Cormac McCarthy

Meta’s Antitrust Trial to Put Mark Zuckerberg, Serial Witness, to the Test Again

Seven years ago, Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta, testified for the first time in Congress. After a two-week boot camp by...

What If Mark Zuckerberg Had Not Bought Instagram and WhatsApp?

In 2012, when Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg cut a $1 billion check to buy the photo-sharing app Instagram, most people thought he...

Trump Wants to Reverse Coal’s Long Decline. It Won’t be Easy.

President Trump last week issued executive orders designed to revive the use of coal in power plants, a practice that has been steadily...

What to Know About Trump’s Antitrust Efforts Against Tech Giants

The Trump administration isn’t letting up on the tech giants.On Monday, the Federal Trade Commission will face off with Meta in court over...

U.S. Prepares to Challenge Meta’s Social Media Dominance

Soon after Mark Zuckerberg co-founded Facebook in his Harvard dorm room in 2004, the social network skyrocketed in popularity. Roughly a decade later,...

Trump Adds Tariff Exemptions for Smartphones, Computers and Other Electronics

After more than a week of ratcheting up tariffs on products imported from China, the Trump administration issued a rule late Friday that...

Trump Adds Tariff Exemptions for Smartphones, Computers and Other Electronics

After more than a week of ratcheting up tariffs on products imported from China, the Trump administration issued a rule late Friday that...

How the Crypto Industry’s Political Spending Is Paying Off

At the end of a three-hour hearing last month, Senator Ruben Gallego, Democrat of Arizona, sided with a group of Republicans in a...

Big Tech’s Tariff Chaos + A.I. 2027 + Llama Drama

Listen to and follow ‘Hard Fork’Apple | Spotify | Amazon | YouTube | iHeartRadioThis week, with the tech world in chaos over President...

What’s Wrong With Apple?

Even before President Trump’s tariffs threatened to upend Apple’s manufacturing business in China, the company’s struggle to make new products was leading some...

How TikTok’s Parent, ByteDance, Became an A.I. Powerhouse

The Chinese internet giant ByteDance has made some of the world’s most popular apps: TikTok and, in China, Douyin and Toutiao.In the United...

Neutrinos Are Shrinking, and That’s a Good Thing for Physics

On Thursday, researchers unveiled the most precise measurement yet of a neutrino, scaling down the maximum possible mass of the ghostly specks of...

Nintendo Switch Game Console Release Is Whipsawed by Tariff Threats

For months, Nintendo, the maker of famed video game series like Super Mario Bros. and Donkey Kong, had expected the morning of April...

How Do the iPhone 16E and Google Pixel 9A Compare to More Expensive Models?

With all the talk about tariffs driving up costs, the word “cheaper” should bring comfort to just about anyone. That’s why I’m delighted...

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