More

    Technology

    Hun Sen’s Facebook Page Goes Dark After Spat with Meta

    The usually very active Facebook account for Prime Minister Hun Sen of Cambodia appeared to have been deleted on Friday, a day after the...

    On TikTok, Grimace Milkshakes From McDonald’s Inspire Scenes of Horror

    The scenes on social media are grisly. A body dangles out of the trunk of a sedan, dribbling purple goo. Another is draped across...

    A.I. and TV Ads Were Made for Each Other

    A string of uncanny videos show what generative A.I. and advertising have in common: They chew up the cultural subconscious and spit it back...

    TikTok Is Funding Montana Users’ Suit Against Ban

    When five TikTok creators in Montana filed a lawsuit last month, saying the state’s new ban of the app violated their First Amendment rights...

    Tesla May Have Already Won the Charging Wars

    Mary Barra and Elon Musk may be intense business rivals, but they sounded like old pals as they chatted on Twitter this month about...

    A.I.’s Use in Elections Sets Off a Scramble for Guardrails

    In Toronto, a candidate in this week’s mayoral election who vows to clear homeless encampments released a set of campaign promises illustrated by artificial...

    Elon Musk Proposes ‘Cage Match’ With Mark Zuckerberg

    Two of the world’s richest and most influential men, who happen to run rival social media networks, appeared to goad each other into agreeing...

    New Study Bolsters Room-Temperature Superconductor Claim

    A magical material that could effortlessly conduct electricity at room temperatures would likely transform civilization, reclaiming energy otherwise lost to electrical resistance and opening...

    Canada’s Online News Act Targets Facebook and Google

    The Canadian Parliament has passed a law that will require technology companies to pay domestic news outlets for linking to their articles, prompting the...

    China’s Cloud Computing Firms Raise Concern for U.S.

    In the digital cold war between the United States and China, American officials are increasingly turning their attention to a new target: Chinese cloud...

    Meta to Lower Age for Users of Quest VR Headset to 10 From 13

    Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, plans to lower the recommended age for using its Quest headset to 10 from 13, the company...

    Quantum Computing Advance Begins New Era, IBM Says

    Quantum computers today are small in computational scope — the chip inside your smartphone contains billions of transistors while the most powerful quantum computer...

    As U.S. and Chinese Officials Meet, Businesses Temper Their Hopes

    In a meeting in Beijing on Friday, China’s leader, Xi Jinping, traded warm smiles with Bill Gates and praised Mr. Gates as “the first...

    Binance Reaches Deal With Government to Avert U.S. Shutdown

    The Securities and Exchange Commission reached a deal with Binance late Friday that would allow the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange to keep operating in...

    Lip Readers Decode Celebrity Conversations on TikTok

    Lip reading is hardly an exact science. Jeremy Freeman, 49, who has been called upon as an expert lip reader in cases involving sexual...

    U.S. Agencies Breached in Cyberattack by Russian Ransomware Group

    A Russian ransomware group gained access to data from federal agencies, including the Energy Department, in an attack that exploited file transfer software to...