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select all May 23, 2018

Pete ‘Shade Master’ Souza Is Writing a Book About, Well, ShadeThe former Obama White House photographer has spent months shading Trump on Instagram.

By Madison Malone Kircher

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Federal Judge Rules That Trump Cannot Block People on TwitterCongratulations to all of the Trump fans who were blocked(?).

By Brian Feldman

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Remember the Time Philip Roth Got Mad at Wikipedia?He wrote an open letter to the site.

By Brian Feldman

select all May 22, 2018

The Facebook Road Show Is Finally OverFacebook has been given enough opportunities to make its case.

By Brian Feldman

select all May 22, 2018

Instagram Now Lets You Mute Your FriendsBless this day.

By Madison Malone Kircher

select all May 22, 2018

The Untold Story of Star Wars’ XBox Dance Game Star Wars Kinect“And since that carbonite’s off me/I’m livin’ life now that I’m free.”

By Brian Feldman

select all May 22, 2018

Will These Glasses Save Me From a Lifetime of Staring Into Screens?Blue light–blocking computer glasses claim to help out screen-addled eyes. Do they?

By Jake Swearingen

select all May 21, 2018

High School Spirit Weeks Have Meme Day Now, and I Can’t Stop WatchingVine culture lives on.

By Brian Feldman

select all May 21, 2018

How Smart Homes Make Living With ALS EasierTechnology has helped Josh Gentry maintain a level of independence that’s unusual for people who have lived with ALS as long as he has.

By Kaveh Waddell

select all May 18, 2018

The Men Running Mugshots.com Have Been Charged With ExtortionThe site took advantage of public records to allegedly extort people — including those never charged or convicted.

By Brian Feldman

select all May 18, 2018

Cops Called After Fan Sneaked Into YouTuber Casey Neistat’s Work SpaceNeistat wasn’t there, but the man still refused to leave.

By Madison Malone Kircher

select all May 17, 2018

How Storyful Kept a Very Close Eye on What Journalists Looked AtA social-media aggregator monitored what journalists were looking at, hoping to gain an edge on what content was about to go viral.

By Jake Swearingen

select all May 17, 2018

Instagram Stories Adds Regram FeatureAn easy way to share photos from your feed.

By Madison Malone Kircher

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How Miranda Cosgrove, iCarly Star, Became the Memesphere’s QueenThe baffling legacy of a Nickelodeon icon.

By Isaac Kariuki

select all May 17, 2018

Google’s Sleight of Hand Does Duplex No FavorsFor questionable tech, transparency is the best policy.

By Brian Feldman

select all May 16, 2018

Even Dead, Net Neutrality Can Be a Useful Political ToolCongress is divided on the issue, voters are not.

By Brian Feldman

select all May 16, 2018

Virtual Reality Food Is Here — and Instagram ReadyTired of waiting in line for the perfect decadent thing to post on Instagram? Virtual reality food means you don’t even have to buy it!

By Kari Sonde

select all May 16, 2018

Spam Robocalls Aren’t Slowing Down. Here’s the Tech That Could Stop Them.In the not-too-distant future, endless robocalls may be eradicated, thanks to something called STIR/SHAKEN.

By Jake Swearingen

select all May 15, 2018

Is This Voice Saying ‘Yanny’ or ‘Laurel’?It’s “The Dress” but for your ears.

By Madison Malone Kircher and Brian Feldman

select all May 15, 2018

The Pigeon Meme Is Here to Bring Order to the InternetWhat does the pigeon meme tell us about the internet — and ourselves?

By Brian Feldman

select all May 15, 2018

Twitter to Start Hiding Bad TweetsHow often you are blocked by other users will be a factor in whether or not your tweets get hidden.

By Madison Malone Kircher

select all May 15, 2018

The E.U.’s New Privacy Laws Might Actually Create a Better InternetData regulation could do more than protect your personal information — it might result in a new, happier internet.

By Max Read

select all May 14, 2018

If You Use PGP, You Should Probably StopSwitch to a different encryption scheme for the time being.

By Brian Feldman

select all May 14, 2018

I Don’t Know How to Waste Time on the Internet AnymoreThe other day, I found myself looking at a blank address bar in a new tab of my web browser. I wanted to waste time, but … I didn’t know how.

By Dan Nosowitz

select all May 14, 2018

Can’t Imagine Why People Are Naming Fewer Babies ‘Alexa’Thoughts? Anyone?

