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You’ve probably seen bespectacled Mark Zuckerberg recently. The billionaire has been on a media tour wearing his Ray-Ban Meta glasses and talking...
There’s a bodega on the corner where I live in Brooklyn with a massive TikTok following and a thick cable almost always stretched out the front door...
Growing up in rural Tennessee, power outages were frequent and sometimes fun. With no TV or lights, we played boardgames by candlelight or played...
Google just lost a huge antitrust case. A federal judge in Virginia ruled on Thursday that the search giant illegally maintained a monopoly in the...
Less than six months ago, after an inappropriate amount of research, I bought a new toaster for $30. My old toaster had died, as old toasters do, and...
Something unexpected happened recently as I was filing my taxes: AI helped. It even caught an error that my human accountant missed. This was...
Something unexpected happened recently as I was filing my taxes: AI helped. It even caught an error that my human accountant missed. This was...
If you’d asked me a decade ago how I felt about my phone, I would have said: “Wow, I love it.” And also: “How could you even ask me such a...
Roku City, the oddly alluring cityscape screen saver, scrolls across millions of idle TVs every day. Recently, an island paradise appeared in the...
Last summer, I quit Spotify, and wrote about it with the rather unsubtle headline “Why I quit Spotify.” My reasons remain sound: The software had...
In a 2019 speech at Georgetown University, Mark Zuckerberg made a bold statement. Rather than to help college kids get dates, he claimed, Facebook was...
The next phase of Elon Musk’s plan to entangle his companies with the workings of the federal government is well underway. That entails not only...
I got my latest Screen Time report from Apple halfway through my daughter’s first day at Disney World. Waiting in line for rides, I’d been...
For a decade, my wife’s read receipts have been on without her knowing it. She kept checking her phone’s settings to see if they were turned off,...
As soon as I sat down to write this, I got a text that simply said, “Hi.” In another era, I may have been intrigued by the mysterious message...
The first time I heard about AI agents, I thought they could monitor your computer use, anticipate your needs, and manipulate your behavior...
I used to think I was good at charging stuff. My phone, for instance, almost never dies because I charge it wirelessly overnight, and then, if it’s...
When it comes to AI, I’d consider myself a casual user and a curious one. It’s been creeping into my daily life for a couple of years, and at the...
This story was originally published by Vox.com and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.As President Donald Trump’s first...
As President Donald Trump’s first week in office comes to a close, his biggest accomplishments are things many of us anticipated: chaos and...
Three days before taking the oath of office, President Donald Trump launched his own crypto asset: $TRUMP. By the eve of his inauguration, Trump’s...
The TikTok ban seems imminent. The Supreme Court on Friday upheld a law that would spell the end of TikTok as we know it in the United States, and now...
When I stepped up to test drive the all-electric Volkswagen ID. Buzz, the first thing I thought was that it looked as if it were grinning, almost too...
When I stepped up to test drive the all-electric Volkswagen ID. Buzz, the first thing I thought was that it looked as if it were grinning, almost too...
When I stepped on the showroom floor in Las Vegas at CES, the largest tech industry trade show in the world, earlier this week, I felt a sense of...
As 2024 comes to a close, it’s tempting to think that nothing happened this year except for a history-shaking presidential election. But it’s also...
I recently had a breakthrough by talking to a computer while walking my dog. Creating a family meal plan had been on my to-do list for about a year...
It’s almost hard to remember what it was like before the whole world seemed to be powered by AI. Whether you like it or not, the tech industry is...
A FEMA search and rescue crew clears debris amid flooding caused by Hurricane Helene in Asheville, North Carolina, October 2, 2024. Madeleine Cook/...
Paige Vickers/Vox; Getty Images This story was originally published by Vox.com and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration....