Alexis C. Madrigal
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters How Lyft’s Ride-Sharing Business Works (And Doesn’t)
Thanks to its IPO, Lyft—which lost $978 million in 2018—is now worth a very large sum of money. Here’s why.
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Mark Lennihan / AP Local News Is Dying, and Americans Have No Idea
While the industry nose-dives, a large majority of the country thinks it is doing great.
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Reuters / Elijah Nouvelage Facebook Does Have to Respect Civil-Rights Legislation, After All
Activists just won a landmark case against the social network.
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Pat Benic / Reuters The People Who Hated the Web Even Before Facebook
As the World Wide Web turns 30, a look back at its early skeptics
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters The FAA Rigorously Tested the Boeing 737’s Software
So how did a problem slip through?
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Stephen Lam / Reuters What Mark Zuckerberg Thinks People Want
The Facebook CEO had a change of heart that could recast the future of the internet.
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Lisa Baertlein / Reuters The Servant Economy
Ten years after Uber inaugurated a new era for Silicon Valley, we checked back in on 105 on-demand businesses.
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Marko Djurica / Reuters The Small, Small World of Facebook’s Anti-vaxxers
Squelching vaccine misinformation might be easier than the platform makes it seem.
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Leah Millis / Reuters The Reason Conspiracy Videos Work So Well on YouTube
It’s the paranoid style, mutated for platform politics.
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Mark Lennihan / AP Amazon’s Retreat and the New Politics of Tech
What Amazon pulling out of Queens means for the urban growth machine
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Reuters / Caitlin O’Hara Waymo’s Robots Drove More Miles Than Everyone Else Combined
But in newly released numbers from California regulators, the challengers in the self-driving-car race are looking better.
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Charles Platiau / Reuters The Limits of Extremely Online Organizing
The remarkable #FuckFuckJerry has been as successful as a spontaneous campaign can be.
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Reuters / Ralph Freso When Amazon Went From Big to Unbelievably Big
The data on the company’s real-estate holdings reveal a remarkable inflection point.
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Rick Friedman / Corbis via Getty Before It Conquered the World, Facebook Conquered Harvard
On the 15th anniversary of Facebook’s launch at Harvard, a dozen students and faculty members reflect on seeing and being the first users of the world’s largest social network.
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Reuters / Elijah Nouvelage This Is How Much Fact-Checking Is Worth to Facebook
More than nothing, but not much more
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Justice Department America’s Cold War With Chinese Tech Turns Hot
The world’s two most powerful countries are fighting over the most important next-generation communications technology.
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Hannibal Hanschke / Reuters Your TV Is Now a Computer, but Not in a Good Way
You don’t really own it, and it breaks in unpredictable ways.
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Reuters / Lucas Jackson Where Amazon Returns Go to Be Resold by Hustlers
Welcome to the abyss of the “reverse supply chain,” where hope springs eternal.
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Mark and Colleen Hayward / Getty Images Go Ahead, Post the Stupid Photo of Yourself From 10 Years Ago
Critics have raised fears that the pictures could be used for corporate surveillance, but this is a molehill on the mountain.
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x9626 / Shutterstock / The Atlantic Facebook Users Still Don’t Know How Facebook Works
Not even its core business practices
