Cormac McCarthy

The Technology Facebook and Google Didn’t Dare Release

One afternoon in early 2017, at Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., an engineer named Tommer Leyvand sat in a conference room with...

2 Senators Propose Bipartisan Framework for A.I. Laws

Senator Richard Blumenthal, Democrat of Connecticut, and Senator Josh Hawley, Republican of Missouri, plan to announce a sweeping framework to regulate artificial intelligence,...

Mattel’s Windfall From ‘Barbie’ Goes Far Beyond Dolls

When Ynon Kreiz arrived at Mattel in April 2018, the newly installed chief executive had one mantra when it came to a feature...

Huawei Phone Is Latest Shot Fired in the U.S.-China Tech War

In the midst of the U.S. commerce secretary’s good will tour to China last week, Huawei, the telecom giant that faces stiff U.S....

Dependence on Tech Caused ‘Staggering’ Education Inequality, U.N. Agency Says

In early 2020, as the coronavirus spread, schools around the world abruptly halted in-person education. To many governments and parents, moving classes online...

Bread, Water and Peanut Butter: Sam Bankman-Fried’s Life in Jail

A diet of bread, water and peanut butter. A laptop with no internet connection. And intermittent access to millions of pages of digital...

Buyer of Trump’s Truth Social Gets More Time to Complete Merger

Shareholders of a cash-rich shell company approved a measure on Tuesday that will give the firm 12 additional months to complete its long-delayed...

Trump Media Buyer Gets More Time to Complete Long-Delayed Merger

Shareholders of a cash-rich shell company approved a measure on Tuesday that will give the firm 12 additional months to complete its long-delayed...

A $700 Million Bonanza for the Winners of Crypto’s Collapse: Lawyers

The collapse in cryptocurrency prices last year forced a procession of major firms into bankruptcy, trigging a government crackdown and erasing the savings...

Douglas Lenat, Who Tried to Make Computers More Human, Dies at 72

Douglas Lenat, an artificial intelligence researcher who spent nearly 40 years trying to build common sense into computers, recreating human judgment one logical...

Los ‘deepfakes’ de voz van a por tus ahorros

Esta primavera, Clive Kabatznik, un inversor de Florida, llamó a su representante local de Bank of America para hablar de una gran transferencia...

Los ‘deepfakes’ de voz van a por tus ahorros

Esta primavera, Clive Kabatznik, un inversor de Florida, llamó a su representante local de Bank of America para hablar de una gran transferencia...

Saudi Dissident’s Brother Is Sentenced to Death in Social Media Case

A court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced to death the brother of an exiled dissident, convicting him of disloyalty to the kingdom’s rulers...

Driverless Taxis Blocked Ambulance in Fatal Accident, San Francisco Fire Dept. Says

Two Cruise driverless taxis blocked an ambulance carrying a critically injured patient who later died at a hospital, a San Francisco Fire Department...

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