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No, Georgia’s governor cannot ‘overrule’ its secretary of state on voting.

The law prohibits the governor from interfering in elections. https://nyti.ms/3fUimPB

G.M. Scales Down Nikola Deal

A new agreement, supplying hydrogen fuel cell technology from General Motors, is less sweeping than the strategic partnership outlined in September. https://nyti.ms/2VhK0wz

Teaching in the Pandemic: ‘This Is Not Sustainable’

Teacher burnout could erode instructional quality, stymie working parents and hinder the reopening of the economy. https://nyti.ms/33tFHCA

Ransomware Attack Closes Baltimore County Public Schools

The attack, first discovered late Tuesday, disrupted the district’s websites and remote learning programs, as well as its grading and email systems, officials said. https://nyti.ms/2Jvodys

Guns, Drugs and Viral Content: Welcome to Cartel TikTok

Mexico is set to shatter another murder record, but that grim reality is nowhere to be seen on the TikTok videos that go viral by showcasing drug cartel culture. https://nyti.ms/3qbODqb

Leonard Kamsler, a Dissecting Golf Photographer, Dies at 85

He pioneered the use of strobe photography to break down a golfer’s swing. He was also innovative, even crafty, in documenting P.G.A. tournaments for decades. https://nyti.ms/39kmQ0s

Patients of a Vermont Hospital Are Left ‘in the Dark’ After a Cyberattack

A wave of damaging attacks on hospitals upended the lives of patients with cancer and other ailments. “I have no idea what to do,” one said. https://nyti.ms/3fBI5MB

Cho Joo-bin Gets 40 Years in South Korean Prison for Sexual Exploitation

Cho Joo-bin was convicted of blackmailing young women into making sexually explicit video clips that he sold online. https://nyti.ms/2JbVsqL

Amazon Produce Reviews: What Do They Mean?

Customers and sellers have relied on star ratings for decades, but the review system appears to have met its match: “Yellow Onion (Brands May Vary).” https://nyti.ms/3fxT7SS

The Reigning Queen of Pandemic Yoga

The YouTube celebrity Adriene Mishler made yoga accessible and search-optimized even before so many Americans were confined at home. Can she help us learn to live better lives in front of the computer? https://nyti.ms/3nPSAP2

No, Trump cannot win Georgia’s electoral votes through a write-in Senate campaign.

#WriteInTrumpForGA was one of Twitter’s top trending topics, though such a campaign might only hurt Republicans. https://nyti.ms/3fuFNPl

Imagine a World Without Apps

Video games are inching away from apps. Maybe every other industry can, too. https://nyti.ms/3l6iQ5X

When A.I. Falls in Love

The Times asked GPT-3 to tell us a little about itself and its romantic life. https://nyti.ms/364ccJz

Fact Check: No, Biden Did Not Have a Maskless Birthday Party

The video of a crowd singing happy birthday to the president-elect was from 2019. https://nyti.ms/2KBwstC

‘I Forget About the World:’ Afghan Youth Find Escape in a Video Game

The game’s cultlike following in Afghanistan inhabits a real-life version of its violent virtual reality. https://nyti.ms/3kWBo8M

Can an Algorithm Prevent Suicide?

The Department of Veterans Affairs has turned to machine-learning to help identify vets at risk of taking their own lives. https://nyti.ms/39bXcLp

Intel and Nvidia Chips Power a Chinese Surveillance System

Intel and Nvidia chips power a supercomputing center that tracks people in a place where government suppresses minorities, raising questions about the tech industry’s responsibility. https://nyti.ms/3733rP5

Hollywood’s ‘We’re Not in Kansas Anymore’ Moment

The announcement that “Wonder Woman 1984” will be released in theaters and on HBO Max on Christmas Day is the clearest sign that streaming is now central to the film industry’s business model. https://nyti.ms/3fmEfGO

52 Years Later, IBM Apologizes for Firing Transgender Woman

Lynn Conway was one of the company’s most promising young computer engineers but after confiding to supervisors that she was transgender, they fired her. https://nyti.ms/2UMwm3Y

Antibodies Good. Machine-Made Molecules Better?

With help from computer algorithms, researchers designed proteins from scratch that can trounce the coronavirus in lab animals. https://nyti.ms/2UNSCuw

When Sharks Turned Up at Their Beach, They Called in Drones

A goal of the SharkEye project is to one day produce automated “shark reports” for beachgoers to help them gauge levels of risk. https://nyti.ms/2UNPLBU

How Steve Bannon and a Chinese Billionaire Created a Right-Wing Coronavirus Media Sensation

Increasingly allied, the American far right and members of the Chinese diaspora tapped into social media to give a Hong Kong researcher a vast audience for peddling unsubstantiated pandemic claims. https://nyti.ms/2UHNLuM

Roblox, edging toward I.P.O., reveals surging revenue and losses.

