Technology

The Worst Feature Apple Ever Made

So what if my screen time was up last week?

Elon Musk Says He Would Recognize a Harris Election Victory

And then he continued to spread voter conspiracy theories.

Lithium-Ion Batteries Have Gone Too Far

We got duped into believing that every device we own should charge like a phone.

No One Is Ready for Digital Immortality

Do you want to live forever as a chatbot?

The AI Search War Has Begun

And tech companies might not be the winners.

Google Wins the Gold Medal for Worst Olympic Ad

The company suggests using AI to write a child’s fan letter. Why?

Silicon Valley’s Trillion-Dollar Leap of Faith

Tech companies are spending as if AI’s transformative uses are a foregone conclusion. They’re not.

All Airlines Are Now the Same

Southwest’s open-seating policy will be sorely missed.

OopsGPT

OpenAI just announced a new search tool. Its demo already got something wrong.

AI’s Real Hallucination Problem

Tech executives are acting like they own the world.

J. D. Vance Has a Point About Mountain Dew

The soft drink has long been associated with the joy and despair of white America.

MAGA Cries ‘Coup’

The right’s playbook against Kamala Harris is already clear.

AI Can’t Make Music

But that doesn’t mean it poses an empty threat to musicians.

Twitter Won’t Die

The platform has always been in the doomscrolling business, and business is booming.

Trump Versus the Coconut-Pilled

Kamala Harris and the Democrats finally have a chance to attract positive attention.

Whoops! The Internet Broke.

Massive outages caused by a cloud-computing bug are the new normal.

The Biden Campaign Just Can’t Stop Meme-ing

The president is relentlessly trolling Trump—on Trump’s own social-media site.

Silicon Valley Got Their Guy

J. D. Vance has solidified tech’s MAGA moment.

A New Development in the Debate About Instagram and Teens

Meta, infamous for kicking researchers off its platform, flirts with slightly more transparency.

The Secret Meaning of Prime Day

A day of reflection on the delight and absurdity of the online-shopping age