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G.M. Will Stop Developing Self-Driving Taxis

The company said it would now focus its efforts on developing fully autonomous vehicles for personal use.

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Biden Administration Sprints to Tie Up Tech Loose Ends

Regulators are working around the clock to cement four years of tech policy ahead of the inauguration of President-elect Donald J. Trump.

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How Crypto Insiders Turned ‘Debanking’ Into a Political Storm

Concerns that crypto companies are being purposely cut off from the global banking system have become a political cudgel at an opportune moment for the industry.

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Google Makes New Quantum Computing Breakthrough

Google unveiled an experimental machine capable of tasks that a traditional supercomputer could not master in 10 septillion years. (That’s older than the universe.)

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Ukraine Weighs Telegram Security Risks Amid War With Russia

The messaging app’s popularity has soared during the war with Russia, leading Ukrainian officials to increasingly weigh Telegram’s upsides against its security risks.

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Nvidia Faces Antitrust Investigation in China

The move by Chinese regulators came a week after the Biden administration expanded curbs on the sale of advanced U.S. technology to China.

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Apple Faces Lawsuit Over Child Sexual Abuse Material on iCloud

Victims of abuse are seeking more than $1.2 billion in damages, arguing that the company abandoned a 2021 system it developed to find abusive material.

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On These Apps, the Dark Promise of Mothers Sexually Abusing Children

Smartphone apps downloaded from Apple and Google can allow parents and other abusers to connect with pedophiles who pay to watch — and direct — criminal behavior.

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The Brave New World of A.I.-Powered Self-Harm Alerts

New technology alerts schools when students type words related to suicide. But do the timely interventions balance out the false alarms?

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Court Upholds Law Forcing a Ban or Sale of TikTok

The law will ban the video app in the United States by Jan. 19 if its owner, ByteDance, does not sell it to a non-Chinese company.

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