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Technology

Technology

How new technology is transforming cities and societies, from the latest apps to advances in renewable energy, computing, transportation, and more.

Big Tech’s Big Flops of 2022

We bid adieu to moonshots, Portals, and ad-free Netflix.

By Sara Morrison

Good luck explaining a TikTok ban to young people

Consensus is building in Washington that the most popular social media app among teenagers is a national security risk. How do you explain that to the app’s users?

By Christian Paz

Sam Bankman-Fried’s arrest is the culmination of an epic flameout

By Whizy Kim December 22

Amazon’s antitrust settlement in Europe sure looks like a win for Amazon

By Jason Del Rey December 22

The year EVs outgrew Tesla

By Rebecca Heilweil December 22

Why you saw more ads on your iPhone in 2022

By Sara Morrison December 22

Elon Musk’s future as Twitter CEO is suddenly in question

By Shirin Ghaffary December 21

Elon Musk now says he’ll step down as Twitter CEO

By Shirin Ghaffary December 20

The US government’s TikTok ban is more complicated than it sounds

By Sara Morrison December 20

The billionaire vibe shift

By Whizy Kim December 20

Twitter enters its chaotic new multicolored, multishaped check mark phase

By Sara Morrison December 19

Fortnite maker Epic Games has to pay $520 million for tricking kids and violating their privacy

By Sara Morrison December 19

Meta is facing the test of its lifetime

By Shirin Ghaffary December 19

Elon Musk’s Twitter journalist purge has begun

By Shirin Ghaffary December 16

Angry, irrational, erratic: This is Elon Musk’s Twitter

By Peter Kafka December 16

Why the Twitter Files actually matter

By Andrew Prokop December 15

How workers fought back in 2022

By Rani Molla December 15

The 80-year-old book that explains Elon Musk and tech’s new right-wing tilt

By Zack Beauchamp December 14

Inside the chaos at Washington’s most connected military tech startup

By Jonathan Guyer December 14

FTX’s implosion and SBF’s arrest, explained

By Emily Stewart December 13

Maybe Trump was right about TikTok

By Sara Morrison December 13

How effective altruism let Sam Bankman-Fried happen

By Dylan Matthews December 12

NASA’s latest moon mission is the dawn of a new space age

By Rebecca Heilweil and Ellen Ioanes December 11

Neuralink shows what happens when you bring “move fast and break things” to animal research

By Kenny Torrella December 11

What the Twitter files don’t tell us

By Shirin Ghaffary December 9

The US government wants to stop the biggest deal in video game history

By Sara Morrison December 8

Apple makes it easier to keep your data secret from hackers, cops, and even Apple

By Sara Morrison December 8

Elon Musk’s tunnels to nowhere

By Avishay Artsy December 8

Layoffs, buyouts, and rescinded offers: Amazon’s status as a top tech employer is taking a hit

By Jason Del Rey December 8

The people who hate Sam Bankman-Fried the most

By Peter Kafka December 7

AI is finally good at stuff, and that’s a problem

By Rebecca Heilweil December 7

We don’t need another Twitter

By Sara Morrison December 7

The Twitter power users who can’t just quit

By Shirin Ghaffary December 2

Conferences want to cure the work-from-home blues

By Rani Molla December 2

The riveting train wreck of a Sam Bankman-Fried interview

By Whizy Kim November 30

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings likes Elon Musk, video games, and bingeing

By Peter Kafka November 30

Here’s what employers are cutting instead of your job

By Rani Molla November 30

FTX is over. Is crypto, too?

By Emily Stewart November 29

AI experts are increasingly afraid of what they’re creating

By Kelsey Piper November 28

Twitter’s CEO is now Twitter’s main character

By Whizy Kim November 28

Holiday scam email season is here. Don’t fall for it.

By Sara Morrison November 25

A leaked Amazon memo may help explain why the tech giant is pushing out so many recruiters

By Jason Del Rey November 23