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Nov 14, 2018
After meeting with the governor and mayor, Amazon decided the men could put aside their differences, and it began to iron out a package worth over a billion dollars.
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Nov 14, 2018
Eager candidates offered name changes, helipads and even cactuses to entice the company into setting up shop.
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Nov 14, 2018
Google Photos, introduced in 2015, has become one of the most emotionally resonant pieces of technology today. It is also shaping our narratives along the way.
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Nov 14, 2018
Iddris Sandu has written code for Instagram and Twitter, and counts Barack Obama as a fan.
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Nov 14, 2018
The object, made of 24-karat gold, honors Robert Henry Lawrence Jr., the first African-American to train as an astronaut.
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Nov 13, 2018
The states offered tax credits, rebates and other incentives to lure the online retail giant and 25,000 jobs. Neighboring states offered even more.
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Nov 13, 2018
Amazon promises tens of thousands of new jobs, but should we expect more than that?
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Nov 13, 2018
After being passed over at Xerox, he became one of the few African-American chief executives of a Fortune 500 company when he took control of Avis.
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Nov 13, 2018
The billionaire Richard Liu, who has denied wrongdoing, was in Minneapolis attending a relatively new and lucrative academic program when he was arrested.
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Nov 13, 2018
Amazon is not in the business of saving your hometown.
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Nov 13, 2018
Black Friday and Cyber Monday mean hundreds of online deals, discounts, and in-person doorbusters, but these tips will help you tell which ones are really worth your money.
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Nov 13, 2018
Want to share photos this holiday season (and other times)? We have recommendations for cards, photo books, and photo printing services.
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Nov 13, 2018
As a company owned by the world's richest man prepares to transform Long Island City, tenants of the Queensbridge Houses worry that they'll be left behind.
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Nov 13, 2018
For years, Facebook struck deals that gave device makers access to troves of user data. A disclosure to Congress details the company's lax oversight of those partnerships.
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Nov 13, 2018
The Army has been working on a new model of antivehicle mines that could reduce the threat posed to civilians, if it works the way the service hopes.
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Nov 11, 2018
Influencers are so 2014. And microinfluencers are so last week. Now advertisers see value in people with as few as 1,000 followers: the nanoinfluencers.
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Nov 11, 2018
China's slowing economic growth and weakening consumer sentiment pose a challenge to an e-commerce giant with world-swallowing ambitions.
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Nov 11, 2018
Flat-panel HDTVs are too thin to house good speakers. These simple tips and gear upgrades can give you great sound without a lot of work.
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Nov 10, 2018
The company's Electron rocket carried a batch of small commercial satellites from a launchpad in New Zealand, a harbinger of a major transformation to the space business.
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Nov 10, 2018
Jyoti and Kiran Matharoo sought fame on social media by flaunting what nature — and men — gave them. Then they got locked up abroad.
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Nov 10, 2018
One hundred years after the end of World War I, the Army Corps of Engineers is still cleaning up the relics of experiments that helped develop chemical weapons to counter the Germans' gas attacks.
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Nov 09, 2018
The social media giant acted one day after Google, facing intense pressure from employees, made a similar decision.
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Nov 09, 2018
Growing up in India, he slept on the floor of a house without a refrigerator. Today, the chief executive is steering Google through the most turbulent period in its history.
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Nov 09, 2018
After a disastrous performance two years ago, social media companies rightly took disinformation and voter suppression seriously ahead of the midterms.
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Nov 09, 2018
The futurist philosopher Yuval Noah Harari thinks Silicon Valley is an engine of dystopian ruin. So why do the digital elite adore him so?
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Nov 08, 2018
Robyn Denholm, an Australian executive, was named days before a regulatory deadline for the electric-car maker to replace its chairman.
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Nov 08, 2018
A week after 20,000 employees around the globe staged a walkout over the handling of sexual harassment and assault cases, Google said it was altering some of its policies.
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Nov 08, 2018
The World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, China, has long showcased flashy new tech. This year, discussions also dealt with counterterrorism, data breaches and surveillance.
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Nov 08, 2018
Here's what happened when two Times tech reporters installed Facebook's new Portal video-calling gadgets in their bedrooms.
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Nov 07, 2018
A gamer in Melbourne has had his assets frozen in connection with a popular video game cheat. He's one of many being sued by game companies worldwide, raising questions about copyright law and the policing of online civility.
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Nov 07, 2018
Amazon appears to be leaning toward opening a new office in New York. Now word comes that Google, already a big employer in the city, may add on.
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Nov 07, 2018
Two days into a strike by antiquarian booksellers against the Amazon unit AbeBooks, the company capitulated.
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Nov 07, 2018
New York and Washington are leaving the rest of the country behind. Companies like Amazon explain why.
