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‘Nerd,’ ‘Nonsmoker,’ ‘Wrongdoer’: How Might A.I. Label You?
ImageNet Roulette, a digital art project and viral selfie app, exposes how biases have crept into...
Twitter Suspends Account of Former Adviser to Saudi Crown Prince
The account was one of thousands with ties to governments in the Middle East that were...
Congress Asks More than 80 Companies for Big Tech Complaints
House lawmakers asked the companies for information on how their businesses had been affected by Amazon,...
Inside Airbnb, Employees Eager for Big Payouts Pushed It to Go Public
Tension has grown among a 6,000-person work force as it waits to sell company shares, people...
Facebook Says It Has Suspended ‘Tens of Thousands’ of Apps
The scale of suspensions, following the Cambridge Analytica scandal, was far larger than the social network...
Seven Ways Telecommuting Has Changed Real Estate
As more people are able to work from home, housing priorities have changed, and different places...
Virtual Reality Video Games That Double as Exercise
Virtual reality is still niche, but a growing crop of VR games with a fitness element...
Funny or Die Finds New Life in the Streaming Era
The company, which began as a comedy website, has branched out to podcasts and feature films,...
The Week in Tech: An Emerging Twist on Antitrust
If regulators and lawmakers are serious, they’re going to have to rethink a traditional approach to...
Secret F.B.I. Subpoenas Scoop Up Personal Data From Scores of Companies
The practice, which the bureau says is vital to counterterrorism efforts, casts a much wider net...
Uber and Lyft Drivers Gain Labor Clout, With Help From an App
A nascent group in California offers a model for organizing a far-flung work force, and wielding...
Bezos and Zuckerberg Take Their Pitches to Washington
The Amazon and Facebook leaders were there for different reasons, but the appearances highlighted their companies’...
Hard Times in Silicon Valley? Not for the Payments Start-Up Stripe
Known for its quiet and steady growth, Stripe said on Thursday that it received new funding...
Airbnb Says It Plans to Go Public in 2020
Making a public statement about a stock market debut in a particular year is unusual among...
Vaping Illnesses Increase to 530 Probable Cases
More than three-fourths of those sickened are male, health officials said, and half are under 25....
Amazon Pledges to Be Carbon Neutral by 2040
To help meet its goal, Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s chief executive, said the company was ordering 100,000...
Teenage Vaping Rises Sharply Again This Year
Preliminary figures from a national survey show that the prevalence of e-cigarette use among minors has...
Luigi Colani, 91, Designer of Fanciful and Futuristic Objects, Dies
Better known for far-out prototypes than actual products, he was seen by his admirers as a...
