EditorialChamber of Deputies, RAI Supervisory Committee, Hearing by Fra Paolo Benanti, President of the AI Commission for Information, Rome, Italy - 18 Jan 2024
EditorialThe entire project of pitting AI against people is beginning to look pretty silly, because the likeliest outcome is what has pretty much always happened when humans acquire new technologies — the technology augments our capabilities rather than replaces us, Farhad Manjoo writes. (John Provencher/The New York Times)
EditorialComputerized knitting, a technology similar to 3-D printing, makes it possible to create additional space between the strands of material. (Josie Norton/The New York Times)
EditorialCompanies developing computer-piloted car technology shouldn’t be in a race, sometimes it’s better to be safe than first. (Charles Desmarais/The New York Times)
EditorialA still image from an undated video shows how a deaf person in America would have signed “phone” 100 years ago, when telephones looked like candlesticks. (Mohamed Sadek and Ege Soyuer/The New York Times)
EditorialThe march of technology has come with this puzzling reality: Hardly any technologies of the iPhone era have been an unqualified success. (Konrad Adam Modrzejewski/The New York Times)
EditorialInnovation is essential and tough to sustain now that technology is a mammoth industry. But the fixation on an individual’s ingenuity above all other abilities is a selective memory of tech history. (Jack Snelling/The New York Times)
EditorialThe Internal Revenue Service may run on ancient technology, but that isn’t stopping it from taking its cut from your newfangled cryptocurrency winnings. (Adam McCauley/The New York Times)
EditorialWho wins when governments go head-to-head with technology giants — and whom should we root for? Apple’s fight with the Netherlands is an interesting test case, Shira Ovide writes. (Amir B Jahanbin/The New York Times)
EditorialTechnology is so ingrained in our lives now that many of the company quirks that felt adorable in 2000 now seem like artifice. Exhibit One: “Metamates.” (Asya Demidova/The New York Times)
EditorialAmerica’s five technology superpowers — Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Facebook — are titanic, and still growing. (Nick Sheeran/The New York Times)
EditorialHeading into the third year of the coronavirus pandemic, we need and deserve more microdoses of human empathy and community. Technology can help. (Jon Han/The New York Times)
EditorialThe United States has seen a steady rise in online card fraud in recent years, and it accelerated during the pandemic as more people shopped on the internet to avoid brick-and-mortar stores, according to a report this week from Aite-Novarica Group, a business and technology consultant. (Till Lauer/The New York Times)
EditorialElla Williams, 35, who works in information technology in Columbus, Ohio, at the National Mall in Washington, Feb. 1, 2020. (Justin T. Gellerson/The New York Times)