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Is Anyone Going to Get Rich off of Email Newsletters?

Venture capital has finally come for the least sexy communication style.

Kaitlyn Tiffany

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A monocle-wearing spectator looks on as Richard Smith, the former chairman and CEO of Equifax, testifies before the U.S. Senate Banking Committee. — Aaron P. Bernstein / Reuters

Monocles Were Never Cool

Unlike other trappings of the aristocracy, the monocle has mostly been a joke since its invention. An Object Lesson.

Austin Grossman

An MQ-9 Predator B drone in a hangar — Eric Gay / AP

The Endless Aerial Surveillance of the Border

New reports suggest that drone activity at the southern border is spreading to nearby cities, erasing the line between police procedures and immigration enforcement.

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Jeff Bezos’s Master Plan

What the Amazon founder and CEO wants for his empire and himself, and what that means for the rest of us.

A mannequin uses a smartphone and chews gum while riding a scooter — Simoul Alva

Technology Sabotaged Public Safety

Without us even noticing

How an Attempt at Correcting Bias in Tech Goes Wrong

Google allegedly scanned volunteers with dark skin tones in order to perfect the Pixel phone’s face-unlock technology.

Sidney Fussell
When GoFundMe Gets Ugly

The largest crowdfunding site in the world puts up a mirror to who we are and what matters most to us. Try not to look away.

Rachel Monroe
Why Everything Is Getting Louder

The tech industry is producing a rising din. Our bodies can’t adapt.

Bianca Bosker
Forever 21 Underestimated Young Women

Teens know they don’t need clothing stores.

Amanda Mull

The Hidden Dangers in Your Phone Number

Giving out your number may seem fairly innocuous, but it can have big consequences.

Catherine SpanglerSophia Myszkowski
What Is Facebook Dating For?

An app that matches people based on their offline lives is a great idea—but 2019 is a strange time to have it.

Kaitlyn Tiffany
Where Toxic Masculinity Goes to Die

Beard Board offers a rare avenue for constructive aesthetic feedback among men—minus the machismo that often accompanies it.

William Alden
Tech Companies Are Quietly Phasing Out a Major Privacy Safeguard

More and more companies are failing to issue transparency reports to tell consumers how much of their information governments have demanded.

Rob Pegoraro

The World Wants Less Tech. Amazon Gives It More.

The world’s largest online retailer is diving headfirst into the techlash.

Sidney Fussell
The Wildly Appealing, Totally Doomed Future of Work

WeWork was supposed to reinvent office life. Unfortunately, it did.

Ian Bogost
Disney’s CEO Gets Why Employees Want Their Bosses to Be More Political

People expect companies to step up because other institutions are failing them, Bob Iger said at The Atlantic Festival.

Rachel Gutman
The Google Feature Magnifying Disinformation

Google’s knowledge panels contain helpful facts and tidbits. But sometimes they surface bad information, too.

Lora Kelley

Silicon Valley Is One of the Most Polluted Places in the Country

Microchip manufacturers contaminated the groundwater in the 1980s. Almost 40 years later, the cleanup still isn’t complete.

Tatiana Schlossberg
Famous for Looking Like Someone More Famous

Memes and moments come and go on TikTok, but its fascination with celebrity look-alikes is forever.

Kaitlyn Tiffany
Algorithms Are People

The secret sauce of search engines gives tech companies an abundance of plausible deniability.

Sidney Fussell
‘Close Friends,’ for a Monthly Fee

Influencer culture has normalized charging money for all kinds of intimacy.

Kaitlyn Tiffany

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