Technology

Elon Musk’s Twitter Files Are Bait

He doesn’t actually want transparency on the social-media platform.

The End of High-School English

I’ve been teaching English for 12 years, and I’m astounded by what ChatGPT can produce.

Five Remarkable Chats That Will Help You Understand ChatGPT

The powerful new chatbot could make all sorts of trouble. But for now, it’s mostly a meme machine.

Arctic Adventurers Have a Russia Problem

The war has made it very hard to build a floating-ice camp.

ChatGPT Is Dumber Than You Think

Treat it like a toy, not a tool.

The College Essay Is Dead

Nobody is prepared for how AI will transform academia.

The Far Right Is Getting What It Asked For

With Ye on Infowars and Elon Musk lifting the floodgates on Twitter, the right wing is getting the free-speech thunderdome of its dreams. Or nightmares.

The Internet, but for Hot People

Partiful is one of many products adopting the trendy aesthetic, calling itself “facebook events for hot people.”

The World Cup of Microsoft Excel

How can watching people fiddle with spreadsheets possibly be this fun?

Instagram Is Over

The app’s original purpose has been lost in the era of “performance” media.

Please Look at My Metal Credit Card

Credit-card makers are ditching plastic in favor of something with much more … plunk.

I’m Scared of My Baby Monitor

Baby cams are sold on the notion that something could go disastrously wrong in the nursery.

A Pocket-Size Time Machine

Sally MacNamara Ivey has read more than 10,000 unpublished journals. She’s on a mission to save them all.

Football Has Found Its New Bogeyman

An analytics revolution has made the sport even more entertaining. So why are some fans and commentators against it?

Is Food Getting Better?

The Thanksgivings of yore featured overcooked turkeys and Jell-O salad. Surely we’ve evolved.

The Madness of Twitter

People just can’t stop tweeting about all the tweets they see.

What Has Technology Done to Soccer?

Perfect referees are a soccer fan’s nightmare.

The Tiny and Nightmarishly Efficient Future of Drone Warfare

Russia’s war on Ukraine has given us just a peek of the world to come.

The Era of ‘Stay and Fight’ Twitter Is Here

Now that Elon Musk is welcoming Donald Trump back to Twitter, some liberals feel they can’t leave the platform behind.

Sam Bankman-Fried Is Going Down Posting

The disgraced crypto titan has nothing left to say. That isn’t stopping him.