Cormac McCarthy

The Tech Guys Are Fighting. Literally.

Walking into the crowded hotel conference room, Andrew Batey looked like any other tech guy attending ETHDenver, an annual cryptocurrency conference. A venture...

‘The Interview’: Can Whitney Wolfe Herd Make Us Love Dating Apps Again?

That was Andrey Andreev, who was the head of Badoo and was a co-creator of Bumble. And then you faced another workplace scandal...

Elon Musk’s Use of X Mimics Hearst’s and Ford’s Manipulation of Media

An entrepreneur who revolutionized the automobile business decides he now needs to change how the world thinks, so he buys a media property...

Google Agrees to Pay $1.4 Billion to Settle 2 Privacy Lawsuits

Google agreed to pay $1.4 billion to the State of Texas on Friday to settle two lawsuits accusing it of violating the privacy...

Teenager Fatally Shot During ‘Ding Dong Ditch’ TikTok Prank

A Virginia man has been charged with second degree murder after fatally shooting a teenager who was filming a prank for TikTok known...

OpenAI Hires Instacart C.E.O. to Run Business and Operations

OpenAI said late Wednesday that it hired Fidji Simo, the chief executive of Instacart, to take on a new role running the artificial...

Uber Revenue Is Up 14%, Despite Economic Fears

Uber appears to be powering through the tumult of the global economy, despite fears that consumers are skimping on rides and deliveries.The company...

NSO Group Ordered to Pay Meta $167 Million in Damages

The Israeli cybersecurity firm NSO Group was ordered on Tuesday to pay $167 million in damages to Meta, capping a six-year legal battle...

OpenAI Backtracks on Plans to Drop Nonprofit Control

OpenAI said on Monday that it was restructuring as a public benefit corporation, allowing the nonprofit that controls OpenAI to retain its grip...

Voters Approve Incorporation of SpaceX Hub as Starbase, Texas

Members of a South Texas community that has served as the hub of Elon Musk’s rocket launch company, SpaceX, voted on Saturday to...

How Misinformation and Partisan ‘New Media’ Changed a California Town

With its horse-trodden roads, endless fields of almond blossoms and cowboy heritage, the 20,000 person town of Oakdale, Calif., fits the American West...

TikTok Fined $600 Million for Sending European User Data to China

TikTok was fined 530 million euros ($600 million) on Friday for violating a European Union data privacy law after regulators found the company...

Google Plans to Roll Out Gemini A.I. Chatbot to Children Under 13

Google plans to roll out its Gemini artificial intelligence chatbot next week for children under 13 who have parent-managed Google accounts, as tech...

What Happens to Apple if Trump’s Trade War Forces It to Cut Ties With China?

Several years before Donald J. Trump entered politics, Apple and its partners built massive factories across China to assemble iPhones. Mr. Trump first...

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