Technology

Mr. Ferguson, a current Republican member of the agency, will replace Lina Khan, who had aggressively challenged mergers and the power of the biggest tech companies. Read full article

The involvement of wealthy investors has made this presidential transition one of the most potentially conflict-ridden in modern history. Read full article

The company is requesting a pause on a law that requires the app to be sold or face a ban in the United States by mid-January, aiming to buy time for the Supreme Court or the incoming Trump administration to rescue it. Read full article

Regulators are working around the clock to cement four years of tech policy ahead of the inauguration of President-elect Donald J. Trump. Read full article

New technology alerts schools when students type words related to suicide. But do the timely interventions balance out the false alarms? Read full article

Experts disagreed on whether running surveillance camera images released by the police through a facial recognition system would produce a reliable lead. Read full article

The sudden departure of Intel’s C.E.O. reignites concerns about U.S. dependence on foreign manufacturing. Read full article

It was supposed to be a sleepy year for the video game industry. Then came surprise hits like Balatro, Animal Well and Astro Bot. Read full article

The Sound Towns of 2023 have been replaced with features such as an A.I.-driven podcast about users’ listening habits and word-salad-like genre summaries. Read full article

GenCast, from the company’s DeepMind division, outperformed the world’s best predictions of deadly storms as well as everyday weather. Read full article