Peyton and Eli Manning Can’t Save the NFL
The retired quarterbacks are giving Monday Night Football a glow up. But the league needs to do more than that to connect with Gen Z.
Slackers of the World, Unite!
Why employees love the software, and bosses don’t
What Slack Does for Women
For years, women have had to control their voice, posture, and demeanor in the workplace. With Slack, we don’t have to worry about any of that.
A Peer-Reviewed Portrait of Suffering
James and Lindsay Sulzer have spent their careers developing technologies to help people recover from disease or injury. Their daughter’s freak accident changed their work—and lives—forever.
Americans Had It Easy During the Facebook Outage
WhatsApp is the digital scaffolding for much of the global South.
Rivian Wants to Be the Apple of Electric Pickup Trucks
Or maybe the Patagonia
A Day Without Facebook
The social giant’s temporary disappearance means absolutely nothing.
Misinformation Is About to Get So Much Worse
A conversation with the former Google CEO Eric Schmidt
The Largest Autocracy on Earth
Facebook is acting like a hostile foreign power; it’s time we treated it that way.
Tucker Carlson Makes a Play for the Barbz
Nicki Minaj fans are defending her vaccine hesitancy, and the right is using it as a recruitment opportunity.
The Al Capone Approach to Anti-vaxxers
The social-media giants are going after vaccine liars and conspiracists for technicalities. Is there a better way to protect the truth?
Americans Have No Idea What the Supply Chain Really Is
Behind shipping delays and soaring prices are workers still at mortal risk of COVID-19.
It Has Come to Subscription Tacos
Even Taco Bell is a tech company now.
Ebooks Are an Abomination
If you hate them, it’s not your fault.
The Third Revolution in Warfare
First there was gunpowder. Then nuclear weapons. Next: artificially intelligent weapons.
How Long Will Twitter Cling to Its Dumbest Feature?
People love to hate the site’s “What’s happening” tab. Why won’t the company just let it go?
Maybe You Missed It, but the Internet ‘Died’ Five Years Ago
A conspiracy theory spreading online says the whole internet is now fake. It’s ridiculous, but possibly not that ridiculous?
People Liked Malls
Amazon appears to have discovered that the fastest, freest shipping is picking stuff up in person.
Pfizer Gang Is Pfinished
Was a fun internet culture around vaccines ever going to last?
The Vaccine Cards Are the Wrong Size
Seriously, why can I not fit this thing in my wallet?
Facebook Cares About Privacy—But Only If You’re an Advertiser
The social giant kicked off researchers studying how political ads can encourage targeted voter suppression, leaving citizens with little insight into how they’re manipulated on the platform.