What Happened to Trump’s Secret Hacking Intel?
New information that the president promised over a month ago never materialized.
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Mike Blake / Reuters 'Give Us Your Passwords'
What happens if border agents are allowed to demand access to your phone and online accounts—and turn you away if you don’t comply?
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Shannon Stapleton / Reuters People Are Finding It Hard to Focus on Work Right Now
A survey finds that nearly a third of people say they have been less productive since the election.
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Noah Berger / Reuters The Myth of Apple's Great Design
The company’s new “spaceship” headquarters shows how its beauty has always been skin deep.
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AP Mapping Countries That Censor the Internet
A new app can test networks around the world for government interference.
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NASA Google Remakes the Satellite Business, by Leaving It
A startup says a 50-trillion-pixel image of Earth, refreshed daily, is coming later this year.
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Fred Prouser / Reuters More Data, Better Dining?
Damian Mogavero, a consultant, argues that analytics can help restaurants become more creative and profitable.
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Christopher DeLorenzo Unsafe at Any Speed
The case against human drivers
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Alvaro Dominguez Our Bots, Ourselves
How the descendants of Siri and Alexa could change our daily lives, thoughts, and relationships
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Jack Hudson It’s Getting Harder to Believe in Silicon Valley
Awestruck visions of the tech industry have become less convincing than ever.
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Yuri Arcurs / Getty Your Browsing History Alone Can Give Away Your Identity
Researchers have found a way to connect the dots between people’s private online activity and their Twitter accounts—even for people who have never tweeted.
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Wikimedia Commons Lessons About the iPhone, Courtesy of a Depression-Era Children's Book
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel and other classics by Virginia Lee Burton capture a bias in the way people look at technological innovation.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters The Rise of Progressive 'Fake News'
The disempowered left now faces its own kinds of hoaxes and fables.
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Bobby Yip / Reuters Elon Musk Is Betting Big on Donald Trump
He may come to regret it.
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Reuters It’s Ridiculous to Use Virtual Reality to Empathize With Refugees
The technology isn’t the moral game-changer that some make it out to be.
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Oli Scarff / Getty Is AI a Threat to Christianity?
Are you there, God? It’s I, robot.
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Mark Makela / Reuters How Did Cybersecurity Become So Political?
It wasn’t always this complicated.
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Eric Thayer / Reuters What Killed the Pay Phone?
It was more than mobile phones. An Object Lesson.
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John D McHugh / AFP / Getty How Trump’s Immigration Rules Will Hurt the U.S. Tech Sector
Instead of beelining for Silicon Valley, the top minds from countries like Iran may start heading to Canada, Europe, or Asia instead.
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Chester Holme / Mosaic Virtual Reality Can Make the Pain of Surgery Easier to Bear
By distracting patients, VR could minimize the cost and risk of operations—and allow doctors to operate on patients outside the hospital.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters Is #DeleteUber Good for Workers' Rights?
The social-media campaign highlights labor issues, but only through the lens of identity.
