Elon Musk Is Playing God
The tech billionaire wants to shape humanity’s future. Not everyone has a place there.
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The AI Industry Is Radicalizing
The tech industry and its critics occupy parallel universes.
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Gadgets for the Climate Hellscape
What will climate adaptation look like? A million individual products, each precisely targeted on social media to the intersection of a consumer culture and a catastrophe.
Amazon’s HQ2 Will Only Worsen America’s ‘Great Divergence’
In today’s economy, well-off people live in big cities, while everyone else gets pushed out. Bringing new Amazon offices to Virginia and New York could hasten the process.
Custom Photo Filters Are the New Instagram Gold Mine
How selling Adobe Lightroom presets took the “influencer” world by storm
The Homeless Can’t Escape San Francisco’s Smoke-Ridden Air
As wildfires burn out of control, they are impacting the state’s other crisis—the growing number of people living on the streets.
What Vets Think of ‘23andMe for Dogs’
More and more companies are selling DNA-test kits for pets.
The Problem With Feedback
Companies and apps constantly ask for ratings, but all that data may just be noise in the system. An Object Lesson.
Video Doesn’t Capture Truth
Like text and audio, it can be manipulated and interpreted for political ends.
Every City Should Have a Toy Library
The “toyery” once made play a part of civic infrastructure. It’s time to bring it back.
How YouTube’s Algorithm Really Works
… if you’re not the average YouTube user
The Striking Way Trump Changed Election Night
After 2016’s twitching needles and seemingly voter-proof forecasts, media companies are doing the unthinkable: waiting on the election returns.