Tag: computers and software

Bezos’ Departure as CEO Shows Amazon Is a Cloud Company Now

Amazon founder and chief executive Jeff Bezos said Tuesday he would be stepping down as CEO of the legendary ecommerce company to become its...

China Stakes Its Claim to Quantum Supremacy

Last year Google won international acclaim when its prototype quantum computer completed a calculation in minutes that its researchers estimated would have taken...

Here’s What Google Does Illegally, According to the DOJ

For the better part of a year, the tech world has wondered what, exactly, the Department of Justice’s long-rumored antitrust case against Google...

Publishers Worry as Ebooks Fly off Libraries’ Virtual Shelves

Before Sarah Adler moved to Maryland last week, she used library cards from her Washington, DC, home and neighboring counties in Virginia and Maryland...

Companies Can Track Your Phone’s Movements to Target Ads

Google and Apple have taken steps this year they say will help users shield themselves from hundreds of companies that compile profiles based on...

A Utah Company Claims It Invented Contact Tracing Tech

In the fight against Covid-19, contact tracing apps have so far largely been disappointments— in the United States, at least. Proposed in the spring...

How an Epic Series of Tech Errors Hobbled Miami’s Schools

The teachers received demo logins to try out the platform, but they didn’t work, and even the trainers struggled to access it, West says....

Why Contact-Tracing Apps Haven’t Slowed Covid-19 in the US

States such as Massachusetts and New Jersey have left their app plans in limbo or abandoned them to focus on the bigger picture. “States...

Creepy ‘Geofence’ Finds Anyone Who Went Near a Crime Scene

In 2018, 23-year-old Jorge Molina was arrested and jailed for six days on suspicion of killing another man. Police in Avondale, Arizona, about 20...

Big Tech Companies Want to Help Get You Back in the Office

Many things about Matt Bruinooge’s senior year at Brown are different from his previous college life. One is that he logs on to a...

Access to Telemedicine Is Hardest for Those Who Need It Most

When the pandemic made in-person medical appointments difficult (to say the least), Karen Smith, a family physician in Raeford, North Carolina, knew she had...

Google and Apple Change Tactics on Contact Tracing Tech

The new plan unifies some of the behind-the-scenes work of sending exposure notifications. In the original scheme, state health authorities were responsible for setting...

Neuroscience Could Be the Key to Getting People to Wear Masks

Opinions about wearing masks and maintaining social distancing are sharply divided, largely along red and blue lines. Conservatives Republicans are the least likely...

Sundar Pichai Says Google Doesn’t Plan to Go Entirely Remote

The scrutiny is not new for us. I think it is a proper function of a society to scrutinize large companies. We are in...

On Earth, the Economy Is Tanking. In the Cloud, It’s Fine

Pandemic life is lived in the cloud. Work, school, and dating have been virtualized by Zoom calls and instant messages. Friends share meals...

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