Technology

If you’d asked me in 2018 whether I was likely to be a victim of identity theft, I would have said no. I used free credit monitoring. I had unique …

PALO ALTO — On a chilly December evening, 54-year-old engineer Mark Robins opened a laptop inside his son’s room to demonstrate the software he uses to control the 10,000 lights …

Meta Platforms has agreed to pay $725 million to settle a long-running lawsuit that claimed Facebook illegally shared user data with the research firm Cambridge Analytica. It’s “the largest recovery …

For more than a year, the California voter-approved gig economy law known as Proposition 22 has hung in the balance after a judge invalidated the ballot initiative allowing giant ride-hailing …

Since Februrary, Amazon has been playing Santa Claus to Ukraine, delivering planeloads of goods, including blankets, hygiene kits, diapers, food and toys, for the war-torn nation and refugees in Poland …

Scott Mann had a problem: too many f-bombs. The writer-director had spent production on “Fall,” his vertigo-inducing thriller about rock climbers stuck atop a remote TV tower, encouraging the two …

Epic Games, the maker of the hit game Fortnite, will pay the Federal Trade Commission a record $520 million to settle claims that it violated children’s privacy. The North Carolina-based …

The promise was simple: Follow them and get rich. Eight influencers, based from California to Florida, promoted themselves on social media as financial gurus who could pick winning stocks. But …

Several journalists who covered Elon Musk were suspended from Twitter on Thursday night, days after an account tracking the whereabouts of Musk’s private jet was also banned from the platform. …

A former Twitter employee who accessed the confidential data of “users of interest” to the royal family of Saudi Arabia in exchange for bribes was sentenced Thursday to three and …