Here’s How to Achieve Tech Nirvana in 2023
Social media and new communication platforms may have been lifelines during the pandemic, but have they gobbled up too much of your time? Do you...
How the Netherlands Is Taming Big Tech
In 2021, privacy consultants working for two Dutch universities issued a critical report card on Google’s education apps, a set of classroom tools like Google...
Supreme Court Poised to Reconsider Key Tenets of Online Speech
For years, giant social networks like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram have operated under two crucial tenets. The first is that the platforms have the power...
Bitcoin Price Rallies to Recoup Losses Since FTX Collapse
Cryptocurrency bulls are extending one of the most unlikely rallies of the year so far, pushing Bitcoin above $21,000 for a second day. That means...
Microsoft to Lay Off 10,000 Workers as It Looks to Trim Costs
Microsoft on Wednesday became the latest addition to a growing list of big technology companies that have announced plans to lay off employees because of...
Bomb Cyclone? Or Just Windy with a Chance of Hyperbole?
DENVER — Last week, days after a bomb cyclone (coupled with a series of atmospheric rivers, some of the Pineapple Express variety) took devastating aim...
Polar Vortex, Bomb Cyclone and Other Weather Terminology, Explained
Many of the latest buzzwords in weather forecasting — “polar vortex,” “bomb cyclone” — describe natural phenomena that are not new, nor even necessarily more...
Want a Giant Neon Twitter Bird? It’s One of Many Items Up for Auction.
Since Elon Musk took over Twitter in October, the company has been in turmoil, as he has aggressively cut costs, laid off half of the...
What Happened to All of Science’s Big Breakthroughs?
Miracle vaccines. Videophones in our pockets. Reusable rockets. Our technological bounty and its related blur of scientific progress seem undeniable and unsurpassed. Yet analysts now...
Apple Reaches Deal With Investors to Audit Its Labor Practices
Apple will conduct an assessment of its U.S. labor practices under an agreement with a coalition of investors that includes five New York City pension...
ChatGPT Transforms a Classroom and Is ‘M3GAN’ Real?
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Elon Musk Goes to Trial Over His 2018 Plan to Take Tesla Private
More than four years after he said he had secured the funding to take Tesla off the stock market, Elon Musk will try to defend...
Alarmed by A.I. Chatbots, Universities Start Revamping How They Teach
While grading essays for his world religions course last month, Antony Aumann, a professor of philosophy at Northern Michigan University, read what he said was...
Lawyers Are Back in Madison Square Garden After Facial Recognition Ban
The problem with going to battle against thousands of lawyers is that it is likely to lead to lawsuits. And then the battle will inevitably...