Start-Ups Braced for the Worst. The Worst Never Came.
SAN FRANCISCO — Getaround, a car sharing start-up, started the year by laying off 150 employees and scaling back some operations after it spent too...
Tag : Computers and the Internet
Big Tech Makes Inroads With the Biden Campaign
WASHINGTON — Joseph R. Biden Jr. has been critical of Big Tech, admonishing Facebook for mishandling misinformation and saying internet companies should lose a central...
We’re All Hong Kongers Now
WASHINGTON — On Thursday, July 30, I fell asleep watching reruns of “Law and Order.” The next morning, I woke up a fugitive. Chinese state...
What It’s Like to Be a Virtual N.B.A. Fan
Malenda Meacham usually watches the Memphis Grizzlies play their home games at FedEx Forum from her perch in Section 106. She stands. She cheers. She...
Frances Allen, Who Helped Hardware Understand Software, Dies at 88
Frances Allen, a computer scientist and researcher who helped create the fundamental ideas that allow practically anyone to build fast, efficient and useful software for...
Trump Wants U.S. to Get Cut of Any TikTok Deal. No One Knows How That’d Work.
WASHINGTON — If he were still running casinos in rough-and-tumble Atlantic City, N.J., President Trump’s demand about Microsoft’s possible purchase of TikTok might be translated...
Is TikTok More of a Parenting Problem Than a Security Threat?
TikTok has long presented a parenting problem, as millions of Americans raising preteens and teenagers distracted by its viral videos can attest. But when the...
Trump’s TikTok and WeChat Edicts Are Straight Out of China’s Playbook
The one thing my students all invariably know about China is that you can’t use Facebook there, or YouTube or Google. For at least a...
Jack Dorsey on Twitter’s Mistakes
Listen to ‘The Daily’: Jack Dorsey on Twitter’s Mistakes “Do you believe that you are one of the most powerful people on Earth right now?”...
The Latest U.S. Tool to Fight Election Meddling: Text Messages
WASHINGTON — The United States government on Thursday became, for a brief moment, one of the biggest and perhaps most annoying telemarketers in Russia. Seeking...