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Nov 07, 2018
When Facebook, YouTube and others use algorithms to keep us engaged, there can be unintended consequences. Max Fisher, his tools in a trusty Patagonia bag, covers the trend as one of The Times's Interpreter columnists.
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Apr 24, 2018
You can attach one to a post or a status update, but only if you are using a certain type of Facebook page.
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Apr 24, 2018
If you don't have one of these — or you've waited until the options were good enough before investing — now is the time to buy.
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Apr 24, 2018
The new service is aimed at anyone who doesn't want to risk a package being stolen from a porch and can't receive an order at work.
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Apr 24, 2018
European authorities are testing the idea that data can give companies an unfair edge over rivals.
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Apr 23, 2018
Facebook and Google are dealing with a privacy backlash and new European rules on data collection. The rules, though, may not be as damaging to the companies as they appear.
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Apr 23, 2018
The video-sharing site said it took down more than eight million videos in the fourth quarter of 2017. The vast majority were flagged by computers.
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Apr 23, 2018
With regulatory pressure looming, Google is spending heavily for its cloud business, hardware products and A.I. assistant.
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Apr 23, 2018
Propel, a start-up, was begun to bring convenience and new services to food stamp recipients. A big government contractor is getting in the way.
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Apr 23, 2018
As Facebook's head of news partnerships, Ms. Brown, a former CNN and NBC anchor, is emerging as a surprisingly adept negotiator for her publishing vision at the social network.
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Apr 23, 2018
Devious code is sending people to fraudulent quiz and contest pages, so ignore that "lucky winner" notice and run a security scan.
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Apr 22, 2018
Many of Amazon's opponents have struggled for years to be heard. Now they have the country's most powerful bullhorn — President Trump — on their side.
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Apr 22, 2018
Gary Gensler, who once led the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, has joined M.I.T., where he is warning about potential problems for virtual currencies.
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Apr 22, 2018
The shortage, caused by government policies, poses a challenge for Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who was also responsible for India's last cash crisis.
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Apr 22, 2018
The personal payment platform Zelle is flourishing. But so are fraudsters, who are exploiting weaknesses in the banks' security.
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Apr 21, 2018
Complaints to the Justice Department allege that the companies and a standards group worked together to restrict eSIM technology, a cardless way to easily switch carriers.
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Apr 20, 2018
The announcement by Kim Jong-un came less than a week before he meets with the president of South Korea.
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Apr 20, 2018
Days after a news report focused on conditions at the plant, a California agency said it was investigating an episode that left a millwright's jaw broken.
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Apr 20, 2018
Despite a first-quarter loss, General Electric reported improving trends in industrial earnings and reaffirmed its profit outlook for the year.
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Apr 20, 2018
Travis VanderZanden, chief executive of electric scooter start-up Bird, is unperturbed by how San Francisco and other cities are in an uproar over the dockless vehicles.
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Apr 20, 2018
Decades ago, Nigel Oakes believed it was possible, using science, to influence human behavior on a mass scale. That ultimately led to data mining.
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Apr 20, 2018
If your screen has become jumbled with too many open files, folders and programs to manage, you can quickly sort the pile.
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Apr 20, 2018
Amazon's chief executive sent out his annual shareholder letter this week. Our tech columnist recounts what stood out from it.
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Apr 20, 2018
The million-point record of Billy Mitchell, the subject of a 2007 documentary, has been thrown out, and Steve Wiebe, his rival, claims "sweet victory."
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Apr 19, 2018
A group led by the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz is proposing that some virtual currencies not be regulated as securities.
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Apr 19, 2018
PwC, an auditing firm responsible for monitoring Facebook's compliance with a federal consent decree, effectively gave the company a clean bill of health in a 2017 report on privacy controls.
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Apr 19, 2018
Randall Stephenson, AT&T's chief executive, defended his deal to buy Time Warner and said a combined company would be no different than those that already exist in Silicon Valley.
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Apr 19, 2018
Tax forms filed by OpenAI provide insight into the enormous salaries and bonuses paid to artificial intelligence specialists across the world.
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Apr 19, 2018
The industrial giant plunged into internet-era software with gusto. But it has trimmed back after finding that becoming a tech player is daunting and costly.
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Apr 19, 2018
While travelers have long been able to set up airfare alerts, these apps go a step further in helping flexible travelers plan a last-minute trip.
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Apr 19, 2018
The incognito and private browsing modes built into most modern browsers shield your online activity at home — but maybe not to the rest of the world.
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Apr 18, 2018
Sapna Maheshwari, who covers advertising for The Times, discusses how she tracks the online ads that track us.
