Technology

How do New York Times journalists use technology in their jobs and in their personal lives? Tejal Rao, the California restaurant critic based in Los Angeles, discussed the tech she’s using. What are your most important tech tools for doing your work as our first California restaurant critic? My phone is such a big part […]

Snow swamped mountains across the U.S. West last winter, leaving enough to thrill skiers into the summer, swelling rivers and streams when it melted, and largely making wildfire restrictions unnecessary. But the wet weather can be misleading. Climate change means the region is still getting drier and hotter. “It only demonstrates the wide swings we

HONG KONG — Violence and disarray at Hong Kong’s airport have cast a fresh shadow over the territory’s status as a global financial and business capital. Demonstrators largely retreated from the airport on Wednesday after two chaotic days in which hundreds of flights were canceled. Late Tuesday, protesters, police officers and passengers clashed in the

Visitors may now get a look at two rare leopard cubs at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo in Syracuse, New York. Onondaga (ah-nahn-DAH’-gah) County Executive Ryan McMahon announced that the little Amur (ah-MOOR’) leopards made their public debut Wednesday. The male and female cubs gradually ventured out from private quarters into their exhibit. It’s a temporary

The software engineer accused of stealing the personal information of more than 100 million people from Capital One also obtained data from over 30 companies and other organizations, according to federal prosecutors. In a court filing Tuesday, prosecutors said they found multiple terabytes of stolen data from other companies, educational institutions and other organizations on

Bigger, more efficient equipment will allow an electric utility to redevelop Wyoming’s first commercial wind farm so it produces the same amount of power with far fewer turbines, an example of the growing feasibility of renewable energy in the top U.S. coal-mining state. Portland, Oregon-based PacifiCorp plans to replace 68 wind turbines at the Foote

The House Homeland Security Committee issued a subpoena Wednesday against Jim Watkins, owner of online extremist forum 8chan. The bipartisan subpoena issued by the committee’s chairman, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-Miss.), and ranking member Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Ala.) calls for Watkins to appear before the committee on Sept. 5 to testify on what he’s doing

“The bigger you get, the more scrutiny there is, and the larger the losses you have, the more sensitive investors are to it,” said Jane Leung, chief investment officer of Scenic Advisement, an investment bank for shares in private companies. WeWork was founded by Adam Neumann and Miguel McKelvey in New York in 2010. The

A key House committee has subpoenaed the owner of 8chan, an online message board favored by violent white nationalists including the man suspected of killing 22 people in a mass shooting in El Paso, Texas. Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson and the panel’s top Republican announced the subpoena Wednesday, saying that “at least three

MUMBAI, India — Masroor Nazir, a pharmacist in Kashmir’s biggest city, Srinagar, has some advice for people in the region: Do not get sick, because he may not have any medicine left to help. “We used the internet for everything,” said Mr. Nazir, 28, whose pharmacy is near the city’s famed clock tower. He said