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Learning to Live With Mark Zuckerberg

Journalists and tech executives seem to be fighting each other to a draw in a battle that has no end in sight. https://nyti.ms/3EvHqHJ

Roblox Goes Down, Forcing Children Outside for Halloween

The popular gaming site said Sunday that it was working to resolve the outage. In the meantime, children were freaking out. https://nyti.ms/3w0nw4G

How Venture Capitalists Think Cryptocurrency Will Reshape Commerce

From banking to gaming, investors are sending billions of dollars to crypto inventors who seek to disrupt industries. Here’s a look at some of those bets. https://nyti.ms/3pRbE3J

Is Carbon Capture Here?

A Swiss company is operating a device in Iceland that sucks CO2 from the air and shoots it into the ground, where it turns into rock. https://nyti.ms/3nJq1o9

Mark Zuckerberg's Meta Jokes: Sweet Baby Ray's BBQ Sauce and Sunscreen

For those watching closely, his 80-minute video announcing Facebook’s rebrand delivered some self-referential jokes. https://nyti.ms/2ZJl2fg

Apple’s Most Back-Ordered New Product Is Not What You Expect

It’s a $19 cloth. https://nyti.ms/3EJ6j2X

How a Mistake by YouTube Shows Its Power Over Media

Novara, a London news group, fell victim to YouTube’s opaque and sometimes arbitrary enforcement of its rules. https://nyti.ms/3nDJ8Qx

Facebook Changes Corporate Name to Meta

The social network, under fire for spreading misinformation and other issues, said the change was part of its bet on a next digital frontier called the metaverse. https://nyti.ms/3pQGLN6

Clearview AI Finally Takes Part in a Federal Accuracy Test

Thousands of local and state police departments are customers for Clearview’s facial recognition tool, the company says. https://nyti.ms/3pV07AJ

Amazon Sales Growth Slows and Costs Rise

The company’s profit was lower, largely because of higher labor costs and huge investments in its delivery network. https://nyti.ms/3bo0wmD

Google and Facebook’s Ad Empires

The tech giants talk a lot about the “metaverse” and cloud computing. What really powers them is selling us socks. https://nyti.ms/3jJZJkq

Senate Panel OKs Jonathan Kanter to Lead Justice Dept. Antitrust Unit

If confirmed by the full Senate, Jonathan Kanter will join other critics of Silicon Valley in top antitrust positions. https://nyti.ms/31fWdIp

Old Power Gear Is Slowing Use of Clean Energy and Electric Cars

Some people and businesses seeking to use solar panels, batteries and electric vehicles find they can’t because utility equipment needs an upgrade. https://nyti.ms/3GA4jvE

Facebook Tells Employees to Keep Communications for Legal Reasons

The move follows intense scrutiny after a whistle-blower provided documents about the social network’s inner workings. https://nyti.ms/3jMUnov

Elizabeth Holmes Trial: Key Takeaways From Week 9

A major investor testifies. https://nyti.ms/3pIjLzH

Google's Profit and Revenue Soared in the Third Quarter

The results easily topped analysts’ forecasts. https://nyti.ms/3mhMxFg

YouTube, Snap and TikTok executives take their turn answering to Washington.

Lawmakers pressed the executives on the mounting concerns that their services harm children and teenagers. https://nyti.ms/3EnEuwU

Frances Haugen, Facebook Whistle-Blower, Testifies to Parliament

Beginning a European tour in Britain, the former Facebook manager was questioned by policymakers drafting tougher tech regulations. https://nyti.ms/2XQ8Yb4

Netflix Eyes New Jersey Army Base for Major Production Hub

The streaming service said it would bid for a nearly 300-acre chunk of Fort Monmouth and it has the support of Gov. Phil Murphy. https://nyti.ms/3Bx3JLr

Key Takeaways From the Facebook Papers and Their Fallout

A look at a month of scrutiny and struggles for the social-networking giant. https://nyti.ms/3pR3bxo

Facebook Clamps Down on Its Internal Message Boards

The social network, which has been under increased scrutiny after a former product manager turned into a whistle-blower, is trying to prevent leaks. https://nyti.ms/30tKkhD

Father of Killed Reporter Asks Regulators to Investigate Facebook

Andy Parker, the father of a journalist killed in 2015, filed a complaint with the F.T.C. urging it to increase regulation on the tech giant, saying it failed to remove videos of his daughter’s killing. https://nyti.ms/3p5REKB

William Shatner's Star Trek Moment With Jeff Bezos

After the Blue Origin crew set down, science fiction met reality. https://nyti.ms/3DGc0Oi

New Digital Companies, Old Ad Habits

Why are DoorDash and Instacart letting businesses buy their way to the top of search results? https://nyti.ms/3aysnQr

A Service for People Dating in New York City

Hot Singles, a weekly email newsletter, evokes nostalgia for a simpler approach to finding romance, before dating apps were ubiquitous. https://nyti.ms/3v86t06

Spending Is Big Tech’s Superpower

When the tech giants splurge on big-ticket investments, it’s great for them but hard for others to keep up. https://nyti.ms/3ax4zMZ

