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Why 5G is causing flight cancellations

The FAA is worried about your cellphone again.

By Rebecca Heilweil

What you need to know about Biden’s free rapid test program

You can now order free Covid-19 rapid tests that will be delivered to your mailbox — but you’ll only get a few.

By Rebecca Heilweil

Microsoft is buying one of the biggest names in games — if Washington lets it

By Peter Kafka

The true cost of Amazon’s low prices

By Sara Morrison

The empty promise of instant delivery

By Terry Nguyen

Virtual reality is reality, too

By Sean Illing

The FTC’s antitrust case against Facebook is going forward after all

By Shirin Ghaffary

A new era for the American worker

By Rani Molla

We’re one step closer to self-farming farms

By Adam Clark Estes

To catch an insurrectionist

By Sara Morrison

Marjorie Taylor Greene and Big Tech’s never-ending censorship loop

By Shirin Ghaffary

The Elizabeth Holmes saga is far from over

By Rebecca Heilweil

The largest space telescope in history is about to blow our minds

By Brian Resnick

3 ways remote work could remake America

By Jerusalem Demsas

22 predictions we made in 2021, and the 13 we got right

By Dylan Matthews, Sigal Samuel, and 1 more

Big Tech’s employees are one of the biggest checks on its power

By Shirin Ghaffary

Omicron is outpacing delta on social media, too

By Shirin Ghaffary

How omicron broke Covid-19 testing

By Rebecca Heilweil

One Good Thing: The only Christmas music playlist you’ll ever need is (almost) 8 days long

By Emily VanDerWerff

The history of the metal box that’s wrecking the supply chain

By Rebecca Heilweil

Facebook still won’t give up Instagram for Kids

By Shirin Ghaffary

What Google’s trending searches say about America in 2021

By Rani Molla

How much control should Apple have over your iPhone?

By Sara Morrison

The case against Big Tech

By Sara Morrison and Shirin Ghaffary

Israeli spyware was used against US diplomats in Uganda

By Ellen Ioanes

NASA gave Jeff Bezos money to build his office park in space

By Rebecca Heilweil

Spotify Wrapped, unwrapped

By Kelly Pau

Real estate has gone meta

By Adam Clark Estes

Amazon’s strategy to squeeze marketplace sellers and maximize its own profits is evolving

By Sara Morrison

Twitter is again losing Jack Dorsey, its multitasking, wizard-bearded visionary

By Shirin Ghaffary

Did you (or your dog) eat a suspicious mushroom? These very online mycologists want to help.

By Chia-Yi Hou

Why you should care about Facebook’s big push into the metaverse

By Shirin Ghaffary

GM dreams of electric fleets

By Rebecca Heilweil

Office holiday parties are back and smaller than ever

By Rani Molla

Apple will finally let you fix your own devices — sort of

By Rebecca Heilweil

Facebook’s freaky new glove

By Adam Clark Estes

Netflix is finally going to reveal how much time people spend watching its shows and movies

By Peter Kafka

The space debris problem is getting dangerous

By Rebecca Heilweil

We’re all famous now

By Sean Illing

Hating work is having a moment

By Rani Molla

Facebook is quietly buying up the metaverse

By Peter Kafka

Amazon’s favorite electric vehicle company is now worth more than Ford or GM

By Rebecca Heilweil

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