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Jun 24, 2019
It's unclear whether the outages are connected.
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Jun 24, 2019
Unlike the way we interact with Facebook and Google, most people don't have a direct relationship with data broker companies and often don't even know their names. Here are tips from the experts about how to reduce the number of companies selling your data.
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Jun 24, 2019
The global community of knitters will not be allowed to support President Trump through words or projects, Ravelry said.
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Jun 24, 2019
Sens. Warner and Hawley have a new effort.
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Jun 24, 2019
It's unclear whether the outages are connected.
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Jun 22, 2019
Our latest privacy experiment found Chrome ushered more than 11,000 tracker cookies into our browser — in a single week.
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Jun 22, 2019
China's burgeoning supercomputer industry became the latest target of U.S. trade restrictions as officials banned exports to four Chinese technology companies and one research institute on the grounds that they threaten American national security.
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Jun 22, 2019
Though it won't make you rethink your assumptions about video games, you're likely to be entertained by the game's hypnotic game play loops.
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Jun 21, 2019
A how-to video from GE Lighting has gone viral, showing users how to reset C by GE lightbulbs.
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Jun 21, 2019
How should companies decide which objectionable content should stay online or get the ax? Answering that question has presented a tremendous challenge in recent years for companies such as Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.
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Jun 21, 2019
How can we use technology without it taking over our lives? See expert advice on how to be a smarter you with technology.
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Jun 21, 2019
Investigators are still trying to determine what caused SpaceX's capsule to explode during a test.
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Jun 20, 2019
Democrats and Republicans aim to outlaw a wider array of robocall practices adopted by fraudsters and legitimate businesses alike while empowering the government to issue tougher penalties against callers who violate the law.
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Jun 20, 2019
How should companies decide which objectionable content should stay online or get the ax? Answering that question has presented a tremendous challenge in recent years for companies such as Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.
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Jun 20, 2019
Known as "My Special Aflac Duck," the robot merging play with tools that help doctors do their jobs.
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Jun 20, 2019
The new president overseeing Nintendo of America faces the challenge of keeping the company's business thriving while living up to the legacy of his beloved predecessor, Reggie Fils-Aimé.
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Jun 20, 2019
They're clapping back at proposals in Washington.
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Jun 20, 2019
YouTube executives are discussing broad changes to how the video platform handles children's content and are also examining ways to improve core features to limit hate speech in response to criticism that the video-streaming platform has done too little to prevent harm.
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Jun 19, 2019
The space agency had vision, genius and dash, but a strategy of incremental progress won the race.
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Jun 19, 2019
Boeing will move its space headquarters from Arlington, Va., to the Florida Space Coast as it pursues a number of rocket and spacecraft programs, including one that would launch astronauts from American soil for the first time since the space shuttle retired in 2011.
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Jun 19, 2019
The goal is to provide financial services to billions of people around the world, including those who lack access to banking.
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Jun 19, 2019
On June 18, Facebook announced the debut of its digital currency Libra. Here's some background on how the initiative works.
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Jun 19, 2019
The rocket NASA plans to use to get astronauts to the moon by 2024 has for years suffered significant cost overruns and schedule delays. But those problems are even worse than originally thought, according to a federal watchdog report expected to be released Wednesday.
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Jun 19, 2019
Sen. Josh Hawley wants companies to undergo FTC audits to qualify for immunity.
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Jun 18, 2019
She's proposing a $7 billion fund for minority entrepreneurs.
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Jun 18, 2019
From 'Minecraft Earth' to 'Bee Simulator,' here are the best family-oriented titles from E3 2019.
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Jun 18, 2019
For most Americans, robocalls are a nuisance. For hospitals, spam calls can be a life-or-death threat in a setting where every second counts.
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Jun 18, 2019
Just not Trump.
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Jun 18, 2019
A Brenda and John Romero-made mob game, a 'pinbrawler' and other smaller games not to be missed.
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Jun 18, 2019
The online retail giant is working to draw customers who have long been loyal to Walmart.
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Jun 18, 2019
A backpacker in Australia went missing. His father asked WhatsApp to release his encrypted messages to help find him.
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Jun 18, 2019
Two esports lawyers discuss the complexities of esports contracts and why a "fair" deal is all relative in a constantly evolving industry.
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Jun 18, 2019
Domino's plans to start delivering pizzas using an autonomous, unmanned vehicle. The announcement is the latest example of technology companies using robots to deliver food.
