On Newest iPhone, Another Camera

Seeking to fend off intensifying competition from Google and others in the smartphone business, Apple introduced a new version of the iPhone on Monday that includes a front-facing camera for video chats. The iPhone 4 is faster and thinner than previous models, with a crisper display and a more angular look. It has a 5-megapixel [...]

Chinese Supercomputer Is Ranked World’s Second-Fastest, Challenging U.S. Dominance

A Chinese supercomputer has been ranked as the world’s second-fastest machine, surpassing European and Japanese systems and underscoring China’s aggressive commitment to science and technology. The Dawning Nebulae, based at the National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen, China, has achieved a sustained computing speed of 1.27 petaflops — the equivalent of one thousand trillion mathematical operations [...]

Facebook Bows to Pressure Over Privacy

Ever since Facebook was founded in 2004, Mark Zuckerberg, its chief executive, has pushed its users to share more information about themselves. Time and again, users have pushed back, complaining that some new feature or setting on the site violated their privacy. But the reaction has rarely been as strong as in the last few [...]

Apple Passes Microsoft as No. 1 in Tech

Wall Street has called the end of an era and the beginning of the next one: The most important technology product no longer sits on your desk but rather fits in your hand. The moment came Wednesday when Apple, the maker of iPods, iPhones and iPads, shot past Microsoft, the computer software giant, to become [...]

BP Prepares for ‘Top Kill’ Procedure

BP was poised Wednesday morning to decide whether to move ahead with its most ambitious — and potentially most consequential — effort to plug the mile-deep gusher of oil that has been streaming into the Gulf of Mexico for more than a month. The procedure, known as a top kill, would pump thousands of pounds [...]

Tracking the Ancestry of Corn Back 9,000 Years

It is now growing season across the Corn Belt of the United States. Seeds that have just been sown will, with the right mixture of sunshine and rain, be knee-high plants by the Fourth of July and tall stalks with ears ripe for picking by late August. Corn is much more than great summer picnic [...]

Could a Sand Barrier Do the Trick?

In a Saturday article, The New York Times examined a plan by Louisiana officials to build 80 miles of sand berms along the state’s southeast coast in a last-ditch effort to keep oil from the Deepwater Horizon blowout from infiltrating the state’s fragile wetlands and estuaries. For almost two weeks, Gov. Bobby Jindal has urged [...]

Sex Ads Seen Adding Revenue to Craigslist

Craigslist, one of the most popular Web sites in the United States, is on track to increase its revenue 22 percent this year, largely from its controversial sex advertisements. That financial success is reviving scrutiny from law-enforcement officials who say the ads are still being used for illegal ends. The ads, many of which blatantly [...]

For Apple, Lost iPhone Is a Big Deal

For anyone who has ever lost a cellphone, remember this: it could be worse. You could be the person who left his phone in a bar in California. And it wasn’t just any phone; it was a supersecret version of the next iPhone. That model is not expected to be formally unveiled for a couple [...]

U.S. Leads New Bid to Phase Out Whale Hunting

The United States is leading an effort by a handful of antiwhaling nations to broker an agreement that would limit and ultimately end whale hunting by Japan, Norway and Iceland, according to people involved with the negotiations. The compromise deal, which has generated intense controversy within the 88-nation International Whaling Commission and among antiwhaling activists, [...]

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