The game, a phenomenon a decade ago, is shutting down on Thursday. But its legacy — for better and for worse — carries beyond gaming. https://nyti.ms/2JDKzi0
As Tesla completes a factory in Berlin, Mercedes-Benz and Audi are introducing electric cars in bids to defend their dominance of the luxury market. https://nyti.ms/3rHfVFn
The deal, valued at $300 million, is the latest in a string of acquisitions as streaming platforms expand beyond music and video. https://nyti.ms/2WWQBgB
An analysis of internal pay data at the San Francisco company Coinbase shows disparities that were much larger than those in the tech industry. https://nyti.ms/2Juh9Tn
A New Jersey man was accused of shoplifting and trying to hit an officer with a car. He is the third known Black man to be wrongfully arrested based on face recognition. https://nyti.ms/34SXDHM
For concerned customers, avoiding one of the world’s largest retailers and web service providers is proving harder than expected. https://nyti.ms/3rBNGrP
Fifty years on, the mathematician’s best known (and, to him, least favorite) creation confirms that “uncertainty is the only certainty.” https://nyti.ms/2M83imt
The country’s central bank made clear its displeasure with the financial technology company, adding to the growing scrutiny of Chinese internet giants. https://nyti.ms/2MeP83j
Jack Ma and other entrepreneurs prospered under Beijing’s laissez-faire attitude toward the business side of the internet. The dynamic is shifting as the companies have grown in power. https://nyti.ms/2WKUtBm
India’s film industry, which relied on theatrical releases, is experimenting with going straight to streaming services such as Amazon, Netflix and Disney’s Hotstar. https://nyti.ms/3hn8631
Beijing’s drive to free itself from reliance on imported semiconductors has lifted start-ups and big firms alike. Some have flamed out. But there has been progress. https://nyti.ms/34JrXEm
The Trump campaign had circulated the mother’s name while arguing there was widespread voter fraud that helped propel Joseph R. Biden Jr. to victory. https://nyti.ms/3piuD3N
The election, expected early next year, will be one of the few times that employees of the e-commerce giant have had an opportunity to decide whether to join a union. https://nyti.ms/37IhcEd
Ripple, the company behind the third most valuable digital token, is expecting to be sued by regulators as cryptocurrency values skyrocket. https://nyti.ms/37FkFU1
A phishing scam with unclear motive or payoff is targeting authors, agents and editors big and small, baffling the publishing industry. https://nyti.ms/2WHc1xX
Regulators are relying on insiders like Dina Srinivasan, who left her digital ad job after concluding that “Facebook and Google were going to win and everybody else is going to lose.” https://nyti.ms/2J6Yb4V
Nearly a decade of hype led to a troubled release riddled with glitches, a livid fan base, refunds for potentially millions of players and a possible class-action lawsuit. https://nyti.ms/2J5tL37
Thousands of internal directives and reports reveal how Chinese officials stage-managed what appeared online in the early days of the outbreak. https://nyti.ms/2LQi2Xc
The company said it would also offer refunds to gamers while the developer of the much-hyped title works to fix bugs and glitches. https://nyti.ms/3p26azA
Minutes after the government statement, President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. warned that his administration would impose “substantial costs” on those responsible. President Trump has been silent on the hacking. https://nyti.ms/3mzCPux
Election-related falsehoods have subsided, but misleading claims about the coronavirus vaccines are surging — often spread by the same people. https://nyti.ms/3oVxyPJ
Some of the industry’s critics are skeptical, however, about a new flexibility to changes to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. https://nyti.ms/34ey2si
As regulators seek ways to curb the company’s power, there is more focus on the vast index — hundreds of billion of web pages — behind its search engine. https://nyti.ms/3mfVyLF
The Silicon Valley company now plans to have employees return to the office in September. It will be different when they get there. https://nyti.ms/3oO92zV
Covid-19 health pass apps could help reopen businesses and restore the economy. They could also unfairly exclude people from travel and workplaces. https://nyti.ms/2W6SdEd
Jason Kilar’s decision to release 2021 movies simultaneously in theaters and on HBO Max has angered many in the industry, including some of the star filmmakers his company relies on. https://nyti.ms/3oZOuEX
After witnessing head-turning results for the initial public offerings by Airbnb and DoorDash, the gaming company said it would wait to test the market. https://nyti.ms/2LvgjX8
Texas has asked the Supreme Court to reverse the election results, but the case’s legal argument is flawed and its statistical assertion that Joe Biden had a minuscule chance to win is “comical,” experts said. https://nyti.ms/3n8GVv5
A day after handing its autonomous car project to a Silicon Valley start-up, Uber is ridding itself of another expensive operation. https://nyti.ms/37LJDAa