Tag: Computers and the Internet
How Intel Makes Semiconductors in a Global Shortage
Some feature more than 50 billion tiny transistors that are 10,000 times smaller than the width of a…
What’s the Future of Online Grocery Shopping?
The conventional wisdom has been that the pandemic will spark a widespread and permanent shift in American habits…
Text Spam Is on the Rise. Here’s How to Spot It and What to Do
A few weeks ago, I woke up to an early morning text message on my smartphone. It wasn’t…
The Old-Timers Are Chasing Netflix
It’s a question that’s almost as old as Netflix: How long can we have the world’s favorite streaming…
How You’re Still Being Tracked on the Internet
While Meta adjusts, some small businesses have begun seeking other avenues for ads. Shawn Baker, the owner of…
Meet DALL-E, the A.I. That Draws Anything at Your Command
SAN FRANCISCO — At OpenAI, one of the world’s most ambitious artificial intelligence labs, researchers are building technology…
How Civil War History Explains Memestocks
The stocks’ prices crashed and the biggest zealots moved from r/WallStreetBets to a new subreddit, r/Superstonk, and began…
Amazon Workers on Staten Island Vote to Unionize
It was a union organizing campaign that few expected to have a chance. A handful of employees at…
Seven Decades Later, the 1950 Census Bares Its Secrets
“We have about 400,000 volunteers that index records all the time,” said David E. Rencher, the chief genealogical…
Adults or Sexually Abused Minors? Getting It Right Vexes Facebook
The number of reports of suspected child sexual abuse has grown exponentially in recent years. The high volume,…
Hugs to Boring
This week, a company I never think about scooped up another one I had forgotten existed. It was…
How War in Ukraine Roiled Facebook and Instagram
Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, took an unusual step last week: It suspended some of the quality…