The World’s Pioneering Tech Cop Is Making Her Exit
Margrethe Vestager, the European Union’s antitrust regulator, who put technology’s harms on the global agenda, reflected on a decade of taking on the biggest companies and what comes next.
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Margrethe Vestager, the European Union’s antitrust regulator, who put technology’s harms on the global agenda, reflected on a decade of taking on the biggest companies and what comes next.
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The Silicon Valley company will receive less money from the CHIPS Act after winning a $3 billion military contract and changing some of its investment commitments.
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Last year, a chip breakthrough put Huawei on top of the Chinese smartphone market. Now it is rolling out its newest phone, the Mate 70 series.
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The ruling by a federal judge, Leonie Brinkema, in an antitrust case over Google’s advertising technology could add to the internet company’s woes.
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Bluesky has a hint of the old Twitter magic, but the feeling of freedom it offers might be even better.
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How to Add Extra Security Layers to Your Phone or Tablet
New features in Apple’s iOS 18 and Google’s Android 15 can lock up apps with sensitive information and even hide them from view.
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How Tech Created a ‘Recipe for Loneliness’
Technology and loneliness are interlinked, researchers have found, stoked by the ways we interact with social media, text messaging and binge-watching.
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How to Use Images From Your Phone to Search the Web
If you’re not sure how to describe what you want with keywords, use your camera or photo library to get those search results.
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Hate Noisy Restaurants? Stick This in Your Ear.
Apple earbuds and others can help you hear dining companions. Here’s how to use them.
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Regulators are demanding information from the company on its cloud computing, artificial intelligence and cybersecurity products.
By David McCabe
Automakers and parts suppliers would struggle if President-elect Donald J. Trump followed through on his threat to impose 25 percent tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico.
By Jack Ewing and Neal E. Boudette
In Ethan Lipton’s musings on A.I., Mozart has a place alongside humpback whales.
By Elisabeth Vincentelli
The software giant said it was working on a fix for the issue, which has affected the many companies that use Microsoft’s products. It later said it had fixed all affected services except Outlook on the web.
By Mike Isaac
The two sides made their final cases to a federal judge Monday in a trial over the tech giant’s dominance in technology that sells ads online.
By David McCabe and Cecilia Kang
Daisy Harris, an A.I.-generated English granny, has been stymying scammers with meandering, time-wasting conversations. But can she actually make a dent in the flood of fraud?
By Ali Watkins
Fewer people will be able to afford electric cars and trucks if President-elect Donald J. Trump and Republicans in Congress eliminate a $7,500 federal tax credit.
By Lawrence Ulrich
Bernard Looney will join Prometheus Hyperscale, a Wyoming start-up, to help it address the enormous energy needs of the artificial intelligence industry.
By Stanley Reed
Coding boot camps once looked like the golden ticket to an economically secure future. But as that promise fades, what should you do? Keep learning, until further notice.
By Sarah Kessler
With drones and A.I., researchers managed to double the number of mysterious geoglyphs in a matter of months.
By Franz Lidz
The world’s richest person, not known for his humility, is still learning the cutthroat courtier politics of Donald Trump’s inner circle — and his ultimate influence remains an open question.
By Theodore Schleifer
From electric cars to solar panels, Mr. Musk has built businesses in high-tech manufacturing sectors now targeted by Beijing for Chinese dominance.
By Keith Bradsher
Since last September, the tech giant has pumped $8 billion into the artificial intelligence start-up, a sign of intense competition in developing tools that are reshaping the tech sector.
By Adam Satariano
“I feel very strongly that the First Amendment is under the most direct threat that any of us will ever really experience.”
By Kevin Roose, Casey Newton, Rachel Cohn, Whitney Jones, Jen Poyant, Alyssa Moxley, Dan Powell, Marion Lozano, Diane Wong and Leah Shaw Dameron
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Down the stairs, out the doors and onto the sidewalk, a Broadway show hits the street. Here’s how they pull it off.
By Sarah Bahr and Brian Karlsson
The world’s two richest men are longtime business rivals, but now one of them has the ear of the next president of the United States.
By Karen Weise
The oil company was indicted on charges of dumping nearly 800,000 gallons of contaminated wastewater into the Los Angeles County sewer system.
By Cade Metz
The company’s woes are symptomatic of a wider malaise among companies that make batteries for electric vehicles.
By Jack Ewing and Melissa Eddy
The apps look and feel similar. Here is how to use Bluesky and what you might miss from X.
By Hank Sanders
In a landmark antitrust case, the government asked a judge to force the company to sell its popular Chrome browser.
By David McCabe
Gautam Adani and his associates were accused of paying more than $250 million in bribes to obtain lucrative solar energy contracts.
By Nico Grant
The company, which dominates the market for chips used to build artificial intelligence, expects another big jump in the current quarter.
By Tripp Mickle
Reddit users reported having problems with the site two days in a row.
By Sara Ruberg and Amanda Holpuch
The American automaker said the cost-cutting measure would help it compete with Chinese rivals in the face of slowing demand for electric vehicles.