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Jun 18, 2019
Russia conducted a "continued and sustained" disinformation campaign against Europe's recent parliamentary elections, the European Union reported Friday in the latest sign that Russia's high-tech efforts to influence democratic votes have not slowed down.
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Jun 18, 2019
The nondeletion comes after Musk refused to credit an artist for an image he posted on Twitter.
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Jun 18, 2019
"The affected users are unable to access Google Calendar," Google said of the outage, which began Tuesday morning.
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Jun 18, 2019
The goal is to provide financial services to billions of people around the world, including those who lack access to banking.
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Jun 14, 2019
Tech companies must suddenly focus on lobbyists instead of engineers.
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Jun 14, 2019
This week Uber announced plans to begin testing the first-ever commercial application of drone food delivery in high-density urban areas, joining companies like Amazon and Google that are seeking to make make unmanned commercial deliveries using the same technology.
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Jun 14, 2019
Analysts and industry observers say they could see the automaker being sold or relegated to the status of a "niche" automaker.
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Jun 14, 2019
From "CyberPunk 2077" to "Luigi's Mansion 3," there were plenty of titles to get excited about.
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Jun 14, 2019
Finding the game bewildering at first is a testament to how well the game succeeds on its own terms.
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Jun 14, 2019
YouTube's removal of thousands of videos and channels featuring Holocaust denial and Nazi ideologies offended a wide array of would-be supporters of its new hate speech policy.
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Jun 13, 2019
The app, which says it has 200 million users worldwide, has been widely used in Hong Kong to coordinate demonstrations against a controversial extradition bill.
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Jun 13, 2019
Two decades after Congress tried to wall off the worst of the Internet in hopes of protecting the privacy and innocence of children, the ramparts lie in ruins.
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Jun 13, 2019
The altered videos could sway an election.
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Jun 12, 2019
Researchers fear it is only a matter of time before the AI-generated fake videos are deployed for maximum damage — to sow confusion, fuel doubt or undermine an opponent, potentially on the eve of a White House vote.
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Jun 12, 2019
Researchers fear it is only a matter of time before the AI-generated fake videos are deployed for maximum damage — to sow confusion, fuel doubt or undermine an opponent, potentially on the eve of a White House vote.
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Jun 12, 2019
Ro Khanna is drafting legislation.
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Jun 12, 2019
"Deepfakes" have changed the idea that seeing is believing - and could have a huge impact on how future political campaigns unfold.
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Jun 12, 2019
Facebook said they will not take down a video of Mark Zuckerberg created using artificial intelligence, called a "deepfake."
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Jun 12, 2019
Nine states and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit Tuesday to block the proposed merger of T-Mobile and Sprint, believing that the combination of the country's third- and fourth-largest wireless carriers would threaten competition and harm consumers.
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Jun 11, 2019
Matt Furie has been enforcing his copyrights to stop right-wing figures from profiting off his creation.
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Jun 11, 2019
They're seizing on the antitrust moment in Washington.
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Jun 10, 2019
The automated search result revealed the enduring fallibility of the world's most influential search tool.
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Jun 10, 2019
What's face recognition at the airport really about? Immigration policy and efficiency.
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Jun 10, 2019
CBP says photos of travelers have been compromised as part of a "malicious cyber-attack," raising concerns over how expanding surveillance efforts could imperil privacy.
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Jun 10, 2019
What's face-recognition at the airport really about? Immigration policy and efficiency.
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Jun 10, 2019
JetBlue has begun using facial recognition to board certain flights. The Washington Post's Geoffrey A. Fowler travels to New York's JFK airport to take a look.
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Jun 10, 2019
American citizens have the right to opt out of the growing use of face scans at the airport.
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Jun 10, 2019
Lawmakers are starting to scrutinize manipulated videos.
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Jun 10, 2019
Carlos Maza has accused YouTube of viewing LGBT creators as "props" in its effort to appear tolerant and sensitive.
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Jun 10, 2019
Regulators need to approve its planned acquisition of Looker.
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Jun 10, 2019
The online retail giant is considering a bid for Boost Mobile to bolster its Alexa smart-assistant business.
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Jun 10, 2019
Tim Apple is doing his best.
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Jun 10, 2019
This week, Amazon unveiled a new warehouse robot named Pegasus. The suitcase-sized robot is used to sort packages at dozens of the company's sprawling distribution centers.