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Apr 18, 2018
Jeffrey Bewkes, Time Warner's chief executive, said on Wednesday in federal court that the company is an underdog against Amazon, Netflix and others.
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Apr 18, 2018
The tech giant has moved its entertainment division into Culver Studios, a 14-acre site where "Gone With the Wind" was also filmed.
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Apr 18, 2018
Although its rebuffed proposal was higher on a per-share basis, Comcast didn't offer protection if a deal was blocked, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Apr 18, 2018
Marketers have long had a symbiotic relationship with the social network. But user concerns about data has companies taking a harder look at how they work with Facebook.
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Apr 18, 2018
The state is the first to pass legislation requiring education officials to develop health and safety guidelines for digital devices.
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Apr 18, 2018
The U.S. and China are threatening a global trade war as they look to protect their most advanced industries.
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Apr 18, 2018
If your Windows 10 lock screen changes daily or slows you down in getting to your desktop, you can change its behavior.
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Apr 18, 2018
The former Yahoo chief is renting Google's original office, where "there's a lot of good juju," and planning her next act. She just won't say what it is.
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Apr 17, 2018
The data firm was hoping to do its own so-called initial coin offering and quietly helped promote other companies in the unregulated industry.
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Apr 17, 2018
The justices heard arguments about whether to overrule a 1992 decision that shielded many internet retailers from having to collect sales taxes.
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Apr 17, 2018
To protect the public without overreacting, the issue for legislators and regulators to weigh is how much the data-driven ecosystem is worth to us.
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Feb 27, 2018
A new generation of cameras like Google's new Clips device can understand what they see, creating intriguing and sometimes eerie possibilities.
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Feb 27, 2018
To see which apps are grabbing the most data, peek into your device's settings or fire up a software meter.
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Feb 27, 2018
Technologists are starting to fret that their creations are too addictive. They could start by doing something about the dots.
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Feb 26, 2018
The new regulations in Silicon Valley's home state are expected to help the wider deployment of autonomous vehicles.
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Feb 26, 2018
A Supreme Court case asks where the government's right to examine digital evidence ends.
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Feb 26, 2018
Speaking at The New York Times's New Work Summit, Deputy U.S. Chief Technology Officer Michael Kratsios said the U.S. is still leading China in artificial intelligence, but needs to keep pushing ahead.
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Feb 26, 2018
Those lightweight laptops running Google's Chrome OS operating system can work with certain types of printer models.
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Feb 25, 2018
An emerging field, digital phenotyping, tries to assess people's well-being based on their interactions with digital devices.
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Feb 25, 2018
Cryptocurrencies and blockchain were meant to be great equalizers. Instead, women are finding that the gold rush is already stacked against them.
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Feb 24, 2018
Silicon Valley wants to save cities. What could go wrong?
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Feb 23, 2018
A maker of chip-testing equipment, Xcerra, said it was walking away from a proposed sale to a Chinese group because of regulatory concerns.
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Feb 23, 2018
The online file storage company, part of a group of highly valued start-ups known as "unicorns," said it planned to raise up to $500 million in a public offering.
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Feb 23, 2018
The tech companies vowed this week to stamp out conspiracy videos and misinformation on the Parkland, Fla., shooting. So far, they are falling short.
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Feb 23, 2018
TurboTax, H&R Block and TaxAct all make filing easier, but they left our reviewer confused about what the I.R.S. would accept and what it would not.
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Feb 23, 2018
Tagging photos with keywords allows you to quickly search for specific images based on what is shown in them.
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Feb 23, 2018
Why the internet is full of lies and why the problem isn't getting fixed are big questions few in the tech industry seem eager to answer.
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Feb 22, 2018
If you want to browse international sites but cannot understand the text, a number of software interpreters will translate for you.
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Feb 21, 2018
Scientists used a variety of tools originally developed for medicine, manufacturing and geology to discover hidden details in the artist's paintings and sculptures.
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Feb 21, 2018
It can be tempting to hook up everything you love to the internet. But take a moment to appreciate some of the objects that can remain unplugged.
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Feb 21, 2018
How Natasha Singer, a tech reporter at The Times, uses tech when she chronicles the industry's effect on education, privacy and our health.
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Feb 21, 2018
Nabeel Rajab, a leading figure of pro-democracy rallies in 2011, had criticized prison abuses and the Yemen war. He was already serving time for criticizing the government.
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Feb 21, 2018
If you need to electronically sign PDF files, annotation tools built into popular programs let you scrawl your name right on the screen.
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Feb 21, 2018
Government officials are hoping to spur vitally needed imports like food and medicine and, perhaps, give investors a way of skirting American sanctions.
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Feb 21, 2018
Next to Apple's iOS and Google's Android, Amazon's voice assistant may be turning into the third great consumer computing platform of our era.
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