By Gregory Schmidt
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Mr. Wang is the last close colleague of the FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried to be sentenced for the fraud that caused the crypto exchange to collapse in 2022.
By David Yaffe-Bellany and Matthew Goldstein
Trying to avoid antitrust suits, Google systematically told employees to destroy messages, avoid certain words and copy the lawyers as often as possible.
By David Streitfeld
Journals had retracted papers on superconductors that worked at room temperature and materials science that involved Ranga Dias.
By Teddy Rosenbluth
Germany’s defense minister said damage to two fiber-optic cables on the sea floor appeared deliberate, but a culprit was not known.
By Melissa Eddy and Johanna Lemola
The machines can load and unload trucks, move goods and do other repetitive tasks but are stymied by some, like picking items from a pile.
By Peter Eavis
Mr. Carr, who currently sits on the commission and is a vocal critic of Big Tech, has said the agency should regulate the tech industry.
By Cecilia Kang
The fledgling social media site has been flooded with new users since the election. It hasn’t all been easy.
By Mike Isaac
If the election underscored anything about the internet, it was the ascendancy of social platforms for the right. That puts Democrats at a disadvantage.
By Sheera Frenkel
A small study found ChatGPT outdid human physicians when assessing medical case histories, even when those doctors were using a chatbot.
By Gina Kolata
At Dartmouth, long before the days of laptops and smartphones, he worked to give more students access to computers. That work helped propel generations into a new world.
By Kenneth R. Rosen
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Users across the U.S. reported being unable to load the high-profile boxing match.
By John Yoon
Mr. Musk dug into his companies’ budgets, preferring to cut too much rather than too little and to deal with the fallout later. Under Donald Trump, he is set to apply those tactics to the U.S. government.
By Ryan Mac, Kate Conger, Jack Ewing and Eric Lipton
Cryptocurrency is poised to have a huge year in 2025.
By Kevin Roose, Casey Newton, Whitney Jones, Rachel Cohn, Jen Poyant, Alyssa Moxley, Dan Powell, Rowan Niemisto and Diane Wong
In a new legal filing, the Tesla chief executive accuses the A.I. start-up of undermining antitrust law.
By Cade Metz
Tech leaders are recommending their own brethren to Mr. Musk and others, as they aim to leave a Silicon Valley imprint on Donald Trump’s new administration.
By Theodore Schleifer and Mike Isaac
Meta said it would appeal the decision by the European Union, which said the company had abused its dominance in social networking to strengthen its shopping and classified ads service.
By Adam Satariano
A New York Times reporter tested a handful of chatbots to see if they could help improve his dating life. The results were decidedly mixed.
By Eli Tan
The search involving Shayne Coplan, the founder of Polymarket, known for its presidential election odds, was part of a criminal investigation, three people said.
By David Yaffe-Bellany, William K. Rashbaum and Michael J. de la Merced
Did a fun event involving cute dogs turn into a pump-and-dump scheme?
By Victor Mather
As Bitcoin soars to record highs, cryptocurrency executives are maneuvering to influence Donald J. Trump’s transition and secure their policy goals.
By David Yaffe-Bellany, Theodore Schleifer and Erin Griffith
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Artificial intelligence has become a subject for people in the art and theater worlds who are worried about being replaced by it.
By Erin Griffith
When asked about whether President-elect Donald Trump would prevent a TikTok ban in the United States, a spokeswoman told The New York Times: “He will deliver.”
By Sapna Maheshwari
The new agreement, which builds on an earlier announcement, calls for the German automaker to invest $5.8 billion in Rivian, a maker of electric vehicles.
By Jack Ewing and Melissa Eddy
A supersmart musical about making a connection arrives on Broadway in a joyful, heartbreaking, cutting-edge production.
By Jesse Green
A low-stress video game that’s cleansing in more than one sense.
By Andrew Willett
“Jacky Dejo” was introduced to social media by her parents as a snowboarding prodigy. Now 18, she has seen the dark side of the internet — and turned a profit from it.
By Jennifer Valentino-DeVries and Michael H. Keller
Eight years ago, workers loudly protested White House policies. This time around, the companies are trying to keep a lid on activism.
By Karen Weise, Nico Grant and Mike Isaac
There is nothing suspicious about the shift in Democratic fortunes. But partisans from across the spectrum are questioning the results, for different reasons.
By Stuart A. Thompson
Since the election, Mr. Musk has used his social media company to talk up how bright the future will be under the president-elect.
By Kate Conger and Sheera Frenkel
“Maybe Happy Ending” had an initial Korean-language production in Seoul in 2016. Here are five things to know about the show.
By Sarah Bahr
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A shake-up is coming for Silicon Valley.
By Kevin Roose, Casey Newton, Rachel Cohn, Whitney Jones, Jen Poyant, Chris Wood, Dan Powell, Elisheba Ittoop, Pat McCusker and Rowan Niemisto
A professor sued pre-emptively to release software that would let users automatically unfollow everyone in their Facebook feed.
By David McCabe
Early in the internet era, he was also behind other AOL messages, including “Welcome!” “They said my voice was heard more than 35 million times a day,” he once said.
