What should have been a routine, required national test of the Wireless Emergency Alerts system has become a crucible for public distrust.

Viewership for the major news networks was high, but TV only tells half the story.

When workers automate their own duties, who should reap the benefits?

In a battery-powered reboot, the 90s toy is living up to its destiny.

Just ask Bill Gates how it works.

A computer has written a novel narrating its own cross-country road trip.

Private-labeled teas helped fund success during the suffragist movement. Todays activists might learn from their model. An Object Lesson.

In a special bonus episode of the podcast Crazy/Genius, the computer scientist and data journalist Meredith Broussard explains how technochauvinism derailed the dream of the digital revolution.

Musk and Tesla have settled the SECs securities-fraud lawsuit. The outcome feels like the end of an era for Musk.

Facebook has identified, and fixed, an exploit that allowed attackers to gain control of user accounts. These failures are so common and so widespread, its becoming hard to even notice them.

The SECs suit against the Tesla CEO is the latest sign that he cant separate his companys performance from his vision for the future.

Commercial companies are proposing lunar missions at a pace the world hasnt seen since the Apollo program.

Body cameras that automatically activate in response to the sound of gunfire could forever change peoples expectations about public spaces.

Violent mobs in India may have gotten inflammatory messages on WhatsApp, but the license to maim and kill came from long-standing cultural divisions and governmental failures.

The company will begin estimating local carbon pollution from cities around the world.

The companys three high-profile acquisitionsInstagram, WhatsApp, and Oculushad fought to maintain their own identity. Those days may be over now.

Anxieties about the effects of screens on human health are hardly new, but the way the public addresses the problems has changed. An Object Lesson.

The companys new line of voice-automated products, including a wall clock and a microwave, could help it amass an enormous database of consumer behavior.

Microchip implants are going from tech-geek novelty to genuine health tooland you might be running out of good reasons to say no.

The Department of Justice has opened a criminal investigation into the Tesla founder, but theres no precedent for him, or his tweets.

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