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How Restaurants Retooled for Takeout—and Survival

10 mins; January 11, 2021

Airlines’ Pandemic-Driven Cargo Business Will Keep Flying

12 mins; January 08, 2021

The Newest Weapon Against Covid-19: AI That Speed-Reads Faxes

8 mins; January 07, 2021

Texas Accuses Google and Facebook of an Illegal Conspiracy

8 mins; January 06, 2021

The ‘Healthy Building’ Surge Will Outlast the Pandemic

9 mins; January 05, 2021

The Future of Social Media Is All Talk

9 mins; December 31, 2020

Conferences After Covid Will Be Shorter—and Smarter

11 mins; December 30, 2020

Mass Transit Is in Jeopardy—and So Are Cities

7 mins; December 29, 2020

Behind the Paper That Led to a Google Researcher's Firing

8 mins; December 24, 2020

Chuck Yeager’s 1947 Flight Inspired Our Supersonic Ambitions

7 mins; December 23, 2020

This Guy Is Taking Viewers Along for His Driverless Rides

10 mins; December 22, 2020

Uber Gives Up on the Self-Driving Dream

5 mins; December 21, 2020

A Prominent AI Ethics Researcher Says Google Fired Her

8 mins; December 18, 2020

Do Diverse Corporate Boards Lead to a Fairer Workplace?

4 mins; December 17, 2020

Ride-Hail Companies Are Making Life Harder for Scooters

8 mins; December 16, 2020

All the Social Media Giants Are Becoming the Same

6 mins; December 15, 2020

As Cities Curb Surveillance, Baltimore Police Took to the Air

6 mins; December 14, 2020

Congress Is Eyeing Face Recognition, and Companies Want a Say

8 mins; December 11, 2020

Did a University Use Facial Recognition to ID Student Protesters?

7 mins; December 10, 2020

AI Can Run Your Work Meetings Now

10 mins; December 09, 2020

When AI Sees a Man, It Thinks 'Official.' A Woman? 'Smile'

8 mins; December 08, 2020

What the EU Gets Right—and the US Gets Wrong—About Antitrust

6 mins; December 07, 2020

Robots Invade the Construction Site

6 mins; December 04, 2020

Apple Will Take a Smaller Cut of Some App Store Revenues

3 mins; December 03, 2020

Marissa Mayer’s Next Act Is Here

6 mins; December 02, 2020

DoorDash Shows Delivery Can Be Profitable—in a Pandemic

5 mins; December 01, 2020

More Black and Latinx Students Were Going to College. Then Covid Hit

10 mins; November 26, 2020

One Big Challenge for Biden? China’s Push for Tech Supremacy

7 mins; November 25, 2020

Why Just Zoom When You Can Bend Reality?

7 mins; November 24, 2020

What Happened to the Deepfake Threat to the Election?

8 mins; November 23, 2020

Apps Are Now Putting the Parole Agent in Your Pocket

10 mins; November 20, 2020

The US Government Will Pay Doctors to Use These AI Algorithms

7 mins; November 19, 2020

These Factory Robots May Point the Way to 5G’s Future

7 mins; November 18, 2020

Who’s Still Covered by California’s Gig Worker Law?

6 mins; November 17, 2020

With Its Own Chips, Apple Aims to Define the Future of PCs

7 mins; November 16, 2020

The Future of McDonald's Is in the Drive-Thru Lane

7 mins; November 13, 2020

One Clear Message From Voters This Election? More Privacy

7 mins; November 12, 2020

With $200 Million, Uber and Lyft Write Their Own Labor Law

6 mins; November 11, 2020

It's Hard to Escape Facebook's Vortex of Polarization

8 mins; November 10, 2020

WFH or Work at the Office—More Tech Employees Can Now Choose

9 mins; November 09, 2020

To Save the Planet, Get More EVs in Used Car Lots

6 mins; November 06, 2020

The Left and the Right Speak Different Languages—Literally

5 mins; November 05, 2020

How an Algorithm Blocked Kidney Transplants to Black Patients

7 mins; November 04, 2020

How Police Can Crack Locked Phones—and Extract Information

6 mins; November 03, 2020

Why Is Everyone Building an Electric Pickup Truck?

5 mins; November 02, 2020

Give These Apps Some Notes and They'll Write Emails for You

8 mins; October 30, 2020

Give These Apps Some Notes and They'll Write Emails for You

8 mins; October 30, 2020

Companies Are Rushing to Use AI—but Few See a Payoff

7 mins; October 29, 2020

The Fate of Gig Workers Is in the Hands of California Voters

8 mins; October 28, 2020

The Anticlimax of the Google Antitrust Suit

6 mins; October 27, 2020

Here's What Google Does Illegally, According to the DOJ

8 mins; October 26, 2020

‘Do Not Track’ Is Back, and This Time It Might Work

7 mins; October 23, 2020

Behind Anduril’s Effort to Create an Operating System for War

8 mins; October 22, 2020

Does the House Antitrust Report Mean That Tech Is Evil?

