Tag: Computers and the Internet
Twitter Counters Elon Musk’s Takeover Bid With a Poison Pill
Twitter unveiled its counterattack against Elon Musk on Friday, using a strategy invented to repel corporate raiders in…
A.I. Is Mastering Language. Should We Trust What It Says?
But as GPT-3’s fluency has dazzled many observers, the large-language-model approach has also attracted significant criticism over the…
Gopuff Buys Time for Its 30-Minutes-or-Less Delivery Promise
“Once you can execute, and obviously that’s hard, it wins in the long term,” he said.Gopuff added that…
Elon Musk Is a Digital Citizen Kane
What if one of the world’s important tools for information was owned by a mercurial billionaire who could…
Russian Tech Industry Faces ‘Brain Drain’ as Workers Flee
“We don’t have enough quality apartments for highly educated people with high salaries and high standards,” said Aram…
Will Substack Go Beyond Newsletters? A Company Weighs Its Future.
There are things that the newsletter writer Kirsten Han misses about Substack. They just aren’t enough to outweigh…
How Young Latinos’ Online and TV Habits Offer Political Clues for 2022
Greetings from your co-host Leah Askarinam. Blake Hounshell is off this week. We have an item tonight from…
How Tech Companies Are Trying to Woo Employees Returning to Work
When Google employees returned to their mostly empty offices this month, they were told to relax. Office time…
Twitter Grapples With an Elon Musk Problem
SAN FRANCISCO — Bright and early on Monday, Elon Musk sent the government a surprising new document.In it,…
Elon Musk Will Not Join Twitter’s Board, Company Says
Elon Musk, the world’s wealthiest man and the biggest shareholder of Twitter, will no longer join the social…
Crypto Industry Helps Write, and Pass, Its Own Agenda in State Capitols
In July, the state ordered a dozen A.T.M. providers that sell crypto in exchange for cash — including…
‘La French Tech’ Arrives Under Macron, but Proves No Panacea
PARIS — In full Steve Jobs mode, President Emmanuel Macron of France donned a black turtleneck in January…