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Jun 10, 2019
The shipping giant's decision reflects long-simmering tension with the online retailer, which has its own logistics operation that's taken the most lucrative delivery routes for itself.
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Jun 10, 2019
FedEx says it has made a strategic decision not to renew one of its contracts with the online retail giant. While the move is unlikely to have any major effect on Amazon's day-to-day shipping needs, it could impact the retailer during the all-important holiday shipping season, when package volume surges. (Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos owns […]
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Jun 10, 2019
U.S. technology companies have told the Commerce Department that the Trump administration's ban on selling to the Chinese tech giant Huawei could significantly harm their bottom lines and might damage their ability to develop new technological innovations, including those needed by the U.S. military.
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Jun 10, 2019
Under the NASA plan, as many as two private astronauts per year could fly to the station and stay for up to 30 days, with the first mission coming as early as next year.
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Jun 10, 2019
CEO Dara Khosrowshahi says he will assume command of the company's core business.
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Jun 06, 2019
Carlos Maza has accused YouTube of viewing LGBT creators as "props" in its effort to appear tolerant and sensitive.
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Jun 06, 2019
PIN codes, individual letters and whole words can be recovered with the right app, researchers say.
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Jun 06, 2019
Robots are changing the way Amazon handles its warehouse operations. Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post.
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Jun 06, 2019
"Draugen" is a single-player, first-person Fjord Noir mystery set in 1920s Norway.
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Jun 06, 2019
The industry's upstarts are deeply intertwined with the behemoths.
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Jun 06, 2019
The new rules allow carriers to enroll consumers in call-blocking tools by default, but the FCC did not mandate that telecom giants offer these services for free, sparking sharp criticism from one Democratic commissioner.
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Jun 06, 2019
The video game industry is booming like never before ahead of the annual E3 conference, but regulators are casting a close eye on the burgeoning sector.
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Jun 06, 2019
Its protagonist is not a hero, but a man traumatized by his past. Its pacing is leisurely rather than hurried. Its mysteries court the mundane more than the spectacular.
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Jun 06, 2019
Some workers at the retail titan's superstores said they had expected the robots would take their jobs one day. But they hadn't expected this strange middle period, during which they'd have to work alongside brittle, clumsy and easily confused machines.
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Jun 06, 2019
Amazon announced June 5 it would start delivering products using drones in just months. Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post.
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Jun 06, 2019
Amazon has a new fully autonomous drone and says it could start delivering to customers' doorsteps in months.
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Jun 06, 2019
A video at Amazon's conference showed the company's newest package delivery drone. Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post.
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Jun 05, 2019
Apple's most important software updates from WWDC.
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Jun 05, 2019
At Apple's WWDC 2019, tech columnist Geoffrey Fowler says there were lots of small but welcome iterations on products — some of which were long overdue.
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Jun 05, 2019
At the Worldwide Developers Conference on June 3, Apple said iTunes would become three apps instead of one: Apple Music, Apple Podcasts and Apple TV.
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Jun 05, 2019
At the Worldwide Developers Conference on June 3, Apple revealed new privacy settings including one-time location sharing and a "Sign in with Apple" feature.
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Jun 05, 2019
At the Worldwide Developers Conference on June 3, Apple unveiled dark mode for iPhones, a mode that switches app backgrounds to black.
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Jun 05, 2019
There is growing concern over how the Silicon Valley tech giant runs its app store.
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Jun 05, 2019
Apple CEO Tim Cook compared the iPhone iOS 12 adoption rate of 85 percent to the Android 9 adoption rate of 10 percent.
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Jun 05, 2019
Facebook suffered an early defeat in a D.C. court on Friday, after a judge ruled against the social-networking giant's attempts to quash a case brought by the D.C. attorney general challenging the company's privacy practices.
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Jun 05, 2019
The probe announced Monday by the House Judiciary Committee's competition-minded panel, led by Rep. David Cicilline (R.I.), is expected to be far-reaching, covering the extent to which a company like Google favors its products over rivals or Facebook clones or acquires competitors in an attempt to ensure its continued dominance in social networking.
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Jun 05, 2019
The Justice Department has taken early steps toward opening a federal antitrust investigation into Google, according to three people familiar with the matter.
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Jun 05, 2019
Prison channels on YouTube have more than 2.1 million subscribers and about 342 million page views.
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