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This Startup Wants to Get in Your Ears and Watch Your Brain

lobe trotter

This Startup Wants to Get in Your Ears and Watch Your Brain

Steven Levy

A Farmer’s Quest to Beat California’s Waves of Drought and Deluge

Liquid Assets

A Farmer’s Quest to Beat California’s Waves of Drought and Deluge

Susie Cagle

The Bitcoin Bust That Took Down the Web’s Biggest Child Abuse Site

It's a Trap!

The Bitcoin Bust That Took Down the Web’s Biggest Child Abuse Site

Andy Greenberg

A Million Little Pieces: The Race to Rebuild the World’s Reefs

Sea Change

A Million Little Pieces: The Race to Rebuild the World’s Reefs

Rowan Moore Gerety

If Someone Is Typing, Then Stops … Can I Ask Why?

Cloud Support

If Someone Is Typing, Then Stops … Can I Ask Why?

Meghan O'Gieblyn

I Finally Reached Computing Nirvana. What Was It All For?

Ideas

I Finally Reached Computing Nirvana. What Was It All For?

Paul Ford

The Enduring Legacy of Clubhouse’s Chatty Revolution

Ideas

The Enduring Legacy of Clubhouse’s Chatty Revolution

Virginia Heffernan

Is Russia’s Largest Tech Company Too Big to Fail?

COLLATERAL DAMAGE

Is Russia’s Largest Tech Company Too Big to Fail?

Paul Starobin

It’s Like GPT-3, but for Code—Fun, Fast, and Full of Flaws

Smart Assistant

It’s Like GPT-3, but for Code—Fun, Fast, and Full of Flaws

Clive Thompson

The Infinite Reach of Joel Kaplan, Facebook’s Man in Washington

Talk Softly

The Infinite Reach of Joel Kaplan, Facebook’s Man in Washington

Benjamin Wofford

‘I’m the Operator’: The Aftermath of a Self-Driving Tragedy

Crash Report

‘I’m the Operator’: The Aftermath of a Self-Driving Tragedy

Lauren Smiley

Trapped in Silicon Valley’s Hidden Caste System

Exclusion Zone

Trapped in Silicon Valley’s Hidden Caste System

Sonia Paul

Zillow Botched Buying Homes. Opendoor Thinks It Can Do Better

Plaintext

Zillow Botched Buying Homes. Opendoor Thinks It Can Do Better

Steven Levy

The History—and Disturbing Resurrection—of Black Androids

Ideas

The History—and Disturbing Resurrection—of Black Androids

Virginia Heffernan

Jacques Vallée Still Doesn’t Know What UFOs Are

Close Encounters

Jacques Vallée Still Doesn’t Know What UFOs Are

Chantel Tattoli

The Best Way to Learn Online? Be a Lurker

Sneakbrowsing

The Best Way to Learn Online? Be a Lurker

Paul Ford

Driving While Baked? Inside the High-Tech Quest to Find Out

Toke Detector

Driving While Baked? Inside the High-Tech Quest to Find Out

Amanda Chicago Lewis

Ada Palmer and the Weird Hand of Progress

Unknown Lands

Ada Palmer and the Weird Hand of Progress

Gregory Barber

How Telegram Became the Anti-Facebook

MESSAGE RECEIVED

How Telegram Became the Anti-Facebook

Darren Loucaides

6 Apps That Take the Grind out of Your Workday

Zoned In

6 Apps That Take the Grind out of Your Workday

Lydia Horne and Reece Rogers