Technology
Uncovering and explaining how our digital world is changing — and changing us.
Apple’s mixed reality headset heralds a new era of “spatial computing.” We are not ready.
The no good, very bad case against malaria bednets, explained.
An expert explains what TikTok’s true love litmus test is really all about.
The New York Times v. OpenAI, explained.
The surprising connection among cybercrime, human trafficking, and a raging guerrilla war.
Will OpenAI’s new chatbot store finally make AI useful?
The very confusing landscape of advanced AI risk, briefly explained.
The world had “flying cars” in the 1930s. We could be getting them again.
AI will change the world this year. We just don’t know how yet.
From Trump to Tesla, how 2024 will shake out, according to the Future Perfect team.
Hinge has tried its darnedest to fix online dating. Is the real problem us?
Ravenous, carnivorous, and totally yoked: How men in tech have evolved.
The case against pets, what Oppenheimer got wrong, and the magic of meditation.
Bradley Cooper’s turn as Leonard Bernstein in Maestro is just the latest role to stoke conversations about what Jewish representation means in Hollywood.
Finally, a way for your phone to know even more about your personal life.
Getting AI to improve mental health outcomes is not as simple as firing up ChatGPT.
How the new Chinese shopping site came from seemingly nowhere and is changing the way we shop.
Starbucks’s messy December, explained.
President Biden’s executive order on artificial intelligence was criticized by many for overreaching, but the danger from uncontrolled AI progress is real.
A YouTuber’s deep dive on plagiarism tries to make viewers care when creators steal content.
The quantum computing industry has a road map to the future — but can it reach its destination?
A warning about the NameDrop feature on iOS 17 is just the latest in a long history of misleading Facebook posts from law enforcement.
Grace argues AI researchers should slow down. They’re starting to agree with her.
A reliable quantum computer system could unleash truly amazing technological progress, as long as the engineers can get it to work.
The co-founders and co-CEOs of the Institute for Progress want to kick-start America’s innovation engine.
The technologist and author is providing a guide to a world changing at an exponential rate
Donti is showing how machine learning can be a powerful ally to address the climate crisis.
Whittaker, the president of Signal, is also asking hard questions about artificial intelligence.
How a renowned AI scientist became a voice for caution.
It might just be the most important job in the world.
Christiano and Barnes have helped mainstream concerns about AI misalignment.
Reed O’Connor is one of the most unapologetic Republican partisans in the entire federal judiciary.
The nuclear stakes of putting too much trust in AI.
ChatGPT can talk like a person. You shouldn’t think of it as one.
Sam Altman is back at OpenAI. What happens to its safety mission?
The alternative — a mass exodus of OpenAI’s top talent to Microsoft — would have been worse.
Startups are selling grief tech, ghostbots, and the end of mourning as we know it.
Americans are having smaller families. Why are we obsessed with large ones?
Why bin Laden’s 2002 letter became the latest TikTok moral panic.
Preparing yourself for the worst is easier than you might think — and it’s never been more important.