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Elon Musk’s Politics May Be Pushing Some Buyers Away From Tesla

Few auto executives are as closely identified with the companies they manage as Elon Musk, the chief executive of Tesla, is. And probably...

Supreme Court Declines to Rule on Tech Platforms’ Free Speech Rights

The Supreme Court on Monday avoided a definitive resolution of challenges to laws in Florida and Texas that curb the power of social...

Meta’s Ad-Free Subscription Violates Competition Law, E.U. Says

When Meta introduced a subscription option last year that would allow users in the European Union to pay for an advertising-free experience of...

Scientists in Japan Give Robots a Fleshy Face and a Smile

Engineers in Japan are trying to get robots to imitate that particularly human expression — the smile.They have created a face mask from...

Facial Recognition Led to Wrongful Arrests. So Detroit Is Making Changes.

In January 2020, Robert Williams spent 30 hours in a Detroit jail because facial recognition technology suggested he was a criminal. The match...

Record Labels Sue A.I. Music Generators, Inside the Pentagon’s Tech Upgrade and HatGPT

Listen to and follow ‘Hard Fork’Apple | Spotify | Amazon | YouTubeRecord labels — including Sony, Universal and Warner — are suing two...

The Voices of A.I. Are Telling Us a Lot

What does artificial intelligence sound like? Hollywood has been imagining it for decades. Now A.I. developers are cribbing from the movies, crafting voices...

Uber and Lyft Agree to Give Massachusetts Drivers Minimum Pay

Uber and Lyft settled a yearslong legal dispute with the attorney general in Massachusetts on Thursday, agreeing to pay their drivers in the...

Cellphone Outage in Europe Leaves Many U.S. Travelers Disconnected

Many travelers from the United States lost a crucial tool to check maps, make reservations, use ride-hailing apps and more because of a...

New Tactic in China’s Information War: Harassing a Critic’s Child in the U.S.

Deng Yuwen, a prominent Chinese writer who now lives in exile in the suburbs of Philadelphia, has regularly criticized China and its authoritarian...

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