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Nov 05, 2019
Apple and TikTok took a lashing Tuesday for choosing to skip a congressional hearing meant to explore the tech industry and its ties to China, an absence that threatens both companies with sustained political scrutiny over their controversial relationships with Beijing.
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Nov 05, 2019
The tensions inside TikTok's Beijing-based parent company highlight a growing challenge for the American Internet as Chinese tech giants race to expand and compete more directly with social-media firms in the West.
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Nov 05, 2019
Activists are hopeful they're getting through to the Facebook chief.
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Nov 05, 2019
The United States and China are strategic competitors in many arenas, but none is more critical in shaping the future of the world than the competition for dominance in AI.
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Nov 04, 2019
Facebook says its new branding communicates "clarity" and "optimism." Typography experts say it's also about convincing users it can be trusted.
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Nov 04, 2019
"OK, boomer" is a pithy way young generations are clapping back toward people they perceive to be out of touch.
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Nov 04, 2019
Google has long pursued hardware but has mostly come up short. So it's doing the next best thing: buying Fitbit, which provides data riches.
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Nov 04, 2019
The 2019 wildfires have laid bare the drawbacks to an air quality monitoring system designed more for measuring large swaths of land over time than for providing real-time, localized data that is more valuable in disasters like wildfires.
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Nov 04, 2019
The company's employee lockout period was expected to lift this week, raising concerns about a potential rush to sell its stock.
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Nov 04, 2019
The mismatch is indicative of a David-and-Goliath battle.
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Nov 04, 2019
The anonymous message board was known for promoting online hate and extremism, including during mass shootings.
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Nov 04, 2019
Apple, Facebook, Google and Microsoft have collectively pledged billions of dollars toward housing campaigns this year. Some advocates say it's not enough.
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Nov 04, 2019
Top executives at TikTok have declined to testify at a congressional hearing slated for next week to explore the tech industry and its ties to China, a move that threatens to worsen the social-media app's woes in Washington.
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Nov 02, 2019
Police in Hallandale Beach, Fla., say they have obtained the data from Amazon, which has pushed back against releasing such information in past cases.
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Nov 02, 2019
Users need the update to keep GPS, email and other functions working.
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Nov 02, 2019
Much like the tech industry itself, the Halloween festivities have rapidly scaled from an organic attempt at connection into something unrecognizable.
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Nov 02, 2019
The deal puts Alphabet in a race against Apple when it comes to tracking fitness and health data.
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Nov 02, 2019
Hong Kong team manager Derek Kwok predicted that the team would "put up a good fight" against Germany. That statement summarized the match, watched by nearly 20,000 concurrent viewers on Twitch, well.
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Nov 02, 2019
The review of the Chinese-owned social-media company adds to its woes in Washington.
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Nov 01, 2019
The probe applies to model year 2012 through 2019 Model S and X vehicles.
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Nov 01, 2019
The deal puts Alphabet in a race against Apple when it comes to tracking fitness and health data.
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Nov 01, 2019
The definition of ‘issue ads' is murky.
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Nov 01, 2019
NBC has rolled out a new feature that allows people to shop while they watch television, but a question remains: will anybody use it?
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Oct 31, 2019
Zuckerberg waded into a war of words Thursday with Aaron Sorkin, who wrote an op-ed criticizing Facebook's political ad policy.
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Oct 31, 2019
The Texas-led antitrust investigation into Google has already spilled into court, after the tech giant on Thursday told a judge that two experts retained by the states raise serious "confidentiality" concerns given their past work with rivals, such as News Corp.
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Oct 31, 2019
The man behind Russia's Internet Research Agency trolls that worked to elect Donald Trump has been active in Africa, too, according to Facebook, which took down more than 170 accounts with nearly 1 million followers overall.
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Oct 31, 2019
The lawsuit marks a new chapter in growing public resistance to the technology, which can be used to quickly identify people caught on camera without their knowledge or consent.
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Oct 31, 2019
The social network's growth has defied criticism from privacy experts and regulators.
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Oct 31, 2019
Mark Zuckerberg doubled down on free speech.
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Oct 31, 2019
Our latest privacy experiment tested sites for an invisible form of online tracking that you can't easily avoid.
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Oct 30, 2019
The policy announced by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on Wednesday will take effect in November.
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Oct 30, 2019
The past few months have been among the rockiest in the company's 15-year history.
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Oct 30, 2019
The man behind Russia's Internet Research Agency trolls that worked to elect Donald Trump has been active in Africa, too, according to Facebook, which took down more than 170 accounts with nearly 1 million followers overall.
