Why Car Repairs Have Become So Expensive
New cars and trucks are packed with sensors and technology that protect and pamper drivers and passengers. But those features are also raising the cost...
Tesla’s Second Quarter Sales and Deliveries Rise as Tax Credits Fuel Demand
Tesla sales rose a better-than-expected 10 percent in the second quarter as the company led by Elon Musk benefited from government incentives and price cuts...
Musk Says Twitter Is Limiting Number of Posts Users Can Read
Elon Musk said on Saturday that Twitter will temporarily limit the number of posts users can read per day to address concerns over data scraping,...
A ‘Cage Match’ Between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg May Be No Joke
The day after Elon Musk challenged Mark Zuckerberg on social media to “a cage match” last month, Dana White, president of the Ultimate Fighting Championship,...
How Amazon Taught Alexa to Speak in an Irish Brogue
Like Henry Higgins, the phonetician from George Bernard Shaw’s play “Pygmalion,” Marius Cotescu and Georgi Tinchev recently demonstrated how their student was trying to overcome...
Don’t Use A.I. to Cheat in School. It’s Better for Studying.
Hello! We’re back with another bonus edition of On Tech: A.I., a pop-up newsletter that teaches you about artificial intelligence, how it works and how...
Hun Sen’s Facebook Page Goes Dark After Spat with Meta
The usually very active Facebook account for Prime Minister Hun Sen of Cambodia appeared to have been deleted on Friday, a day after the oversight...
Is A.I. Poisoning Itself?, Billionaire Cage Fight and Cooking With ChatGPT
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On TikTok, Grimace Milkshakes From McDonald’s Inspire Scenes of Horror
The scenes on social media are grisly. A body dangles out of the trunk of a sedan, dribbling purple goo. Another is draped across a...
Twitter’s New CEO, Linda Yaccarino, Eases Into the Hot Seat
When Elon Musk announced last month that he had hired Linda Yaccarino as Twitter’s chief executive, he said he was “excited” to bring on someone...
How Easy Is It to Fool A.I.-Detection Tools?
The pope did not wear Balenciaga. And filmmakers did not fake the moon landing. In recent months, however, startlingly lifelike images of these scenes...
AirNow and Other Apps to Help You Track Air Quality Near You
As wildfire smoke from Canada continued to drift across the United States, creating unhealthy air quality, many places across the country were under air quality...
TikTok Is Funding Montana Users’ Suit Against Ban
When five TikTok creators in Montana filed a lawsuit last month, saying the state’s new ban of the app violated their First Amendment rights and...
Reddit’s Chief Says He Wants It to ‘Grow Up.’ Will Its Community Let It?
For the past 11 years, Bucky has put time and effort into stewarding and guiding dozens of communities on Reddit, the sprawling internet message board....