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How to Add Extra Security Layers to Your Phone or Tablet

Wed, 11/20/2024 - 05:04
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.

How Google Spent 15 Years Concealing Its Internal Conversations

Wed, 11/20/2024 - 05:00
Trying to avoid antitrust suits, Google systematically told employees to destroy messages, avoid certain words and copy the lawyers as often as possible.

Physicist Who Made Superconductor Claims Exits University of Rochester

Tue, 11/19/2024 - 16:40
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 Says

Tue, 11/19/2024 - 07:11
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’ Jobs

Tue, 11/19/2024 - 03:00
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.

Substack’s Bet on Politics Newsletters Leads to Subscriber Growth

Mon, 11/18/2024 - 03:00
The newsletter start-up, which once drew an overture from Elon Musk, is betting on politics content and recruiting stars. But profits remain elusive.

Trump Picks Brendan Carr to Lead F.C.C.

Sun, 11/17/2024 - 20:24
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 Bluesky, Alternative to X and Facebook, Is Handling Growth

Sun, 11/17/2024 - 14:18
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 Platforms

Sun, 11/17/2024 - 05:01
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 Illness

Sun, 11/17/2024 - 05:01
A small study found ChatGPT outdid human physicians when assessing medical case histories, even when those doctors were using a chatbot.

Thomas E. Kurtz, co-creator of BASIC programming language, dies at 96

Sat, 11/16/2024 - 14:42
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.

Netflix Livestream Outages Reported During Mike Tyson-Jake Paul Fight

Sat, 11/16/2024 - 11:40
Users across the U.S. reported being unable to load the high-profile boxing match.

How Elon Musk Cuts Costs at Tesla, SpaceX and X

Sat, 11/16/2024 - 09:12
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.

Crypto Congress + HBD ChatGPT + What Social Media Platform Should I Be On?

Fri, 11/15/2024 - 07:00
Cryptocurrency is poised to have a huge year in 2025.

Elon Musk Adds Microsoft to Suit Against OpenAI

Fri, 11/15/2024 - 01:57
In a new legal filing, the Tesla chief executive accuses the A.I. start-up of undermining antitrust law.

Techies Push Other Techies to Musk to Join Trump Administration

Thu, 11/14/2024 - 17:36
Tech leaders are recommending their own brethren to Mr. Musk and others, as they aim to leave a Silicon Valley imprint on Donald Trump’s new administration.

Meta Fined $840 Million in Europe for Boosting Marketplace Unfairly

Thu, 11/14/2024 - 09:24
Meta said it would appeal the decision by the European Union, which said the company had abused its dominance in social networking to strengthen its shopping and classified ads service.

Are A.I. Clones the Future of Dating? I Tried Them for Myself.

Thu, 11/14/2024 - 05:00
A New York Times reporter tested a handful of chatbots to see if they could help improve his dating life. The results were decidedly mixed.

F.B.I. Searches Home of Shayne Coplan, Polymarket Founder

Wed, 11/13/2024 - 21:46
The search involving Shayne Coplan, the founder of Polymarket, known for its presidential election odds, was part of a criminal investigation, three people said.

Cryptocurrency’s Latest Disruption: A Dog Popularity Contest

Wed, 11/13/2024 - 11:14
Did a fun event involving cute dogs turn into a pump-and-dump scheme?

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