By Emmett Lindner
The Kremlin did not bother to hide its efforts to influence the 2024 presidential election, as it did in the past.
By Steven Lee Myers and Julian E. Barnes
The executives of tech’s biggest companies largely ignored Donald Trump before the 2016 election. This time around, they’re far more friendly.
By Tripp Mickle and David McCabe
Apple, Amazon, Google, Meta and others learned during the last Trump administration to expect the unexpected when it came to Washington scrutiny and support.
By Cecilia Kang and David McCabe
Trump supporters spent years fomenting concern about election integrity. On Tuesday, they set it all aside.
By Stuart A. Thompson, Jim Rutenberg and Steven Lee Myers
The world’s richest man gave his money and time in campaigning for the president-elect and now is putting in his requests for a friendlier regulatory environment.
By Eric Lipton, Kirsten Grind, David A. Fahrenthold and Theodore Schleifer
A state ballot measure was the first of its kind in the United States, but labor advocates worry it could lock Uber and Lyft drivers out of full-time employment status.
By Eli Tan
Another Trump presidency will be good for crypto and Elon Musk, but every big tech company may not benefit from a more hands-off approach to antitrust.
By Kevin Roose
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The spending spree fueled a string of victories on Tuesday for congressional candidates who had expressed support for cryptocurrencies.
By David Yaffe-Bellany
Prediction markets, which surged to prominence during the presidential campaign, started reflecting a likely Trump win several weeks ago, even as opinion polls showed a tight race.
By Michael J. de la Merced
Investors believe that the electric car company led by Elon Musk will benefit from his support of the president-elect.
By Jack Ewing
More than 60 percent of posts discussing election fraud on X on Tuesday focused on the state, according to an analysis of about 25,000 posts.
By Stuart A. Thompson
Bitcoin’s price went above $75,000, breaking the record that the digital currency set in March.
By David Yaffe-Bellany
The Federal Trade Commission chair drew increasing political vitriol as the presidential vote neared. Her political future hangs in the balance.
By David McCabe and Cecilia Kang
Many crypto investors hope that a victory for Donald Trump could propel the price of Bitcoin to new heights, though a loss could cause a fall.
By David Yaffe-Bellany
The shift in policy, covering government agencies and contractors working on national security, is intended to promote “responsible and ethical” innovations, the company said.
By Mike Isaac
Misleading anecdotes and rumors are spreading faster, and with more ferocity, than in the run-ups to past presidential contests.
By Stuart A. Thompson
The Times Tech Guild represents more than 600 software developers and others who run the back-end systems behind The Times’s digital operation.
By Katie Robertson
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Right-wing groups, which use Telegram to organize real-world actions, are urging followers to watch the polls and stand up for their rights, in a harbinger of potential chaos.
By Paul Mozur, Adam Satariano, Aaron Krolik and Steven Lee Myers
The billionaire has effectively become the star of his social media platform, transforming X into a reflection of his personal views before the election.
By Kate Conger, Aaron Krolik, Santul Nerkar and Dylan Freedman
The false claim, which has circulated in recent elections, is based on a misunderstanding of how votes are collected and reported.
By Stuart A. Thompson
The change, starting next Friday, lifts a dominant player in artificial intelligence over its chip-making rival, which has struggled to keep up.
By Kate Conger
I thought it would make me put glue on pizza, but instead it entertained my children and got me to finally paint my office. How could it transform our daily lives?
By Kashmir Hill and Hang Do Thi Duc
The gathering had nothing to do with the election. That didn’t stop conspiracy theorists from spreading falsehoods.
By Stuart A. Thompson
Though a larger coalition of fact checkers has disbanded, a team of students and researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle is still working to document how lies online threaten to undermine this year’s presidential race.
By Steven Lee Myers and Stuart A. Thompson
“If I had $1 billion, how would I try to influence the results of this election?”
By Kevin Roose, Casey Newton, Whitney Jones, Rachel Cohn, Jen Poyant, Chris Wood, Dan Powell, Marion Lozano and Diane Wong
It’s already powering remarkable visual innovations, like in the new movie “Here.” But boosters think that’s just the beginning.
By Devin Gordon
Sales for the iPhone maker were up 6 percent to to $94.93 billion. But a $14.4 billion tax bill cut profits that would have topped expectations.
By Tripp Mickle
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The Silicon Valley chip maker has struggled to turn around its fortunes after missing opportunities and poor execution.
By Don Clark
The financing efforts follow that of rival OpenAI, which recently closed a funding round that valued it at $157 billion.
By Mike Isaac and Cade Metz
The popular online chatbot can now access and deliver information from across the internet in real time, including news, stock prices and sports scores.
By Cade Metz
Residents say Mr. Musk’s data center for artificial intelligence is compounding their pollution burden and adding stress on the local electrical grid.
By Ivan Penn and Kate Conger
The video site removed 2020 misinformation, fearing real-world harm. Now it’s amplifying and profiting from 2024 falsehoods, researchers said.
By Nico Grant
The Silicon Valley company, which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, said it does not plan to slow down its investments anytime soon.
By Mike Isaac
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