How Does Donald Trump Think His War on the Press Will End?
The president has long toyed with the media, but the stakes are much higher now.
How Long Can Border Agents Keep Your Email Password?
Some data gathered from travelers going through customs can stay in a Homeland Security database for 75 years.
The Future of Shopping Is More Discrimination
For you, a very special price indeed.
Does the Internet Breed Creativity or Destroy It?
A Doozy of a Lawsuit Over Self-Driving Cars
Waymo is suing Uber, and says a former employee stole nearly 10 gigabytes of secret files.
Thomas Edison and the Origins of Surf Filmography
More than a century ago, a cameraman on Waikiki Beach captured something extraordinary—and ordinary.
Why Nothing Works Anymore
Technology has its own purposes.
How New Orleans's Favorite Mardi Gras Cocktail Was Saved From Extinction
No one knows why Ojen became so popular in the city, but it has long been the party liqueur of choice. An Object Lesson.
A Bot That Identifies 'Toxic' Comments Online
A Google-funded algorithm flags messages that are likely to drive others away from a conversation.
The 'Curious' Robots Searching for the Ocean's Secrets
A new class of machines knows how to recognize and investigate unexpected things that pop up underwater.
The Facebook Algorithm Is Watching You
Here’s one way to confuse it.
A Border Wall by 2020? Doubt It
Megaprojects are rarely, if ever, completed on schedule.
A Stand Against Invasive Phone Searches at the U.S. Border
A senator has joined human-rights groups in opposing warrantless scans of travelers' digital devices.
Why Some Apps Use Fake Progress Bars
Designers use “benevolent deception” to trick users into trusting the system.
The Post-Human World
A conversation about the end of work, individualism, and the human species with the historian Yuval Harari
The Mark Zuckerberg Manifesto Is a Blueprint for Destroying Journalism
Lip service to the crucial function of the Fourth Estate is not enough to sustain it.
Anatomy of a Cheese Recall
The Listeria contamination tied to an Indiana cheese factory reveals some of the complexities of the U.S. supply-chain.
The Hidden History of the Laundry Chute
Stains, smells, secrets, thieves, dead bodies, and even a radioactive towel have all found their way down one. An Object Lesson.
How Often Do Airplanes Hit Deer?
Or alligators? Or bald eagles? Or armadillos?
How a Million-Dollar Superwatch Is Fighting Back Against Computing
Cheap or expensive, mechanical timepieces remind human wearers of their own humility.