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Can we trust the people who got us hooked on the internet to save us from it?

By Kaitlyn Tiffany

Google employees say the company is punishing them for their activism

By Alexia Fernández Campbell

Some AI just shouldn’t exist

By Sigal Samuel

Why the world’s leading AI charity decided to take billions from investors

By Kelsey Piper

Facebook’s data-sharing practices are called into question, again

By Li Zhou

This bot will do your homework for $9.95 a month. Does it actually work?

By Luke Winkie

Walmart says its new robots will make human employees happier

By Kaitlyn Tiffany

Some apps use design to trick you into sharing data. A new bill would make that illegal.

By Kaitlyn Tiffany

Are we living in a computer simulation? I don’t know. Probably.

By Sean Illing

How do you make sure AI is trustworthy? The EU wrote a checklist.

By Sigal Samuel

Amazon now recommends its products to you based on your horoscope`

By Kaitlyn Tiffany

How to quit Facebook without quitting Facebook

By Kaitlyn Tiffany

Republicans and Democrats have completely different priorities on tech

By Li Zhou

It’s disturbingly easy to trick AI into doing something deadly

By Sigal Samuel

How digital technology is destroying our freedom

By Sean Illing

Amazon is releasing its own AirPod look-alikes

By Kaitlyn Tiffany

Exclusive: Google cancels AI ethics board in response to outcry

By Kelsey Piper

The AI breakthrough that won the “Nobel Prize of computing”

By Kelsey Piper

The Bezos divorce, explained

By Anna North

A former Netflix executive says she was fired because she got pregnant. Now she’s suing.

By Alexia Fernández Campbell

Google will extend some benefits to contract workers after internal protest

By Alexia Fernández Campbell

Google’s brand-new AI ethics board is already falling apart

By Kelsey Piper

Would you grocery shop by talking to a smart assistant?

By Kaitlyn Tiffany

Why coders want to optimize the world

By Hope Reese

Facebook is finally banning white nationalist content

By P.R. Lockhart

A quarter of Europeans want AI to replace politicians. That’s a terrible idea.

By Sigal Samuel

McDonald’s new drive-thru menus will change based on the weather, traffic, and time of day

By Kaitlyn Tiffany

Apple’s new streaming service is still mostly defined by what we don’t know

By Todd VanDerWerff

Apple is launching a new credit card for iPhone owners

By Kaitlyn Tiffany

Thousands of Uber drivers are striking in Los Angeles

By Alexia Fernández Campbell

Toy unboxing videos have taken over YouTube. Some experts say they exploit kids.

By Chavie Lieber

Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube are cracking down on fake vaccine news

By Julia Belluz

How YouTube is changing toys

Kids are obsessed with YouTube unboxing videos. The toy industry is taking notice.

By Chavie Lieber

Facebook allowed companies to post job ads only men could see. Now that’s changing.

By Alexia Fernández Campbell

Why the US and China are sparring over 5G in Europe

By Alex Ward

Google’s first AI-powered Doodle lets you make music like Bach

By Sigal Samuel

The psychology behind Trump’s fear of self-driving cars

By Sigal Samuel

Rep. Devin Nunes’s bizarre $250 million lawsuit against Twitter, explained

By Jane Coaston

You can now shop on Instagram without leaving the app

By Gaby Del Valle

How the Tinder algorithm actually works

By Kaitlyn Tiffany

The New Zealand shooter wrote a manifesto. An extremism expert explains what it means.

By Jen Kirby

Why tech companies failed to keep the New Zealand shooter’s extremism from going viral

By Amanda Sakuma
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