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Man sits on top of video game remote. — Rose Wong

Games Boys Play

How Gears of War helped me come out

Spencer A. Klavan

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Mark Zuckerberg speaks onstage in front of a sign that says "The future is private." — Tony Avelar / AP Images

People Are Starting to Realize How Voice Assistants Actually Work

The secrecy surrounding AI products makes even basic information about them a scandal.

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America Has Never Been So Desperate for Tomato Season

A mundane joy in a season fraught with despair

Illustration: washing machine with speaker on yellow background — Paul Spella

Why Washing Machines Are Learning to Play the Harp

Appliance makers believe more and better chimes, alerts, and jingles make for happier customers. Are they right?

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Twinfluencers Are Taking Over the Internet

Why so many famous YouTubers and Instagram stars are twins

When Is a Caption Close Enough?

YouTube’s notoriously nonsensical auto-captions are improving. But there’s a deeper problem.

Linda Besner
The Amazon Publishing Juggernaut

What does the e-commerce giant want with the notoriously fickle world of publishing? To own your every reading decision.

Blake Montgomery
The People Who Love to Watch Other People Clean

The world is a mess. “Cleanfluencers” are here to help.

Tyler Kingkade
Instagram Wants Memers to Like It Again

After a series of account purges, meme pages are at war with their platform. Now Instagram is trying to smooth things over.

Taylor Lorenz

Video-Game Violence Is Now a Partisan Issue

For decades, both Republicans and Democrats saw games as cultural dangers. That changed after the Parkland shooting.

Ian Bogost
The Military-Style Surveillance Technology Being Tested in American Cities

In the eyes of the law, there’s no difference between a photo taken by a smartphone through an airplane window and one taken by an ultrapowerful camera in a helicopter hovering over your backyard.

Arthur Holland Michel
The Endless, Invisible Persuasion Tactics of the Internet

Online shopping turns your brain against you, but you can fight back.

Sidney Fussell
Work Ruined Email

It’s not too late to fix it.

Ian Bogost

Where Everyone’s an Influencer

Inside Instagram’s annual beach party, where Hollywood and social media collide

Taylor Lorenz
The Tender Power of Astrology Memes

It’s not you, it’s Mercury retrograde.

Amanda Mull
Candy Land Was Invented for Polio Wards

A schoolteacher created the popular board game, which celebrates its 70th anniversary this year, for quarantined children. An Object Lesson.

Alexander B. Joy
A Wikipedia for Generation Z

Famous Birthdays has become a go-to database of teen culture—and is ushering in a whole new generation of stars.

Taylor Lorenz

FaceApp Is Everyone’s Problem

It feels good to call out people for being duped by the Russian app, but the individualist framing of privacy is the bigger culprit.

Sidney Fussell
What Amazon Thinks You’re Worth

Shoppers were offered a $10 credit in exchange for handing over their browser data. It’s an investment that pays dividends for Amazon.

Sidney Fussell
The World Is Getting a Pickup-Truck Emoji

Thanks to Ford

Robinson Meyer
Your Smart Toaster Can’t Hold a Candle to the Apollo Computer

Despite what everyone says about the power of modern devices, they’re nowhere near as capable as the landmark early NASA system.

Alexis C. Madrigal

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