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Oct 30, 2019
The team entrusted with making decisions on whether to deactivate drivers has had its responsibilities eroded.
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Oct 30, 2019
She singled out Joel Kaplan in plans to shut revolving door.
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Oct 30, 2019
The leak of an open letter could signal a new emphasis on activism.
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Oct 30, 2019
A digital hallpass app that tracks bathroom trips is the latest school software to raise privacy concerns.
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Oct 30, 2019
The surge in consumption comes despite mounting concerns about the grip that smartphones and screens have on young people's lives and development.
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Oct 30, 2019
WhatsApp on Tuesday accused the Israeli surveillance company NSO of helping governments hack into the mobile devices of more than 100 people worldwide, including journalists and human rights workers.
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Oct 28, 2019
"Official records show that your voter registration is incomplete," began one ad from a pro-Trump super PAC that Facebook later removed. "Follow the link below to complete your voter registration NOW!"
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Oct 28, 2019
An ad was removed linking Lindsey Graham to the Green New Deal.
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Oct 28, 2019
The company says the experiment is aimed at giving users a "digital detox."
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Oct 25, 2019
At Google's closed-door meeting, CEO Sundar Pichai and other top executives sought to quell employee discontent and defended the hiring of a former Department of Homeland Security official, while chastising employees for airing their gripes publicly.
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Oct 25, 2019
The contract award comes after years of bitter accusations and lawsuits by some of the country's biggest tech companies. Rivals had feared the procurement was fixed in Amazon's favor. This is a developing story. It will be updated.
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Oct 25, 2019
A Canadian grocery chain says its introducing a fleet of intelligent grocery carts that scan and weigh products as customers place them in the cart.
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Oct 25, 2019
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Republican Sen. Tom Cotton asked U.S. intelligence officials to probe TikTok, expressing fears that the Chinese-owned social-networking app poses "national security risks."
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Oct 25, 2019
A Canadian grocery chain says its introducing a fleet of intelligent grocery carts that scan and weigh products as customers place them in the cart.
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Oct 25, 2019
Rep. David Cicilline says Congress has a responsibility to act.
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Oct 25, 2019
The Facebook CEO couldn't name the firm conducting its civil rights audit.
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Oct 25, 2019
A British firm claims it has been hired by a mysterious robotics company to find the perfect face for a new fleet of humanoid robots.
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Oct 25, 2019
Google is making what it calls the biggest tweak to its search engine in the past five years. But it's still a work in progress.
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Oct 25, 2019
Ten percent of U.S. Twitter users are behind 97 percent of tweets that mention national politics, according to a Pew study.
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Oct 25, 2019
Friday marks a new phase in Facebook's approach to online news, particularly after the company shifted the focus of its news feed last year to promote posts shared by family and friends.
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Oct 25, 2019
The e-commerce giant's investments in delivering packages in one day as it ramps up for the holiday shopping season continue to bit into its profit margins.
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Oct 25, 2019
Citing foreign interference in the 2016 election and past efforts of voter suppression, activists raise alarm over Facebook's decision to allow politicians to lie on the platform without consequences.
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Oct 23, 2019
Diplomatic tensions between China and the United States continued to climb Wednesday, when Chinese officials accused the U.S. of having "weaponized" the visa process after a top Chinese official was unable attend a major international space conference currently being held in Washington.
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Oct 23, 2019
The Democratic presidential candidate believes game publishers need to provide players with more information regarding the randomized in-game transactions.
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Oct 23, 2019
Loved the "Moonrise" podcast? Here's a reading list for brushing up on space history.
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Oct 23, 2019
Facebook joins a small but growing Silicon Valley trend in agreeing to pay for news.
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Oct 23, 2019
Chief executive Mark Zuckerberg returned to the congressional spotlight on Wednesday, testifying at a hearing that could lay bare the broad bipartisan fears about the tech giant's preparedness entering the 2020 presidential election.
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Oct 23, 2019
The Facebook head wants to talk about Libra. But lawmakers may have other things in mind.
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Oct 23, 2019
The October tradition of needlessly freaking out about strange sweets
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Oct 23, 2019
Chief executive Mark Zuckerberg returned to the congressional spotlight on Wednesday, testifying at a hearing that could lay bare the broad bipartisan fears about the tech giant's preparedness entering the 2020 presidential election.
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Oct 23, 2019
The company said Monday it disabled a network of accounts originating in Russia that posed at times as locals in swing states to post on divisive political issues and the upcoming presidential election.
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Oct 23, 2019
Forty-six attorneys general have joined a New York-led antitrust investigation of Facebook, the states announced Tuesday, commencing a high-stakes, sweeping bipartisan probe of the tech giant.
