Meta Fined $414 Million After Ad Practices Ruled Illegal Under EU Law
Meta suffered a major defeat on Wednesday that could severely undercut its Facebook and Instagram advertising business after European Union regulators found it had illegally...
Supply Problems Hurt Auto Sales in 2022. Now Demand Is Weakening.
Last year, sales of new cars and trucks fell to their lowest level in a decade because automakers could not make enough vehicles for consumers...
Salesforce to Lay Off 10 Percent of Staff and Cut Office Space
Salesforce, the business software giant, said on Wednesday that it planned to lay off 10 percent of its work force, or about 8,000 employees, and...
Twitter to Relax Ban on Political Ads
SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter said on Tuesday that it would begin relaxing its longstanding ban on political ads, allowing advocacy groups and elected officials to...
Video Game Workers Get a Union Foothold at Microsoft
Organized labor claimed one of its biggest victories at a U.S. tech company on Tuesday, gaining a foothold among about 300 employees at a video...
Sam Bankman-Fried Pleads Not Guilty to Fraud and Other Charges
Those claims started circulating after crypto experts noticed that digital accounts associated with Alameda were transferring funds. The movement of the money was visible because...
Social Media Use Is Linked to Brain Changes in Teens, Research Finds
The effect of social media use on children is a fraught area of research, as parents and policymakers try to ascertain the results of a...
As Covid-19 Continues to Spread, So Does Misinformation About It
Nearly three years into the pandemic, Covid-19 remains stubbornly persistent. So, too, does misinformation about the virus. As Covid cases, hospitalizations and deaths rise in...
U.S. Pours Money Into Chips, but Even Soaring Spending Has Limits
In September, the chip giant Intel gathered officials at a patch of land near Columbus, Ohio, where it pledged to invest at least $20 billion...
A New Puzzle Turns Earth Into a Rubik’s Cube, but More Complex
Another orbit around the sun and here we are again: back where we started but spun about — changed, perhaps deranged. Henry Segerman, a British...
Maps: Tracking Air Quality and Smoke From Canada and U.S. Wildfires
Smoke and haze lingers over sections of North America, as polluted air continues to spread from hundreds of wildfires burning throughout Canada. This is the...
Google Changes Appeals Process for Suspected Child Abuse Images
When Google informed a mother in Colorado that her account had been disabled, it felt as if her house had burned down, she said. In...
Tesla Had a Bad Year. Some Investors Are Blaming Elon Musk.
In a down year for stocks, the 65 percent drop in Tesla’s share price stands out for the scale of wealth vaporized and the unorthodox...
Librarians Are Meeting Younger Readers Where They Are: TikTok
The pandemic wiped out decades of progress in children’s reading skills. So what’s a librarian hoping to engage children and teenagers with books and reading...