On the Clock On the Clock is Motherboard's reporting on the organized labor movement, gig work, automation, and the future of work. See More → More than 800 employees at video game maker Activision Bl

Unlike in other years, this year’s Microsoft Build developer conference is not packed with huge surprises — but there’s one announcement that will surely make developers’ ears perk up: The company is

Published 4 May 2021 comments Share page About sharing Image source, Getty Images By Zoe Kleinman Technology reporter There remains "little association" between technology use and mental-health proble

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Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft Teams users report files are missing or moved to the Recycle Bin after the recent Azure Active Directory outage this week. On Monday, Microsoft suffered a massive ou

In this article Narumon Bowonkitwanchai | Moment | Getty Images A chip shortage that started as consumers stocked up on personal computers and other electronics during the Covid-19 pandemic now threat

Published 15 March 2021 Share page About sharing Image source, Getty Images A mother allegedly used explicit deepfake photos and videos to try to get her teenage daughter's cheerleading rivals kicked

The FBI warned in an alert Wednesday that malicious actors “almost certainly” will be using deepfakes to advance their influence or cyber-operations in the coming weeks. The alert notes that foreign a

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Hacking. Disinformation. Surveillance. CYBER is Motherboard's podcast and reporting on the dark underbelly of the internet. See More → On Wednesday, a massive fire destroyed a datacenter and caused da

Even before COVID-19 turned our lives upside down, a new generation of digital tools was opening up new possibilities for the future of work. What we didn’t expect was that this future would arrive al

Photo by Win McNamee / Getty Images GitHub employees are protesting the firing of a Jewish colleague who was let go two days after he warned co-workers in Washington, DC to stay safe from Nazis. The e

Apple’s game-changing new privacy move is great for users and bad for data collectors such as Facebook. And it could spark a serious new problem, according to reports. Apple’s game-changing new privac

Corellium, a security research firm sued by Apple, has won a major legal victory against the iPhone maker. In a ruling that has wide-reaching implications for iPhone security research and copyright la

In 2016, Alphabet's DeepMind came out with AlphaGo, an AI which consistently beat the best human Go players . One year later, the subsidiary went on to refine its work, creating AlphaGo Zero. Where it

Published 14 December 2020 Share page About sharing Image source, Getty Images Apps on all of Apple's app stores will now have to show much more detail about what data they collect and what it is used

The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Monday in a case that could lead to sweeping changes to America’s controversial computer hacking laws — and affect how millions use their computers and access

DJI’s been on a bit of a tear of late, with a slew of new products in its handheld line. Today it’s back to what we know the company for best: drones. The latest offering is the Mavic Mini 2 , which,

The cloud infrastructure market kept growing at a brisk pace last quarter, as the pandemic continued to push more companies to the cloud with offices shut down in much of the world. This week the big

Published 20 October 2020 Share page About sharing Image source, Getty Images Image caption, Google has been issued with huge fines in the EU over market dominance The US government has filed charges

Facebook isn’t exactly known for balanced conversations or reliable information, but that’s not stopping it from launching Forecast , a “community for crowdsourced predictions and collective insights.

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Among 100 CIOs at large global companies, Microsoft Azure has become significantly more popular than Amazon’s AWS as the public-cloud infrastructure of choice, according to a Goldman Sachs survey. Whi

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My good friend and colleague @bdougieyo is at Codeland today and is giving away early access to Codespaces to three lucky people who create a profile README (a new feature we quietly launched a few we

I told GPT-3 I would be presenting at a Hacker News meetup in Japan, and asked it to generate a presentation for me. Here's what it came up with, read by yours truly. There's also a tweet-sized versio

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Every now and then, consultancy firms face challenges that are abnormal and create new solutions. We faced that last year, to classify over a quarter of a million articles with a very limited budget.

You can’t make a trip to the supermarket these days without donning modern-day armor — masks, gloves, hand sanitizer. But in late May, the Whole Foods store on South Street added another line of defen

(Reuters) - Finland's Nokia launched a set of tools on Thursday for data centre networking, developed in cooperation with Apple Inc, to help companies to manage the growth in traffic as 5G and machine

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Apple has been integrating augmented reality into its devices for years, but it looks like the company will jump right into the territory of Meta, Microsoft and Magic Leap with a long-expected mixed-r

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On conference stages and at campaign rallies, tech executives and politicians warn of a looming automation crisis — one where workers are gradually, then all at once, replaced by intelligent machines.

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