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Can Facebook Fix the Dating World Tinder Created?

Before dating apps like Tinder, dates usually resulted from at least some baseline level of shared experience. Facebook wants to turn back the clock.

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Two kids look at a smartphone at home — Carol Yepes / Getty

‘Close Friends,’ for a Monthly Fee

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

Kaitlyn Tiffany

Two children talk with tin-can telephones. — Rebecca Nelson / Getty

Talk to People on the Telephone

It’s time to start calling your friends again.

Robert F. Kennedy and Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas hiking through the woods wearing outdoors gear. — Associated Press

The Military Origins of Layering

The popular way to keep warm outdoors owes a debt to World War II–era clothing science. An Object Lesson.

Rachel S. Gross

A person uses a smartphone to take a video of a child. — Carol Yepes / Getty

YouTube Videos Are a Gold Mine for Health Researchers

“Digital exhaust” from online life could be transformed into health insights. Should it be?

The Two Most Mysterious Words in Modern Shopping

I investigated the origins of my face wash and stumbled into the peculiar world of private-label products.

Joe Pinsker
I Tried to Limit My Screen Time

It didn’t go well.

Ian Bogost
‘Storm Area 51’ Could Be a Disaster for Lincoln County

The Facebook event may have started in jest, but local officials are bracing for mayhem.

Jacob Stern
Coming Soon to a Battlefield: Robots That Can Kill

Tomorrow’s wars will be faster, more high-tech, and less human than ever before. Welcome to a new era of machine-driven warfare.

Zachary Fryer-Biggs, Center for Public Integrity

When I Took My Zipcar Into the Wilderness

In an area without cellphone reception, I was unable to open the car.

Annie Lowrey
The Rise of the Urban Tattletale

Apps that track bike-lane offenders help cyclists feel a sense of agency. But they also encourage city residents to surveil one another’s movements.

Sarah HolderCityLab
Why Hong Kongers Are Toppling Lampposts

For protesters, claims of Chinese surveillance are politically useful, even when they can’t be proved.

Sidney Fussell
An 11-Year-Old Takes on a Nuclear Power Plant

Sam faces a dilemma as he comes of age in the shadow of Britain's largest power plant.

Emily Buder

The Gift-Card Budget

Strapped for cash, state governments are plugging holes using unspent gift cards. Not everyone thinks it’s a good idea.

Michael Waters
Facebook Wants a Do-Over on News

This time around, the company would rather you focus on the humans.

Sidney Fussell
It’s 10 p.m. Do You Know Where Your Friends Are?

Constant location-sharing is now the norm for some friend groups.

Julie Beck
Why It’s So Hard to Stop Marketing Guns in Video Games

Video games don’t cause mass shootings, but they do serve as insidious advertisements for weapons.

Sidney Fussell

Games Boys Play

How Gears of War helped me come out

Spencer A. Klavan
People Are Starting to Realize How Voice Assistants Actually Work

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

Sidney Fussell
America Has Never Been So Desperate for Tomato Season

A mundane joy in a season fraught with despair

Amanda Mull
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?

Laura Bliss

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