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Bitcoin aficionados are hoping that a scheduled reduction in the number of new coins going into circulation will cause the price of the cryptocurrency to skyrocket.

Tigran Gambaryan, an American compliance official for the giant cryptocurrency exchange Binance, flew to Nigeria in February for a planned two-day business trip. He hasn’t returned.

Users of Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp and Messenger will be able to turn to the new technology, powered by Meta’s latest artificial intelligence model, to obtain information and complete tasks.

In a first, a Colorado law extends privacy rights to the neural data increasingly coveted by technology companies.

Donald Trump’s social media platform has outdistanced similar conservative sites such as Parler and Gettr, even as it lags far behind X and others.

A new measure attempts to force the Senate’s hand on passing legislation to ban TikTok or mandate the app’s sale.

The company’s directors are asking shareholders to again approve the multibillion-dollar compensation plan and to move the company’s registration to Texas, from Delaware.

It has been replaced by a new model, which will be used in automotive manufacturing. A farewell video featured the old machine running outdoors, performing back flips and awkwardly shimmying.

Global digital rights advocates are watching to see if Congress acts, worried that other countries could follow suit with app bans of their own.

Rusty Foster could never live in New York. But his hit newsletter, Today in Tabs, is an enduring obsession of the city’s media class.

At a time of heightened confusion and legal battles over access to abortion, women are looking to social media for answers.

It doesn’t take a lot of work to keep copies of your phone’s photos, videos and other files stashed securely in case of an emergency.

“We will be attacked,” the official responsible for fending off cyberthreats said. To prepare, organizers have been hosting war games and paying “bug bounties” to hackers.

Microsoft said it would invest $1.5 billion in G42, an Emirati company with ties to China, as Washington and Beijing maneuver to secure tech influence in the Persian Gulf.

Instagram is testing a program that offers its top influencers the ability to interact with their followers over direct messages using a chatbot.

Which A.I. system writes the best computer code or generates the most realistic image? Right now, there’s no easy way to answer those questions.

The federal grants will support Samsung’s new chip manufacturing hub in Taylor, Texas, along with the expansion of an existing site in Austin.

Along with the departure of a senior executive, the cuts added to signs of turmoil at the electric car company.

Mr. Musk, the chief executive of Tesla, has turned off many people with polarizing remarks on social media, and it may be affecting the automaker’s sales.

Swiss brands and retailers now have a few options to determine what’s happening with the industry. Just a couple of years ago, they had almost none.

Mistral, a French start-up considered a promising challenger to OpenAI and Google, is getting support from European leaders who want to protect the region’s culture and politics.

This fall, the company will begin allowing customers to replace broken parts with used iPhone components without its previous software limits.

Jackson Hinkle’s incendiary commentary has generated over two million new followers on X since October — a surge that some researchers say is aided by inauthentic accounts.