In legal settlements that could reshape the children’s app market, Disney, Viacom and 10 advertising technology firms have agreed to remove certain advertising software from children’s apps to address accusations that they violated the privacy of millions of youngsters. The agreements resolve three related class-action cases involving some of the largest ad-tech companies — including […]
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This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays. Are voice recognition technologies like Alexa helpful in medicine or are they hogwash? For now, the short answer is a little of both. Microsoft on Monday said that it would spend roughly $16 billion to buy Nuance […]
This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays. Are voice recognition technologies like Alexa helpful in medicine or are they hogwash? For now, the short answer is a little of both. Microsoft on Monday said that it would spend roughly $16 billion to buy Nuance […]
Anyone who joined a video call during the pandemic probably has a global volunteer organization called the Internet Engineering Task Force to thank for making the technology work. The group, which helped create the technical foundations of the internet, designed the language that allows most video to run smoothly online. It made it possible for […]
Anyone who joined a video call during the pandemic probably has a global volunteer organization called the Internet Engineering Task Force to thank for making the technology work. The group, which helped create the technical foundations of the internet, designed the language that allows most video to run smoothly online. It made it possible for […]
Microsoft said on Monday that it would buy Nuance Communications, a provider of artificial-intelligence and speech-recognition software, for about $16 billion, as it pushes to expand its health care technology services. In acquiring Nuance, whose products include the transcription tool Dragon, Microsoft is hoping to bolster its offerings for the fast-growing field of medical computing. […]
China’s fast-moving campaign to curb the power of internet giants has hit its latest mark: Ant Group, the fintech sister company of the e-commerce behemoth Alibaba. Ant announced on Monday that it would undertake a sweeping, government-ordered overhaul of its business to allay regulators’ concerns about the way it competes with rivals, its large-scale collection […]
This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays. On Tech is back from a spring break, and the magnolia trees are blooming outside On Tech headquarters (a.k.a., my New York apartment). Today, let’s talk about relatively simple technology and a change in government policy that […]
Ant Group, the online finance affiliate of the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, announced a sweeping overhaul of its business on Monday in response to demands from China’s government, which is moving swiftly to curb the power of the country’s internet giants. Beijing’s campaign has taken the corporate empire of Jack Ma, Alibaba’s billionaire co-founder and […]
The latest crypto-token craze is spilling over into watches. Following a torrent of record prices for digital assets from artwork to sneakers, the first watch NFT — or “nonfungible token,” verified by blockchain technology — was offered early this month. It didn’t sell, and the auction has been extended. But other NFT prices, realized on […]