A look at the presentiment that social media is bad for society, as some researchers find the fears are overstated and others warn about effects on individuals
There's a general sense that it's bad for society—which may be right. But studies offer surprisingly few easy answers. Tweets: @brendannyhan , @kreissdaniel , @sivavaid , @kreissdaniel , @ayshardzn ,...
Inside DARPA's Air Combat Evolution program, which aims to design AI that can fly a plane and engage in aerial combat without a human pilot
Sue Halpern / New Yorker : Tweets: @brandonhamber , @michaelluo , @newyorker , and @hoanssolo Tweets: Brandon Hamber / @brandonhamber : While people fight over masks and freedoms, artificial intellig...
A look at Raya, a secretive subscription-based social network with a rigorous user selection process and a rigid code of silence for accepted members
The app has created a space free of the problems that plague the rest of the Web, but only by leaving almost everybody out. Tweets: @michaelluo , @kari_paul , @dlippman , @chaykak , @newyorker , @simo...
A look at the rise and fall of Skycoin, a cryptocurrency that had a ~$5B total value in 2018, ran a team of social media “shills”, and was plagued by scandals
The cryptocurrency promised to change the world and make its users rich in the process. Then it began to fall apart. Tweets: @ofnumbers , @michaelluo , and @hkanji Tweets: Tim Swanson / @ofnumbers : ...
Profile of Kurtis Minder, who for the past year has been managing fraught discussions between companies and hackers as a ransomware negotiator
Kurtis Minder finds the cat-and-mouse energy of outsmarting criminal syndicates deeply satisfying. — A few days after Thanksgiving last year … Tweets: @howelloneill , @andyboxall , @davbatz , @hello...
How a philanthropic COVID-19 testing effort by Utah tech companies like Nomi Health and Domo became a commercial enterprise, despite questions about performance
At a White House briefing, on April 23rd, Mike Pence offered what he described as “encouraging news” about covid-19 testing. Tweets: @kimgoodwin , @newsvulcan , @statmandue , @wilbanks , @newyorker , ...