- U.S. Proposes Breakup of Google to Fix Search Monopolyby David McCabe on 21 November 2024 at 06:14
In a landmark antitrust case, the government asked a judge to force the company to sell its popular Chrome browser.
- US Charges Gautam Adani With Fraud Over Bribery Schemeby Nico Grant on 21 November 2024 at 04:28
Gautam Adani and his associates were accused of paying more than $250 million in bribes to obtain lucrative solar energy contracts.
- Reddit Says It Has Resolved Outageby Sara Ruberg on 21 November 2024 at 00:48
Tens of thousands of users reported that the website and app were inaccessible starting just before 3 p.m. Eastern on Wednesday.
- Nvidia’s Profit Doubles as A.I. Chip Sales Soarby Tripp Mickle on 21 November 2024 at 00:17
The company, which dominates the market for chips used to build artificial intelligence, expects another big jump in the current quarter.
- Gary Wang, a Top FTX Executive, Is Given No Prison Timeby David Yaffe-Bellany and Matthew Goldstein on 20 November 2024 at 20:16
Mr. Wang is the last close colleague of the FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried to be sentenced for the fraud that caused the crypto exchange to collapse in 2022.
- Ford to Cut 4,000 Jobs in Europe as Electric Vehicle Sales Slowby Gregory Schmidt on 20 November 2024 at 18:59
The American automaker said the cost-cutting measure would help it compete with Chinese rivals in the face of slowing demand for electric vehicles.
- How Google Spent 15 Years Concealing Its Internal Conversationsby David Streitfeld on 20 November 2024 at 17:33
Trying to avoid antitrust suits, Google systematically told employees to destroy messages, avoid certain words and copy the lawyers as often as possible.
- Trump Picks Brendan Carr to Lead F.C.C.by Cecilia Kang on 20 November 2024 at 13:07
Mr. Carr, who currently sits on the commission and is a vocal critic of Big Tech, has said the agency should regulate the tech industry.
- How to Add Extra Security Layers to Your Phone or Tabletby J. D. Biersdorfer on 20 November 2024 at 10:04
New features in Apple’s iOS 18 and Google’s Android 15 can lock up apps with sensitive information and even hide them from view.
- Physicist Who Made Superconductor Claims Exits University of Rochesterby Teddy Rosenbluth on 19 November 2024 at 22:45
Journals had retracted papers on superconductors that worked at room temperature and materials science that involved Ranga Dias.
- Severing of Baltic Sea Cables Was ‘Sabotage,’ Germany Saysby Melissa Eddy and Johanna Lemola on 19 November 2024 at 16:34
Germany’s defense minister said damage to two fiber-optic cables on the sea floor appeared deliberate, but a culprit was not known.
- Robots Struggle to Match Warehouse Workers on ‘Really Hard’ Jobsby Peter Eavis on 19 November 2024 at 08:00
The machines can load and unload trucks, move goods and do other repetitive tasks but are stymied by some, like picking items from a pile.
- Thomas E. Kurtz, co-creator of BASIC programming language, dies at 96by Kenneth R. Rosen on 18 November 2024 at 20:19
At Dartmouth, long before the days of laptops and smartphones, he worked to give more students access to computers. That work helped propel generations into a new world.
- How Bluesky, Alternative to X and Facebook, Is Handling Growthby Mike Isaac on 17 November 2024 at 19:18
The fledgling social media site has been flooded with new users since the election. It hasn’t all been easy.
- Election Reveals Right-Wing Shift of Social Media Platformsby Sheera Frenkel on 17 November 2024 at 10:01
If the election underscored anything about the internet, it was the ascendancy of social platforms for the right. That puts Democrats at a disadvantage.
- ChatGPT Defeated Doctors at Diagnosing Illnessby Gina Kolata on 17 November 2024 at 10:01
A small study found ChatGPT outdid human physicians when assessing medical case histories, even when those doctors were using a chatbot.
- How Elon Musk Cuts Costs at Tesla, SpaceX and Xby Ryan Mac, Kate Conger, Jack Ewing and Eric Lipton on 16 November 2024 at 21:56
Mr. Musk dug into his companies’ budgets, preferring to cut too much rather than too little and to deal with the fallout later. Under Donald Trump, he is set to apply those tactics to the U.S. government.
- Netflix Livestream Outages Reported During Mike Tyson-Jake Paul Fightby John Yoon on 16 November 2024 at 19:15
Users across the U.S. reported being unable to load the high-profile boxing match.
- Elon Musk Adds Microsoft to Suit Against OpenAIby Cade Metz on 15 November 2024 at 14:12
In a new legal filing, the Tesla chief executive accuses the A.I. start-up of undermining antitrust law.
- Crypto Congress + HBD ChatGPT + What Social Media Platform Should I Be On?by Kevin Roose, Casey Newton, Whitney Jones, Rachel Cohn, Jen Poyant, Alyssa Moxley, Dan Powell, Rowan Niemisto and Diane Wong on 15 November 2024 at 13:51
Cryptocurrency is poised to have a huge year in 2025.