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Can Fake Accounts Save the Internet?

Reconsidering pseudonymity and what it means to “be yourself” online. https://nyti.ms/3C00Aox

Bezos' Blue Origin Loses Challenge to NASA SpaceX Lunar Lander Contract

The Government Accountability Office said a $2.9 billion award to SpaceX to build the next lunar lander for astronauts would stand. https://nyti.ms/3fe0EaF

These Clubhouse Hosts Are Keeping the Party Alive

Sriram Krishnan and Aarthi Ramamurthy of “The Good Time Show” have booked Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Virgil Abloh. https://nyti.ms/3y9K17r

Amazon’s quarterly profit jumps to $7.8 billion.

Even as businesses have reopened, many people continue to do their shopping online, and much of that business continues to go Amazon’s way. https://nyti.ms/3lbDAgl

Robinhood I.P.O.: Shares Fall After Opening at $38

The stock opened at $38, the same as its I.P.O. price, and then declined. It was a sign of investor hesitancy over a company that has attracted regulatory scrutiny. https://nyti.ms/3zNttm7

Nikola Founder Trevor Milton Charged With Securities Fraud

Federal prosecutors charged Mr. Milton with misleading investors about the technology for battery- and hydrogen-powered vehicles Nikola had hoped to manufacture. https://nyti.ms/3BS9qVn

Strippers Find Community on TikTok

Strippers share the hazards and joys of their work on social media. https://nyti.ms/3BQuwUf

Is Robinhood’s Disruption a Good Thing?

The stock trading app goes public this week. Here’s why the company has gotten so much attention. https://nyti.ms/3ynIH0E

Take Control of Your Home Screen

Folders, quick-action menus, widgets and a little basic icon organization can make navigating your smartphone a smoother experience. https://nyti.ms/3f5hBE9

Microsoft Earnings: Q4 Was Most Profitable Quarter

Profits rose 47 percent to $16.5 billion, surpassing expectations. https://nyti.ms/37k8MSN

An Obsession With Secrets

Tech companies throw around nondisclosure agreements like confetti, but they can hurt the rest of us. https://nyti.ms/3y8sXih

Groceries in 10 Minutes: Delivery Start-Ups Crowd City Streets Across Globe

Venture capital’s newest darling is the online rapid grocery delivery industry. Getir, a six-year-old Turkish company, is trying to outpace its new competitors in a worldwide expansion. https://nyti.ms/3l30jLQ

50 Years Ago, NASA Put a Car on the Moon

The lunar rovers of Apollo 15, 16 and 17 parked American automotive culture on the lunar surface, and expanded the scientific range of the missions’ astronaut explorers. https://nyti.ms/3i6Cb8V

Tu celular te espía, ¿seguirás permitiéndolo?

La dimisión de un jerarca católico muestra las consecuencias en el mundo real de las prácticas de las industrias estadounidenses en materia de recolección de datos. https://nyti.ms/3BKThkL

As Cyberattacks Surge, Security Start-Ups Reap the Rewards

Investors have poured $12.2 billion into cybersecurity companies so far this year, nearly $2 billion more than the total for all of 2020. https://nyti.ms/2VapJfp

Facebook’s Next Target: The Religious Experience

The company is intensifying formal partnerships with faith groups across the United States and shaping the future of religious experience. https://nyti.ms/3zxUcTx

FTX, Cryptocurrency Leader, Moves to Curb High Risk Trades

The move would reduce the size of the bets that investors can make by lowering the amount of leverage it offers to 20 times from 101 times. https://nyti.ms/2Wj34ya

Disinformation for Hire, a Shadow Industry, Is Quietly Booming

Back-alley firms meddle in elections and promote falsehoods on behalf of clients who can claim deniability, escalating our era of unreality. https://nyti.ms/3zyaADt

The F.T.C. asks for an extension to refile its Facebook antitrust suit.

The F.T.C. said in its request that it had reached an agreement with Facebook over the proposed extension. https://nyti.ms/3zxwY00

Delays, More Masks and Mandatory Shots: Virus Surge Disrupts Office-Return Plans

A wave of the contagious Delta variant is causing companies to reconsider when they will require employees to return, and what health requirements should be in place when they do. https://nyti.ms/2V8GffM

We Need a New Term for Video Games

We’re seeing a ton of new games, and many of them blur the lines between video games and other types of activities. https://nyti.ms/3y3qdT1

Silicon Valley’s Best Pandemic Ever

As the world reeled, tech titans supplied the tools that made life and work possible. Now the companies are awash in money — and questions about what it means to win amid so much loss. https://nyti.ms/3iCZXbW

A.I. Predicts the Shapes of Molecules to Come

DeepMind has given 3-D structure to 350,000 proteins, including every one made by humans, promising a boon for medicine and drug design. https://nyti.ms/3kHYPGn

Amazon Ends Use of Arbitration for Customer Disputes

Anyone using the technology giant’s products will pursue disputes in federal court, a significant retreat from a strategy that often helps companies avoid liability. https://nyti.ms/3kHf2f6

Activision Blizzard Is Sued by California Over Workplace Culture

The lawsuit says women at the gaming company were paid less and discriminated against, and it described a culture of sexual harassment. https://nyti.ms/3rqTDIv

Robinhood’s Guinea Pig for Upending Public Offerings: Itself

The stock trading app is opening its initial public offering and investor presentations to everyday investors. The risks are significant. https://nyti.ms/2W844VJ

China Breached Dozens of Pipeline Companies in Past Decade, U.S. Says

The disclosure about the breadth of state-sponsored cyberattacks was part of a warning to pipeline owners to increase the security of their systems to stave off future intrusions. https://nyti.ms/3iuFoyi

Netflix Earnings Q2 2021

New data shows Netflix, long the king of streaming, is losing attention as subscribers shift to competitors like Disney+ and Amazon Prime Video. https://nyti.ms/3wQnMBX

Can A.I. Grade Your Next Test?

