CES 2019: It’s the Year of Virtual Assistants and 5G
A visual tour of the world’s most important tech conference offers a window into the year’s trends, including next-generation wireless networks and the invasion of A.I.
By Brian X. Chen
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A visual tour of the world’s most important tech conference offers a window into the year’s trends, including next-generation wireless networks and the invasion of A.I.
By Brian X. Chen
A.I. that responds to your voice. Next-generation wireless networks. If this year’s biggest consumer technology trends have a familiar ring, there’s a reason for that.
By Brian X. Chen
From Facebook to creepy online ads, the worst tech of the year made the internet feel like an unsafe place to hang out. Yet there were some products that were fixed, our personal tech critic writes.
By Brian X. Chen
Products that we enjoy continue to create privacy, misinformation and workplace issues. We can do better at getting the industry to do better.
By Brian X. Chen
Becoming an influencer is hard, as our columnist found out when he tried creative photography, consultations and even bots to propel his food-obsessed corgi to fame.
By Brian X. Chen
If the march of time is eroding your personal picture archive, give your beloved images new life.
By J. D. Biersdorfer
Holiday gatherings offer a great time to create a multimedia digital archive of interviews with your relatives so they can share their memories with the current — and future — branches of the tree.
By J. D. Biersdorfer
The classics can take you back in time — and are probably easier to recapture than you think.
By J. D. Biersdorfer
Showing all of the videos from your travels can be cumbersome. Instead, stitch them together into a short highlight reel.
By J. D. Biersdorfer
Not every shot on your smartphone will be Instagram worthy, but you can often salvage middling snaps with just a few taps. Here are six easy steps.
By J. D. Biersdorfer
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In his final State of the Art column, Farhad Manjoo reflects on the industry’s changes and presents a new guide for navigating the future of technology.
By Farhad Manjoo
Google Photos, introduced in 2015, has become one of the most emotionally resonant pieces of technology today. It is also shaping our narratives along the way.
By Farhad Manjoo
Outsiders have little leverage to force the industry to change. The companies’ own workers are another matter.
By Farhad Manjoo
Facebook has had a turbulent two years. But almost no one in tech thinks Mr. Zuckerberg, the social network’s chief executive, should step down from the company he built.
By Farhad Manjoo
The messaging app, which is owned by Facebook, has been slow to address false news on its service. The problem may be less the company or product, and more WhatsApp the idea.
By Farhad Manjoo
Li Yuan conducts much of her work on the WeChat mobile app, including spotting trends — and prodding sources to get back to her.
When news of natural disasters or man-made ones break in the U.S., Julie Bloom taps a variety of tools to communicate with reporters, edit stories and get them published.
By Julie Bloom
When the investigative journalist Matt Apuzzo moved from Washington to Brussels, he noticed that distrust had a different focus. And he adjusted some of his own tech tools.
By Matt Apuzzo
Jim Rutenberg reflects on the convergence of technology with media, and how that has changed his consumption habits and coverage. (Warning: iPhone addiction ahead.)
By Jim Rutenberg
Tech has brought innovation, convenience and smarts to the kitchen. Here’s what Melissa Clark uses and the tools she finds indispensable.
By Melissa Clark
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Rivendale Farms outside Pittsburgh is a laboratory for applying technology to smaller farms.
By Steve Lohr
Automakers are rolling out models meant to widen the appeal of electric cars. But making it easier and faster to charge them is a crucial challenge.
By Neal E. Boudette
Her divorce from the Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has made this novelist, and her private life, a public fascination.
By Jonah Engel Bromwich and Alexandra Alter
There’s nothing special about the egg. Seems like a fine enough egg. But more than 25 million people have liked it, dethroning Kylie Jenner’s birth-announcement post.
By Daniel Victor
The Chinese telecommunications giant said that the alleged actions of the employee, Wang Weijing, had nothing to do with the company.
By Raymond Zhong
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