Technology

Over the last month, the Zoom videoconferencing service has emerged as the communication lifeline of the coronavirus pandemic. But the convenience fueling Zoom’s explosive popularity has come at a price. Originally a service meant for businesses, Zoom was designed to make it easy for company employees, sales representatives and clients to hop on meetings. When […]

Just as the coronavirus outbreak has boxed in society, it’s also squeezed high-flying tech companies reliant on people’s freedom to move around and get together By BARBARA ORTUTAY, DEE-ANN DURBIN and MICHAEL LIEDTKE The Associated Press April 8, 2020, 7:16 PM 5 min read Just as the coronavirus outbreak has boxed in society, it’s also

Ever since many of us started working from home in the coronavirus pandemic, I’ve been invited to countless gatherings taking place on Zoom, the videoconferencing app. Virtual happy hours, work meetings, dinners, you name it. I’ve been a no-show, and it’s not just because my hair has grown embarrassingly long. It’s because I have a

The European Union has been thrown into a scientific policy dispute at the height of the coronavirus crisis By RAF CASERT Associated Press April 8, 2020, 4:12 PM 3 min read BRUSSELS — The European Union has been thrown into a scientific policy dispute at the height of the coronavirus crisis after the head of

But tech companies aren’t the only ones with vulnerable, often low-wage workers. Absolutely. Income inequality is a problem for our age, especially with tech facilitating it. The question is, is our country committed to helping the least of us? Will this pandemic change how we live? Will we stop doing group activities or shopping in

But Mr. Goel is also looking at what else A.I. could do. Like working with sentiment analysis (it uses “the order of the words, the phrases of the words” to classify moods and personality types) to explore how virtual tools could answer a human’s emotion. “If my sentiment is one of exasperation, how do you

This article is part of our latest Artificial Intelligence special report, which focuses on how the technology continues to evolve and affect our lives. Artificial intelligence seems to be everywhere, but what we are really witnessing is a supervised-learning revolution: We teach computers to see patterns, much as we teach children to read. But the

This article is part of our latest Artificial Intelligence special report, which focuses on how the technology continues to evolve and affect our lives. If you had about 180,000 hours of underwater recordings from the Pacific Ocean, and you needed to know when and where, in all those different hours, humpback whales were singing, would

An aerial survey of the Great Barrier Reef shows coral bleaching is sweeping across the area off the east of Australia for the third time in five years April 8, 2020, 1:39 AM 3 min read 3 min read Share to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this article BRISBANE, Australia — An aerial survey of the Great

The outbreak of the coronavirus has dealt a shock to the global economy with unprecedented speed. Following are developments Tuesday related to the global economy, the work place and the spread of the virus. ——————————— CUSTOMERS FIRST: The pandemic is sapping trillions from the economy and the ramifications for businesses, from banks to restaurants, is