Your DNA Can Now Be Pulled From Thin Air. Privacy Experts Are Worried.
David Duffy, a wildlife geneticist at the University of Florida, just wanted a better way to track disease in sea turtles. Then he started finding...
E.U. Approves Microsoft’s $69 Billion Deal for Activision
Microsoft’s faltering $69 billion bid to buy the video game company Activision Blizzard received a glimmer of hope on Monday when European Union regulators approved...
U.S.-Made Technology Is Flowing to Russian Airlines, Despite Sanctions
Last August, Oleg Patsulya, a Russian citizen living near Miami, emailed a Russian airline that had been cut off from Western technology and materials with...
Ex-ByteDance Executive Accuses TikTok Parent Company of ‘Lawlessness’
A former executive at ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns TikTok, has accused the technology giant of a “culture of lawlessness,” including stealing content from...
Linda Yaccarino Is Twitter’s New CEO, Elon Musk Confirms
Linda Yaccarino, NBCUniversal’s advertising chief, was preparing to interview Elon Musk, Twitter’s owner, onstage at a conference last month when she received an email from...
China Orders Tesla to Recall 1.1 Million Vehicles Over Braking Risks
China has ordered Tesla, the world’s dominant maker of electric vehicles, to recall 1.1 million vehicles, citing an issue with the acceleration and braking systems...
Google’s A.I. Bonanza and Driverless Car Talk With Cruise C.E.O. Kyle Vogt
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New Twitter CEO May Be Linda Yaccarino
Elon Musk is in talks to hire Linda Yaccarino, the chair of global advertising and partnerships at NBCUniversal, as chief executive of Twitter, two people...
Striking Writers Find Their Villain: Netflix
Just over a week after thousands of television and movie writers took to picket lines, Netflix is feeling the heat. Late Wednesday night, Netflix abruptly...
Peloton Recalls 2 Million Exercise Bikes, Sending Its Shares Sliding
Peloton, the maker of home exercise equipment, said on Thursday that it was recalling more than two million exercise bikes, an announcement that sent its...
The Discreet Thrill of Lurking Online
Four years into the practice, I discovered I was lurking: Aside from sharing snapshots with friends on a private Instagram page, I was consuming strangers’...
The Companies Trying to Make Live Shopping a Thing in the U.S.
On a warm spring evening in New York, dozens of people gathered on a rooftop in Midtown Manhattan to sip fruity cocktails and chat. Shortly...
U.S. Focuses on Invigorating ‘Chiplets’ to Stay Cutting-Edge in Tech
For more than 50 years, designers of computer chips mainly used one tactic to boost performance: They shrank electronic components to pack more power onto...
‘De-Americanize’: How China Is Remaking Its Chip Business
Last October, construction plans for a hulking semiconductor factory owned by a major state-backed company in central China fell into disarray. The Biden administration had...