61.09 F

New York

May 24, 2022

Technology

Technology news – Breaking news, stories, weather, ideas, and more. As an aggregate, blog and our own news. Break’n News presents information in photos, videos, and written.

Why Has the Inflation Calculation Changed Over Time?

New York TimesMay 24, 2022May 24, 2022

by New York TimesMay 24, 2022May 24, 202200

Consumer prices are increasing at the fastest clip in about 40 years, climbing 8.3 percent in April compared with a year earlier. As popular anger about the rising costs mounts, a chorus of critics have been arguing that the sky-high inflation figure is actually being undercounted. In YouTube videos, on......

SpaceX executive defends Elon Musk against misconduct accusations.

New York TimesMay 23, 2022May 23, 2022

by New York TimesMay 23, 2022May 23, 202200

A top executive at the rocket maker SpaceX said she “personally” believed that sexual harassment accusations against Elon Musk, the company’s founder and chief executive, were false, according to a companywide email, which was obtained by The New York Times. In the email, which was sent Friday, Gwynne Shotwell, SpaceX’s......

Snap warns it will miss earnings goals because of economic challenges.

New York TimesMay 23, 2022May 23, 2022

by New York TimesMay 23, 2022May 23, 202200

Snap, the maker of the messaging app Snapchat, said on Monday that it expected to miss its quarterly financial goals as it dealt with toughening economic conditions. Evan Spiegel, Snap’s chief executive, said in an email to employees that the company was likely to miss its targets for revenue and......

Google Maps Workers Say They Can’t Afford the Trip Back to the Office

New York TimesMay 23, 2022May 23, 2022

by New York TimesMay 23, 2022May 23, 202201

Google Maps contract employees who are required to return to their office in Washington State recently circulated a petition to keep working from home since some cannot afford their commutes, presenting another challenge to Google’s plan to refill offices and restore campus life. The issue affects more than 200 workers......

Airbnb shuts down its local business in China.

New York TimesMay 23, 2022May 23, 2022

by New York TimesMay 23, 2022May 23, 202200

Airbnb, a home rental company, plans to shut down its domestic business in China, in a further sign of the internet decoupling between China and much of the rest of the world. Airbnb, which has operated in China since 2016, is retreating from the country after struggling to compete with......

Workers at an Activision studio vote to unionize, a first for the gaming industry.

New York TimesMay 23, 2022May 23, 2022

by New York TimesMay 23, 2022May 23, 202201

A group of workers at a video game studio that is part of Activision Blizzard has voted to form a union, a first for a major North American video game company. The vote, which passed 19 to 3, affects 28 quality-assurance employees at Raven Software, the Wisconsin studio that helps......

Meta to give researchers more information on political ad targeting.

New York TimesMay 23, 2022May 23, 2022

by New York TimesMay 23, 2022May 23, 202201

Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, said that it planned to give outside researchers more detailed information on how political ads are targeted across its platform, providing insight into the ways that politicians, campaign operatives and political strategists buy and use ads ahead of the midterm elections. Starting on Monday,......

The Era of Borderless Data Is Ending

New York TimesMay 23, 2022May 23, 2022

by New York TimesMay 23, 2022May 23, 202200

Every time we send an email, tap an Instagram ad or swipe our credit cards, we create a piece of digital data. The information pings around the world at the speed of a click, becoming a kind of borderless currency that underpins the digital economy. Largely unregulated, the flow of......

In the Fresh Food Business, a Middleman Can Be a Good Thing

New York TimesMay 23, 2022May 23, 2022

by New York TimesMay 23, 2022May 23, 202200

Then I built a platform for a kind of expert network for professionals who could help source commodities for a finder’s fee — a company like Nestlé looking for a key ingredient in a certain country, or is there somebody I can talk to in France about grapes? We gathered......

Russian-Speaking Technologists Rebuild Their Lives in a San Francisco Home

New York TimesMay 23, 2022May 23, 2022

by New York TimesMay 23, 2022May 23, 202200

He soon founded a nonprofit social network for entrepreneurs called Mesto — the Russian word for place — hoping to boost the start-up market in Russia and other parts of the former Soviet Union. As he launched a new start-up of his own, Duplicat, which aimed to identify fraud in......

