Technology
Uncovering and explaining how our digital world is changing — and changing us.
Remember the TikTok ban? There’s a new deadline coming up.
A century ago, cars remade America. Autonomous vehicles could do it again.
Our unmoderated online reality bares its teeth.
Carriers say they’ll pay for your new iPhone Air, but maybe it’s your plan that needs the real upgrade.
Everyone underestimated AI progress. Now what?
The case for giving one to your 3-year-old is not as outlandish as it sounds.
Executives are preparing to slash their workforces. Workers are just trying to cope.
A very Future Perfect newsletter mailbag.
The metaverse didn’t stick. Can “superintelligence”?
AI in the classroom doesn’t have to be a catastrophe.
But do you really want to run your household like a small business?
A former Trump appointee alleges the DOJ is letting firms buy exemptions from anti-monopoly laws.
It’s so easy get addicted these days. The apps are counting on it.
This deal has everything: Semiconductors, DeepSeek, constitutional violations.
AI will undoubtedly shape the next 25 years. We just don’t know how yet.
Vintage resellers are embracing livestream shopping.
AI wrote a sacred text for Buddhists — and it exceeded expectations. Can it write a good Bible?
We were promised flying cars. We got Instagram brain rot.
The cutting-edge of neurotech can read your mind. Sort of.
Republicans want to give Uber workers benefits. There’s a catch.
A philosopher on humanity’s need for a new story — and a new way to defy where we’re headed.
AI wants to fix your money problems. What could go wrong?
What chimp research can teach us about AI’s ability to “scheme.“
Companies can harvest everything from your location to your search history to determine how much you pay.
Americans say they want a third party — but making it happen is tricky.
Medical devices in the brain are already making a difference for countless patients.
You can get unfathomably rich building AI. Should you?
Two forces are reshaping the same future.
The flip phone returns with a few new tricks.
The obscure chip policy that could reshape US-China competition.
The end of mandatory shoe removal signals progress on airport security.
Musk trained Grok to be right wing. We’re lucky he wasn’t more subtle.
A truly scary new revelation about Trump’s effort to circumvent the TikTok ban.
The future of the internet is a slop-filled infinite scroll. How do we reclaim our attention?
Is there a literacy crisis? Or am I just old?
AI could make bioweapons more dangerous. It could also be the key to stopping them.
AI is creating a cheating utopia. Universities don’t know how to respond.
The delirious boredom you remember from childhood might not exist anymore.
It’s okay to hate AI’s encroachment into work. Learn to use it anyway.
A bill that will give China the lead in the race for advanced AI.