10 mins; October 21, 2020

Just as Tech Looked Serious About Diversity, Trump Intervenes

5 mins; October 20, 2020

Facebook Tweaked Its Rules, but You Can Still Target Voters

7 mins; October 19, 2020

College Going Virtual Means Reaching Young Voters Online. Good

7 mins; October 16, 2020

Facebook Finally Slowed Down—When We Needed It to Move Fast

10 mins; October 15, 2020

AI Can Help Patients—but Only If Doctors Understand It

7 mins; October 14, 2020

Tesla's Latest Numbers Put Growth Concerns to Rest

3 mins; October 13, 2020

These Robots Use AI to Learn How to Clean Your House

4 mins; October 12, 2020

Publishers Worry as Ebooks Fly off Libraries' Virtual Shelves

8 mins; October 09, 2020

Lawmakers Demand Scrutiny of Racial Bias in Health Algorithms

5 mins; October 08, 2020

Alexa Now Has Its Own Questions for You

5 mins; October 07, 2020

Activists at Amazon Say Its Climate Efforts Still Fall Short

5 mins; October 06, 2020

Companies Can Track Your Phone’s Movements to Target Ads

6 mins; October 05, 2020

Elon Musk Promises a $25,000 Tesla in 3 Years—Again

5 mins; October 02, 2020

To Clean Up Comments, Let AI Tell Users Their Words Are Trash

8 mins; October 01, 2020

Portland’s Face-Recognition Ban Is a New Twist on ‘Smart Cities’

8 mins; September 30, 2020

The Apocalypse Doesn’t Need an Instagram Filter

9 mins; September 29, 2020

A Utah Company Claims It Invented Contact Tracing Tech

7 mins; September 28, 2020

Nvidia's Arm Deal Would Make It the Center of the Chip World

5 mins; September 25, 2020

FedEx Will Track Your Packages More Precisely Than Ever

5 mins; September 24, 2020

Anduril’s New Drone Offers to Inject More AI Into Warfare

5 mins; September 23, 2020

Creepy ‘Geofence’ Finds Anyone Who Went Near a Crime Scene

6 mins; September 22, 2020

No, Amazon Won't Deliver You a Burrito by Drone Anytime Soon

7 mins; September 21, 2020

Doctors and Nurses Take to TikTok to Fight Covid Myths

7 mins; September 18, 2020

Uber Pledges to Go All-Electric, but It Doesn't Own the Cars

8 mins; September 17, 2020

Access to Telemedicine Is Hardest for Those Who Need It Most

8 mins; September 16, 2020

TikTok Is Paying Creators. Not All of Them Are Happy

7 mins; September 15, 2020

AI Ruined Chess. Now, It's Making the Game Beautiful Again

9 mins; September 14, 2020

Startup Perks Go Remote—and Take a More Inclusive Approach

8 mins; September 11, 2020

Google Offers to Help Others With the Tricky Ethics of AI

7 mins; September 10, 2020

Google and Apple Change Tactics on Contact Tracing Tech

7 mins; September 09, 2020

A Dogfight Renews Concerns About AI's Lethal Potential

9 mins; September 08, 2020

California Lawmakers Push for More Diversity in the Boardroom

7 mins; September 07, 2020

How the Pandemic Reshaped Election Campaigns—Maybe Forever

10 mins; September 04, 2020

MAGA TikTok Creators Stand by Trump—Despite a Potential Ban

8 mins; September 03, 2020

Should Google’s Ad Market Be Regulated Like the Stock Market?

11 mins; September 02, 2020

Covid Hits Minorities Hardest, but Data Often Doesn't Show It

6 mins; September 01, 2020

Amazon and FedEx Push to Put Delivery Robots on Your Sidewalk

7 mins; August 31, 2020

Meet the Star Witness: Your Smart Speaker

8 mins; August 28, 2020

A Move for Driverless Mass Transit Hits Speed Bumps

7 mins; August 27, 2020

An Algorithm Determined UK Students' Grades. Chaos Ensued

8 mins; August 26, 2020

Skewed Grading Algorithms Fuel Backlash Beyond the Classroom

7 mins; August 25, 2020

What Happens If Uber and Lyft Flee California? Look at Austin

6 mins; August 24, 2020

A Plan to Turn Military Bases Into ‘Sandboxes’ for 5G

5 mins; August 21, 2020

Trump's Executive Orders Hurt More Than TikTok and WeChat

6 mins; August 20, 2020

The White House Announces a Plan to Speed the Rollout of 5G

4 mins; August 19, 2020

When Private Security Cameras Are Police Surveillance Tools

7 mins; August 18, 2020

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