What becomes of Times Square when you take away hundreds of thousands of cheering, shivering New Year’s Eve revelers? It may no longer be the…
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The 2020 Good Tech Awards
To Perimeter, Technosylva and Ignis, for helping put out the fires. Because of climate change, we’re probably in for many more wildfires like the ones…
View More The 2020 Good Tech AwardsCryptocurrency Start-Up Underpaid Women and Black Employees, Data Shows
The fast-growing cryptocurrency start-up Coinbase has been rattled in recent months by tensions between executives and employees who said they were being treated unfairly because…
View More Cryptocurrency Start-Up Underpaid Women and Black Employees, Data ShowsFlawed Facial Recognition Leads To Arrest and Jail for New Jersey Man
Clearview AI is a facial recognition tool that uses billions of photos scraped from the public web, including Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram. Clearview AI’s founder,…
View More Flawed Facial Recognition Leads To Arrest and Jail for New Jersey ManLife Without Amazon (Well, Almost)
“Ten years ago we weren’t ordering toilet paper from Amazon,” Mr. Smalls said. “Maybe that’s how long it will take to get over it, too.”…
View More Life Without Amazon (Well, Almost)China Orders Ant Group to Revamp Its Business
Chinese regulators on Sunday ordered the financial-technology giant Ant Group to fix what they described as a litany of business failings, escalating a pressure campaign…
View More China Orders Ant Group to Revamp Its BusinessRobinhood’s 2020 Recaps Are a Meme for a Volatile Year
In 2020, wild fluctuations in the stock market caused by the pandemic turned millions of people into opportunistic investors. After stocks plunged in March, experienced…
View More Robinhood’s 2020 Recaps Are a Meme for a Volatile YearWhy China Turned Against Alibaba’s Jack Ma
Mr. Xi made no secret about what his ideal capitalist should be like. Ten days after the Ant I.P.O. debacle, he toured a museum exhibition…
View More Why China Turned Against Alibaba’s Jack MaWhy China Turned Against Jack Ma
Now the chances that those bold statements become real have heightened. “Given what has happened, eventually Ant will have to be controlled or even majority…
View More Why China Turned Against Jack MaWith Money, and Waste, China Fights for Chip Independence
“There have been some stunning absurdities that defy logic and common sense,” China Economic Weekly said. Yet there has also been progress. Two companies, Yangtze…
View More With Money, and Waste, China Fights for Chip IndependencePennsylvania man is accused of casting Trump vote for his dead mother.
Shortly after the November election, the Trump campaign circulated on its Facebook and Twitter accounts, as well as its website, the names of seven dead…
View More Pennsylvania man is accused of casting Trump vote for his dead mother.