Employees at SpaceX have written an open letter denouncing Elon Musk's behavior.
“Elon’s behavior in the public sphere is a frequent source of distraction and embarrassment for us, particularly in recent weeks,” read the letter.
A single Bitcoin transaction now requires more than 2,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity, or enough energy to power the average American household for 73 days, researchers estimate.
Some Facebook users who recently watched a video featuring Black men saw an automated prompt from the social network asking if they would like to continue “seeing videos about Primates.”
Facebook employees have formed an internal group to agitate for representation of conservative views, a sign of dissent over the social network’s largely liberal workplace culture
“Apple can find better ways of earning hundreds of millions of dollars than fighting a decade-long lawsuit,” said Brian Love, a Santa Clara University law professor who tracked the legal fight between Apple and Samsung.
"I sat still, looking away as he moaned and undulated." A new memoir by Steve Jobs's daughter contains disturbing material, in which the Apple founder engages in what seems like inappropriate affection in front of her.
As Congress meets to certify Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s victory in the November election, President Trump and his supporters continue to spread rumors, conspiracy theories and misinformation about the vote.
Apple won on paper, but it failed in its goal to gain a competitive advantage over Samsung and other phone makers in its series of lawsuits against them, our
@jacknicas
is told:
Two former Twitter employees have been charged by the Justice Department with acting as agents of a foreign power inside the U.S., in the first complaint of its kind involving Saudis in the country.
The White House eliminated the position of cybersecurity coordinator on the National Security Council, the latest in a series of steps that appeared to run counter to the prevailing view in Washington of cybersecurity’s importance.
We have "reached an inflection point in digital privacy,” writes
@bxchen
, who would like to persuade you to use a new type of web browser called a private browser, which offers stronger privacy protections than browsers like Google Chrome.
Google said it would not distribute Truth Social, the social media platform founded by Donald Trump, on its Play store until the app removed content that incites violence.
President Biden began his first diplomatic mission in Asia on Friday by touring a Samsung semiconductor facility — part of his effort to rebuild the waning economic influence of the United States in the region, and address supply chain problems back home.
He is the third person known to be falsely arrested based on a bad facial recognition match,
@kashhill
writes. In all three cases, the people mistakenly identified by the technology have been Black men.
The Department of Homeland Security has suspended the work of a panel focused on the subject of disinformation after its creation set off a firestorm of criticism.
Chasing Tesla, companies like Lucid are finding that starting an E.V. from scratch has its advantages. A comparison with Mercedes-Benz’s new EQS shows how.
While her expensive, delicate dark matter detector was being assembled beneath a mountain in Italy, Elena Aprile was stuck in her Brooklyn apartment “living on Cheerios and milk”
Tony Vacarro, who was known for his searing photos during World War II, and for his work as a fashion, travel and celebrity photographer for America’s leading magazines, has died at 100.
In the 1970s, David Boggs helped create Ethernet, the powerful etworking technology that connects PCs to printers, other devices and the internet in offices and homes. He has died at 71.
Friends With Benefits is what’s known as a decentralized autonomous organization, or DAO — a kind of digital co-op that uses cryptocurrency tokens to coordinate access, make payments and vote on group decisions.
The report released by cybersecurity firm Check Point provides new evidence of Chinese efforts to spy on Russia, pointing to the complexity of the relations between two countries that have drawn closer in solidarity against the United States.
The committee chairman, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, called the hearing in October after Twitter and Facebook labeled or limited the reach of a New York Post story on Hunter Biden, the son of President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.
Throwing Huawei and a handful of Chinese technology surveillance companies out of the country, American leaders now have cast their fearful gaze at the app TikTok, owned by a Chinese company called Bytedance.
Twitter has an ambitious project to change how it's built and how it interacts with users. The effort is an echo of the idealism of the company’s early days.
China has the world's strictest internet censorship regime. Now India wants to emulate parts of it, proposing that internet companies be required to automatically block a vast array of content the government considers unlawful.
The video game Plague Inc. has been popular for years, but suddenly it's a disturbing variation of the world we are all living in. Some players are finding solace in it, too.
PayPal, Square and Apple Pay announced years ago that they would not allow their services to be used for the sale of firearms. Bigger financial players wouldn't have to go as far to make a difference.
Lina Khan, a prominent critic of tech giants, was approved as a member of the Federal Trade Commission. The nomination has buoyed progressive hopes that President Biden will try to rein in Silicon Valley.
Formula E provides a high-speed laboratory for automakers addressing the unique challenges of battery-powered transportation: range, charging technology and management of the performance-sapping heat that bedevils electric cars