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

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Inside the Biden campaign’s surprising influencer strategy

By Rebecca Heilweil

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After 6 months and $1.8 billion, Quibi wants a new owner. That will be a hard sell.

By Peter Kafka

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Everything you need to know about voting in 2020 (but were afraid to ask)

By Sara Morrison

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How to guard your social feeds against election misinformation

By Rebecca Heilweil

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It’s easier than ever to find out how your favorite websites are tracking you

By Sara Morrison

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The streaming wars go global

The best alternative streaming services, from anime to arthouse

By Aja Romano and Alissa Wilkinson

Why Walmart thinks TikTok is the future of its business

By Jason Del Rey

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What comes after Zoom fatigue

It looks like we’re stuck with video chat. Is that such a bad thing?

By Adam Clark Estes

“It’s kinda like a first date”: Making the most of starting a new job remotely

By Peter Kafka

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WeChat and TikTok get reprieves from Trump bans

By Peter Kafka

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The real cost of Amazon

"It’s like I’m risking my life for a dollar" — what the struggle Amazon workers face during the pandemic says about the future of work in America.

By Shirin Ghaffary and Jason Del Rey

Religious leaders are becoming content creators to keep their followers engaged

By Rebecca Heilweil

Trump moves to shut down WeChat in the US. But TikTok will live until after the election.

By Peter Kafka

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We’re closer to holographic meetings than you think

By Adam Clark Estes

What the heck is going on with TikTok and Oracle, explained

By Shirin Ghaffary

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By Jason Del Rey

How to make sure the census counts you

By Sara Morrison

California’s recurring wildfire problem, explained

By Eliza Barclay, David Roberts, and 1 more

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Twitter is tightening its rules against voting misinformation

By Shirin Ghaffary

Give everybody the internet

By Emily Stewart

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You can get a robot to keep your lonely grandparents company. Should you?

The ethical costs and benefits of a companion robot — during the pandemic and beyond.

By Sigal Samuel

Right-wing media thrives on Facebook. Whether it rules is more complicated.

By Rebecca Heilweil

Apple fires back at Epic Games in the latest legal wrangling over Fortnite

By Sara Morrison

Facebook won’t stop Facebook from spreading lies about the election

By Peter Kafka

Apple, under pressure from advertisers and developers, will wait 6 months to enforce new privacy rules

By Peter Kafka

Larry Ellison has abruptly shut down the foundation he spent years setting up

By Theodore Schleifer

The new Apple-Google contact tracing tool finally seems useful

By Sara Morrison

Mark Zuckerberg’s $300 million donation to protect elections must overcome Facebook’s past

By Theodore Schleifer

Walmart+ will finally launch in September. Can it compete with Amazon Prime?

By Jason Del Rey
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The bigger stakes of the TikTok debate

By Joss Fong and Christophe Haubursin

Facebook banned violent militia groups. We still found plenty of them on its platform.

By Shirin Ghaffary

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

By Rebecca Heilweil

Lower-income students are paying the price for the global laptop shortage

By Sara Morrison

Facebook initially failed to remove a Kenosha militia page despite complaints

By Shirin Ghaffary

Everything you need to know about Palantir, the secretive company coming for all your data

By Sara Morrison

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Larry Ellison, one of the world’s richest people, asks for a second chance at charity

$60 billion hangs in the balance.

By Theodore Schleifer

Contracts, hacks, and Google: What to consider before you get a home security system

By Sara Morrison

Government shutdowns of “nonessential” retailers were a huge gift for Amazon, Walmart, and Target

By Jason Del Rey

What’s really going on with the Lincoln Project, the anti-Trump PAC that’s pissing off lots of people

By Peter Kafka

Trump just embraced followers of the QAnon conspiracy movement

By Shirin Ghaffary

Facebook is finally cracking down on QAnon

By Shirin Ghaffary

How a viral photo of USPS collection boxes became a lesson in misinformation

By Rebecca Heilweil