Technology
Uncovering and explaining how our digital world is changing — and changing us.
The largest mass transit system in the United States is overdue for an upgrade.
TikTok probably can’t teach you to game the financial system like a rich person, but it might teach you crime.
EVs help reduce greenhouse emissions. But too many used gas-guzzlers could make that impossible.
February?! Until February?!?! Boeing slip leaves astronauts in limbo.
Are tech companies actually pushing AI down our throats?
The retail giant now uses your grocery purchases to recommend prescription drugs.
California legislator Scott Wiener on why the home of the AI industry is the right place to regulate it.
Some tech leaders think SB 1047 will kill innovation. It won’t.
Telegram’s lax content moderation policy is catching up with its CEO.
This is not a win for free speech. It’s a political grenade.
The privately funded venture will test out new aerospace technology.
An early warning system could help fix the dangerous information gap between Big Tech and the US.
Freezing your credit files has never been easier. Here’s how to protect yourself.
Even OpenAI warns that chatting with an AI voice can breed “emotional reliance.”
However current companies do financially, the big AI safety challenges remain.
And a few things you can do about it.
The richest man in the world and the former president’s glitchy, cringeworthy interview, explained.
The FBI is now investigating the former president’s claim of Iranian interference with his campaign.
Elon Musk’s social media site is accusing brands of breaking antitrust laws.
An app called YNAB wants to take the dread out of talking about money. For a price.
It’s not just Google’s “Dear Sydney” commercial that feels soulless and strange.
A new era for search — and regulation of Big Tech — could be imminent.
The bill may be coming due for Silicon Valley’s huge investment in AI.
Music production is getting easier. Does that make it better?
Anthropic was supposed to be the good guy. It can’t be — unless government changes the incentives in the industry.
The semiconductor manufacturer announced huge job cuts and a dividend pause after losing out on AI.
What makes social media better for kids would make phones better for everyone.
The Starliner test mission is just one of Boeing’s many woes.
Why AI researchers think we’re close to getting interspecies chatbots.
Officials say Paris will be the “safest place in the world” for the Olympics. Here’s what they’re up against.
Buffett’s decision to put his money into a foundation controlled by his kids is a mistake.
We know how to build AI models, but not why they work. Neuroscience could be the key.
Dozens of other democracies have short election cycles. Can the Democrats learn something from them?
How a bit of bad code could bring down the whole world.
A major study backed by OpenAI’s Sam Altman shows unconditional cash has benefits that have nothing to do with AI.
The trickiest country for American foreign policy right now is ... America.
You have the right to opt out of facial recognition tech. Here’s how.
Airlines, banks, and hospitals saw computer systems go down because of a CrowdStrike software glitch.
For Amazon workers, the bevy of sales reinforces the human toll of “same-day delivery, lifetime of injury.”