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    Umang Gupta, Who Paved Way for Indian Tech Executives, Dies at 73

    Unlike most other companies of the era, he chose to run the software online and sell it as a subscription service, a business model...

    Why Everyone Wants to Buy Twitter

    Elon Musk is the latest rich guy to have fallen for the trap of Twitter.For nearly its entire 16-year life, Twitter has had the...

    Federal labor board says Activision employees can hold a union election.

    A federal labor board ruled on Friday that a group of about 20 quality assurance workers trying to unionize at Activision Blizzard, the beleaguered...

    Barack Obama Takes On a New Role: Fighting Disinformation

    Republicans, for their part, accuse the companies of suppressing free speech by censoring conservative voices — above all former President Donald J. Trump, who...

    Atlanta Apple Store Workers Are the First to Formally Seek a Union

    Employees at an Apple store in Atlanta filed a petition on Wednesday to hold a union election. If successful, the workers could form the...

    How Russian Media Uses Fox News to Make Its Case

    This journalist almost swore after learning the truth about U.S. laboratories in Ukraine ...

    Apollo Said to Be Weighing Participating in Twitter Bid

    The private equity firm Apollo Global Management is considering participating in a bid for Twitter by offering debt financing to potential buyers, including the...

    Activision Says It Will Cooperate With Insider Trading Investigations

    Activision Blizzard, the video game maker set to be sold to Microsoft for nearly $70 billion, said in a legal filing on Friday that...

    A.I. Is Mastering Language. Should We Trust What It Says?

    But as GPT-3’s fluency has dazzled many observers, the large-language-model approach has also attracted significant criticism over the last few years. Some skeptics argue...

    Jordan Belfort, Still the Wolf, Likes Crypto Now

    To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android.MIAMI BEACH — Jordan Belfort was lounging...

    Now That Elon Musk Has Offered to Buy Twitter, What Happens Next?

    Elon Musk has offered to buy Twitter at a valuation of about $43 billion. Here is what will — or could — happen next:The...

    Amazon Adds Fuel and Inflation Surcharge for Sellers

    Facing rising costs, Amazon said on Wednesday that it was adding its first “fuel and inflation surcharge” to the fees it charges sellers whose...

    How Tech Companies Are Trying to Woo Employees Returning to Work

    When Google employees returned to their mostly empty offices this month, they were told to relax. Office time should be “not only productive but...

    A sign-stealing scandal rocked baseball, this hardware is here to help – TechCrunch

    Luis Severino cupped the glove around his ear in frustration. The Yankee Stadium two-strike Death Star siren was blaring over the PA. The pitcher...

    Combining vision and language could be the key to more capable AI – TechCrunch

    Depending on the theory of intelligence to which you subscribe, achieving “human-level” AI will require a system that can leverage multiple modalities — e.g.,...

    Crypto’s latest disruption may be investor expectations – TechCrunch

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