Computers and the Internet

Amazon Launches First 27 Project Kuiper Internet Satellites
[ad_1] The battle of billionaires in space between Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk has entered a new arena: satellite internet.Amazon, the company that Mr. Bezos started as an online bookseller...
House Passes Bill to Ban Sharing of Revenge Porn, Sending It to Trump
[ad_1] The House on Monday overwhelmingly passed bipartisan legislation to criminalize the nonconsensual sharing of sexually explicit photos and videos of others — including A.I.-generated images known as “deepfakes” —...
Video: Mark Zuckerberg Is Back in the Hot Seat in a Crucial Trial
[ad_1] Mark Zuckerberg has appeared before Congress more times than any other tech leader. He will testify again soon — as a witness in a federal antitrust trial. Cecilia Kang,...
How Geo Group’s Surveillance Tech Is Aiding Trump’s Immigration Agenda
[ad_1] Follow live updates on the Trump administration.After a Honduran immigrant arrived in the United States in 2022, officials ordered him to use a government-issued app as part of an...
The Former C.I.A. Officer Capitalizing On Europe’s Military Spending Boom
[ad_1] During a 24-hour swing through Copenhagen last month, Eric Slesinger met with engineers making maritime drones, developers of war-planning software and an adviser to NATO. He had recently visited...
Trump Adds Tariff Exemptions for Smartphones, Computers and Other Electronics
[ad_1] After more than a week of ratcheting up tariffs on products imported from China, the Trump administration issued a rule late Friday that spared smartphones, computers, semiconductors and other...
As Tariffs Hit, Americans Are Racing to Buy Car Seats, iPhones and Christmas Gifts
[ad_1] Emily Moen, a coffee shop manager in Omaha, was scrolling through TikTok earlier this week when she came across a video informing her that President Trump’s tariffs could lead...
How TikTok’s Parent, ByteDance, Became an A.I. Powerhouse
[ad_1] The Chinese internet giant ByteDance has made some of the world’s most popular apps: TikTok and, in China, Douyin and Toutiao.In the United States, TikTok claims 170 million users....
Live Video: Watch Amazon Launch First Project Kuiper Internet Satellites
[ad_1] The battle of billionaires in space between Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk has entered a new arena: satellite internet.Amazon, the company that Mr. Bezos started as an online bookseller...
How Trump’s TikTok Negotiations Were Upended by China and Tariffs
[ad_1] Last Wednesday, the Trump administration believed it had a plan to save TikTok.ByteDance, TikTok’s Chinese owner, along with some of its U.S. investors, and officials in Washington had coalesced...
The White House Frames the Past by Erasing Parts of It
[ad_1] Soon after the new administration arrived, things began to go missing from the White House website.They weren’t just the partisan policy platforms that typically disappear during a presidential transition....
E.U. Prepares Major Penalties Against Elon Musk’s X
[ad_1] European Union regulators are preparing major penalties against Elon Musk’s social media platform, X, for breaking a landmark law to combat illicit content and disinformation, said four people with...