Technology

BBC Click’s LJ Rich looks at some of the week’s best technology stories including: Samsung postpones the launch of its folding smartphone, the Galaxy Fold Drone home delivery company, Wing, is certified by the US Federal Aviation Administration Nasa sends flying Astrobee robots to the International Space Station to help astronauts perform experiments and tasks […]

When a robot “dies,” does it make you sad? For lots of people, the answer is “yes” — and that tells us something important, and potentially worrisome, about our emotional responses to the social machines that are starting to move into our lives. For Christal White, a 42-year-old marketing and customer service director in Bedford,

Shootings at two Christchurch, New Zealand, mosques on Friday have reignited debate over social media’s handling of violent and extremist content. A Facebook account bearing the same name as the alleged gunman apparently livestreamed the massacre on Facebook, and a manifesto was posted on a Twitter account by the same name as well. The Twitter

Nils J. Nilsson, a computer scientist who helped develop the first general-purpose robot and was a co-inventor of algorithms that made it possible for the machine to move about efficiently and perform simple tasks, died on Sunday at his home in Medford, Ore. He was 86. His death was confirmed by his wife, Grace Abbott.

Comcast kept shedding cable customers and adding home internet customers in its most recent quarter. Traditional TV providers are losing customers at an increasing rate while streaming companies pop up seemingly every few weeks . To deal with that industry shift online from cable, Comcast has focused on growing its broadband business while integrating streaming

One of the most horrific massacre videos in human history was live-streamed on Facebook for 17 excruciating minutes — despite recent raves by executives that the company has become a crack content monitor. The film wasn’t yanked until New Zealand police informed Facebook that a gunman was filming live Thursday during an attack at two

Dipayan Ghosh, a former economic adviser on tech issues during the Obama administration, said the conditions laid out in the F.T.C. order would also guide federal legislation. “Enforcement actions have a broad impact on the entire industry. They can set norms,” Mr. Ghosh said. The F.T.C. action foreshadows problems for Facebook across the Atlantic, where

Drones ferrying medical supplies, packages and even pizza could one day be crisscrossing the skies above U.S. cities, and a team at the University of Utah is working with regulators to keep that future traffic in check using a video game. The simulation unveiled Wednesday uses a 3-D model of Salt Lake City, similar to

In the days leading up to the New Zealand massacre that left dozens of Muslim worshippers dead, the suspected shooter, a 28-year-old Australian man, left a trail of xenophobic and Islamophobic postings online. On Tuesday, he appeared to share a series of YouTube videos on Twitter, including a montage of bloodied corpses from previous terror

SAN FRANCISCO — Uber plans to set a price range for its initial public offering that would value it at as much as $90 billion, said a person with knowledge of the situation, in a sign of caution amid a flood of highly hyped tech offerings. The world’s largest ride-hailing company plans an initial pricing