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How to rebuild your broken attention span

The context you need, when you need it When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission...

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The iPhone lease is too good to be true

The context you need, when you need it When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission...

30.07.2026 20

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The robots we deserve

There’s something sad about seeing a humanoid robot lying on the floor. Without any electricity, these bipedal machines can’t stand up, so if...

05.02.2026 50

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AI agents could change your life — if they don’t ruin it first

Some smart people think we’re witnessing another ChatGPT moment. This time, folks aren’t flipping out over an iPhone app that can write pretty...

05.02.2026 20

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The new TikTok is freaking people out

If you opened TikTok recently, you probably saw some weird stuff happening. Maybe you couldn’t post a new video. Maybe the app asked for your...

29.01.2026 30

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My new neighbors are robots

The robots in my building are multiplying. It started with one roughly the size of a doghouse that cleans the floors, and not very well — a...

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Gadgets are getting worse and more expensive at the same time

The paper clip problem always seemed too absurd to me. Also known as the paper clip maximizer, this is the thought experiment by philosopher Nick...

15.01.2026 60

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Imagine enjoying a customer service experience

The weirdest thing happened to me recently. I contacted a customer service department and enjoyed it. I sent an email, heard back promptly, and got a...

10.01.2026 40

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What podcasts do to our brains

The most embarrassing thing happened to me recently. It was twilight, and I was walking my dog around the quiet Brooklyn neighborhood where I’ve...

03.12.2025 250

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Here’s a glimmer of hope about AI and jobs

The most recent jobs numbers paint a pretty grim picture of the labor market and the apparent havoc AI is wreaking on it. After warnings about...

28.11.2025 30

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Buy now, pay later is more dangerous than ever

The other day, I went to buy my first big Christmas gift of the year, and there it was, on the checkout page: Would I like to split this purchase up...

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Want to quit your smartphone? Join this club.

For the past few months, a shadowy company called Dumb and Co. has been convincing people in Washington, DC, to ditch their smartphones for a month....

06.11.2025 40

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Elon Musk created a Wikipedia competitor. What could go wrong?

Grokipedia, Elon Musk’s attempt at creating an alternative to Wikipedia, is now live. Early analysis suggests that the site — powered by Musk’s...

30.10.2025 30

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Can AI fix the web AI broke?

At least twice a year, I’ll download a new browser, open it up, and see if the web looks better through a different window. It never does — or at...

23.10.2025 60

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The PG-13 internet fantasy

Instagram is starting to look more like TV, a move that might make some parents happy but ultimately proves that tech companies are getting closer to...

16.10.2025 20

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Don’t get too excited about AI’s downfall

It’s been a big couple weeks for OpenAI. The most valuable startup in the world recently announced that ChatGPT will become more like an operating...

09.10.2025 30

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We shouldn’t let kids be friends with ChatGPT

The number of kids getting hurt by AI-powered chatbots is hard to know, but it’s not zero. Yet, for nearly three years, ChatGPT has been free for...

02.10.2025 40

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Apple is trying to make your phone usable as a phone again

It’s been five or six years since I stopped answering my phone. With the exception of family or work calls, most of which I’m expecting, everyone...

25.09.2025 20

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Your doctor might be using ChatGPT for a second opinion. Should you?

An artist in Germany who liked to draw outdoors showed up at the hospital with a bug bite and a host of symptoms that doctors couldn’t quite...

18.09.2025 30

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Social media is the worst place to be right now

If you haven’t seen the video of a bullet killing Charlie Kirk on a college campus in Utah, you’re one of the lucky ones. When most people opened...

12.09.2025 30

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You’re paying too much for your phone

Apple did something wild at its big annual new iPhone event on Tuesday: It announced a phone that’s actually new. It’s called the iPhone Air, and...

10.09.2025 20

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Why 3-year-olds need smartphones*

If you’re a parent, you’ve probably grappled with the question of when your kid should get a smartphone. There’s a nationwide movement, Wait...

04.09.2025 30

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Cheating is the least AI can do

Everyone in education, from K-12 teachers to university presidents, is well aware that AI is transforming the classroom. That presents all the...

28.08.2025 30

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Why the overwhelmed American family need its own software

There are things you can do to prepare yourself for parenthood: Read the books, take the classes, set up a college fund. Nothing can truly prepare you...

21.08.2025 20

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Are we living in the movie Her yet?

When it came out in 2013, the movie Her was set in the “slight future.”  That “slight future” is, astonishingly, here. After all, AI-powered...

13.08.2025 30

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What if your earbuds could read your mind?

For the past few months, when I really needed to get something done, I put on a special pair of headphones that could read my mind. Well, kind of. The...

07.08.2025 50

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The surprisingly sound financial advice I got from a chatbot

Recently, as an experiment, I gave a bunch of my financial information to an AI chatbot. I know what you’re thinking — it sure doesn’t sound...

31.07.2025 40

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Personalized prices sure sound like a bad idea

During Amazon’s semi-annual Prime Day bonanza, the underwear I usually buy were on deep discount at a price so low I assumed it was just for me, the...

24.07.2025 60

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Revenge of the flip phone

I laughed out loud the first time I saw a folding phone. The contraptions, which debuted when the Samsung Galaxy Fold hit the market in 2019, are...

17.07.2025 50

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Little videos are cooking our brains

As an elder millennial, I’ve tried to avoid TikTok because of its documented brainrot potential and despite the fact that it means missing out on an...

10.07.2025 60

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Don’t let AI steal your job

ChatGPT’s most advanced models recently served me a surprising statistic: US productivity grew faster in 2024 than in any year since the 1960s. Half...

03.07.2025 70

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How (not) to track your health

You’d think I would have been more self-conscious about walking around New York City while wearing no fewer than six health trackers at a time. For...

26.06.2025 30

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What we learned the last time we put AI in a Barbie

The first big Christmas gift I remember getting was an animatronic bear named Teddy Ruxpin. Thanks to a cassette tape hidden in his belly, he could...

19.06.2025 30

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Your iPhone is about to get uglier

Once a decade, Apple does something that mobilizes its entire userbase in a fit of pixelated rage: It redesigns its software and debuts that new...

12.06.2025 50

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Why does Amazon want to scan your palm at the doctor’s office?

An Amazon-branded palm scanner greeted me at my last doctor’s office visit a few weeks ago. I’m not sure what I’d call the experience....

05.06.2025 40

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I covered my body in health trackers for 6 months. It ruined my life.

It’s never good when an alarm surprises you in the middle of the night. I was recently on vacation with my family, and a weird beeping woke everyone...

02.06.2025 40

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What is Google even for anymore?

Somewhere between asking Google’s new advanced AI to explain, in detail, how to become an expert birdwatcher in my neighborhood and using Google’s...

29.05.2025 30

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This life-changing piece of health tech is getting cheaper — and more advanced

Hearing aids, like canes or orthopedic shoes, are something you don’t think about a lot when you’re young. But maybe you should. You probably...

14.05.2025 20

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