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TikTok Is Taking Over India

In just two years, TikTok has become India’s most downloaded app. Let the gold rush begin.

Snigdha PoonamSamarth Bansal

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The Most Useful App Is Find My Friends

In defense of location sharing, the best way to make life into a movie

Kaitlyn Tiffany

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Google’s Totally Creepy, Totally Legal Health-Data Harvesting

Google is an emerging health-care juggernaut, and privacy laws weren’t written to keep up.

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Why Colleges Are Betting Big on Video Games

A small Pennsylvania university has only one varsity program: e-sports. Is this the future of college athletics?

Giacomo Bagnara

The Zombie Storefronts of America

If retail is dying, then pop-up shops might be what replace it.

The Dark Psychology of Social Networks

Why it feels like everything is going haywire

Jonathan HaidtTobias Rose-Stockwell
How to Make a Website

wikiHow embodies an alternative history of the internet, and an interesting possibility for its future.

Kaitlyn Tiffany
Why Politicians Want Your Smart-TV Data

Your Roku or Vizio device knows a whole lot about you. All that information is highly valuable for campaign advertising.

Sidney Fussell
Free the Eggplant

Facebook wants to crack down on sexy emoji. It forgets how creative the internet can be.

Amanda Mull

Bill Gates’s Fortune Isn’t Going Anywhere

Even if Elizabeth Warren’s wealth tax were to become a reality

Ian Bogost
Managing Your Friendships, With Software

A slew of new start-ups want to help people manage their relationships the way they would sales leads. Should we be worried about our friends turning us into data points?

Kaitlyn Tiffany
Did Body Cameras Backfire?

Body cameras were supposed to fix a broken system. What happened?

Sidney Fussell
The Porch Pirate of Potrero Hill Can’t Believe It Came to This

When a longtime resident started stealing her neighbors’ Amazon packages, she entered a vortex of smart cameras, Nextdoor rants, and cellphone surveillance.

Lauren Smiley

The Toxic Bubble of Technical Debt Threatening America

Climate change will soon expose a crippling problem embedded in the nation’s infrastructure. In fire-ravaged California, it already has.

Alexis C. Madrigal
Why Two Tech Giants Are Arguing About Quantum Computers

Google says it has reached a major computational milestone. IBM says not so fast.

Kevin HartnettQuanta
A Telling Exchange at the Zuckerberg Hearing

How a question about vaccines made it into a hearing about cryptocurrency

Rachel Gutman
Inside R/Relationships, the Unbearably Human Corner of Reddit

How a subreddit seemingly destined to devolve into chaos stays remarkably sane

Kaitlyn Tiffany

How Jeans Got Weird

Leggings could never.

Amanda Mull
The People Who Really, Really Love Mark Zuckerberg

The Facebook CEO’s recent speech was met with thousands of adoring, over-the-top comments. Who would write them?

Kaitlyn Tiffany
Don’t Play the Goose Game

Untitled Goose Game is fun. The problem is, all games are also work.

Ian Bogost
What Doctors Can Learn From the Dark Web

Opioid addicts are turning to online forums for advice about quitting. Their conversations have a lot to teach us about drug use and public health.

Doug JohnsonUndark

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