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No Guns, No Dragons: Her Video Games Capture Private Moments

New York TimesJuly 4, 2022July 4, 2022

by New York TimesJuly 4, 2022July 4, 202201

Growing up in Ipswich, Mass., Nina Freeman spent a lot of time playing video games with a pair of close friends, twin sisters whose basement served as an arena for marathon sessions. “My friends and I were nerds,” she recalled. “We played a lot of games. ‘Final Fantasy 11’ was......

Tesla Sales Slow as the Pandemic Hobbles Production

New York TimesJuly 2, 2022July 2, 2022

by New York TimesJuly 2, 2022July 2, 202201

Tesla said Saturday that vehicle deliveries from April through June fell 18 percent from the first quarter of the year, a rare slowdown for the company caused by production problems in China. Tesla sells more electric cars than any other company and, until recently, was expanding rapidly in China, Europe......

Tesla Sales Slow as Pandemic Hobbles Production

New York TimesJuly 2, 2022July 2, 2022

by New York TimesJuly 2, 2022July 2, 202201

Tesla said Saturday that vehicle deliveries from April through June fell 18 percent from the first quarter of the year, a rare slowdown for the company caused by production problems in China. Tesla sells more electric cars than any other company and, until recently, was expanding rapidly in China, Europe......

Mark Zuckerberg Prepares Meta Employees for a Tougher 2022

New York TimesJuly 1, 2022July 1, 2022

by New York TimesJuly 1, 2022July 1, 202201

SAN FRANCISCO — Mark Zuckerberg has a message for Meta employees: Buckle up for tough times ahead. At an internal meeting on Thursday, Mr. Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta, said the Silicon Valley company was facing one of the “worst downturns that we’ve seen in recent history,” according to......

Mark Zuckerberg Prepares Meta Employees for a Tougher 2022

New York TimesJuly 1, 2022July 1, 2022

by New York TimesJuly 1, 2022July 1, 202201

SAN FRANCISCO — Mark Zuckerberg has a message for Meta employees: Buckle up for tough times ahead. At an internal meeting on Thursday, Mr. Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta, said the Silicon Valley company was facing one of the “worst downturns that we’ve seen in recent history,” according to......

Google Says It Will Delete Location Data When Users Visit Abortion Clinics

New York TimesJuly 1, 2022July 1, 2022

by New York TimesJuly 1, 2022July 1, 202200

SAN FRANCISCO — Google said on Friday that it would delete abortion clinic visits from the location history of its users, in the company’s first effort to address how it will handle sensitive data in the wake of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade. The location data change will......

Google Says It Will Delete Location Data When Users Visit Abortion Clinics

New York TimesJuly 1, 2022July 1, 2022

by New York TimesJuly 1, 2022July 1, 202200

SAN FRANCISCO — Google said on Friday that it would delete abortion clinic visits from the location history of its users, in the company’s first effort to address how it will handle sensitive data in the wake of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade. The location data change will......

Technoblade, YouTube Star Popular for Minecraft Videos, Has Died

New York TimesJuly 1, 2022July 1, 2022

by New York TimesJuly 1, 2022July 1, 202201

Technoblade, a YouTube personality who built a following of millions with his wry commentary on videos of himself playing Minecraft, has died, his father announced in a video posted on his son’s account. More than 11 million subscribers made a habit of watching screen recordings of Technoblade’s Minecraft gameplay as......

TikTok tells Republican senators how it plans to keep American data away from China.

New York TimesJuly 1, 2022July 1, 2022

by New York TimesJuly 1, 2022July 1, 202201

TikTok gave U.S. lawmakers more details in a letter dated Thursday about how it plans to keep data about its American users separate from ByteDance, its Chinese parent company, aiming to combat concerns that the video app poses a national security risk. In a letter to nine Republican senators, Shou......

Uber Says Sexual Assaults Down but Traffic Deaths Up

New York TimesJune 30, 2022June 30, 2022

by New York TimesJune 30, 2022June 30, 202200

Uber said in a safety report on Thursday that sexual assaults in its ride-hailing vehicles were down significantly since its last report but that fatal car crashes had increased. The company said 3,824 sexual assaults were reported on its U.S. platform in 2019 and 2020, while 20 people were killed......

