Matt Richtel The New York Times

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  Google Says It's Not the Driverless Car's Fault; It's Other Drivers'

  Researchers say that one of the biggest challenges facing automated cars is blending them into a world in which humans don't behave by the book.

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  A Law Enforcement Surveillance Tool That Tracks Phones? Shhh! It's Secret

  Any disclosure about the technology, could allow criminals and terrorists to circumvent it, the FBI has said in an affidavit.

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  For Tech Titans, Sharing Has Its Limits

  NDAs are being required of anyone associated with the homes of a small but growing number of tech executives.

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  Distracted Driving and the Risks of Ride-Hailing Services Like Uber

  Drivers for Uber and competitors to make money must respond nearly instantly to their smartphones.

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  Tim Cook, Making Apple His Own

  Cook appears to be interested in the smartwatch's broader implications, a wearable expected to be released in the fourth quarter.

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  Intimacy on the Web, with a crowd

  With piracy fast-eroding the pornography industry's profits, 'live cams' have become a lucrative alternative that's also safer for the models.

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  Voice activated technology is called safety risk for drivers

  Voice activated systems let drivers use voice commands to dictate a text, send an email and even update a Facebook page.

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  I was discovered by an algorithm

  Growing numbers of academics and entrepreneurs are applying Big Data to human resources and the search for talent, creating a field called workforce science.

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  High-tech sports goggles: Vital data, or too much info?

  The goggles made by Oakley, have a display in the lens that shows changing speed and altitude, and can display incoming text messages.

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  In search engine results, a peek at what we wonder

  There are the questions you ask friends, family and close confidants. And then there are the questions you ask the Internet.

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  Silicon Valley worries about addiction to devices

  In a place where technology is seen as an all-powerful answer, it is increasingly being seen as too powerful, even addictive.

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  Hewlett took PR firm's advice in CEO case

  As the career of Hewlett-Packard's chief executive Mark V. Hurd hung in the balance, a public relations specialist convinced the company's directors that HP would endure months of humiliation if accusations of sexual harassment by a company contractor against Mr....

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  Growing up digital, wired for distraction

  On the eve of a pivotal academic year in Vishal Singh's life, he faces a stark choice on his bedroom desk: Book or computer?By all rights, Vishal, a bright 17-year-old, should already have finished the book, Kurt Vonnegut's "Cat's Cradle,"...

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  E-mail gets an instant makeover

  Signs you're an old fogey: You still watch movies on a VCR, listen to vinyl records and shoot photos on film. And you enjoy using e-mail.Young people, of course, much prefer online chats and text messages. These have been on...

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  E-mail's big demographic divide

  In an article in Tuesday's Times, I wrote about the changing status of e-mail. Once it was cool to merely have an e-mail account (or several), but many young people now think of it as old school, and much prefer...