Who Gets the Banhammer Now?
In a single week, some of the internet’s biggest platforms banned users and groups they had...
Amazon Backtracks From Demand That Employees Delete TikTok
TikTok, owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, has been under scrutiny as a potential national security...
Facebook Said to Consider Banning Political Ads
The social network has been under intense pressure for allowing misinformation and hate speech to spread...
TikTok Users Respond to Potential U.S. Ban: ‘It Would Be Like Losing a Little Bit of Me’
Gen Z and millennial users have found community on the app, particularly during the last few...
Sports in a Pandemic Don’t All Stink
Virtual cycling offers lessons for how other sports can appeal to fans leading increasingly digital lives.
Why Is a Tech Executive Installing Security Cameras Around San Francisco?
Chris Larsen knows that a crypto mogul spending his own money for a city’s camera surveillance...
Can Facebook Ever Stop the Drama?
How Facebook’s most recent crisis started, and what it says about the company’s role in our...
Ninja Played Fortnite on YouTube, and the Gaming World Lost Its Mind
The buzz that Tyler Blevins, also known as Ninja, generated by streaming on a new platform...
Facebook Removes Roger Stone for Ties to Fake Accounts
The social network said the fake accounts were active around the 2016 presidential election.
Facebook’s Decisions Were ‘Setbacks for Civil Rights,’ Audit Finds
An independent audit faulted the social network for allowing hate speech and disinformation to thrive —...
Robinhood Has Lured Young Traders, Sometimes With Devastating Results
Its users buy and sell the riskiest financial products and do so more frequently than customers...
A Fashion Model For the Moment
How a digital avatar helped the fashion designer Hanifa go viral during the pandemic.
The Tech Giants’ Invisible Helpers
Why we should all care who controls the invisible infrastructure of the global internet.
How to Buy Tech That Lasts and Lasts
All of our tech products will one day become obsolete, but here are some strategies to...
What Counts as a Streaming Hit? A Start-Up May Have Answers
Unlike Nielsen, which measure audience size, Parrot Analytics says it can track viewer enthusiasm. That’s more...
Virus-Tracing Apps Are Rife With Problems. Governments Are Rushing to Fix Them.
As countries race to deploy coronavirus-tracking software, researchers are reporting privacy and security risks that could...
Scrutinizing SpaceX, NASA Overlooked Some Boeing Software Problems
The agency identified the causes of mishaps in orbit during an uncrewed test flight of its...
Facebook Fails to Appease Organizers of Ad Boycott
Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s top executives, engaged in “spin” during a meeting over hate...
With Pandemic Keeping Them Apart, Runners Embrace Virtual Races
Marathons and meets are canceled, so runners are using tech to stay connected and compete.
Internet Powers Collide in Hong Kong
Tech giants suspend handing over information to Hong Kong, setting up a collision with China.
What Does Simp Mean?
An insult takes a dizzying trip through rap, men’s rights, misogyny and TikTok.
Hong Kong Security Law Sets Stage for Global Internet Fight
As the city grapples with new restrictions on online speech, American tech giants are on the...
Magic Leap Hires Top Microsoft Executive as C.E.O.
Peggy Johnson, who led Microsoft’s business development, will take over the struggling virtual reality start-up in...
A Bird? A Plane? No, It’s a Google Balloon Beaming the Internet
A commercial deal in Kenya marks the first application of balloon-powered internet in Africa, the region...
Palantir Files for an I.P.O.
The data start-up, which has a valuation of $20 billion, would be the largest Silicon Valley...
TikTok to Withdraw From Hong Kong as Tech Giants Halt Data Requests
Google, Facebook and Twitter said they were reviewing China’s punitive new national security law for the...
Facebook Temporarily Stops Hong Kong Data Requests
The social network said it would review the city’s punitive new national security law, a rare...
Uber Buys Postmates for $2.65 Billion
The ride-hailing company’s core business has struggled in the pandemic, so it is betting on the...
YouTube’s Power of the Purse
YouTube shows that some constructions of digital spaces can help combat online nastiness.
South Korea Denies U.S. Request to Extradite Operator of Child Pornography Site
The Justice Department had sought to try Son Jong-woo after he was indicted by a federal...
This Year’s Summer Campground: Our Bedrooms and Living Rooms
Summer camp in the pandemic looks just like a screen. But what happens when kids run...
New Trump Appointee Puts Global Internet Freedom at Risk, Critics Say
A battle involving Michael Pack and a U.S.-funded tech group revolves around software from Falun Gong,...
What Hong Kong’s Pandemic Experience Taught Uber About Other Cities
The city was among the first to close and among the first to reopen. But Uber’s...
The #Vanlife Business Is Booming
Coronavirus is just a distant memory while zipping around in a several-hundred-thousand-dollar custom van on the...
Can an Algorithm Predict the Pandemic’s Next Moves?
Researchers have developed a model that uses social-media and search data to forecast outbreaks of Covid-19...
Goodbye to the Wild Wild Web
The internet is changing, and the freewheeling, anything-goes culture of social media is being replaced by...
New ‘TV’ Is a Lot Like TV
Home entertainment today isn’t all that different from the time of VHS tapes.
How Infrared Images Could Be Part of Your Daily Life
In a post-quarantine world, heat sensors could help spot sick people with elevated temperatures as they...
Four Top Tech C.E.O.s Will Testify in Antitrust Inquiry, Panel Says
The hearing this month would be a central moment in the continuing backlash against the power...
Bogus Ideas Have Superspreaders, Too
Internet companies should treat people with big followings differently.
How to Make Smartphones Last Longer
In a pandemic-induced recession, it’s more important than ever to take care of our smartphones and...
China’s Software Stalked Uighurs Earlier and More Widely, Researchers Learn
A new report revealed a broad campaign that targeted Muslims in China and their diaspora in...
Advertiser Exodus Snowballs as Facebook Struggles to Ease Concerns
The social network has tried striking a more conciliatory tone with its advertisers, who object to...
Facebook Bans Network With ‘Boogaloo’ Ties
The social network said it was designating the antigovernment movement as a dangerous organization.
F.C.C. Designates Huawei and ZTE as National Security Threats
American cellular businesses will no longer be able to spend federal money on equipment from the...
Burrito Delivery Makes No Sense
The economics of delivery apps stinks. Uber is offering to buy the food delivery company Postmates...
Trying to Correct Banking’s Racial Imbalance
Entrepreneurs are working on new business models to address income inequality and a resulting lack of...
India Bans TikTok of China, Tightening Digital Borders
Censorship and politics are fracturing the global internet, isolating users and industries accustomed to ignoring national...
Universities and Tech Giants Back National Cloud Computing Project
A proposal to give scientists access to huge data sets and powerful computers.
Uber Makes Offer to Buy Postmates Delivery Service
The ride-hailing company has been trying to expand its food-delivery business to compensate for the collapse...