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Governments are studying the decision to prohibit youths from using platforms like Facebook and TikTok as worries grow about the potential harm they cause.

It can be easier to talk to strangers, which might explain why Reddit has become an increasingly popular resource for wedding planning.

If companies can modify internet-connected products and charge subscriptions after people have already purchased them, what does it mean to own anything anymore?

He and a partner founded Tekserve, a Manhattan emergency room for frozen hard drives, keyboards, screens and their confounded owners.

This year’s high-end models from Apple and Google raise the bar for mobile photography, but users should take the time to learn the settings and features.

The new artificial intelligence model is the second the company has released this year. OpenAI and Anthropic made similar updates a few months ago.

With the arrival of Amazon’s Zoox robot taxi in San Francisco to compete with Waymo, autonomous services are gaining momentum. But there are pros and cons.

Decades after their founders connected, Apple and Issey Miyake released a collection of phone pouches that have some people baffled. They hope it will inspire creativity.

Craving an art fix but don’t know where to start? These new art influencers can help newbies and players navigate openings, events and listings.

A.I. search tools, chatbots and social media are associated with lower cognitive performance, studies say. What to do?

Meet your artificial intelligence matchmakers. These A.I. tools are changing dating apps, so users don’t have to swipe through an endless scroll of profiles.

The widespread outage involving the cloud-computing provider Amazon Web Services ensnared unexpected consumers earlier this week: people who just wanted a good night’s sleep.

Free software on your phone or tablet lets you scan, create, edit, annotate and even sign digitized documents on the go.

Instagram is introducing parental controls and limits to conversations on topics like self-harm as concerns grow over how A.I. chatbots affect mental health.

Welcome to the era of fakery. The widespread use of instant video generators like Sora will bring an end to visuals as proof.

The restrictions also apply to conversations between teenage users and artificial intelligence chatbots.

Trump administration officials issued several legal threats over ICEBlock, a popular app that allows users to alert others to the presence of nearby immigration agents.

A new feature for iPhones screens calls, similar to a technology available for Android users. Here’s how to activate it.

The vast Global Digital Trade Expo in Hangzhou stood as a rebuke to U.S. efforts to hem in China’s technology. But the real competition is internal, and profits are hard to find.

Don’t have the latest A.I.-powered model? There are still plenty of new features in Apple’s iOS 26 and Google’s Android 16 to make your own.