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Lawrence Tesler, a pioneering computer scientist who helped make it easier for users to interact with computers, whether cutting and pasting text or selecting text by dragging a cursor through it, died on Sunday at his home in Portola Valley, Calif. He was 74. The cause was not known, his wife, Colleen Barton, said, but […]

New Mexico is suing Google over allegations the tech company is illegally collecting personal data generated by children in violation of federal and state laws By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press February 20, 2020, 8:21 PM 3 min read ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — New Mexico’s attorney general sued Google Thursday over allegations the tech company is

Academic and electronic musician Bertolt Meyer has told BBC Radio 5 Live how he’s hacked his prosthetic arm and connected it to his synth. It means Meyer, who lives in Leipzig, Germany, and was born without his left forearm, can play music just by thinking about it. Speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live’s Rick Edwards,

A federal judge in Washington ordered Microsoft on Thursday to halt all work on a $10 billion cloud-computing contract for the Pentagon, in a victory for Amazon, which had challenged the awarding of the contract. In a sealed opinion, the judge, Patricia E. Campbell-Smith of the Court of Federal Claims, ordered work to stop on

Tesla received a subpoena in December from the Securities and Exchange Commission asking the electric-car maker to turn over information about its financial data and contracts, the company said in a filing with the agency on Thursday. In the filing, Tesla also said the S.E.C. had closed a separate investigation into projections and statements the

WASHINGTON — The U.S. government has charged Huawei and two of its subsidiaries with federal racketeering and conspiracy to steal trade secrets from American companies, a significant escalation in the Trump administration’s legal fight with the Chinese telecommunications company. In a federal indictment unsealed on Thursday in the Eastern District of New York, the Department

Google is updating its terms of service to make them easier to understand By BY RACHEL LERMAN AP Technology Writer February 20, 2020, 11:11 AM 2 min read SAN FRANCISCO — Google is attempting to make sure people know exactly what they’re signing up for when they use its online services — though that will

This article is part of our latest Learning special report. We’re focusing on Generation Z, which is facing challenges from changing curriculums and new technology to financial aid gaps and homelessness. MANCHESTER, N.H. — Cruising to class in her driverless car, a student crams from notes projected on the inside of the windshield while she

BOSTON — Did an artificial-intelligence system beat human doctors in warning the world of a severe coronavirus outbreak in China? In a narrow sense, yes. But what the humans lacked in sheer speed, they more than made up in finesse. Early warnings of disease outbreaks can help people and governments save lives. In the final

Each week, we review the week’s news, offering analysis about the most important developments in the tech industry. Hello, I’m Dai Wakabayashi, and I cover Google in San Francisco for The New York Times. For the most part, writing about smartphones over the last few years has been pretty boring. Can you get that excited