Terpsichore Maras-Lindeman, a podcaster who fought to overturn the 2020 presidential election, recently railed against mask mandates to her 4,000 fans in a live broadcast and encouraged them to enter stores maskless. On another day, she grew emotional while thanking them for sending her $84,000. Millie Weaver, a former correspondent for the conspiracy theory website […]
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On the campaign trail, Joseph R. Biden Jr. vowed to unseat Donald J. Trump and bring science back to the White House, the federal government and the nation after years of presidential attacks and disavowals, neglect and disarray. As president-elect, he got off to a fast start in January by nominating Eric S. Lander, a […]
This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays. As their country is hit with the world’s worst coronavirus crisis, Indians are using Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter and shared online documents to crowdsource medical help and hold their elected leaders accountable for their mistakes. But the technology […]
A federal court said on Wednesday that it did not dismiss the possibility that former President Donald J. Trump interfered in the awarding of a military cloud-computing contract worth $10 billion, a decision that could result in the overhaul of a long-running effort to modernize technology at the Defense Department. The decision could be a […]
Have you ever thought about living forever? Failing that, how about storing your memories and life experiences into a hard drive and then uploading them so future generations in your family can know you more intimately? These are just two of the (very, very deep) questions Toronto documentary filmmaker Ann Shin explores in her […]
On October 6, 1957, Russia’s Sputnik 1 made history as man’s first satellite to reach into space. Today, an estimated 6,000 satellites are making the rounds in Earth’s lower orbit, along what has become a busy satellite superhighway. Private industry is driving a space boom. Over the next several years, companies like Amazon and […]
Canada’s Shopify Inc, reported a 110 per cent jump in first-quarter revenue that also trounced analysts’ estimates on Wednesday, as its e-commerce platform profited from the past year’s COVID-19 driven boom in online selling. The company was a clear pandemic winner as pandemic-induced lockdowns fuelled a swift to online purchases, with revenue jumping 86 […]
On the outside, Apple’s new AirTag looks like a ho-hum product that we have all seen before. It’s a disc-shaped tracking gadget that can be attached to items like house keys to help you find them. But inside, the story gets far more interesting. The AirTag, which Apple introduced last week, is one of the […]
Times subscribers can R.S.V.P. for this free event on Wednesday, May 26 at 7 p.m. Eastern, 4 p.m. Pacific. It spreads through social media and message boards. Through television pundits and talk radio. And in daily conversations, in every corner of the world. Disinformation can change minds and fuel movements. But is it an unstoppable […]
Social media has become an important way that many people find, consume and share news. These online communities expose us to information we might not otherwise come across, and provide a space for discussion and exchange. So we are doing a little project to explore how people think about the news they encounter on social […]