A Vote by Activision Workers Could Give Unions a Foothold in Gaming

New York TimesMay 23, 2022May 23, 2022

by New York TimesMay 23, 2022May 23, 202200

Jessica Gonzalez can sometimes still hear the eerie theme music for one of the Call of Duty video games in her mind. She jokes that the soundtrack will play on a loop in her subconscious when she gets older. Throughout the mid-2010s, Ms. Gonzalez spent months working grueling, 14-hour overnight......

Tesla’s Aura Dims as Its Plunging Stock Highlights the Risks It Faces

New York TimesMay 20, 2022May 20, 2022

by New York TimesMay 20, 2022May 20, 202201

Tesla shares are reacting in part to the same forces that are roiling stock markets around the world: war in Ukraine, rising interest rates, the threat of recession, supply chain chaos and surging inflation. But Tesla shares have fallen much more than other Silicon Valley giants like Apple or Alphabet,......

Big Tech Is Getting Clobbered on Wall Street. It’s a Good Time for Them.

New York TimesMay 20, 2022May 20, 2022

by New York TimesMay 20, 2022May 20, 202201

John Chambers, who steered Cisco Systems through multiple downturns as its former chief executive, said the companies’ strong businesses and deep pockets could afford them the chance to take risks that would be impractical for smaller competitors. During the 2008 downturn, he said Cisco allowed distressed automakers to pay for......

Even Among Corporate Raiders, Elon Musk Is a Pirate

New York TimesMay 20, 2022May 20, 2022

by New York TimesMay 20, 2022May 20, 202200

The history of mergers and acquisitions is filled with ruthless corporate raiders, bruising wars of words and people trying to stiff each other. T. Boone Pickens, the oil tycoon who rampaged through the 1980s, took small stakes in energy companies, attacked management and forced sales of the firms. Carl Icahn,......

Buffalo gunman’s video is surfacing on Facebook, sometimes with ads beside it.

New York TimesMay 19, 2022May 19, 2022

by New York TimesMay 19, 2022May 19, 202201

People searching on Facebook for footage of Saturday’s racist shooting rampage in Buffalo, N.Y., may have come across posts with footage of the attack or links to websites promising the gunman’s full video. Interspersed between those posts, they may have also seen a variety of ads. The social network has......

Has the Crypto Crash Hurt Your Investments? We Want to Hear About It.

New York TimesMay 19, 2022May 19, 2022

by New York TimesMay 19, 2022May 19, 202201

Over the last two years, a boom in cryptocurrency prices has minted a generation of millionaires, catapulting industry executives and even some regular investors to extraordinary wealth. But lately the crypto market has crashed. Last week, the collapse of a so-called stablecoin helped ignite a broader meltdown, tanking the price......

WhatsApp introduces commercial services as Meta, its parent, seeks fresh revenue.

New York TimesMay 19, 2022May 19, 2022

by New York TimesMay 19, 2022May 19, 202201

More than eight years after agreeing to buy one of the world’s largest messaging apps, the company formerly known as Facebook has decided to start making money from it. WhatsApp, the popular messaging service owned by Meta, the parent company of Facebook, said on Thursday that it was opening up......

The Enduring Afterlife of a Mass Shooting’s Livestream Online

New York TimesMay 19, 2022May 19, 2022

by New York TimesMay 19, 2022May 19, 202200

Many of the sites tried taking down the videos as they were uploaded but were overwhelmed. Facebook said it removed 1.5 million videos in the 24 hours after the incident, though many managed to evade detection. On Reddit, a post featuring the video was viewed more than one million times......

Chinese Hackers Tried to Steal Russian Defense Data, Report Says

New York TimesMay 19, 2022May 19, 2022

by New York TimesMay 19, 2022May 19, 202200

Under China’s authoritarian leader, Xi Jinping, Beijing has refined its approach to cyberspying, transforming over the past decade into a far more sophisticated actor. China’s premier spy agency, borrowing a page from Russia, has recruited beyond its ranks, pulling from the country’s growing pool of tech workers. The strategy has......

Seeking Pills, Young People Head to Social Media, With Deadly Results

New York TimesMay 19, 2022May 19, 2022

by New York TimesMay 19, 2022May 19, 202201

Now, when Snapchat users search for “fenta,” “xanax” or other drug language, the results are blocked. They are redirected to an in-app video channel with content from nonprofit groups and the C.D.C. that addresses “fentapills” — the dangers of purported OxyContin, Percocet, Xanax and Adderall. According to Facebook’s latest community......

This website uses cookies to improve your experience. We'll assume you're ok with this, but you can opt-out if you wish. Click whichever is suitable. Accept Read More