Cormac McCarthy

Mark Zuckerberg’s Surf Video Gets Lots of Likes (but Not From Elon Musk)

As Fourth of July celebrations commenced across the nation, Mark Zuckerberg dropped a video onto his Instagram account that immediately generated hundreds of...

Google’s Emissions Increased by 48% Since 2019, Thanks to AI Pursuits

Google’s latest annual environmental report reveals the true impact its recent forays into...

Japan Finally Phases Out Floppy Disks

Japan scrapped every regulation requiring the use of floppy disks for administrative purposes this week, catching up with the times 13 years after...

The Interview: The Netflix Chief’s Plan to Get You to Binge Even More

Listen to and follow ‘Hard Fork’Apple | Spotify | Amazon | YouTubeWe’re off for the Fourth of July, but what’s a better tribute...

On ‘Hard Fork,’ a Hard Look at the Future of Technology

Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together.After recording about 90...

Ray Kurzweil Still Says He Will Merge With A.I.

Sitting near a window inside Boston’s Four Seasons Hotel, overlooking a duck pond in the city’s Public Garden, Ray Kurzweil held up a...

A Hacker Stole OpenAI Secrets, Raising Fears That China Could, Too

Early last year, a hacker gained access to the internal messaging systems of OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, and stole details about the...

Judge Backs Challenge to F.T.C.’s Noncompete Ban, at Least for Now

A federal judge on Wednesday backed an initial legal challenge to the Federal Trade Commission’s ban on noncompete agreements, which is scheduled to...

How Tom Hanks’s Son Spawned a Hateful Meme Online

In the spring of 2021, Chet Hanks, the singer, actor and son of Tom, posted a series of statements and a music video...

How to Clean Up Your Phone’s Photo Library to Free Up Space

Are you getting ominous warnings about your phone’s storage? Have you ever whipped out your phone to show someone a certain photo and...

Investors Pour $27.1 Billion Into A.I. Start-Ups, Defying a Downturn

In May, CoreWeave, a provider of cloud computing services for A.I. companies, raised $1.1 billion, followed by $7.5 billion in debt, valuing it...

U.S. Awards $504 Million for ‘Tech Hubs’ in Overlooked Regions

The Biden administration awarded $504 million on Tuesday to a dozen projects across the country in a bid to transform communities that had...

Bruce Bastian, a Founder of WordPerfect, Is Dead at 76

Bruce Bastian, a founder of the WordPerfect Corporation, whose word processor was the favored tool for writing during the early days of personal...

Elon Musk’s Politics May Be Pushing Some Buyers Away From Tesla

Few auto executives are as closely identified with the companies they manage as Elon Musk, the chief executive of Tesla, is. And probably...

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