Tech Fix
A Traveler’s Guide to Taking a Smartphone Abroad
By BRIAN X. CHEN
There are two ways to take your phone overseas and get data — the frugal way, which requires a bit of tinkering, and the pay-full-price way.
Featured
In Silicon Valley, Gossip, Anger and Revenge
By DAVID STREITFELD and KATIE BENNER
Illustration by Andrew Sondern/The New York Times; Left to right: Money Sharma/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images; Stephanie Pilick/European Pressphoto Agency; Denis Balibouse/Reuters; Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
Valleywag’s posts about Peter Thiel raised his ire, and he financed a lawsuit against its parent, Gawker Media.
Stuart Goldenberg
The expensive quest to discover what millennials want misses two things: Each is an individual, and collectively they are much like other generations.
More News
Salesforce to Use Amazon’s Cloud to Expand in Canada and Australia
By QUENTIN HARDY
Salesforce, itself a cloud-computing company, will use Amazon Web Services to grow more rapidly in a deal valued at $400 million.
Mt. Gox Creditors Seek Trillions Where There Are Only Millions
By NATHANIEL POPPER
The $2.4 trillion in bankruptcy claims against the failed Bitcoin exchange are a far cry from the $91 million in assets that have been tracked down.
Artificial Intelligence Is Far From Matching Humans, Panel Says
By JOHN MARKOFF
At an event sponsored by the Office of Science and Technology Policy, experts explored questions about systems that would make decisions without human input.
Entrepreneurship
Drones Pique the Interest of Entrepreneurs
By AILI MCCONNON
Start-ups are offering services from news gathering and real estate photography to monitoring of farm fields. But the rules are still being written.
Just How Accurate Are Fitbits? The Jury Is Out
By MIKE McPHATE
Activity trackers that measure things like pulse rates are the subject of conflicting studies, including one cited in a lawsuit against Fitbit.
Bits
Twitter Gives the Long-Winded Some Breathing Room
By JIM KERSTETTER
A 140-character-per-post limit has long been a staple of the social media company. But in an effort to find new users, it’s loosening the restriction.
Talk
B.J. Novak Thinks Actors Are Bad at Playing Writers
Interview by ANA MARIE COX
The actor and app developer on democratizing writing, why Ethan Hawke is too hot to be a writer and avenging his ghostwriter father’s anonymity.
Europe Seeks Greater Control Over Digital Services
By MARK SCOTT
As part of efforts to create a digital single market for online services, the region wants to create rules that would affect companies like Netflix and Facebook.
Microsoft Cutting 1,850 Jobs in Smartphone Unit
By NICK WINGFIELD
As sales dwindle, most of the reduction will come in Finland, where the mobile business bought from Nokia originated.
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First Words: How ‘Everything’ Became the Highest Form of Praise
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A Hewlett-Packard Spinoff Is Preparing to Split Again
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Peter Thiel Is Said to Bankroll Hulk Hogan’s Suit Against Gawker
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Bulletin! The ‘Internet’ Is About to Get Smaller
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ELeague Adapts TV to the Gaming Sensibility
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Twitter to Ease Character Limit, Making Room for GIFs, Videos and More
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Automakers Befriend Start-Ups Like Uber, Girding Against a Changing Car Culture
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Bits: Facebook Controversy Is Still Trending
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‘X-Men: Apocalypse’ Takes Over Snapchat Lenses
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For Some Flight Attendants, Shtick Comes With the Safety Spiel
Personal Technology
Women From Venus, Men Still From Mars on Facebook, Study Finds
By CHRISTOPHER MELE
A study of 10 million Facebook posts found that American men more likely to swear, express anger and argue; women used kinder yet more assertive language.
App Smart
Give Your Smartphone a Kitchen Apron, Too
By KIT EATON
Cooking apps, like SideChef and Yummly, guide you through the cooking experience and give access to thousands of recipes.
Tech Tip
Reviving a Sluggish iPhone
By J. D. BIERSDORFER
Forcibly quitting open apps or refreshing the phone’s random access memory might help speed up the device’s performance
Tech Tip
Locating a Lost Windows Device
By J. D. BIERSDORFER
Like Apple and Google have done for their own gadgets, Microsoft has a way for users to track down missing Windows 10 hardware.
Tech Tip
Going Wide With Google Camera
By J. D. BIERSDORFER
Google’s own camera app for Android can do much more than just snap standard still photos.
Tech Tip
Sharing iTunes Store Purchases
By J. D. BIERSDORFER
Recent versions of Apple’s OS X and iOS operating system software offer an easy way to share music, videos and other items between family members.
App Smart
Artificial Intelligence Makes the Phone a Personal Assistant
By KIT EATON
Smartphone apps offer a hint of the possible uses for emerging artificial intelligence technology.
App Smart
The Smartphone Way to Inner Calm
By KIT EATON
Apps can help reduce daily stress through such means as guided meditation, journal writing and mood tracking.
Tech Fix
Why Windows 10 Upgrades Go Wrong, and How to Avoid It
By BRIAN X. CHEN
A majority of Windows users are still avoiding the move to Windows 10 because of upgrade headaches, but there are ways around them.
Tech Fix
Why Apple Pay and Other Mobile Wallets Beat Chip Cards
By BRIAN X. CHEN
To fight fraud, the retail industry has shifted away from traditional magnetic credit cards in favor of cards with embedded computer chips. They’re slow.
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