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Three posts on Friday night signaled the resurfacing of a figure who used a variety of conspiracy theories to marshal support for Donald J. Trump.

The corporate response to the Supreme Court’s Friday decision was more muted, and the companies that did speak out mostly talked about their health care policies.

His work at Bell Labs in the 1960s laid the groundwork for today’s computer-generated imagery in film and on TV.

Continue reading the main storyThis article is part of our Daily Business Briefing Managers at Meta reaffirmed a May memo that said that “discussing abortion openly at work has a heightened risk of creating a hostile work environment.”Credit...Benoit Tessier/ReutersBy Mike Isaac and Ryan MacMeta told its workers on ...

After a Food and Drug Administration ruling against the company, fans of the brand said they appreciated its simple design. “I definitely will miss the Juuls,” a leather worker in Detroit said.

It’s not just you — what you can buy on your phone makes less and less sense.

Mark Zuckerberg, who once said securing elections was “the most important thing,” has shifted Meta’s focus to the metaverse. That may have real-world implications.

These selfies, taken with an ultra-wide-angle lens, aren’t fussed over. Sometimes they are just “distorted and crazy.”

A report published by Microsoft also found that Moscow’s disinformation campaign to establish a narrative of the war favorable to Russia was doing better than expected.

Afterpay, Apple and other financial tech companies are popularizing installment plans for paying off shopping splurges. These programs can also cause confusion and a loss of control.

And Balenciaga and Thom Browne. Meta opens a new fashion store for the metaverse. Should you shop?

The fraud trial of Ramesh Balwani, the chief operating officer of the failed blood testing start-up Theranos, is heading to a verdict soon.

The Justice Department had accused Meta’s housing advertising system of discriminating against Facebook users based on their race, gender, religion and other characteristics.

They accuse the companies of depriving them of employee benefits while also denying them the freedoms of independent contractors.

The technology giant will stop offering automated tools that predict a person’s gender, age and emotional state and will restrict the use of its facial recognition tool.

A Times investigation analyzing over 100,000 government bidding documents found that China’s ambition to collect digital and biological data from its citizens is more expansive and invasive than previously known.

One company says it has the technology. And though investors looking for cleaner power generation are lining up, some environmentalists are skeptical.

Tesla shifted to selling cars entirely online in 2019. Now, some established automakers, like Ford, are talking about taking a similar approach.

Google is charging some small businesses for email and other apps after more than a decade of free use. Business owners say Google is being callous.

Its fall was accelerated in recent weeks by the collapse of two major cryptocurrency projects while sowing doubts about the stability of the overall cryptocurrency market.

Paige Thompson’s lawyers said she had been looking for cracks so they could be fixed. A jury found her guilty of wire fraud and hacking charges.

The app is trying to convince the U.S. government that it won’t expose Americans’ information to China.

A group supporting those who practice polyamory and other forms of “ethical non-monogamy” want more relationship-status options on Facebook.

As cryptocurrencies have plunged, attention has focused on a potential point of vulnerability: the market’s reliance on a so-called stablecoin called Tether.

Decades into his career, the British American journalist has an unlikely TikTok hit that could be the song of the summer. “I am not trying to make it as a rapper,” he says.

In an email, Gwynne Shotwell, SpaceX’s president, said the letter had made other employees “feel uncomfortable, intimidated and bullied.”

Mr. Musk answered questions from Twitter’s 8,000 workers for the first time in a virtual meeting on Thursday.

The employees said that the chief executive’s behavior online was “a frequent source of distraction and embarrassment.”

A video producer claims he was fired after he complained that an obscure group based in the Sierra foothills dominated a business unit at Google.

Microsoft will be disabling IE and directing Windows users to its modern Edge web browser in coming months. The news inspired jokes, memes and even some fond memories.

Jesse Powell, who leads the crypto exchange Kraken, has challenged the use of preferred pronouns, debated who can use racial slurs and called American women “brainwashed.”

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration released data on 10 months of crashes involving systems like Tesla’s Autopilot. A handful of accidents turned deadly.

Crypto companies are laying off staff, freezing withdrawals and trying to stem losses, raising questions about the health of the ecosystem.

The ruling ends a $17.8 million campaign by companies like Uber and Lyft that would have led to the classification of their drivers as independent contractors.

At Fox News, there was little drama over the decision to project Joseph R. Biden the winner of Arizona. But the relationship between Trump and the network was never the same.

One company, Floreo, is hoping their tools will lead the way, despite some criticisms from autism self-advocates.

Emma Lembke, a 19-year-old college student, is encouraging her peers to reduce their time on the internet and rethink their relationship to it.

Patients whose brain injury coincidentally relieved their nicotine cravings may help unravel the neural underpinnings of addiction, a new study suggests.

Payton Iheme, the head of public policy for Bumble in the Americas, is working to advance legislation that penalizes “cyberflashing,” or the act of sending unwanted sexual images.

The accord could ease the path for thousands of workers to unionize at the game company Microsoft is acquiring and addresses an antitrust objection.