NYT Technology

by Karen Weise on 27 November 2020 at 22:26

The company has added 427,300 employees in 10 months, bringing its global work force to more than 1.2 million.

by Ellen Barry and Nicole Perlroth on 27 November 2020 at 13:58

A wave of damaging attacks on hospitals upended the lives of patients with cancer and other ailments. “I have no idea what to do,” one said.

by Nathaniel Popper on 27 November 2020 at 10:00

Coinbase, the most valuable U.S. cryptocurrency company, has faced many internal complaints about discriminatory treatment.

by Glenn Collins on 26 November 2020 at 22:08

He pioneered the use of strobe photography to break down a golfer’s swing. He was also innovative, even crafty, in documenting P.G.A. tournaments for decades.

by Choe Sang-Hun on 26 November 2020 at 07:48

Cho Joo-bin was convicted of blackmailing young women into making sexually explicit video clips that he sold online.

by Shira Ovide on 25 November 2020 at 20:03

Video games are inching away from apps. Maybe every other industry can, too.

by Shira Ovide on 25 November 2020 at 19:53

For now.

by Daisuke Wakabayashi on 25 November 2020 at 19:13

The company, which has largely escaped the scrutiny faced by other social media outfits, is being pushed to restrict misleading videos.

by Kevin Roose, Mike Isaac and Sheera Frenkel on 25 November 2020 at 17:12

Employees and executives are battling over how to reduce misinformation and hate speech without hurting the company’s bottom line.

by John Herrman on 25 November 2020 at 17:05

Customers and sellers have relied on star ratings for decades, but the review system appears to have met its match: “Yellow Onion (Brands May Vary).”

by Brian X. Chen on 25 November 2020 at 14:00

Excessive screen time can be harmful to our well-being, but we can free ourselves from tech’s hooks with goals, rules and boundaries.

by Molly Young on 25 November 2020 at 10:00

The YouTube celebrity Adriene Mishler made yoga accessible and search-optimized even before so many Americans were confined at home. Can she help us learn to live better lives in front of the computer?

by Kellen Browning on 24 November 2020 at 23:13

#WriteInTrumpForGA was one of Twitter’s top trending topics, though such a campaign might only hurt Republicans.

by Sheera Frenkel on 24 November 2020 at 19:13

New research found that a handful of social media accounts had an outsize influence on false election information. President Trump topped the list.

by Sheera Frenkel on 24 November 2020 at 15:06

Researchers have found that a small group of social media accounts are responsible for the spread of a disproportionate amount of the false posts about voter fraud.

by Paul Mozur and Don Clark on 24 November 2020 at 15:00

Intel and Nvidia chips power a supercomputing center that tracks people in a place where government suppresses minorities, raising questions about the tech industry’s responsibility.

by Cade Metz on 24 November 2020 at 14:48

The latest natural-language system generates tweets, pens poetry, summarizes emails, answers trivia questions, translates languages and even writes its own computer programs.

by Thomas Gibbons-Neff and Fatima Faizi on 24 November 2020 at 12:01

The game’s cultlike following in Afghanistan inhabits a real-life version of its violent virtual reality.

by Linda Qiu on 24 November 2020 at 09:01

The video of a crowd singing happy birthday to the president-elect was from 2019.

by Zach Zorich on 24 November 2020 at 07:30

Trawling ancient history with neural nets.