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    Why the Internet Is Turning Into QVC

    This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. Here is a collection of past columns.If YouTube has its way, we may soon watch...

    Ukraine Wants to Be the Crypto Capital of the World

    What about the corruption that has plagued this country and might daunt would-be émigrés? Future administrations might not allow tech companies to flourish without...

    Alibaba reports slower sales growth for its Singles Day shopping event.

    The Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba said $84.5 billion in merchandise was sold on its platforms during the Singles Day shopping festival that ended on...

    Covid-19 Misinformation Goes Unchecked on Radio and Podcasts

    On a recent episode of his podcast, Rick Wiles, a pastor and self-described “citizen reporter,” endorsed a conspiracy theory: that Covid-19 vaccines were the...

    Trump Allies Help Bolsonaro Sow Doubt in Brazil’s Elections

    BRASÍLIA — The conference hall was packed, with a crowd of more than 1,000 cheering attacks on the press, the liberals and the politically...

    Rivian, the electric-truck maker, soars in early trading after its I.P.O.

    Shares in Rivian, which has ambitious plans to make electric trucks and delivery vans, soared Wednesday on their first day of trading, hoisting the...

    Tesla Shares Drop Another 12%, Have Shed $200B in Value Since Musk’s Tweet

    Shares of Tesla fell sharply for a second consecutive day, dropping 12 percent Tuesday, in a continuing shakeout after Elon Musk, the company’s founder,...

    Brazil’s Far-Right Disinformation Pushers Find a Safe Space on Telegram

    RIO DE JANEIRO — Shortly after President Donald J. Trump was banned from Twitter early this year, Brazil’s like-minded leader made a plea to...

    Blue Origin Loses Legal Fight Over SpaceX’s NASA Moon Contract

    A federal judge on Thursday rejected Jeff Bezos’ latest legal attempt to overturn NASA’s multibillion-dollar moon lander contract with Elon Musk’s SpaceX. The decision...

    Tech Can’t Fix the Problem of Cars

    This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. Here is a collection of past columns.The promise of electric and driverless cars is that...

    Google Wants to Work With the Pentagon Again, Despite Employee Concerns

    Three years after an employee revolt forced Google to abandon work on a Pentagon program that used artificial intelligence, the company is aggressively pursuing...

    Pamela McCorduck, Historian of Artificial Intelligence, Dies at 80

    Ms. McCorduck’s “powers of observation” and “conversational style” raised her book above others that have in the years since tried to explain artificial intelligence...

    Satellites Could Help Track if Nations Keep Their Carbon Pledges

    Under the 2015 Paris Agreement to limit global warming, nations must measure and report progress toward their pledged reductions in emissions. They regularly submit...

    Zillow, facing big losses, quits flipping houses and will lay off a quarter of its staff.

    Zillow, the real estate website known for estimating house values, said on Tuesday that it would exit the business of rapidly buying and selling...

    Regulators Ask Congress to Create New Rules for Cryptocurrencies

    Tyler Gellasch, a former S.E.C. lawyer who now leads the Healthy Markets Association, questioned if Congress would take the necessary steps. “Given the incredible...

    Roblox Goes Down, Forcing Children Outside for Halloween

    This weekend, children around the country began acting strange, as though they were emerging from a trance. They moped around their houses. They started...