Neural networks could give online education a boost by providing automated feedback to students. https://nyti.ms/3zlf0xl

White House Dispute Exposes Facebook Blind Spot on Misinformation

The company doesn’t know some specifics about how falsehoods about Covid-19 and vaccines for the virus spread on its social network. https://nyti.ms/3exhReD

Reading the Zoom Tea Leaves

Companies are starting to make big bets on how we’ll all behave after the pandemic ends. https://nyti.ms/2VYJB5H

Job-Hunters, Have You Posted Your Résumé on TikTok?

Feeling limited by LinkedIn, some Gen Z-ers are now applying for jobs using TikTok résumés. Employers are paying attention. https://nyti.ms/3xSkFe3

The Failure of China’s Microchip Giant Tests Beijing’s Tech Ambitions

Tsinghua Unigroup, a would-be microchip champion, is facing bankruptcy, a setback in China’s quest for semiconductor self-reliance. https://nyti.ms/3z91AVe

Smartphone Directions May Put Novice Hikers in Danger, Experts Say

From New Hampshire to Scotland, services like Google Maps can direct ill-prepared hikers onto trails that would challenge even the most experienced climbers, mountaineers said. https://nyti.ms/2ThAtIg

Facebook To Biden: 'We Aren't The Reason Vaccination Goal Was Missed'

The social network and the Biden administration have engaged in an increasingly rancorous war of words over the issue of vaccine misinformation. https://nyti.ms/3rgJJJr

Facebook Tells Biden: ‘Facebook Is Not the Reason’ Vaccination Goal Was Missed

The social network hit back at the president’s criticism of social media for spreading vaccine misinformation. https://nyti.ms/36GRFKv

It’s Hard to Search for a Therapist of Color. These Websites Want to Change That.

A number of new organizations aim to digitally connect patients with mental health providers who value and understand different cultures. https://nyti.ms/3BdxNwD

What Ever Happened to IBM’s Watson?

IBM’s artificial intelligence was supposed to transform industries and generate riches for the company. Neither has panned out. Now, IBM has settled on a humbler vision for Watson. https://nyti.ms/36HCe4O

‘Welcome to the Mesh, Brother’: Guerrilla Wi-Fi Comes to New York

NYC Mesh, a band of a few dozen tech volunteers, takes on Verizon and the big “incumbent providers,” with the promise of inexpensive community internet. https://nyti.ms/3epIe6a

Tech Workers Swore Off the Bay Area. Now They’re Coming Back.

Critics said the pandemic would make the industry flee San Francisco and its southern neighbor, Silicon Valley. But tech can’t seem to quit its gravitational center. https://nyti.ms/3ei5wer

Here's a Look Inside Facebook's Data Wars

Executives at the social network have clashed over CrowdTangle, a Facebook-owned data tool that revealed users’ high engagement levels with right-wing media sources. https://nyti.ms/2VIWqAZ

How These Vocal Anti Covid Vaccine Chiropractors Have Split the Profession

The conflict among chiropractors has become more consequential as the Delta variant of the coronavirus spreads and the rate of new vaccinations slows. https://nyti.ms/3z1XY7h

Inside Facebook’s Data Wars

Executives at the social network have clashed over CrowdTangle, a Facebook-owned data tool that revealed users’ high engagement levels with right-wing media sources. https://nyti.ms/3kuUIxB

Online Security Questions Are Not Very Effective. I Still Love Them.

A celebration of the sudden, strange personal inquiries that guard our entrance into some of the internet’s most impersonal zones. https://nyti.ms/3AWFnvk

Biden Warns Putin to Act Against Russian Ransomware Group

Mr. Biden’s phone call appeared to be a pointed ultimatum to stop the hackers, who have attacked computer networks in the United States with relative impunity. https://nyti.ms/3kgmf5q

Super Mario 64 Video Game Sells for $1.56 Million

The sale, to an anonymous bidder, set a record just two days after a copy of The Legend of Zelda sold for $870,000, according to Heritage Auctions. https://nyti.ms/3rau51Z

Trump Lawsuits Against Facebook, YouTube and Twitter Face First Amendment Hurdles

A unanimous 1974 Supreme Court decision said newspapers could not be forced to publish replies from politicians they had criticized. https://nyti.ms/2TW1Gkk

Biden Weighs a Response to Ransomware Attacks

The president summoned his top cybersecurity advisers to consider immediate action to disrupt Russian incursions. https://nyti.ms/3kaHVjr

Facebook Wants to Court Creators. It Could Be a Tough Sell.

The social network is aiming to be a destination for creators and their viral memes. But TikTok and YouTube got there first. https://nyti.ms/3r0tU9y

More Power Lines or Rooftop Solar Panels: The Fight Over Energy’s Future

The president and energy companies want new transmission lines to carry electricity from large solar and wind farms. Some environmentalists and homeowners are pushing for smaller, more local systems. https://nyti.ms/3e8x3ib