These Typefaces Are Truly Puzzling
Erik and Martin Demaine, a father-and-son team of “algorithmic typographers,” have confected an entire suite of mathematically inspired fonts.Read More
Year: 2021
A powerful House panel on Thursday approved a sweeping set of proposals aimed at weakening Big Tech. It passed a series of measures imposing...
Amazon defeated a high-profile union drive at a warehouse in Alabama earlier this year. But now the e-commerce giant could face a much larger...
BuzzFeed Confirms Plans to Go Public Through SPAC Deal
The digital media company, which will merge with a publicly listed shell company in what is known as a SPAC deal, also lined up...
What Congress Wants From Big Tech
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House lawmakers have gotten serious. A package of bills poses existential threats to the tech giants.Read More
The Internet Eats Up Less Energy Than You Might Think
New research by two leading scientists says some dire warnings of environmental damage from technology are overstated.Read More
10 Million Data Requests: How a Times Team Tracked Covid
The project began 18 months ago as a simple concept: Count every known U.S. case at the time. When the virus grew exponentially, so...
Antitrust Overhaul Passes Its First Tests. Now, the Hard Parts.
When the Judiciary Committee began approving a suite of bills on Wednesday, it exposed the fault lines that could make final passage difficult.Read More
John McAfee, the controversial antivirus software magnate who’d had multiple recent run-ins with the US law, has died at 75. McAfee was awaiting extradition...