The Charlie Kirk shooting brings out the worst in social media
If you haven’t seen the video of a bullet killing Charlie Kirk on a college campus in Utah, you’re one ...
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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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
Will the courts break up Google? The tech giant’s big problems, briefly explained.
Google just lost a huge antitrust case. A federal judge in Virginia ruled on Thursday that the search giant illegally ...
The surprising thing I learned from quitting Spotify
Last summer, I quit Spotify, and wrote about it with the rather unsubtle headline “Why I quit Spotify.” My reasons ...
The Facebook tell-all Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t want you to read, briefly explained
In a 2019 speech at Georgetown University, Mark Zuckerberg made a bold statement. Rather than to help college kids get ...
Why you should make your phone boring
I got my latest Screen Time report from Apple halfway through my daughter’s first day at Disney World. Waiting in ...
Meta’s brain-to-text tech is here. We are not remotely ready.
Elon Musk has arguably been the boldest broligarch when it comes to brain-machine interfaces. But Mark Zuckerberg is hot on ...
You deserve a better browser than Google Chrome
The Department of Justice asked a judge this week to break up Google. Chrome? Sell it off. Android? Same. Paying ...
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