Inside the Courtroom With Theranos’s Elizabeth Holmes

Behind the closed doors are whispers, gestures and a daily rhythm, plus two court artists, numbered tickets and some true-crime fans. https://nyti.ms/3BFzoLe

As Big Tech Grows in the Pandemic, Seattle Grows With It

Despite an overall decline in office leasing in the United States, technology companies gobbled up more space in the Seattle area than they had the previous year. https://nyti.ms/3mSiKSJ

Lifestyles of the Rich and Gullible: Theranos and Ozy Edition

Average investors were not able to get in on the last decade’s start-up boom in private markets. Once that seemed unfair. Now it looks lucky. https://nyti.ms/3FJlScb

Facebook Whistleblower Fallout Prompts a Push to Calm Employees

Employees are divided over Frances Haugen, a former product manager who testified that the company was putting profit before safety. https://nyti.ms/3FIODpm

Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp Go Down Again for Some Users

All of Facebook’s main products — Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger and the “big blue app” of Facebook — were inaccessible to at least some users around 3 p.m. Eastern time. https://nyti.ms/3myMcNn

China Fines Meituan $530 Million in Second Tech Antitrust Case

The $530 million fine is Beijing’s second major penalty this year against an internet company accused of monopolistic practices. https://nyti.ms/309oiQY

Google Stops Serving Ads on Climate Change Misinformation

“We’ve heard directly from a growing number of our advertising and publisher partners who have expressed concerns about ads that run alongside or promote inaccurate claims about climate change,” the company said. https://nyti.ms/3BlZJy0

We’re Smarter About Facebook Now

With each Facebook crisis, we become savvier about the influence of tech companies on our lives. https://nyti.ms/2YxUYD2

Elizabeth Holmes Trial: Key Takeaways From Week 5

Jurors’ eyes glazed over at detailed technical discussions as Theranos’s former lab director described repeated instances of irregular and inaccurate results. https://nyti.ms/2YosCuS

How to Fix Facebook

This is a pivotal moment in Facebook’s history. Here are suggestions for how to improve the company. https://nyti.ms/2YmHv0z

Robert Schiffmann, Inventive Guru of the Microwave, Dies at 86

As a scientist he saw the potential of microwave ovens when he observed one heating up a sandwich in the 1960s. Microwaveable oatmeal, among other advances, was in his future. https://nyti.ms/3BisUSh

Facebook Hearing Bolsters Calls for Regulation in Europe

One proposal would require Facebook and other tech platforms to disclose details to regulators and researchers about their services, algorithms and content moderation practices. https://nyti.ms/3mwZN7I

Biden's Pick for Top Antitrust Official Was a Star Corporate Lawyer

How Jonathan Kanter, the Biden administration’s choice to be the Justice Department’s antitrust chief, became a progressive foe of Big Tech. https://nyti.ms/2YsksBK

Facebook Outage Caused by a Cascade of Errors, It Says

For more than five hours, the company’s family of apps, including Instagram and WhatsApp, were unavailable to the billions who use them. https://nyti.ms/3mrPsKh

YouTube’s Ban on Misinformation

And why it isn’t about us. https://nyti.ms/2YkhLT3

Where are Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg During Facebook Hearing?

Mr. Zuckerberg and Ms. Sandberg are deliberately avoiding public comment on the leaked documents. https://nyti.ms/3Bhvacw

How to Watch the Facebook Senate Whistle-Blower Hearing

Frances Haugen, a former product manager for Facebook, will argue to protect consumers from a profits-over-safety culture. https://nyti.ms/3iAgWwe

Facebook’s Apps Went Down. The World Saw How Much It Runs on Them.

The outage disrupted the digital lives of small-business owners, politicians, aid workers and others. But for some, it was a welcome reprieve. https://nyti.ms/3DcvGsT

Users Turn to Twitter After Facebook Outage

Twitter appeared to embrace its moment in the spotlight. https://nyti.ms/2WEHHYw

Facebook urges court to dismiss latest F.T.C. antitrust suit.

“This court gave the agency a second chance to make a valid claim,” Facebook said in its filing. “But the same deficiency that was fatal to the F.T.C.’s initial complaint remains.” https://nyti.ms/3l9CnpG

A Nobel Prize for Stephen Hawking That Might Have Been

A recent study of black holes confirmed a fundamental prediction that the theoretical physicist made nearly five decades ago. But the ultimate award is beyond his reach. https://nyti.ms/3B5kSMF

Facebook, Instagram Go Down Simultaneously

Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger all showed outage on Monday, according to the website downdetector.com. https://nyti.ms/2YnI8aA

Facebook Is Weaker Than We Knew

A trove of leaked documents, published by The Wall Street Journal, hints at a company whose best days are behind it. https://nyti.ms/3Fg9tw0

Whistle-Blower Says Facebook ‘Chooses Profits Over Safety’

Frances Haugen, a Facebook product manager who left the company in May, revealed that she had provided internal documents to journalists and others. https://nyti.ms/3a7FEza