timef 02/14/2026

A researcher, professor and federal policy adviser, he guided students who went on to do groundbreaking work in connecting the world online.

As their stocks tank, software makers are rebranding themselves as A.I. innovators. Sparkle emojis are everywhere, but some efforts have been more successful than others.

A.I. translation has become a huge industry, but how accurate is it? Our tech reporter, Kashmir Hill, explores its successes and failures through a couple who relies on of A.I. translation to communicate.

As Congress leaves town without funding their department, airport security officers wonder, “How many more times am I going to be able to do this?”

On a remote island in North Macedonia, male Hermann’s tortoises outnumber females 19 to 1, an imbalance driving the population to extinction.

Problems at detention centers operated by CoreCivic extend far beyond recent measles outbreaks.

Grana Padano cheese is trying to capture some of the international spotlight on Italy, appearing on billboards and social media and, of course, in the athletes’ cafeterias.

The artificial intelligence frenzy is creating personal fortunes rarely seen in modern technology and changing people’s attitudes about fairness and money in relationships.

He speaks English. She speaks Mandarin. The secret to their happy marriage: Microsoft Translator.

More than a decade into Beijing’s push for self sufficiency, Chinese firms are producing fewer, lower-performing chips than their foreign competitors.

The battle is expected to reach the Supreme Court, which is far more conservative today than it was when the measure was established.

The department has sent Google, Meta and other companies hundreds of subpoenas for information on accounts that track or comment on Immigration and Customs Enforcement, officials and tech workers said.

The National Science Foundation said management of the machine, used by researchers for forecasts, disaster warnings and pure science, would be transferred to a “third-party operator.”

Strong jobs data and a soft inflation reading for January are welcome news for President Trump. But the bigger economic picture is less encouraging.

Andrew Ferguson of the F.T.C. said in a letter to Apple that it might be violating consumer protection law by stifling conservative speech in its news aggregation service.