Verne Troyer, Mini-Me in Austin Powers Movies, Dies at 49 At 2 feet 8 inches, Mr. Troyer was a versatile actor who was widely recognizable from the movies he appeared in. Read More…

If You Love High TV Bills, This Is the Merger for You An antitrust challenge to AT&T’s merger with Time Warner is the last chance to stop pay-television bills from getting any higher. Read More…

The Expensive Education of Mark Zuckerberg and Silicon Valley They have weaponized social media, and we are all paying the price. Read More…

When Is a Child Instagram-Ready? I waited to draw up a social media contract for my 9-year-old until I could see where the trouble spots were. I found them fast. Read More…

These Robots Run, Dance and Flip. But Are They a Business? Boston Dynamics often makes a splash with videos of its anthropomorphic robots. But after years of work, it is not clear who would buy them or what they would be used for. Read More…

Larsen Thompson, the Dancer From Sia’s ‘The Greatest’ Video, Wants to Be a Pop Star The teenage dancer, model and singer from Thousand Oaks, Calif., is also acting in her first movie. Read More…

Meechy Monroe, a YouTube Star for Her Natural Hair Lessons, Dies at 32 Ms. Monroe achieved online fame with style tutorials that empowered black women to forgo harsh chemicals and embrace the natural hair movement. Read More…

Here Come the Fake Videos, Too Artificial intelligence video tools make it relatively easy to put one person’s face on another person’s body with few traces of manipulation. I tried it on myself. What could go wrong? Read More…

Some Said They’d Flee Trump’s America. These People Actually Did. Like modern-day von Trapps, minus the singing, families are climbing mountains and fording streams with nothing but backpacks and a Wi-Fi connection. Read More…