The tech company, telling its employees to “stop disrupting the workday,” issued new workplace rules designed to rein in its freewheeling c...
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Qualcomm Wins Reprieve in F.T.C. Antitrust Case With Appeals Court Ruling
A federal appeals court ruled that the chip maker did not have to modify key business practices while the court reviews a lower-court rulin...
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Facebook Bans Ads From The Epoch Times
The social network has struggled to implement a consistent political advertising policy as groups appear able to get around its transparenc...
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The Week in Tech: Facebook’s First Step Toward Treating Our Data Better
The social network’s latest privacy feature at least lets us imagine how we could better control our data in the future. By JAMIE CONDLIFF...
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Major Phone Service Providers Agree to Plan to Slow Robocallers
Verizon, AT&T, Comcast and nine other phone service providers reached a deal with 51 attorneys general across the country to install ca...
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YouTube Disables 210 Channels That Spread Disinformation About Hong Kong Protests
Days after Facebook and Twitter cracked down on China-backed accounts that were spreading such disinformation, YouTube did the same. By KA...
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Voices in AI – Episode 94: A Conversation with Amy Webb
[voices_in_ai_byline] About this Episode Episode 94 of Voices in AI features Byron speaking with fellow futurist and author Amy Webb on t...
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Inside India’s Messy Electric Vehicle Revolution
A million electric rickshaws sprang up out of nowhere and are now being used by 60 million people a day. The government and vehicle makers ...
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How to Turn an iPhone Into a Work-Only Tool
To prevent distractions, Conor Dougherty, an economics writer, dumped social media and anything fun — even his browser — from his smartphon...
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Hi, Alexa. How Do I Stop You From Listening In On Me?
Humans help train artificial intelligence, so someone may be listening to what you tell Siri, Google Assistant or Alexa. Here’s what to do ...
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How Should Big Tech Be Reined In? Here Are 4 Prominent Ideas
Some critics of the industry want to see the businesses broken up. Others would like to strengthen regulation of Silicon Valley. And there ...
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Facebook’s New Tool Lets You See Which Apps and Websites Tracked You
The tool is a response to criticism that Facebook has faced over how it safeguards its users’ privacy. By MIKE ISAAC from NYT Technology h...
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In New Facebook Effort, Humans Will Help Curate Your News Stories
A news section inside Facebook’s mobile app will be run by journalists and not just algorithms, the company said. By MIKE ISAAC from NYT T...
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State Attorneys General Said to Be Near Formal Investigation of Tech Companies
Their bipartisan effort comes after a smaller group of the state representatives met last month with antitrust officials at the Justice Dep...
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Facebook and Twitter Say China Is Spreading Disinformation in Hong Kong
The social media companies removed accounts and said they were sowing divisive messages about the Hong Kong protests. By KATE CONGER from ...
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To Power A.I., Start-Up Creates a Giant Computer Chip
The chip could improve how quickly artificial intelligence systems can learn tasks. But its complexity and size (as big as a plate) could b...
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Paging Big Brother: In Amazon’s Bookstore, Orwell Gets a Rewrite
As fake and illegitimate texts proliferate online, books are becoming a form of misinformation. The author of “1984” would not be surprised...
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Terrorists Turn to Bitcoin for Funding, and They’re Learning Fast
The authorities have begun to raise alarms about a steady uptick in the number of militant groups using the hard-to-trace digital currency....
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BI Consolidation Roundup: Who is best positioned to win after the recent M&A activity?
Read Andrew Brust’s Full Report Report Summary: Business Intelligence Market Consolidation What took place from April through June, 201...
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A.I. Is Learning From Humans. Many Humans.
Artificial intelligence is being taught by thousands of office workers around the world. It is not exactly futuristic work. By CADE METZ f...
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