Tag: Computers and the Internet
The Rise of the 0.5 Selfie
Julia Herzig, a 22-year-old from Larchmont, N.Y., has “an obsession.” It’s with taking a new kind of selfie…
Many Russian Cyberattacks Failed in First Months of Ukraine War, Study Says
WASHINGTON — A new examination of how Russia used its cybercapabilities in the first months of the war…
Should You Buy Now, Pay Later? Tread Carefully.
In the summer of 2020, amid fear and uncertainty over the pandemic, Amber Cole of Colorado Springs turned…
Gadgets Were Hot. Now They’re Not.
A lot of companies have been caught off guard by changes in our spending choices this year. Americans…
Closing Statements Begin in Trial of Sunny Balwani
For months, Ramesh Balwani’s lawyers have tried to distinguish him from Elizabeth Holmes, his former girlfriend and business…
Meta Agrees to Alter Ad Technology in Settlement With U.S.
SAN FRANCISCO — Meta on Tuesday agreed to alter its ad technology and pay a penalty of $115,054,…
Microsoft Plans to Eliminate Face Analysis Tools in Push for ‘Responsible A.I.’
For years, activists and academics have been raising concerns that facial analysis software that claims to be able…
Google Says It’s Time for Longtime Small-Business Users to Pay Up
When Google told some small businesses in January that they would no longer be able to use a…
Bitcoin Plummets Below $20,000 for First Time Since Late 2020
Square, another payments company, bought $50 million of Bitcoin and changed its name to Block, in part to…
TikTok says its American traffic is going through Oracle servers, but it retains backups.
TikTok, the Chinese-owned video app, said on Friday that it was moving all of the data produced by…
Tether: The Coin That Could Wreck Crypto
Even by crypto’s often-surreal standards, Tether has a peculiar history. The company was founded in 2014 by Brock…
In Twitter Meeting, Elon Musk Fields Questions From 8,000 Employees
SAN FRANCISCO — For weeks, Elon Musk has publicly trashed Twitter, even though he is buying the company…