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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David Paul Morris / Getty Silicon Valley Wants to Be Destroyed by Aliens
Why the capital of the tech sector needs a monument to its glory
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Getty Emoji Don't Mean What They Used To
The pictorial language has moved away from ideography and toward illustration. It’s lost some expressive power in the process.
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Yves Herman / Reuters Apple’s Empty Grandstanding About Privacy
The company enables the surveillance that supposedly offends its values.
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Ben Margot / AP FaceTime Is Eroding Trust in Tech
Privacy paranoiacs have been totally vindicated.
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KC Noland / YouTube Stop Trusting Viral Videos
A controversial video of Catholic students clashing with American Indians appeared to tell a simple truth. A second video called that story into question. But neither shows what truly happened.
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Leon Neal / Getty Amazon Ruined Online Shopping
America’s largest internet store is so big, and so bewildering, that buyers often have no idea what they’re going to get.
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Mandel Ngan / AFP / Getty Trump Is Totally Cavalier About His Use of Personal Technology
But what about her emails?
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Eric Risberg / AP Embracing Apple’s Boring Future
The company’s most exciting years may be behind it, but that’s okay.
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Alex Wong / Getty How Ted Lieu Became Google’s Accidental Champion
The Democratic lawmaker’s memorable moment during Sundar Pichai’s congressional testimony helped one party: Google.
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Jose Luis Magana / AP What It Really Means to Be the Adult in the Room
Sheryl Sandberg, the “responsible” grown-up at Facebook, had one job: Make the company more and more money.
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Evan Vucci / AP Video Doesn’t Capture Truth
Like text and audio, it can be manipulated and interpreted for political ends.
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Gene J. Puskar / AP The Fetishization of Mr. Rogers’s ‘Look for the Helpers’
Turning the reassuring line for children into a meme for adults should make everyone uncomfortable.
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Alex Grimm / Reuters The Myth of ‘Dumbing Down’
If you write about your expertise from a place of contempt, maybe you’re not so smart after all.
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Savita Kirloskar / Reuters The Chinese Motherboard Hack Is a Crisis, Even If It Didn’t Really Happen
Apple, Amazon, and Super Micro have all denied the veracity of a report on Chinese hardware hacking. No matter the outcome, the results could inflame an already raw trade relationship for high tech between the U.S. and China.
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Thanh Do / The Atlantic Trump Is Not Texting You
What should have been a routine, required national test of the Wireless Emergency Alerts system has become a crucible for public distrust.
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Bobby Yip / Reuters Elon Musk’s Fait Accompli
Musk and Tesla have settled the SEC’s securities-fraud lawsuit. The outcome feels like the end of an era for Musk.
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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.