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Oct 23, 2019
Our tech columnist helps identify a HIPAA loophole, explains ApplePay and shares a Firefox upgrade that helps you track the data trackers on your computer.
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Oct 23, 2019
As Gen Z grows up and goes to college, some parents are using technology to keep a close watch
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Oct 23, 2019
HireVue claims it uses artificial intelligence to decide who's best for a job. Outside experts call it "profoundly disturbing."
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Oct 23, 2019
"I think we ought to have a freedom of responsibility," Rep. Johnson says.
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Oct 23, 2019
It's not just tech companies that are in a position of relative strength since 2016.
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Oct 23, 2019
The company enabled the reporting mechanism for Android users earlier this year.
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Oct 23, 2019
The secretive space company has formed a partnership with Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Draper to build a lunar landing system.
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Oct 18, 2019
Hurd, 62, previously led Hewlett-Packard.
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Oct 18, 2019
Hurd, 62, had previously led Hewlett-Packard.
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Oct 18, 2019
Christina Koch and Jessica Meir ventured outside the International Space Station just months after NASA had to cancel an all-female spacewalk because of a spacesuit-sizing problem.
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Oct 18, 2019
The letter escalates the storm Blizzard faces ahead of its annual BlizzCon event the first weekend of November.
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Oct 18, 2019
As climate change threatens to make power outages more frequent, California businesses are turning to solar-powered systems to protect their operations when the lights go out.
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Oct 18, 2019
He is also heading to Capitol Hill again next week.
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Oct 18, 2019
The goal, researchers say, was to create a robot that learns the way humans do — through trial and error. Eventually, those robots could be used to complete tasks — in a warehouse or perhaps on the surface of a new planet — with more autonomy.
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Oct 18, 2019
Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg drew fresh ire from Democratic presidential candidates, free speech experts and civil rights advocates, who argued his speech in Washington this week failed to acknowledged the troubles with the tech giant's practices.
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Oct 17, 2019
Facebook live stream viewers saw nearly entirely positive comments and emojis during Zuckerberg's speech because of how the algorithms behind a live-stream with tens of thousands of viewers work.
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Oct 17, 2019
Facebook live stream viewers saw nearly entirely positive comments and emojis during Zuckerberg's speech because of how the algorithms behind a live-stream with tens of thousands of viewers work.
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Oct 17, 2019
This is the full text of the speech Mark Zuckerberg gave at Georgetown University on free expression.
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Oct 17, 2019
Tens of millions of viewers have watched video streamed on Twitch this year. But the site's exploding fan base has attracted those seeking to sow discord and spotlight mass violence.
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Oct 17, 2019
USMCA ship may have already sailed.
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Oct 17, 2019
Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said in an interview with The Washington Post that he worries "about an erosion of truth" online but defended the policy allowing politicians to peddle ads containing misrepresentations and lies on his social network, a stance that has sparked an outcry during the 2020 presidential campaign.
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Oct 17, 2019
Here's how the game's creators injected more reality into Modern Warfare.
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Oct 17, 2019
Hughes and his allies are putting new money toward a new "anti-monopoly" fund, hoping to harness heightened interest around big tech into a broader movement to analyze, regulate or dismantle behemoths in agriculture, healthcare and other industries where he says competition is lacking and consumers feel the pain.
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Oct 16, 2019
Uber and Lyft chose not to send representatives to a congressional inquiry aimed at examining their safety and labor practices.
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Oct 16, 2019
The Democratic Party's rapidly fading love affair with Big Tech has broken into open acrimony in recent weeks, punctuated by a presidential debate Tuesday in which leading candidates took turns decrying the industry's impact on the nation and workshopping ways to rein it in.
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Oct 16, 2019
Some don't think tech issues will sway voters.
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Oct 15, 2019
YouTube and Facebook added age restrictions.
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Oct 15, 2019
Uber raised eyebrows last month when its chief lawyer asserted that "drivers' work is outside the usual course of Uber's business" in a call laying out the company's resistance to a California bill that would alter the employment status of many gig workers.
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Oct 15, 2019
The video's airing at a conservative event — and its mass sharing afterward — revealed how the once-fringe movements of online trolling and meme-making have helped reshape mainstream politics and the media.
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Oct 15, 2019
U.S. officials are struggling to quantify the value of digital activities and integrate those numbers into public policy.
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Oct 15, 2019
Changes to Section 230 could extend into online marketplaces.
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Oct 15, 2019
What happens when the world's most popular game shuts down?
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Oct 15, 2019
Apple's Screen Time is meant to give customers a way to control their kids' devices, but intrepid youngsters have exploited bugs and workarounds.
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