Canadians Confront News Void on Facebook and Instagram as Election Nears
After Meta blocked news from its platforms in Canada, hyperpartisan and misleading content from popular right-wing Facebook pages such as…
Will a Federal Judge Break Up Google?
On Monday, the tech giant and the U.S. government face off in court over how to fix the company’s online…
‘Black Mirror’ Showed Us a Future. Some of It Is Here Now.
The long-running tech drama always felt as if it took place in a dystopian near future. How much of that…
Mike Wood, Whose LeapFrog Toys Taught a Generation, Dies at 72
His LeapPad tablets, which helped children read, found their way into tens of millions of homes beginning in 1999.Mike Wood…
U.S. Chipmakers Fear They Are Ceding China’s A.I. Market to Huawei
New restrictions on semiconductor exports to China are scrambling sales and fueling concerns that the Chinese tech giant will become…
Google Makes History With Rapid-Fire Antitrust Losses
Within a year, two federal judges declared the tech giant a monopoly in search and ad technology. The tide may…
Meta on Trial + Is A.I. a ‘Normal’ Technology? + HatGPT
Listen to and follow ‘Hard Fork’Apple | Spotify | Amazon | YouTube | iHeartRadioThis week Meta is on trial, in…
At Meta Antitrust Trial, Sheryl Sandberg Testifies About Competition and Instagram Deal
In her second day on the stand of a landmark antitrust trial over Meta’s power, Ms. Sandberg, the former chief…
Google Is a Monopolist in Online Advertising Tech, Judge Says
The ruling was the second time in a year that a federal court had found that Google had acted illegally…
Nvidia C.E.O. Meets With Chinese Trade Officials in Beijing
The day before the visit by Jensen Huang, lawmakers in Washington said they were investigating whether the chipmaker’s sales in…