The Worst Job in Technology: Staring at Human Depravity to Keep It …

Deciding what does and doesn’t belong online is one of the fastest-growing jobs in the technology world—and perhaps the most grueling. The equivalent of 65 years of video are uploaded to YouTube each day. Facebook receives more than a million user reports of potentially objectionable content a day.

It’s been a weird year. In 2017, technology spread its tentacles into our lives in ways we couldn’t have imagined—see the Equifax hack, Russia’s manipulation of Facebook, and Amazon’s purchase of everyone’s favorite overpriced supermarket. In 2018, expect the invasion to get even weirder—and more …

Technology stocks “have had a substantial correction before this, so you should be looking for a technical rebound anywhere from here,” Hao Hong, chief strategist at Bocom International Holding Co. in Hong Kong said by phone. “Tech is a long-term opportunity, you shouldn’t measure the performance in …

Apple, Google, Microsoft and other tech giants have transformed the way billions of us communicate, shop, socialize and work. Now, as consumers, medical centers and insurers increasingly embrace health-tracking apps, tech companies want a bigger share of the more than $3 trillion spent annually on …

The much-hyped technology behind Bitcoin, known as blockchain, has intoxicated investors around the world and is now making tentative inroads into science, spurred by broad promises that it can transform key elements of the research enterprise. Supporters say that it could enhance reproducibility and …

Chinese tech companies have long taken their cues from Silicon Valley, hence the Chinese equivalents to Google, YouTube, Twitter and Uber. This past year brought a reckoning for some Silicon Valley icons. Uber Technologies Inc. had to do some soul-searching about its workplace culture that allegedly …

… technological advances, from artificial intelligence to robotics, but you can find no sign of it in wages or productivity. Apocalyptic warnings of jobs destroyed by automation look increasingly ludicrous amid a record streak of employment growth. In the past year I’ve dug into this in columns and articles and …

Ms. Perdomo is among the entrepreneurs whose vision for an alternative route to internet access is finding takers in Silicon Valley, where tech types were rattled by a recent government decision to overturn rules that required big internet providers to treat all traffic equally. “Society requires connectivity to …

Demand for the technology, best known for supporting bitcoin, is growing so much that it will be one of the largest users of capacity next year at about 60 data centers that International Business Machines Corp. rents out to other companies around the globe. IBM was one of the first big companies to see …

Samuel Farrugia, a 12-year-old boy, who cannot see and who moved and inspired everyone who met him, has written his first book. Samuel, who likes dinosaurs, wrote a magical story called ‘Samuel and the magic tooth.’ Interviewed on Indepth by The Malta Independent Editor-in-Chief Rachel Attard, …