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Inside Twitter’s Decision to Cut Off Trump

New York TimesJanuary 16, 2021January 16, 2021

by New York TimesJanuary 16, 2021January 16, 202101

SAN FRANCISCO — Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s chief executive, was working remotely on a private island in French Polynesia frequented by celebrities escaping the paparazzi when a phone call interrupted him on Jan. 6. On the line was Vijaya Gadde, Twitter’s top lawyer and safety expert, with an update from the......

NASA’s Space Launch System Hot-Fire Test: When to Watch

New York TimesJanuary 16, 2021January 16, 2021

by New York TimesJanuary 16, 2021January 16, 202101

NASA has spent years and billions of dollars developing a giant rocket known as the Space Launch System, designed to take astronauts to moon and perhaps farther out into the solar system someday. But the first launch of the rocket — an uncrewed test flight that will go to the......

WhatsApp Delays Privacy Changes Amid User Exodus

New York TimesJanuary 15, 2021January 15, 2021

by New York TimesJanuary 15, 2021January 15, 202101

SAN FRANCISCO — WhatsApp said on Friday that it would delay a planned privacy update, as the Facebook-owned messaging service tries to stem an exodus of users worried about the changes. WhatsApp said it would push back the changes, to May 15 from Feb. 8, to give users more time......

Hypersonic Superweapons Are a Mirage, New Analysis Says

New York TimesJanuary 15, 2021January 15, 2021

by New York TimesJanuary 15, 2021January 15, 202101

Military experts call hypersonic warheads the next big thing in intercontinental warfare. They see the emerging arms, which can deliver nuclear or conventional munitions, as zipping along at up to five miles a second while zigzagging through the atmosphere to outwit early-warning satellites and interceptors. The superfast weapons, experts say,......

As Trump Clashes With Big Tech, China’s Censored Internet Takes His Side

New York TimesJanuary 15, 2021January 15, 2021

by New York TimesJanuary 15, 2021January 15, 202101

After Twitter and Facebook kicked President Trump off their platforms, and his supporters began comparing his social media muzzling to Chinese censorship, the president won support from an unexpected source: China. “Legally he’s still the president. This is a coup,” said one comment, which included an expletive, that was liked......

When Tech Antitrust Failed

New York TimesJanuary 15, 2021January 15, 2021

by New York TimesJanuary 15, 2021January 15, 202101

This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays. If you’ve wondered recently why prices for e-books seem high, let me tell you why a failure of antitrust law might be (partly) to blame. A government antitrust lawsuit a decade ago......

TikTok Is Poised to Outlast Trump, and to Test Biden

New York TimesJanuary 15, 2021January 15, 2021

by New York TimesJanuary 15, 2021January 15, 202101

TikTok is about to outlast President Trump. Now, the company could become an early test of President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s stance toward Chinese tech companies. Mr. Trump demanded last year that TikTok’s Chinese owner, ByteDance, sell the viral video app. He said TikTok raised urgent national security concerns, on......

Need a New Knee or Hip? A Robot May Help Install It

New York TimesJanuary 15, 2021January 15, 2021

by New York TimesJanuary 15, 2021January 15, 202101

“When I started practice 30 years ago, if someone had hip pain, we’d take an X-ray and even if they had arthritis, and were in their 40s, we’d tell them to modify their activity and wait,” said Dr. William Maloney, professor of orthopedic surgery at Stanford University. No longer. “The......

They Can’t Leave the Bay Area Fast Enough

New York TimesJanuary 14, 2021January 14, 2021

by New York TimesJanuary 14, 2021January 14, 202101

SAN FRANCISCO — The Bay Area struck a hard bargain with its tech workers. Rent was astronomical. Taxes were high. Your neighbors didn’t like you. If you lived in San Francisco, you might have commuted an hour south to your job at Apple or Google or Facebook. Or if your......

Consumer Groups Target Amazon Prime’s Cancellation Process

New York TimesJanuary 14, 2021January 14, 2021

by New York TimesJanuary 14, 2021January 14, 202101

LONDON — Those who have tried ending a membership in Amazon Prime, the technology giant’s digital subscription service, may be familiar with the multi-click process: warnings that cancellation will mean losing “exclusive benefits,” and prompts to reverse course, or switch to an annual membership instead. Consumer rights groups in Europe......

