Technology
Uncovering and explaining how our digital world is changing — and changing us.
Hinge has tried its darnedest to fix online dating. Is the real problem us?
Ravenous, carnivorous, and totally yoked: How men in tech have evolved.
The case against pets, what Oppenheimer got wrong, and the magic of meditation.
Bradley Cooper’s turn as Leonard Bernstein in Maestro is just the latest role to stoke conversations about what Jewish representation means in Hollywood.
Finally, a way for your phone to know even more about your personal life.
Getting AI to improve mental health outcomes is not as simple as firing up ChatGPT.
How the new Chinese shopping site came from seemingly nowhere and is changing the way we shop.
Starbucks’s messy December, explained.
President Biden’s executive order on artificial intelligence was criticized by many for overreaching, but the danger from uncontrolled AI progress is real.
A YouTuber’s deep dive on plagiarism tries to make viewers care when creators steal content.
The quantum computing industry has a road map to the future — but can it reach its destination?
A warning about the NameDrop feature on iOS 17 is just the latest in a long history of misleading Facebook posts from law enforcement.
Grace argues AI researchers should slow down. They’re starting to agree with her.
A reliable quantum computer system could unleash truly amazing technological progress, as long as the engineers can get it to work.
The co-founders and co-CEOs of the Institute for Progress want to kick-start America’s innovation engine.
The technologist and author is providing a guide to a world changing at an exponential rate
Donti is showing how machine learning can be a powerful ally to address the climate crisis.
Whittaker, the president of Signal, is also asking hard questions about artificial intelligence.
How a renowned AI scientist became a voice for caution.
It might just be the most important job in the world.
Christiano and Barnes have helped mainstream concerns about AI misalignment.
Reed O’Connor is one of the most unapologetic Republican partisans in the entire federal judiciary.
The nuclear stakes of putting too much trust in AI.
ChatGPT can talk like a person. You shouldn’t think of it as one.
Sam Altman is back at OpenAI. What happens to its safety mission?
The alternative — a mass exodus of OpenAI’s top talent to Microsoft — would have been worse.
Startups are selling grief tech, ghostbots, and the end of mourning as we know it.
Americans are having smaller families. Why are we obsessed with large ones?
Why bin Laden’s 2002 letter became the latest TikTok moral panic.
Preparing yourself for the worst is easier than you might think — and it’s never been more important.
Apple is adopting Google’s texting standard, but blue bubble elitism will probably continue.
What we learned (and didn’t learn) from the big Google antitrust trial.
The hive mind of the internet is good, for once.
Meta knows its platforms are harming children, whistleblower Arturo Béjar says. What now?
Financially, the sharing economy darling is thriving, but guests, hosts, and cities have had enough.
The justices appear to have no idea when they should get involved with online disputes between government officials and their constituents.
Now comes the hard part: Congress.
Electric cars are crucial, but not enough to solve climate change. We can’t let them crowd out car-free transit options.
Which search engine do you use, and why is it Google? A judge will soon decide.
Shadowbanning and the Israel-Hamas war, explained.