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NASA has grandiose plans for sending astronauts back to the moon. Those start with a microwave-size private spacecraft about to lift off.

Ferrari and Lamborghini are trying to design battery-powered cars that inspire the same devotion as their costly internal combustion models.

Vast surveillance data allows the state to target people whose behavior or characteristics are deemed suspicious by an algorithm, even if they’ve done nothing wrong.

Three posts on Friday night signaled the resurfacing of a figure who used a variety of conspiracy theories to marshal support for Donald J. Trump.

The corporate response to the Supreme Court’s Friday decision was more muted, and the companies that did speak out mostly talked about their health care policies.

His work at Bell Labs in the 1960s laid the groundwork for today’s computer-generated imagery in film and on TV.

Continue reading the main storyThis article is part of our Daily Business Briefing Managers at Meta reaffirmed a May memo that said that “discussing abortion openly at work has a heightened risk of creating a hostile work environment.”Credit...Benoit Tessier/ReutersBy Mike Isaac and Ryan MacMeta told its workers on ...

After a Food and Drug Administration ruling against the company, fans of the brand said they appreciated its simple design. “I definitely will miss the Juuls,” a leather worker in Detroit said.

It’s not just you — what you can buy on your phone makes less and less sense.

Mark Zuckerberg, who once said securing elections was “the most important thing,” has shifted Meta’s focus to the metaverse. That may have real-world implications.

These selfies, taken with an ultra-wide-angle lens, aren’t fussed over. Sometimes they are just “distorted and crazy.”

Zap Energy said its experimental reactor core was ready for a milestone test. Skeptics routinely question whether the technology is currently possible.

A report published by Microsoft also found that Moscow’s disinformation campaign to establish a narrative of the war favorable to Russia was doing better than expected.

Afterpay, Apple and other financial tech companies are popularizing installment plans for paying off shopping splurges. These programs can also cause confusion and a loss of control.

And Balenciaga and Thom Browne. Meta opens a new fashion store for the metaverse. Should you shop?

The fraud trial of Ramesh Balwani, the chief operating officer of the failed blood testing start-up Theranos, is heading to a verdict soon.

The Justice Department had accused Meta’s housing advertising system of discriminating against Facebook users based on their race, gender, religion and other characteristics.

They accuse the companies of depriving them of employee benefits while also denying them the freedoms of independent contractors.

The technology giant will stop offering automated tools that predict a person’s gender, age and emotional state and will restrict the use of its facial recognition tool.

A Times investigation analyzing over 100,000 government bidding documents found that China’s ambition to collect digital and biological data from its citizens is more expansive and invasive than previously known.

One company says it has the technology. And though investors looking for cleaner power generation are lining up, some environmentalists are skeptical.