After Barring Trump, Facebook and Twitter Face Scrutiny About Inaction Abroad

New York TimesJanuary 14, 2021January 14, 2021

by New York TimesJanuary 14, 2021January 14, 202101

LONDON — In Sri Lanka and Myanmar, Facebook kept up posts that it had been warned contributed to violence. In India, activists have urged the company to combat posts by political figures targeting Muslims. And in Ethiopia, groups pleaded for the social network to block hate speech after hundreds were......

The Alternate Reality of Fringe Apps

New York TimesJanuary 14, 2021January 14, 2021

by New York TimesJanuary 14, 2021January 14, 202101

This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays. After last week’s mob at the Capitol, Facebook, Twitter and Reddit shut down accounts where people spread false narratives of voter fraud or plotted the attack. Some of the discussions of conspiracy......

They Can’t Leave the Bay Area Fast Enough

New York TimesJanuary 14, 2021January 14, 2021

by New York TimesJanuary 14, 2021January 14, 202101

SAN FRANCISCO — The Bay Area struck a hard bargain with its tech workers. Rent was astronomical. Taxes were high. Your neighbors didn’t like you. If you lived in San Francisco, you might have commuted an hour south to your job at Apple or Google or Facebook. Or if your......

Connecticut is investigating Amazon’s practices in the e-books market.

New York TimesJanuary 13, 2021January 13, 2021

by New York TimesJanuary 13, 2021January 13, 202101

Connecticut’s top law enforcement official said on Wednesday that he was conducting an antitrust investigation into how Amazon runs its e-books business. William Tong, Connecticut’s attorney general, said in a statement that the state “has an active and ongoing antitrust investigation into Amazon regarding potentially anticompetitive terms” in the distribution......

Millions Flock to Telegram and Signal as Fears Grow Over Big Tech

New York TimesJanuary 13, 2021January 13, 2021

by New York TimesJanuary 13, 2021January 13, 202101

Neeraj Agrawal, a spokesman for a cryptocurrency think tank, has typically used the encrypted messaging app Signal to chat with privacy-minded colleagues and peers. So he was surprised on Monday when the app alerted him to two new users: Mom and Dad. “Signal still had a subversive shine to it,”......

Intel, Under Pressure to Rethink Its Business, Ousts Its Chief Executive

New York TimesJanuary 13, 2021January 13, 2021

by New York TimesJanuary 13, 2021January 13, 202101

Intel declined to make Mr. Swan and Mr. Gelsinger available for interviews. Many of Intel’s key leadership departures in recent years occurred under Brian Krzanich, the chief executive who was forced out in 2018 after a consensual affair with a subordinate. But Intel suffered a blow last year when Jim......

Is Letterboxd Becoming a Blockbuster?

New York TimesJanuary 13, 2021January 13, 2021

by New York TimesJanuary 13, 2021January 13, 202101

Early last decade, Matthew Buchanan and Karl von Randow, web designers based in Auckland, New Zealand, were seeking a passion project. Their business, a boutique web design studio called Cactuslab, developed apps and websites for various clients, but they wanted a project of their own that their team could plug......

The Truth About Your WhatsApp Data

New York TimesJanuary 13, 2021January 13, 2021

by New York TimesJanuary 13, 2021January 13, 202101

This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays. There was a backlash to WhatsApp in recent days after it posted what appear to be overhauled privacy policies. Let me try to clarify what happened. Some people think the messaging app......

4 Ways to Do More With Your Smartphone Camera

New York TimesJanuary 13, 2021January 13, 2021

by New York TimesJanuary 13, 2021January 13, 202101

Even if you don’t have the latest and greatest smartphone, the tools for your photography can go beyond the more commonly used ones like the portrait and lowlight modes. With a reasonably up-to-date operating system, you can have voice-activated photo sessions, create wide-screen images, record video at different playback speeds......

Jobless, Selling Nudes Online and Still Struggling

New York TimesJanuary 13, 2021January 13, 2021

by New York TimesJanuary 13, 2021January 13, 202101

Savannah Benavidez stopped working at her job as a medical biller in June to take care of her 2-year-old son after his day care shut down. Needing a way to pay her bills, she created an account on OnlyFans — a social media platform where users sell original content to......

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