Delivery apps promised to connect restaurants with more customers. The dream isn’t working. By Shira Ovide June 10, 2020 More people are using food delivery apps like Grubhub and Uber Eats to order from restaurants during the pandemic. But can this trend last if so many restaurants are unhappy? My colleague Nathaniel Popper talked to a restaurant owner […]
The company said it hoped the moratorium “might give Congress enough time to put in place appropriate rules” for the technology. By Karen Weise and Natasha Singer June 10, 2020 SEATTLE — Amazon said on Wednesday that it was putting a one-year pause on letting the police use its facial recognition tool, in a major sign of the growing concerns […]
At 22, he single-handedly put a stop to the worst cyberattack the world had ever seen. Then he was arrested by the FBI. This is his untold story. AT AROUND 7 am on a quiet Wednesday in August 2017, Marcus Hutchins walked out the front door of the Airbnb mansion in Las Vegas where he had […]
For $399, this smartphone hits the high notes: speedy, a great camera and a nice screen. Took long enough, didn’t it? By Brian X. Chen Apple’s recently introduced $399 iPhone SE marks a turning point in consumer technology. It’s a smartphone that delivers all the tech that we care about, without making us pay through the nose for […]
Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley could stay in orbit for months to aid the station’s short-staffed crew. After a 19-hour trip, the NASA astronauts Robert L. Behnken and Douglas G. Hurley successfully docked their capsule and entered the space station.CreditCredit…NASA By Kenneth Chang May 31, 2020Updated 9:25 p.m. ET – NY Times The Crew Dragon has arrived. […]
LAUREN GOODE GEAR 01.09.19 07:00 AM WHEN VERIZON CEO Hans Vestberg delivered his keynote address at CES in Las Vegas on Tuesday evening, his speech was shaded with prophecy. 5G will change everything, he said. 5G will even power the fourth industrial revolution. Vestberg was hardly alone in his predictions for the gains the emerging high-speed […]
LAUREN GOODE GEAR 01.17.19 05:58 PM HERE COMES A Pixel … sport watch? Google and the Fossil Group announced earlier today that the tech giant is acquiring some of Fossil’s smartwatch intellectual property, suggesting Google may be making its own competitor to the Apple Watch, or, as wishful pundits refer to it, a Pixel watch. It’s not an […]
By Natasha Singer Jan. 18, 2018 Greetings, I’m Natasha Singer, your resident privacy reporter. And I’m writing to you from wintry New York City as the government shutdown increases financial pressure on federal workers and the tech elites jet off to Davos, Switzerland, to hobnob at the World Economic Forum. For the last few years, the […]
There’s a clear rift among the tech giants over how to protect Americans from unchecked face surveillance. A top Google executive recently sent a shot across the bow of its competitors regarding face surveillance. Kent Walker, the company’s general counsel and senior vice president of global affairs, made it clear that Google — unlike Amazon and […]
WASHINGTON/DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday it will pursue the extradition of the chief financial officer of China’s Huawei Technologies Co Ltd’s [HWT.UL], arrested in Canada in December.FILE PHOTO: Meng Wanzhou, Huawei Technologies Co Ltd’s chief financial officer (CFO), is seen in this undated handout photo obtained by Reuters December […]
