What the Privacy Battle Upending the Internet Means for You

Get ready for more random ads online, higher prices and subscriptions galore. But your privacy concerns may still not fade.

The Battle for Digital Privacy Is Reshaping the Internet

As Apple and Google enact privacy changes, businesses are grappling with the fallout, Madison Avenue is fighting back and Facebook has cried foul.

Biology Starts to Get a Technological Makeover

The story of Ginkgo Bioworks shows the challenges and progress in the emerging field of synthetic biology.

Opinion | The Elizabeth Holmes Trial Is a Wake-Up Call for Sexism in Tech

In tech, brash male founders are allowed to overpromise and underdeliver, time and again. Not so much for women.

‘The Contrarian’ Goes Searching for Peter Thiel’s Elusive Core

In his new book, Max Chafkin narrates the secretive tech mogul’s life and tries to understand what he stands for.

The Godmother of the Digital Image

The mathematician Ingrid Daubechies’ pioneering work in signal processing helped make our electronic world possible — and beat a path for women in the field.

Under G.O.P. Pressure, Tech Giants Are Empowered by Election Agency

New rulings by the Federal Election Commission protect the flexibility of major social media companies to control political content shared on their platforms.

Apple Issues Emergency Security Updates to Close a Spyware Flaw

Researchers at Citizen Lab found that NSO Group, an Israeli spyware company, had infected Apple products without so much as a click.

Opinion | Dave Eggers Created the Google-Amazon Mash-Up of Your Nightmares

The author dissects the anxieties and discontents of living in a world wrought by tech giants.

County I.T. Supervisor Mined Bitcoin at the Office, Prosecutors Say

Christopher Naples is accused of hiding 46 devices used for mining cryptocurrency in Suffolk County offices, costing the county thousands of dollars in electricity.

7 True Stories From Virtual School

Teachers, administrators and service providers talk about what remote teaching is really like.

Opinion | Hear That? It’s Your Voice Being Taken for Profit.

'When she recognizes you’re frustrated with her, Alexa can now try to adjust, just like you or I would do.'

A Nick to Apple’s Profits Could Be a Windfall for App Developers

After a judge opened up a way to avoid Apple’s commission on their sales, companies big and small are seeing dollar signs.

A Hate Group Targeted My Kid Online

How caregivers can protect children from vicious trolls who infiltrate virtual games and chats.

Google Could Be Violating Labor Laws With Pay for Temp Workers

The company realized months ago that it could be running afoul of pay laws in a number of countries but has been slow to fix the problem, according to internal documents.

Judge Orders Apple to Ease Restrictions on App Developers

The decision could have major implications for thousands of businesses that pay Apple billions of dollars each year.

Germany Investigates Russia Over Pre-Election Hacking

Berlin has protested to Moscow after identifying repeated attempts to steal politicians’ private information before the election this month that will decide Angela Merkel’s successor.

‘We’re Going to Take Over the World’

One of the many legacies of Sept. 11 was a new era of conspiratorial thinking. This is a look at the online film that crystallized it.

A.I. Can Now Write Its Own Computer Code. That’s Good News for Humans.

A new technology called Codex generates programs in 12 coding languages and even translates between them. But it is not a threat to professional programmers.

Opinion | Are We More Polarized? Or Just Weirder?

The economist Tyler Cowen discusses political division, G.D.P. growth and classical music.