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A bipartisan group told the company that they were considering referring their concerns to the Justice Department for a potential criminal inquiry.

Long-shot money is flowing into start-ups that seek the energy of the stars. Driving the investments is a rising alarm about global warming.

The app, hailed as Facebook’s growth engine, has privately wrestled with retaining and engaging teenagers, according to internal documents.

Janneke Parrish, who was a program manager for Apple Maps in Austin, Texas, was one of the two leaders of a group that called itself AppleToo.

A group of researchers said the “dangerous technology” was invasive and not effective at detecting images of child sexual abuse.

The Microsoft-owned service had censored posts in China, in compliance with the country’s laws, to operate there.

The prevalence of videos claiming fraud dropped sharply, according to New York University’s Center for Social Media and Politics.

Audiobooks are an example of a technology developed by or for people with disabilities that has helped all of us.

The actor who played Captain Kirk played the role of pitchman for Jeff Bezos’ spaceflight company at a time that it is facing a number of workplace and business difficulties.

The social network, which has been under increased scrutiny after a former product manager turned into a whistle-blower, is trying to prevent leaks.

Andy Parker, the father of a journalist killed in 2015, filed a complaint with the F.T.C. urging it to increase regulation on the tech giant, saying it failed to remove videos of his daughter’s killing.

In a letter, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reminded Tesla that federal law requires automakers to initiate recalls if they find defects that pose a safety risk.

Hot Singles, a weekly email newsletter, evokes nostalgia for a simpler approach to finding romance, before dating apps were ubiquitous.

Despite an overall decline in office leasing in the United States, technology companies gobbled up more space in the Seattle area than they had the previous year.

Behind the closed doors are whispers, gestures and a daily rhythm, plus two court artists, numbered tickets and some true-crime fans.

If what faces Big Tech is anything like what happened to Big Tobacco, the road ahead is likely to be a yearslong battle over proposed rules and regulations.

Average investors were not able to get in on the last decade’s start-up boom in private markets. Once that seemed unfair. Now it looks lucky.

At the heart of the legal battle is the power Apple wields over its lucrative App Store.

All of Facebook’s main products — Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger and the “big blue app” of Facebook — were inaccessible to at least some users around 3 p.m. Eastern time.

This is a pivotal moment in Facebook’s history. Here are suggestions for how to improve the company.

The $530 million fine is Beijing’s second major penalty this year against an internet company accused of monopolistic practices.

“We’ve heard directly from a growing number of our advertising and publisher partners who have expressed concerns about ads that run alongside or promote inaccurate claims about climate change,” the company said.

Jurors’ eyes glazed over at detailed technical discussions as Theranos’s former lab director described repeated instances of irregular and inaccurate results.

As a scientist he saw the potential of microwave ovens when he observed one heating up a sandwich in the 1960s. Microwaveable oatmeal, among other advances, was in his future.

Included in the breach was a list that purportedly showed how much money each of the platform’s streamers had earned in the past two years.

Frances Haugen, who left the social network in May and leaked internal documents, gave senators rare insight into its inner workings.

One proposal would require Facebook and other tech platforms to disclose details to regulators and researchers about their services, algorithms and content moderation practices.

Many virtual private network services that were meant to protect your web browsing can no longer be trusted. Here are other ways.

How Jonathan Kanter, the Biden administration’s choice to be the Justice Department’s antitrust chief, became a progressive foe of Big Tech.

For more than five hours, the company’s family of apps, including Instagram and WhatsApp, were unavailable to the billions who use them.

The outage disrupted the digital lives of small-business owners, politicians, aid workers and others. But for some, it was a welcome reprieve.

When apps used by billions of people worldwide blinked out, lives were disrupted, businesses were cut off from customers — and some Facebook employees were locked out of their offices.

Frances Haugen, a Facebook product manager who left the company in May, revealed that she had provided internal documents to journalists and others.

“This court gave the agency a second chance to make a valid claim,” Facebook said in its filing. “But the same deficiency that was fatal to the F.T.C.’s initial complaint remains.”

Frances Haugen, a former product manager for Facebook, will argue to protect consumers from a profits-over-safety culture.

A recent study of black holes confirmed a fundamental prediction that the theoretical physicist made nearly five decades ago. But the ultimate award is beyond his reach.