Category: Computers and the Internet

Tech’s Biggest Companies Are Sending Worrying Signals About the Economy

The New York Times – Business:
A series of quarterly earnings reports is showing that even Silicon Valley’s most powerful companies are feeling the impact of inflation and rising interest rates.
Meta Quarterly Earnings: Profit Declines With Losses in Reality Labs

The New York Times – Business:
The social networking company, which is trying to shift into the so-called metaverse, posted falling sales and said it was “making significant changes” to operate more efficiently.
How Elon Musk Became a Geopolitical Chaos Agent

The New York Times – Business:
The world’s richest man has inserted himself in some of the world’s most combustible conflicts.
Elon Musk Seems to Answer to No One. Except for a Judge in Delaware.

The New York Times – Business:
Kathaleen St. J. McCormick, the chief judge of Delaware’s Chancery Court, gave Mr. Musk until Friday to acquire Twitter. She is also the judge in at least one other case involving the billionaire.
Microsoft Quarterly Earnings Show Slowest Growth in Five Years

The New York Times – Business:
The technology giant faced a strong U.S. dollar and weakening demand for personal computers in its latest financial results.
Spotify Wants to Get Into Audiobooks but Says Apple Is in the Way

The New York Times – Business:
Apple has rejected Spotify’s new app three times from its App Store. It is the latest in a series of confrontations between the two companies.
Why Am I Seeing That Political Ad? Check Your ‘Trump Resistance’ Score.

The New York Times – Business:
To help campaigns target ads, voter-profiling firms score millions of Americans on issues like guns, vaccines and QAnon.
Who Gets the Last Word on Steve Jobs? He Might.

The New York Times – Business:
When Laurene Powell Jobs unveiled a website dedicated to the story of her late husband, historians wondered if it could change how influential people burnish their legacies.
Twitter Tries Calming Employees as Deal With Elon Musk Looms

The New York Times – Business:
With Mr. Musk’s $44 billion deal to buy Twitter set to close no later than Oct. 28, the company is trying to reassure workers about their employment and compensation.
Do You Have Messy Handwriting? We Want to See It.

The New York Times – Fashion & Style:
Is your penmanship a mess? Can you often not read your own handwriting? Share something you wrote and later found hard to decipher.
A Coming-Out Party for Generative A.I., Silicon Valley’s New Craze

The New York Times – Business:
A celebration for Stability AI, the start-up behind the controversial Stable Diffusion image generator, represents the arrival of a new A.I. boom.
A.I.-Generated Art Is Already Transforming Creative Work

The New York Times – Business:
Only a few months old, apps like DALL-E 2, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion are changing how filmmakers, interior designers and other creative professionals do their jobs.