Recode

Recode

Uncovering and explaining how our digital world is changing — and changing us.

8,000 Amazon employees asked the company to do more on climate change. Shareholders just said no.

By Emily Stewart and Alexia Fernández Campbell

America’s newest stock exchange wants to fix one of capitalism’s fundamental challenges

By Theodore Schleifer

A Silicon Valley startup is trying to rebrand payday loans

By Gaby Del Valle May 22

Recode Daily: Crowdpac was a Kickstarter for political candidates. Now it’s out of business.

By Theodore Schleifer May 22

Tech billionaires who donate millions are just “bribing society at large,” Anand Giridharadas says

By Eric Johnson May 22

Hackers have been holding the city of Baltimore’s computers hostage for 2 weeks

By Emily Stewart May 21

The Kickstarter for politics wanted to upend fundraising. Now it’s dead.

By Theodore Schleifer May 21

Online ads can be targeted based on your emotions

By Kaitlyn Tiffany May 21

The US government’s battle with Chinese telecom giant Huawei, explained

By Emily Stewart May 21

Games of Thrones season 8

Game of Thrones is over. Giant TV hits aren’t going anywhere.

By Peter Kafka May 20

Facebook’s latest reason it shouldn’t be broken up: Chinese companies will dominate

By Emily Stewart May 20

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse explains why big banks should get into cryptocurrencies

By Eric Johnson May 20

President Trump’s new immigration proposal would be terrible for tech

By Rani Molla May 17

The White House’s social media bias tool is a ploy to get your email

By Emily Stewart May 17

Uber Eats is facing a price war — just like Uber

By Rani Molla May 17

Self-driving cars have to be safer than regular cars. The question is how much.

By Emily Stewart May 17

How Amazon turned its darkest time into runaway riches

By Eric Johnson May 17

Positive feedback from Twitter is reportedly all Trump needs to push policies

By Catherine Kim May 16

Trump’s executive order may be aimed at Huawei, but its impact could be far wider

By Shirin Ghaffary May 16

Yes, Quora still exists, and it’s now worth $2 billion

By Theodore Schleifer May 16

Have smartphones really destroyed a generation? We don’t know.

By Brian Resnick May 16

Ron Wyden wrote the law that built the internet. He still stands by it — and everything it’s brought with it.

By Emily Stewart May 16

Former US Attorney Preet Bharara says good journalism may have undermined the Mueller report

By Eric Johnson May 16

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The “smarter” wall: how drones, sensors, and AI are patrolling the border

Here’s what a so-called "smart wall" of technology at the US-Mexico border looks like.

By Shirin Ghaffary May 16

Apple is the only media company rich enough to beat Netflix — but does it care enough to try?

By Eric Johnson May 16

The White House won’t join a global pledge to combat online extremism

By Emily Stewart May 15

Abigail Disney just gave a searing indictment of American capitalism

By Alexia Fernández Campbell May 15

The new boogeyman in Silicon Valley politics? The IPO.

By Theodore Schleifer May 15

Recode Daily: San Francisco cracks down on facial recognition

By Shirin Ghaffary May 15

Facebook pays its interns nearly double what the typical American makes

By Rani Molla May 15

San Francisco’s facial recognition technology ban, explained

By Shirin Ghaffary May 14

The Facebook free speech battle, explained

By Jane Coaston May 14

The Hulu/Disney/Comcast divorce, explained

By Peter Kafka May 14

People say they care about privacy but they continue to buy devices that can spy on them

By Rani Molla May 13

Hulu CEO Randy Freer explains why Hulu never promoted its ad-free version

By Eric Johnson May 13

Former Defense Secretary Ash Carter says AI should never have the “true autonomy” to kill

By Eric Johnson May 13

Uber had a terrible first day as a public company. It might not matter at all.

By Theodore Schleifer May 10

SoftBank, the most powerful — and controversial — tech investor in Silicon Valley, explained

By Theodore Schleifer May 10

Facebook is a capitalism problem, not a Mark Zuckerberg problem

By Ezra Klein May 10

Esther Wojcicki explains how she raised the CEOs of YouTube and 23andMe

By Eric Johnson May 10

Google’s privacy changes are mostly marketing

By Rani Molla May 9

Even Facebook’s co-founder thinks it should be broken up

By Emily Stewart May 9

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