry and Renée DiResta. Ressa, founder of Filipino news site Rappler, which is critical of President Roderigo Duterte, is currently facing…
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Oct 20, 2020
Maria Ressa urged U.S. voters to think about the kind of information ecosystem they want to live in when they vote in the Nov. 3 presidential election, in a TIME100 Talks discussion with Prince Harry and Renée DiResta. Ressa, founder of Filipino news site Rappler, which is critical of President Roderigo Duterte, is currently facing…
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Oct 20, 2020
Anyone who has watched The Social Dilemma already knows that technology has fundamentally warped the way we see the world. But Prince Harry and Meghan, The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, have become invested in holding technology companies accountable for the misinformation spread on platforms like Facebook. For a special TIME100 Talks hosted by The…
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Oct 20, 2020
When Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian decided to take action in support of racial equality and Black Lives Matter this June, he made a surprising move: stepping back to let someone else lead. He resigned his position on the company's board, and publicly urged the social media platform to replace him with a Black board member.…
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Oct 20, 2020
This week's Department of Justice antitrust suit against Google is the agency's first major case against Big Tech since the 1998 Microsoft suit. It comes on the heels of a 451-page report by the House Antitrust Subcommittee that enumerates the dubious and harmful practices of the dominant digital companies and proposes the reinvigoration of the…
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Oct 19, 2020
I'm flying through the Nadiri Dockyards, where the New Republic constructs warships to take on the ever-expanding Galactic Empire. In my X-Wing starfighter, I'm being followed by an enemy TIE Bomber set on turning me into space dust. Hit after hit knocks out my shield until I decide to hide behind an asteroid, kill the…
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Oct 18, 2020
The tweet violated a Twitter policy that prohibits sharing false or misleading misinformation about COVID-19 that could lead to harm, a company spokesperson said
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Oct 14, 2020
5G reality hasn't caught up to expectations just yet
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Oct 13, 2020
Grab a new TV, pair of headphones, or mesh router on the cheap
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Oct 12, 2020
Mark Zuckerberg "still seems to ignore why Facebook is so ripe for spreading hate speech and disinformation to begin with"
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Oct 09, 2020
On Oct. 1, New York state released an app that can notify you if you've come into contact with a person who has tested positive for COVID-19. Called "COVID Alert NY," the app is one of 10 currently active in states around the U.S. that are based on Google and Apple's decentralized contact tracing system,…
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Sep 27, 2020
President Donald Trump's ban on TikTok was temporarily blocked by a federal judge hours before it was due to be removed from U.S. app stores.
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