The gaming site and app, which is popular with tweens, has benefited from the pandemic but continues to lose money. https://nyti.ms/3ftdmRX

Giuliani makes accusations of fraud that the Trump team has failed to support in court.

https://nyti.ms/3nFAmjn

How Sidney Powell inaccurately cited Venezuela’s elections as evidence of U.S. fraud.

Ms. Powell, a lawyer for President Trump, made the comments to promote viral conspiracy theories about vote switching. https://nyti.ms/35JdxVK

No, The Army Didn't Seize Server Showing Trump Election Landslide

A false rumor about Scytl, an election tech provider, is making the rounds on right-wing social media. https://nyti.ms/3kMaVe5

We Should Be Able to Use Apps Without Fear of Government Surveillance

We should be able to use a dating app without fear of winding up in a military database. https://nyti.ms/3pzLyjc

Apple Halves Its App Store Fee for the Smaller Companies

App makers bridled at the 30 percent commission, which has drawn scrutiny from regulators looking into antitrust claims. https://nyti.ms/2UAh5Do

No, the Georgia recount does not include reverifying signatures.

https://nyti.ms/3lGxrGl

Twitter’s chief, Jack Dorsey, is likely to face particular ire.

Twitter has been highly active in labeling election-related posts as disputed and misleading, including President Trump’s tweets. https://nyti.ms/35ErwfG

What to Expect in Senate Hearing With Zuckerberg and Dorsey

The executives, who have now testified several times in recent years, will most likely face some new questions about how they handled the election. https://nyti.ms/2IAjRGB

Trump has amplified voting falsehoods in over 300 tweets since election night.

The president has mischaracterized the ballot counting process, falsely claimed victory and lodged baseless accusations of fraud. https://nyti.ms/36X1pA7

A former right-wing media creator on how a ‘different reality’ became so prominent.

Matthew Sheffield grew disillusioned after years of working in conservative media. https://nyti.ms/3f2slC5

SpaceX’s ‘Resilience’ Lifts 4 Astronauts Into NASA's New Era of Spaceflight

The crew will spend some 27 hours in a capsule built by the private company before docking with the space station Monday night. https://nyti.ms/3kE936V

The Hot New Covid Tech Is Wearable and Constantly Tracks You

Sports leagues, large employers and colleges are turning to devices that could usher in more invasive forms of surveillance. https://nyti.ms/38LEUAv

SpaceX’s Next NASA Launch: When to Watch

Here’s what you need to know about four astronauts’ journey to the International Space Station on Sunday. https://nyti.ms/3kB3Tsq

A scheme to hand Trump electors in state legislatures is highly unlikely to happen.

https://nyti.ms/2UnEgRg

DoorDash Faces Its Latest Challenge: Wooing Wall Street

The food delivery app is losing money, battling rivals, facing lawsuits — and trying to go public. What could go wrong? https://nyti.ms/3lwcDkS

Covid Pushes Real Estate Into the Future

There’s no going back to the old ways. Which technologies could propel the industry forward? https://nyti.ms/2IBslx1

One America News spreads debunked elections claims.

President Trump has tweeted about some of the statements made on the conservative cable network. https://nyti.ms/38Duind

Republican distrust of news may be helping election misinformation spread.

Conservatives are increasingly relying on right-wing outlets and pundits with a history of spreading falsehoods, research has found. https://nyti.ms/2Iwddk2

New PlayStation and Xbox Arrive During a Pandemic Gold Rush

The video game industry has notched record spending and profit in 2020, but to sustain its growth, it must prepare to compete with the return of concerts, movie theaters and live sports. https://nyti.ms/2UibVfh

No, Dominion voting machines did not cause widespread voting problems.

Some Republicans said that software from the company caused widespread problems. Evidence shows that it did not. https://nyti.ms/38zhDBz

The Election’s Over, but Not the Stress. Any Edibles Left?

Sales surged as people turned to gummy bears, cookies and chocolates infused with cannabis to soothe their jitters. https://nyti.ms/32yf7rq

Election misinformation continues staying up on YouTube.

YouTube has said it will not take down videos that challenge the legitimacy of election results. https://nyti.ms/2IgUVUn

Apple Introduces New Macs With the First Apple-Made M1 Chips

Apple unveiled three new Mac computers that use processors the company created itself, ending its reliance on Intel. https://nyti.ms/3nbav2l

Hasan Piker Is Twitch's Top Streamer

The 29-year-old progressive political commentator has risen to the top of the platform after 80-plus hours of live election coverage. https://nyti.ms/36CQM5l

Biden Is Expected to Keep Scrutiny of Tech Front and Center

Issues like antitrust and privacy would remain on the agenda as his administration pursued policies to limit the power of the industry’s giants. https://nyti.ms/32valew

Top 10 Misinformation Storylines on Election Week

Many of the false and misleading accusations spiked online after President Trump and his allies shared the claims on social media. https://nyti.ms/3pgBgUX

The Digital Nomads Did Not Prepare for This

They moved to exotic locales to work through the pandemic in style. But now tax trouble, breakups and Covid guilt are setting in. https://nyti.ms/32oD2tq