Ian Bogost
The AI-Art Gold Rush Is Here
An artificial-intelligence “artist” got a solo show at a Chelsea gallery. Will it reinvent art, or destroy it?
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Ian Bogost / The Atlantic Another Day, Another Facebook Problem
Facebook has identified, and fixed, an exploit that allowed attackers to gain control of user accounts. These failures are so common and so widespread, it’s becoming hard to even notice them.
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Joshua Lott / Getty Elon Musk Is His Own Worst Enemy
The SEC’s suit against the Tesla CEO is the latest sign that he can’t separate his company’s performance from his vision for the future.
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Amazon Amazon Is Invading Your Home With Micro-Convenience
The company’s new line of voice-automated products, including a wall clock and a microwave, could help it amass an enormous database of consumer behavior.
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Marcio Jose Sanchez / AP The New iPhones Are Big So You Won’t Put Them Down
Apple’s latest designs mark the end of casual, one-handed smartphone use. Instead, the device is meant to occupy more of your attention, more of the time.
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Laurent Hrybyk Brands Are Not Our Friends
Comcast sent me 10 pizzas. This isn’t nice; it’s manipulative.
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Jose Luis Magana / AP Alex Jones and Marco Rubio Explain the Internet
The encounter between the Infowars host and the Florida senator offers a perfect summary of why life online is so terrible.
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John Raoux / AP The Irony of the Jacksonville Mass Shooting
Two former athletes were killed playing a supposedly safer, video-game alternative to football.
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Giles Clarke / Getty Welcome to the Age of Privacy Nihilism
Google and Facebook are easy scapegoats, but companies have been collecting, selling, and reusing your personal data for decades, and now that the public has finally noticed, it’s too late. The personal-data privacy war is long over, and you lost.
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Found Image Holdings / Corbis / Getty Why It Feels So Terrible to Drop Your Kid at College
The freedom of adulthood makes parents lose touch with dread, and emptying the nest offers a certain, and sometimes unwelcome, return to it.
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Andrea Leoni / Getty More Bridges Will Collapse
Two disasters in Europe are the latest examples of the decline of infrastructure—as an idea as much as a physical thing.
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Ian Bogost The Mopeds Are Coming
Shared, electric motor scooters are racing to catch up with Bird, Lime, and other kick-scooter brands, as tech companies attempt to reinvent urban mobility. But can these vehicles ever find a place in America?
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Andrew Wong / Getty Apple Is Worth One Trillion Dollars
This is what it really looks like to “change the world.”
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Mandel Ngan / Getty Facebook’s Big Disinformation Bust Is Cold Comfort
The company found, and removed, possible election interference on its platforms. But the government, and the world, is too reliant on the company to protect democracy.
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Justin Sullivan / Getty Something Is Wrong at Facebook
But that doesn’t mean the company is doomed.
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Dado Ruvic / Reuters Europe’s Smack to Google May Only Be the Beginning
The European Commission’s record-breaking fines for Google foreshadow a larger regulatory invasion of the U.S. technology industry.
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Rich Pedroncelli / AP Driving Without a Smartphone
A new law in Georgia discourages drivers from even touching a screen. Whether or not it improves safety, it could help break people’s phone habits.
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Ian Waldie / Getty The Way Police Identified the Capital Gazette Shooter Was Totally Normal
… and a reminder that your photo is probably stored in a government database.
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Jill Kitchener / Reuters Why Is There a ‘Gaming Disorder’ But No ‘Smartphone Disorder?’
The World Health Organization has proposed a behavioral addiction pathology for excessive video-game playing. But maybe the problem is in the economy more than the mind.
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Josh Cochran What Petty Nextdoor Posts Reveal About America
The hyperlocal social-media platform highlights small grievances—and proves that neighbors have more in common than they think.
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Marcio Jose Sanchez / AP Apple's Airpods Are an Omen
The company’s slick, wireless earbuds work great, but they foreshadow startling changes to the social fabric.