Post-Roe, Her Facebook Group Went Viral

New York TimesJune 30, 2022June 30, 2022

by New York TimesJune 30, 2022June 30, 202200

When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade on Friday, Veronica Risinger started what she thought would be a tiny Facebook group for her neighbors in Kansas City., Mo., to share resources for people seeking abortions. But Risinger’s phone notifications never stopped. Her little group has morphed into a 30,000-member......

Where TikTok-Like Dance Challenges Meet Network TV

New York TimesJune 30, 2022June 30, 2022

by New York TimesJune 30, 2022June 30, 202200

Even by the razzle-dazzle standards of TV talent competitions, “Dancing With Myself” sets an impressive scene. Two stacked rows of room-size cubes, trimmed in shimmering lights, fill the stage — “Hollywood Squares” meets “Saturday Night Fever.” At the judging table sit the pop stars Shakira and Nick Jonas and the......

Deleting Your Period Tracker Won’t Protect You

New York TimesJune 30, 2022June 30, 2022

by New York TimesJune 30, 2022June 30, 202200

In May 1972, the Chicago police raided a high-rise apartment where a group called the Jane Collective was providing abortions. It was the year before the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision gave women the constitutional right to decide whether to give birth, and abortion was a criminal offense in......

Deleting Your Period Tracker Won’t Protect You

New York TimesJune 30, 2022June 30, 2022

by New York TimesJune 30, 2022June 30, 202200

In May 1972, the Chicago police raided a high-rise apartment where a group called the Jane Collective was providing abortions. It was the year before the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision gave women the constitutional right to decide whether to give birth, and abortion was a criminal offense in......

Amazon Restricts L.G.B.T.Q. Products in United Arab Emirates

New York TimesJune 29, 2022June 29, 2022

by New York TimesJune 29, 2022June 29, 202200

Amazon moved to restrict items and search results related to L.G.B.T.Q. people and issues on its website in the United Arab Emirates on Monday after receiving pressure from the government there, according to company documents viewed by The New York Times. The Emirati government gave Amazon until Friday to comply......

Substack is laying off 14% of its staff.

New York TimesJune 29, 2022June 29, 2022

by New York TimesJune 29, 2022June 29, 202200

Substack, the newsletter start-up that has attracted prominent writers including George Saunders and Salman Rushdie, laid off 13 of its 90 employees on Wednesday, part of an effort to conserve cash amid an industrywide funding crunch for start-ups. Substack’s chief executive, Chris Best, told employees that the cuts affected staff......

Our Data Is a Curse, With or Without Roe

New York TimesJune 29, 2022June 29, 2022

by New York TimesJune 29, 2022June 29, 202200

Nearly limitless harvesting of our personal information was always leading to this moment. In the days since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, eliminating the constitutional right to abortion, there have been gobs of published material and warnings from privacy advocates about how digital bread crumbs might expose women......

An F.C.C. commissioner pushes Apple and Google to remove TikTok from their app stores.

New York TimesJune 29, 2022June 29, 2022

by New York TimesJune 29, 2022June 29, 202200

A member of the Federal Communications Commission has asked Google and Apple to remove TikTok from their app stores, citing concerns that the popular Chinese-owned video app could send American data back to Beijing. In a letter to the companies released on Tuesday, Brendan Carr, a Republican commissioner, said that......

Over 360 newspapers have closed since just before the start of the pandemic.

New York TimesJune 29, 2022June 29, 2022

by New York TimesJune 29, 2022June 29, 202200

The pandemic has been bad for the country’s local newspapers. But maybe not as bad as some people have feared. Over 360 newspapers in the United States have gone out of business since just before the start of the pandemic, according to a new report from Northwestern University’s journalism school.......

Use That Everyday A.I. in Your Pocket

New York TimesJune 29, 2022June 29, 2022

by New York TimesJune 29, 2022June 29, 202201

Virtual assistants usually hog the spotlight when it comes to talk of artificial intelligence software on smartphones and tablets. But Apple’s Siri, Google Assistant, Samsung’s Bixby and company aren’t the only tools using machine learning to make life easier — other common programs use the technology, too. Here’s a quick......

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