What Congress Wants From Big Tech
House lawmakers have gotten serious. A package of bills poses existential threats to the tech giants.Read More
The Internet Eats Up Less Energy Than You Might Think
New research by two leading scientists says some dire warnings of environmental damage from technology are overstated.Read More
10 Million Data Requests: How a Times Team Tracked Covid
The project began 18 months ago as a simple concept: Count every known U.S. case at the time. When the virus grew exponentially, so...
Antitrust Overhaul Passes Its First Tests. Now, the Hard Parts.
When the Judiciary Committee began approving a suite of bills on Wednesday, it exposed the fault lines that could make final passage difficult.Read More
John McAfee, the controversial antivirus software magnate who’d had multiple recent run-ins with the US law, has died at 75. McAfee was awaiting extradition...
Over the last two decades, a handful of large tech companies have pushed into nearly every corner of our lives — from communications and...
BuzzFeed Closes In on Deal to Go Public
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The digital publisher is said to be on the verge of announcing a SPAC merger that would take the company public.Read More
House Lawmakers Are Considering 6 Bills Aimed at Big Tech
A committee took its first vote in the early afternoon, advancing a bill that would increase the money companies pay government agencies when getting...
John McAfee, Software Pioneer Turned Fugitive, Dies in Spanish Prison
Mr. McAfee, who has not been associated with the company that bears his name for more than two decades, was fighting extradition to the...
House lawmakers begin considering 6 bills meant to undo the dominance of Big Tech.
The committee took its first vote in the early afternoon, voting in favor of a bill that would increase the amount of money companies...