By Madison Malone Kircher

select all May 14, 2018

I Tried to Build My Own DJ Roomba and It Nearly Broke MeParks and Rec fans be warned: Tom Haverford made it look easy.

By Devon Ivie

select all May 13, 2018

What I Learned on My Date With a Sex RobotMaybe they need to be more like us. Or maybe we’re already learning to be more like them.

By Allison P. Davis

select all May 11, 2018

‘Our House Is Having a Nervous Breakdown!’: A Survey of Smart Homes in FilmIt can be thought-provoking and enlightening to examine how that technology is portrayed in works of fiction. It can also be silly and weird.

By Luke Burns

select all May 11, 2018

Remember Cambridge Analytica? Wall Street Doesn’t.Facebook is now just as valuable as it was before the scandal.

By Brian Feldman

select all May 11, 2018

Should You Get a Robot Vacuum?A guide to Roombas and the not-quite cleaning revolution.

By Allie Volpe

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SpongeBob Would Be So Disappointed by the Evolution of the Imagination MemeA meme about living your wildest dreams has become a meme for owning people.

By Madison Malone Kircher

select all May 10, 2018

What Does Smart-Home Tech Look Like in New York City?Trying to figure out what smart-home tech looks like in a very expensive, very weird housing market.

By Jake Swearingen

select all May 10, 2018

‘Tired SpongeBob’ Is the Worst SpongeBob Meme“Me after I talk about Tired SpongeBob.”

By Kelly Conaboy

select all May 10, 2018

Making My Baby a Smart Baby Was a MistakeWearable smart baby sensors promise parents peace of mind, but for the cost and functionality they deliver, parents should feel more like preyed upon.

By Jake Swearingen

select all May 10, 2018

Google Duplex Makes Your Life Easier by Making It More Difficult for OthersA system designed to mask interacting with a computer should be scrutinized, not celebrated.

By Brian Feldman

select all May 9, 2018

Meet the Home-Automation ObsessivesMost people have fewer than 15 devices in their homes. These people have hundreds.

By Andrew Zaleski

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Does Alexa Know I’m Gay?Why does Amazon keep suggesting I buy gardening products and granola?

By Nicole Boyce

select all May 9, 2018

SpongeBob’s Most Bootleg Meme Finds Power in Stoicism“*breath in* boi”

By Brian Feldman

select all May 8, 2018

Here Are the Biggest Announcements From Google I/OA lot of AI stuff.

By Brian Feldman

select all May 8, 2018

Google Assistant Is Going to Help You Never Talk to Anyone Ever AgainThe new Duplex AI can process complex speech patterns and make phone calls for users, the company says.

By Graham Starr

select all May 8, 2018

John Legend Will Now Voice Google AssistantImagine asking your Google Home to sing you “Happy Birthday” and having John Legend croon it back to you.

By Madison Malone Kircher

select all May 8, 2018

Squidward, SpongeBob, and the Complex Emotions of FOMOGoing out is out, and staying in is, well, in.

By Lauren Michele Jackson

select all May 8, 2018

Why Is This Man Going to Prison for Copying Free Repair Software?Eric Lundgren made 28,000 unauthorized copies of software you can legally download for free. Now he’s headed to federal prison for 15 months.

By Jake Swearingen

select all May 8, 2018

Looks Like Facebook Is Going to Copy BitmojiSorry, Snapchat.

By Madison Malone Kircher

select all May 7, 2018

Uber Pedestrian Death Probably Caused by SoftwareArizona has since indefinitely suspended Uber from autonomous driving tests.

By Madison Malone Kircher

select all May 7, 2018

Instagram’s Music Feature Is Coming SoonA big feature for all the music-heads out there.

By Brian Feldman

select all May 7, 2018

Kanye West’s Bizarre Bookmark Tweet: ExplainedOur best attempt to make sense of Kanye West’s latest tweet.

By Madison Malone Kircher

select all May 7, 2018

The ‘Krusty Krab Vs. Chum Bucket’ Meme Is the Quickest Way to Start a FightA meme that exists solely as a way of pissing off people who don’t share the same opinion.

By Eric Thurm

select all May 7, 2018

Turns Out the Whole Facebook Scandal Ended With People Using Facebook … More?A new study found that 75 percent of users are still as engaged on the platform as they were before the Cambridge Analytica news.

By Madison Malone Kircher

select all May 4, 2018

3 Smart-Home Obsessives Talk About Their Unbelievably Teched-Out Homes“Most people are just trying to turn on kitchen lights from their iPad. Yawn.”

By Kaveh Waddell

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