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Now might be a good time to think about crypto insurance

As crypto crashes, the state of cryptocurrency and insurance is nebulous.

By Rebecca Heilweil

The problem with schools turning to surveillance after mass shootings

Installing advanced security tech doesn’t appear to stop these tragedies, but it can harm students in other ways.

By Rebecca Heilweil

Quantum computers could change the world — provided they can work

By Bryan Walsh

The future of 911 is a little bit creepy

By Rebecca Heilweil

NASA’s moon dust monopoly is finally ending

By Rebecca Heilweil

The neon shortage is a bad sign

By Rebecca Heilweil

Inheriting bitcoin is harder than it sounds

By Rebecca Heilweil

Why 5G is causing flight cancellations

By Rebecca Heilweil

New technologies are promising a shortcut to enlightenment

By Sigal Samuel

AI’s Islamophobia problem

By Sigal Samuel

The chip shortage is getting worse

By Rebecca Heilweil

Citizen, the controversial safety app, is ready to profit from its fear-based platform

By Sara Morrison

People keep finding late loved ones on Google Maps

By Rebecca Heilweil

Is United’s green supersonic jet too good to be true?

By Rebecca Heilweil

The future of AI is being shaped right now. How should policymakers respond?

By Kelsey Piper

Elon Musk is one step closer to connecting a computer to your brain

By Rebecca Heilweil

The biggest lie tech people tell themselves — and the rest of us

By Rose Eveleth

The wrong US response to Russia and China may trigger a “new Cold War,” warns Stanford University’s Larry Diamond

By Eric Johnson

This Austrian company is betting you’ll take a flying drone taxi. Really.

By Alex Ward

Full transcript: Chris Kirchhoff, formerly of the Pentagon’s Silicon Valley office, on Recode Decode

By Recode Staff

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Alastair Westgarth is the man with the internet balloons

By Rani Molla

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Daniela Perdomo helps you text when disaster strikes

By Rani Molla

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Bryan Johnson wants to put a chip in your brain

By Rani Molla

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Gwynne Shotwell is leading SpaceX’s efforts to become the future of commercial space travel

By Meghann Farnsworth

This is how tech can help us all survive a modern-day apocalypse

By Pat Gelsinger

We have unrealistic expectations of a tech-driven future utopia

By Bob O'Donnell

New corporate titans are rising faster than ever, but they’re also fading faster, too

By Eric Kutcher and Kara Sprague

Artificial intelligence can make America’s public sector great again

By Kriti Sharma

Nonprofits, not Silicon Valley startups, are creating AI apps for the greater good

By Shannon Farley

You finally got your flying cars, and Stephen Colbert says they suck

By Peter Kafka

We’ve seen so many scary movies about robots we can no longer be objective about them

By Bob O'Donnell

Autonomous driving is here, and it’s going to change everything

By Nabeel Hyatt

Augmented reality can save the idea of 3-D experiences

By Bob O'Donnell

What does it take to become a hologram? Just 41 cameras and a giant green screen.

By Meghann Farnsworth

The future of advanced-edge computing is actually in autonomous cars

By Bob O'Donnell

You can control this robot with your mind

By April Glaser

A breakthrough in Alphabet’s balloon-based internet project means it might actually work

By April Glaser and Tess Townsend

This two-legged robot hopes to one day deliver packages to your front door

By April Glaser

Voice-driven devices are much more than smartphones without a screen

By Bob O'Donnell

The movie ‘Hidden Figures’ can teach us how to keep jobs in an AI future

By Carolina Milanesi

Predicting the Top 10 tech developments for 2017

By Bob O'Donnell

My wish list for what new products  Apple might release in 2017

By Jan Dawson