Technology

Have Big Tech companies gotten too big? And should they do more to police misinformation online?

Lawyers for video-sharing app TikTok are preparing a lawsuit that challenges President Trump's executive order banning the hugely popular service from the U.S.

President Donald Trump has ordered an unspecified ban on “transactions” with the Chinese owners of the consumer apps TikTok and WeChat.

The post in question featured a link to a Fox News video in which Trump says children are “virtually immune” to the virus.

A lawsuit alleging that TikTok collects and sends American users' data to China could cost the company hundreds of millions of dollars.

The president’s announcement comes as Microsoft is in talks to acquire the app, which is owned by ByteDance, a Chinese company.

Democratic Rhode Island Rep. David Cicilline said Amazon, Facebook, Google and Apple operate like monopolies and need to be broken up or regulated.

Experts say the flood of bad information is dangerously undermining efforts to slow the virus, which has been blamed for about 150,000 deaths in the U.S.

Some say the city and corporate players need to display more urgency.

Twitter confirmed the restriction in a subsequent tweet, emphasizing the action was a temporary limit on some of his account's features and not a permanent suspension.

Several Philly area universities are planning virtual classes while still inviting students back to campus. A Penn prof says schools can't justify that hybrid approach.

Photographs of Philadelphia’s Delaware River waterfront reveal the intertwined fates of nature, industry and culture.

Ahead of Election Day, President Donald Trump and his Democratic rival Joe Biden aren't just attacking one another in online ads. They're also targeting tech giants.

Technology isn’t just changing our world — it’s changing the words we use to describe it. Language is evolving at breakneck speed, ...

Definitely maybe, research suggests. What doesn’t help: conjugation, and odd bits of practice conversation no one ever uses.