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

The techlash isn’t big enough to stop Facebook from selling video chat devices for your living room

Facebook thinks you’re okay with Facebook devices that watch you and listen to you. What if Facebook is right?

By Peter Kafka

Apple’s VP of communications is leaving the company

Steve Dowling, who has headed Apple’s communications for the last five years, is leaving after 16 years at the company.

By Kara Swisher

California just passed a landmark law to regulate Uber and Lyft

By Alexia Fernández Campbell September 18

Poll: Two-thirds of Americans want to break up companies like Amazon and Google

By Emily Stewart September 18

Vox Crossword

By Vox Staff September 16

To bring “prestige” back to education, make teachers tax-exempt, says Blackstone CEO Steve Schwarzman

By Eric Johnson September 18

Silicon Valley is throwing Trump a fundraiser. They’d just rather not talk about it.

By Theodore Schleifer September 17

Uber’s baffling claim that its drivers aren’t core to its business, explained

By Shirin Ghaffary September 16

Why “Seinfeld” is coming to Netflix

By Peter Kafka September 16

Listen to our new podcast with never-before-told stories about Amazon’s ascent

By Jason Del Rey July 22

More of the products you view on Amazon are coming from ads

By Rani Molla September 16

How Rodney Dangerfield and “Caddyshack” gave us Donald Trump

By Peter Kafka September 16

Big Tech is “scary” because it wants to be the solution to everything, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio says

By Eric Johnson September 16

This AI can pass a 12th-grade standardized science test

By Kelsey Piper September 13

Austin’s failed attempt to regulate Uber and Lyft foreshadowed today’s controversies

By Matthew Zeitlin September 13

The FBI is investigating a venture capital fund started by Peter Thiel for financial misconduct

By Theodore Schleifer September 12

Have we hit peak “tech” company?

By Rani Molla September 12

Uber and Lyft say they don’t plan to reclassify their drivers as employees

By Shirin Ghaffary September 11

Gig workers’ win in California is a victory for workers everywhere

By Alexia Fernández Campbell September 11

Announcing Reset, a new podcast about how tech is changing our lives

By Liz Nelson September 11

The Wing wants to fight gender bias in hiring by helping its members hire each other

By Eric Johnson September 11

Facebook says its FTC fine and impending regulation are actually good things

By Emily Stewart September 10

Uber Eats doesn’t plan on eating its competition — for now

By Rani Molla September 10

Millions of young people will “storm the Bastille” if we don’t fix income inequality, 2020 candidate Marianne Williamson says

By Eric Johnson September 10

Apple’s new streaming TV service: here’s everything we know

By Peter Kafka September 10

Rent the Runway CEO Jennifer Hyman says she has to justify her company’s “right to exist” to male investors

By Shirin Ghaffary September 10

A $5 billion fine won’t fix Facebook. Here’s what would.

By Emily Stewart September 10

Travel startup Away won’t be selling its luggage on Amazon anytime soon

By Emily Stewart September 9

Walmart is done trying to buy small retailers to compete with Amazon

By Peter Kafka September 9

The RealReal isn’t buying a department store anytime soon, CEO Julie Wainwright says

By Shirin Ghaffary September 9

Every tech company should “work together and fix things,” says Microsoft President Brad Smith

By Eric Johnson September 9

The most common thing brands don’t understand about working with YouTube stars

By Theodore Schleifer September 9

Branding is the real reason Schick’s parent company bought razor upstart Harry’s for $1.4 billion

By Rani Molla September 9

Hundreds of Amazon employees plan to walk out of work in protest of Amazon’s environmental policies

By Shirin Ghaffary September 9

Robot priests can bless you, advise you, and even perform your funeral

By Sigal Samuel September 9

How to follow (and listen to) Recode’s Code Commerce conference in New York City

By Kat Borgerding September 9

Dozens of Google employees say they were retaliated against for reporting harassment

By Shirin Ghaffary September 9

How Travis Kalanick’s foes tried using the New York Times to force him out of Uber

By Peter Kafka September 7

It looks like Uber is getting into the small loan business for its drivers

By Shirin Ghaffary September 6

Now the states are coming after Google and Facebook, too

By Emily Stewart September 6

Workers need to be part of the conversation about UBI, says “Beaten Down, Worked Up” author Steve Greenhouse

By Eric Johnson September 6

Recode Daily: WeWork might be worth just half of what it once was

By Kat Borgerding September 6